The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-14 00:00:00

IN THE HEART OR IN THE HANDS 1

THE BANK OF PRUSSIA.
BERLN, DEC. 13.
The Bank of Prussia has reduced its rate of dis-
count from 4} to 4 per cent.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PARIS, DEC. 13.

The return of the Bank of France for the week
ending to-day shows the following changes com-
pared with that of last week :
INCREASE. _ _

Cash in hand . • •
Bills discounted . • •
Advances . .
Treasury balance . • •
Private accounts . • •

13,142,000
6,666,000
200,000
2,000,000
30,000,000

DECREASE.

4,660,000

Notes

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RUSSIA AND
RECTHE CAN DIAN INSUR-
TION.
ST. PETERSBURG, Die. 13.
The Invalids Busse of to-day publishes an article
Dee. 8.
in which it disputes the correctness of the analogy I
drawn by the France between the Polish and I Yesterday, as is usual, I believe, on the eve of
Can
The insurrections. I the Festival of the Immaculate Conception, the
" The insurrection in Candia," says the Invalide Pope proceeded in state to attend vespers at the
Russo, "is exclusively caused by the non-execution Church of the Holy Apostles, traversing en route
of treaty engagements and guarantees undertaken the most densely populated part of the city, lying
by the Porte in regard to the Christian population. , between the Bridge of St. Angelo and the Piazza di
Russia sends to Candia no arms, or volunteers, , Venezia. So slimy and slippery are the narrow
or any assistance similar to that sent by certain , streets in that
the lowoccasion t lying region,
strew thatthe whole route
she now, as ever, makes no secret of her unalter- I with sand, to enable the Papal curtigc to pass over
able sympathy for every Christian population." them in comparative security.
Taking up my position in the Piazza di Venezia,
TURKEY. where the procession would cut the Corso at right
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 13. angles on its way to the Piazza dei SS. Apostoli,
An arrangement has been come to between the I I waited a short time for its appearance, and then
Viceroy of Egypt and his brother, Prince Mil' growing weary fell out of the lino to while away
tapha Fazyl, by which the latter renounces his the time in reading the police regulations for the
claims in consideration of a yearly appanage of opening of the theatres after Christmas. While
20,0001. For his domains in Egypt the Prince, it thus engaged, I nearly missed the spectacle alto-
is stated, is to receive the sum of 2,080,0001. ,
• gether, for the Papal carriages, which passed at
The Turkish government has resolved to entrust a trot, were received by the crowd with so signi-
the working of the State mines and forests to the , ficant a silence that they were almost gone before
hands of private contractors. I had any intimation of their approach. In the
Piazza dei SS. Apostoli, where I stationed myself
to witness the departure of the Pope at the conclu-
sion of the ceremony in the church, a considerable
crowd was assembled, and such persona as were
provided with white pocket handkerchiefs made a
display of their zeal fur the Papacy by waving them
with most praiseworthy energy as the Holy Father
got into his carriage and drove off.
Although the expectation here is general that
everything will pass off quietly when the French
troops are withdrawn, there are not wanting per-
sons who look forward with trembling expectation
to what next week may bring forth. Before these
lines reach you, every French soldier will have
evacuated Rome, and the Papal standard will
wave once more over the Castle of St. Angelo.
For myself, I do not quite relish the idea of being
left to the tender
to
mercies of the mercenaries, who
_ I have been scraped gether from every corner of
WRECK OF AN ENGLISH SCHOONER NEAR Bot-- the globe to support the tottering throne of the
LOGNE.—BOCLOGNE, DEC. 13.—The schooner Gazelle, from PoPe- There are too many ill-looking characters
Plymouth to London, laden with granite, was wrecked about the streets to give one perfect confidence in
this morning near Cape Grisnez. The crew were saved. the future, and. though there should eventually
APPREHENSION OF AN ABSCONDING FRENCH be no row, the elements of one are certainly not
BANERUrr as') FORGER.—In consequence of telegraphic wanting.
communication via Liverpool (through the French consul),
between Hartleur and Queenatovm the police have ar- As the Osserratore Romano of yesterday, which
rested, at the latter place, a merchan't named Godfrey, who has hitherto persistently done so, abstains from
had eloped from that town with his servant, and was en
route by the heels steamer for Amerim. Godfrey, it M contradicting the report of the re-opening of nego-
state I, carried off with him between 4,000/. and 5,
000. in tiations between the courts of Florence and Rome
cash, and had forged bills upon a local bank to a consider- as to the filling up of the vacant Italian bishoprics,
able amount. About 5001. was found in the vortinanteau
of Godfrey. It is uudemtood that he had previously for- I suppose we may conclude that the intelligence is
warded considerable sums to an agent in America. authentic.
Godfrey has a wife and family at Hartleur. ....—eiiiri.i-e-•—•-•"-"'"
ENCROACHMENT OF THE SEA.—For some few THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN.
years past gradual encroachments of the sea have been I
made towards the lofty cliffs crowned by Dover Castle,
and the recent gales have at length threatened to destroy The Moniteur of yesterday says :—" The gorern-
a large government fort known as Guiblford Battery, and meet has received by the Atlantic Cable the follow-
to cut off from the town a large amount of valuable pro- ing despatch, dated Mexico, the 3rd December
perty, including the terrace of fifty residences called East and New Orleans, the 9th December : ' The
Cliff, with • larger number of houses in the rear. The sea Emperor Maximilian is still in Mexico. His de-
la making havoc into the roadway opposite the battery, has . .
already laid bare the water and gam pipes and public sewers, cuuon is not yet formed. The evacuation having to
and has approached within a few feet of the most exposed be terminated in March, it is urgent that tran-
houses. At the extreme end there is an old jetty, and there sports should arrive without delay. The Camp-
is nothing to prevent a rather heavier sea than usual carry- bell and Sherman mission, which reached Vera
ing away the jetty, and with it the hundred and more Cruz on the 29th of November, left on the 3rd
houses which lie between the jetty and the battery.
Temporary means of protection have proved unavailing, of appears to ,
~
It be animated by the
and a comprehensive scheme of defence propounded by a most conciliatory sentiments.
government engineer hail been shelved through differences (Signed) Marshal Bsztnis, and
between the late Secretary at War, the local authorities, I General CASTELNAr.
and the proprietors of the property ; but action can no
longer be delayed. A deputation consisting of the mem- ...........e
hers for Dover and the corporation have sought an inter- ' A CoLornen CoNvverioN.—The Indiana
view with the head of the War Department, and there is Coloured Convention adjourn on the 9th instant. The
good reason to believe that, as the result, an effectual work of the session was the adoption of a memorial to the
barrier to the encroachment of the sea will soon be Legislature, an address to the voters of the State, and the
constructed. final reports of committees. The memorial presents the
EXPERIMENTS WITH FENIAN FIRIL.--Sundry ex- put record of the race, proving loyalty to the
periments were made yesterday at the Liverpool Fire government under every circumstance, and asking
Police station, for the purpose of testing the qualities of equality before the law and suffrage. They par-
the so-called Fenian fire. A bottle of it was first flung ticularly request that the law be changed, so that
against a wall, and • loud explosion immediately followed. they may be allowed public schools. The address
Next a quantity of the destructive liquid was thrown upon makes the question of suffrage more prominent. Virtue
cotton in • wet and dry state. In each case the cotton and patriotism are thought more necessary to the voter
instantly ignited, but the fire was quickly extinguished by than intelligence, yet claiming that as they are sufficiently
water poured upon it from an engine. The experiments intelligent to fight for the sight they were certain not to
took plaoe in the presence of several of the borough mails- vote wrong. They do not ask social equality. That is
trates and members of the watch committee. not a subject for legislation ; it depends on culture and
CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAT.— taste. This oonvention is said to have been one of the
THUBSDA.T, Duo. 13.—Admissions on payment, 1,093 7 best ever held in the West by the coloured men, having
ditto by mason tickets, 897. Total abater', 1,990. in it minds of a high order. —Nat York Sari.

Dr. Downy has come forward to explain a liberty
which, sines Iteble's death, has been taken with the text
of " The Christian Year." The poetry of this well-known
volume has until lately been regarded as the common re-
mission of the Christian church, notwithstanding the
strong impress it bears of a particular theological school.
Now, however, a change is introdnoed, which makes it
positively assert a doctrine which some of the highest of
high chureltiten have rejected as Barnhill. The complaint
of the protestant admirers of Noble turns upon a change
made in a verse of a poem written for the sth of November.
and which in Keble's time was thus printed :
0 come to our Communion Feast,
There, present in the heart,
?sot in the hands, th' Eternal Priest
Both His true self impart.
The editors of the posthumous editions have removed I
" not" from the beginning of the third line, and substituted
as" From the fourth century, when the greatest of
church councils was divided into the partisans of homousion
and homoioosion, and a diphthong more or less marked
the awful distance between heresy and the catholic faith,
down to our own times, it has been often seen in theology
that the slightest change of verbal expression may in-
volve a serious alteration of meaning. In its original
form the verse satisfied those who could bear with
vary strong assertions of a " real presence" of Christ
in the Eucharist, provided it were understood that
it was strictly a presence to faith. But the change in the
verso- has been understood to destroy this pesefbility,
and now Dr. Pao" comes forward to admit, as he could
not but do, that this was intended, and also to justify the
change, by asserting that it was consonant with the
author's belief. "The [original] words, in their strict
literal meaning, contradict what had been his belief, so long
as I have beard him speak on the subject. So taken, they
affirm that our Lord gives himself to the soul of the re-
ceiver only, and is not present objectively. This was not
John Keble's belief."
Dr. Pussy's explanation seems to go beyond the necemi-
ties of the case--

Present in the heart
As in the hands.
assigns a dignified part to the heart in reception; but an
objective presence will still be a presence although there
be no receiving heart. As far as a spiritual presence, is
concerned, those from whom Dr. Posey represents Keble as
differing would affirm that it was objective : it must,
therefore, be a material objectivity which he distinguishes,
and a belief in which be imputes to Keble. Let us see,
1
I however, how Dr. Pusey explains the retention of the
original words during Keble's lifetime:
He himself (as is explained in the posthumous editions)
understood his own words in the same way as when Holy 1
Scripture says, " I will have mercy and not sacrifice (i.e., ,
not sacrifice without mercy), that the objective presence
was of no avail unless our Lord was received within, in the
cleansed abode of " the heart." This is plainly not the
obvious meaning of the words; but it satisfied him. To
myself, many years ago, when I spoke of the way in which
his words were taken, he only answered by a disparaging
remark on the Christian Year. He looked upon it as the
work of younger years, with which be had no more to do.
He called it, in his way, " that book."
This passage well deserves attention, "He himself
understood his own words." Is that the usual language I
in which men speak of their own writings? Imagine Lord
Derby or Mr. Dickens " understanding " their own words
in a manner opposed to their proper and contextual sense.
Dr. Pusey represents his deceased friend as dealing
with the utterances of his former self much as an
Oxford professor might deal with a difficult ancient
author, finding him obscure, and at last supplying him
with a meaning. Why should Keble have written " not
in the hands" if be meant "as in the hands" ? Dr. Piney
perceives all the difference, but quotes what he deems an
analogous passage from the authorised version of the
Bible ; but the notorious fact that " I will have mercy,
and not sacrifice," is always treated as a statement need-
dog to be guarded by explanation, would of itself deter
Keble from imitating the construction. It is
iabout
twenty years since the "Christian Year" was published.
Is there any evidence that at that time either Keble or
his friends believed in an objective presence "in the
1 hands ?" Dr. Pusey quotes a letter written with Keble's
sanction, and a protest which he united in drawing up
in 16,56, but neither of them warrants the doctrine of the
new editions of the " Christian Year." Dr. Pusey proceeds
—" It was, however, brought home to him that the line
would still be quoted against the doctrine which be
believed so long as it remained in the " Christian Year."
After considering for three days, he wrote, March 6,

186*;:
I have made up my mind that it will be best, when a I
reprint is called fur, to adopt —'s emendation and note, I
with a few words pointing out that it does but express
more directly the true meaning of the present text.
Why this three days' hesitation! Why is the cmenda-
tion called —'s? And why this clinging to the " true i
meaning of the present text !" All this is unintelligible if
we imagine Keble desirous of depriving the protestant, of
the world of the use of his hymns. But it is explained at
once if we imagine a kindly old Christian scholar and gen.
tleman closely beset with friends of one type of thought,
pressing him year after year, and with increasing importu-
nities, as be grew feebler, to consent to their emendation,
and so secure the great influence of his name and character
to their propagandist designs.— Daily News.