The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-09 00:00:00

THE RESOLUTION Of THE PAN-ANOLICAN SYNOD.
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The Daily News finds the archbishop's address
to be couched, like the pastoral, in words which would
rather cover disagreement than rigoalise unity. A docu-
ment which Bishop Colenso and Archbishop Manning
might both accept as at least innocent and inoffensive, if
not particularly valuable, is a strange manifesto on the
part of a conference which shuts its doors upon both. The
thirteen resolutions are in the same way a record not so
much of work done as of work avoided or postponed. The
bishops show themselves masterly strategists in turning
the flank of every critical problem, and putting it off to a
more convenient season. All difficult matters are referred
to committees which are to report to ► future conference.
The Greek Calends are not a Christian date, but they must
have been in the minds of the procrastinating bishops,
(In one point the resolutions are conclusive. They show
that the Bishop of Capetown was labouring under an
extraordinary mistake when be stated in a public meeting
at the St. James's Hall that the conference had ender, d
the recommendation of the province of Canterbury with
respect to the choice of a pastor for the shepherdless sheep
at Natal. So far as the conference is concerned, the Natal
dispute is precisely where it was. That the positive result
of the synod should be microscopically small was inevitable.
The conference was the timid and hesit►ting attempt of a
state church to act as if it were • free church ; of a church
governed by parliament to deliberate as if it governed
itself ; of the creature of the temp-ral power to assume the
attitude of independence. The experiment and the failure
are rich in Instruction. The church of England stands
undecided at the parting of the ways ; but she must soon
choose her path.
The Times has an article on the cltr-ch congress end the
synod, without any allusion to the resolutions. A con-
trait instituted between the two meetings results all in '
favour of the congress. The bishops, the Tires says,
would have done well to have endeavoured to lay the
foundations of the English church more deeply among
their own countrymen before attempting to imitate the
artificial and hollow unity of the Roman catholic church.
If, instead of taking counsel with American and colonial
bishops, who know nothing of our domestic difficulties,
they had invited some leading nonconformists to •
friendly and open conference, they would then, at all
events, have taken • step in the right direction ; they
might have done very much to strengthen the position of
the church among all classes of the people. This, as was
confessed at Wolverhampton, is the fdirection in which
the church must look for invigoration and support.
Without it synods are but ecclesiastical stage plays, and
unity is but • theatrical name for self isolation and ex-
clusiveness.

To the Telegraph the resolutions, which have certainly
not been issued in answer to any public impatience, seem
for the most part as unexceptionable as they are colour-
less. The only remedies proposed for the mils which are
abroad consist of words, not always so much as intelligible;
and there is a distressing appearance of what we should
have to call " equivocation," if the publication were not
the work of bishops. As to the resolutions referring to
the see of Natal, it is hard to understand how the Bishop
of Capetown could have so far misconstrued them as to
tell a public meeting that the synod had pronounced for
the appointment of a new bishop. This the synod did not
dare to da.

The Star thinks it moat be evident to ever; one that,
though inaipid and hesitating, there is in the weak
meddling of these resolutions with matters hitherto dealt
with only by law, something wholly inconsistent with the
situation of the church of England. The advantages of
a voluntaii association and a church! establishment
cannot be enjoyed at the same time.

/US TOPICS.

The conviction that peace would not be disturbed has
never deserted the Times, but it would nevertheless be
happy if some unequivocal act of the Emperor Napoleon,
on his return to the Tuileries, could bear out its anticipa-
tions. It is true that irritation has gone further in a
twelvemonth between France and Prussia than it wee ever
suffered to proceed between France and England davit-
the lapis of two score years. But it is precisely because
animosity is so much more violent that it may be expected
to exhaust itself more rapidly. Men cannot be for ever
holding their fists to each other's faces. Followed up to
rational result►, there is no doubt th►t the principle of
nationality furnishes us with the best guarantee for the
continuance of European peace. United Germany, like
united Italy, can be no danger to her neighbour.
The Daily News points out that the visit of Admiral
Farragut to this country presents • valuable opportunity
for the interchange of those international courtesies which
have so material an influence on the policy of nations.
As the head of the nal/ of the United States, with a
reputation second to that of no naval commander now
living, Admiral Farragut has peculiar right to the atten-
tions be is now receiving. He has found, and will had,
nothing but the warmest welcome, the most complete
readioess to open our house to his inspection, and the
most thorough appreciation of his own fame. In the visit
he is ►bout to pay to Liverpool, the quondam bead.
quarters of secession sympathies, be will snd that • reac-
tion has taken place in favour of the cause he so appro-
pri►tely represents, and has so efficiently served. The era
of misunderstandings is over, and that of enlarged friendly
intercourse has begun.

The Pat hear; it authorit►tively stated in quarters
having access to the best means of information that the
antagonism between Garibaldians and the regular troops
seems, in presence of this Roman question, to have alto-
gether disappeared, and that the regular grenadiers and
riflemen are now just as resolved as the guerilla red shirts
to break down the barriers by which the Roman people are
separated from the rest of their Italian brethren.

The Cosmopolitan Federation, or Peace League,
established for the purpose of instructing, directing, and,
if possible, replacing " the great governments of Europe,"
has now its head-quarters at Berr e. Professor Voght has
been appointed president, and M. Ducoromun vice-presi-
dent. The names of the 14 member, of the directing
committee are not published. The capital for the organ
of the federation, to be called the United States of Europe,
is being subscribed in shares.
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Mr. Octavins Long, steward to Earl Fitsbardinge,
and Mr. Pearce, who were convicted at the late Gloucester
mire for au assault on Mr. Bailey, at Berkeley, during
the West Gloucester election, and sentenced to three
mouths' imprisonment, were liberated on Sunday, a portion
of their sentence hating been remitted. They had been in
prison exac►ly seven weeks, and their Incarceration seems
to have wrought some change in their appearance.
Mr. Gladstone has consented to address a public
meeting, to be held in the course of the present month, in
connexion with the fund for the restoration of Worcester
Cathedral.