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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14.

Watt., at last one of the WILBEEYORCES has gone
over to Rime ; to be followed by others of his name,
if they possess half his consistency and a tithe of his
honesty. Why ROBERT ISAAC should linger here in
the protestant church, when HENRY WILLIAM is
enjoying so " holy •calm" in the moiety of the Jesuits
et Rome and Brussels; or why SAMUEL should hold
on to the prelacy of a church which his re-baptised
and re-eonfirmed brother will now instruct him is no
church, and cannot, therefore, have any bishops, are
inconsistencies in the family of WILBERFORCE which
will be inseparable in public opinion from the posses-
sion of fat livings, ample episcopal revenues, and well
adorned prelatical palaces.
lirought up in the bosom of evangelicalism, nur-
tured at the feet of its Gemaliel, Dr. Mums ; disci-
ples in their youth of the Clapham Sect ; sons of the
brave and good old man who descended to the tomb,
the founder of a new petty in the church of England,
that disregarded the forms of ecclesiastical organisa-
tion, and set at nought the pretensions of prieeteraft ;
the youth on whom the mantles of Ware, of Rewrote,
and of Senn were destined to fall ; the sue-Amore
of STEPHEN, of MACAULAY, of THORNTON, men
who despised even their own deeply che-
rished philanthropy when put in comparison
with these low-church views—this family of
WILBERFORCIS was bred to the ministry of
the church of England in the sore and certain hope,
that through them the paternal doctrines of vital
Cliriefianity would be promulgated and perpetuated;
and, as the inheritors and expounders of those doc-
trine., they were patronised and promoted by Lord
Chancellors and Prime Ministers. Yet one by one
they have 'Mihaily shed their fi'ber's opinions; in-
decently, became obtrasively, gone over to the eccle-
siastical party their father regarded with as much
dislike as his kindly nature was capable of ; in
it they have offensively Mashed those who posse*,
the inheritance they bay, discarded and renounced;
and have sought, in ecclesiastical ambition, in alter-
nate philandering with popular wrongs and with
court patronage, in priestly treachery, and at last, in
one instance, in popery itself, that fame and renown
which honest WILLIAM WILBERFORCE obtained by
freeing his country from a great crime, and by propa-
gating tree religion with all his strength and all his
goal. Notwithstanding, however, this real humilia-
tion, who so proud, who Do overbearing, who so in-
tolerant, who so offensive is their Puseyism sad in
their Popery, as them WILDIRFORCES?
Far better, however, that ROBERT ISAAC, the arch-
deuce, sad Semen., the bishop, should follow RIMY
WILLIAM, of Rest Fuleigb, to Bruesels, to the
Society of the Jesuits and to Rome itself, than remain
in a church they have steeled, and be longer ecelisiss-
tical dignitaries amongst a people who will have none
of them. Far better that the men who have endea-
voured to explain away the royal supremacy, who
persecuted Dr. HAMPDEN, and who tolerated Mr.
Attlee, should quit the communion of the
church of England, than that it should
be scandalised by their continuance in it,
than that Cardinal WISEMAN should be encouraged
in assailing it by the expectation of internal treachery
suggested by their premium. The departure, then,
of the whole family would be matter for rejoicing
rather than for grieving : for it is in their presence,
not in their absence, that there is danger and appre-
hension. With these men in the church, safe.y is
impossible ; for in them lime and moves • popery
which is ever on the lapse to Rome : their whole
thoughts are popish, their every principle is popish,
and if they continue in the church of England, it is
only in the hope that it will one day have a power
that is popish.
It is suggestively remarked by the Data of Bate-
TOL, that in the demonstrations now making the trae-
teenier are tricking the country. In the wholesale de-
nunciations now making against papal aggression they
can had do join; whilst in all oar addressee we are blind
to what Lord JOHN RUSSELL see 03 clearly, in-
ternal treachery ; in our dislike of Pio Nom°
and Dr. WISEMAN we are overlooking their
friends nearer to us ; in our condemnation of
popish practices in the lump, we are forgetting
traetarian practices in detail. Now it will be
in vain that our strength has been roused, that
our enthusiasm has been spent, and all our fervour
kindled, if it do not deal to traotarianism • heavier

blow than it does to Romanism. " The Bishop of
LONDON," gays the Dean of Banrrot,, " desires his
clergy to preach against Rome ; but what right bu
the Church of England to preach against Rome, if
tractarianism be ooneisteut with the Church of Eng-
land ? What right have we to condemn, if it can
be retorted with truth ; if it can be affirmed,
as it is vehemently affirmed, by clergyman
professing to be dutiful members of the Church of
England, that in all essential doctrines we are the
same MI the Church of Rome?" What right indeed!'
It is not by the doctrinal reformation of Rome that
we could become spiritual subjects of the POPE; it is
not by Rome renouncing those dogmas of religion on
which we fundamentally differ, that we could be re-
conciled to papal supremacy ' • it is not by Rome
ceasing to be in emendate an orris, church, that we
ma be brought to psignies the leaturalism of
any earthly cepa g it le sot by 7tame
what Lon widish meths, tiles *eh," that=
be satin he ML
What the pope AIM sew mesa to appal
sad to rejeet is pisedpAhniasdea is any farm or
,ftwlder say ratan's. Wl* hey intend to uphold is
of indtviduel thought. It is as the oppas t
TriiiiVdominatioo, an the symbol of that
that the royal supesessey la Wain essienastioal
piste; in any other nese that nip ensey is an idle
a wars-out rag; bat so end sad applied it
tilits the (mint prissipis that ever operated oa
social pogroms or swayed anneal destiahn
When, thee, Archdeacon HALE implores the
" nobility and puny* to sate is defence of tin
church and to lay. aside all mime differences, he
is only betting spring's to catch wooden*. Then
bo no nuke to premien a shine so
divided asaatiel prinolphs, so distracted by
ooshinig passim, se sampled by craft and
treselmey as *entomb of Haglesid, until that church
has purged Inesolf of the claim that have been
set up he Mit. hie bialsops, sad her clergy; until
she shall memo the unsaid character that has
bees mound he her, until she on lower herself
to that humble he useful panties she ought
es new. Then the "nobility and gentry" when
Aidelsacea HAL. WNW visaing after, charactedeti•
eallyingening the pep* wW unite; bat mitit
rens penises are esweeded. peace with trestansehel
le a defesiou. It is hipline. weenie church dissents,
to cry " Penn) pesos; where there is no pesos.