The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

devilment of truth. There is about them a
morbidity, • despowdericy, a yearning after the
supernatinel, desire to Sad religion anywhere
and everywhere, exempt where say it is
contained—in the Bible—that could re-
pose in the church of Rowe only. The wonder
is, not that these people have at last gem then,
but how on earth they kept se long say hoes tadr
natural haves of rest. Like meths rand aurae, it
was in vain the Rune scorched and &EMI them, be
spite of the waning they returned to be wholly as-
sented. A church whoa otsly rowan to be a
national church, and which only 'hopes that the
worthiest of its members belong to that higher
church which has so particular form of hasten or of
national organisatioe, could not satisfy ma whose
fondest wish was to be in priestly bonds.
Bat to conolade that the example of these Poo*,
whose minds have been cultivated to an extent beyond
their iatelleetual asperities, and whose sentiment is
greatly in exam of thew reasoning powers, will be
largely followed, is to assume the prevalence is Fag-
land of en amount of weakness for which there
is no warrant in fact. The pervades', past and
present, have taken place chiefly amongst the higher
and the academical classes of society. There is
scarcely an instance in the middle causer, or antosgst
men, who have not had university education, of any
such folly. The great bulk of the community is free
from the rot; it prevails only in the chums distin-
guished by wealth, position, and a particular kind
of education ; and until it reaches those portions
of society on which the burdens of the nation fall, it
is indicative only of disease amongst the tipper
clam.
Now it cannot be denied that there is in that class of
society an inclination, if not • disposition, to ay.
meat the powers of the clergy. But why ? Ito
members fury they see in the return of sochniestisal
power a barrier to the growth of that public opinion
in the rest of the community which threatens to
deprive them, not of their wealth bat of the influence
they still exercise over the national destinies. They
feel that the clergy are their natural allies; sod if
they only restore the clergy to power—make them a
sacrificial priesthood instead of a ministering clergy,
they hope, through the clergy to get back that
territorial influence which is so rapidly deputing
from their possession.
Catholicity, Tractarianism, Anglicanism, High-
Churchisin (or by. whatever other term ecclesiastical
supernaturalism is known), are all connected with
a retrograde political system; in alliance with it they
aim at arresting human progress. Toryism has
failed, conservatism is rapidly failing; and in this
union there is a new, and, perhaps, a more powerful
organisation against the predominance of human free-
dom in public affairs. As in England, so in Frame
there the prii sly party Bleb political alliances, and
aims at political power. In Austria, it has already
made the state pay for the aid it gam the Kaiser in
putting down liberty of conscience in Hungary. And
in Sardinia we may see the banish clergy demand-
ingetimmunity from the laws of the lend.rh
is, then, throughout Europe an enormous
effort being made by the elergy to regain political
power and national importance; and the mode by which
this attempt aims at success is almost everywhere the
same. It is by narrowing the liberty of ommiesee
by the laity to increase the power of the church; to
regain poseration of, or inflames over, the education
of the people ; to propagate the belief that the chore&
is something more than a human institution aiming
at divine ends; that it is endowed with supernatural
authority, if not power. These, throughout Europe,
are the mesas with which the clergy are now acting;
and these being of old the arms of Home only, it in
not surprising that when token up by some of our
Autism party, they should srdnoe them on to popery
itself.

That this scheme of ecclesiastical domination will
noised in England cannot for an instant be sup-
posed. Here it will, sooner or later, lead those who
persevere in it to their own destruction. Here it will
fail, because we understand the true position of a
clergy ; bemuse, whilst prepared to pay them every
respect as ministers of, or teachers in, religion, we
are resolved to resist all pretensions which would
elevate them above that useful character; became we
know from experience that ecclesiastical supremacy
involves political degradation and loss of national
character.

Tim circumstances which led to the melancholy
suicide of Colonel Kinn, of the 14th Diageoes, at
Wuxi:embed, ought to be, and doubtless will be,
probed to the bottom. The characters of all eon.
eased—of the late colonel and his regiment, and of
Sir Qum.= Neaten—require that this should be
done; the discipline of the English and Aogloindian
armies requires that this should be done.
It is in every man's recollection that the 14th
behaved at the battle of Chillianwallah is a manner
that laid the regiment open to injurious comment. It
got into confusion, retreated, and upset a couple of
our guns, which were in oossequence captured by the
Sikhs. The affair has never been profit:eared
up: to this day nobody appears to know UT who
was to blame, or whether any one was to
Sir CIIAZI:ES NAPIER, however, it is clear, has
made up his mind that the officers, or at least the
commemiling officer, was in fault. After reviewing
I the
la some months ego be made a speech to
asi la that speech he declared that "the men of
the 14th would go anywhere If properly led." Such
a speech was not very well adapted to promote that
spirit of soldierly subordination which is the soul of dis-
cipline. It does not appear, any more than others of Sir
Mumaa's epigrammatic sayings, to have tallest° the
CZA soldier of the name of M'lmsx, who hots,
, an indifferest character in the regiment, and
bed bees repeatedly dogged, took cocesion whoa on
penile to assail hie colonel with abusive laagenge,
aptly taxing him with cowardice, and with having
rue away at Chillianwallah. li'Laair wee tried by
estert-mertiai end sentenced to be Sagged. He per-
seeded some of his comrades to procure him spines,
ander the impulsion that, if defiled by them, he
would hid the psia Ilea, before he was ethen out to
seder's his mama Wiese leased from the halberts,
furious ben the assabieed Meats of drink and pain,
be rushed up to the colonel and addressed him is
words which were nearly them used by Sir CHARLES
/Grum to the regiment, slightly modified through
the man's own *some' and comesness.
For this eAditmeal mirage 1141.sas was esliseted
to a seined trial by eicartmeediel. sad essdemei to
seven yews' transportation. When Me messed sew
hems was admitted to the CommendekmaNgt
revues be declined to confirm it, and maid ie
the mart fer reecesidersthe. The eend. shim 11111.►
fully omiderleg the remarks of the Clemmealmis•
chief, adhered to their sentence, whereupon Er
Csaat.as granted a free pardon to the culprit, seta
Loved ordure that heibonlel return to his troop.
The hob apes whisk Sir Qualms premeds& es
stated by himsl4 is his remarks on Mlnsses sea-
tame, are se Idiom i—Drtak Czmuss mays
" awl two bales et meek sad gem beer lot
been Is Maur la the
be was Manila est to be SeggeL =fitYs
vegetal useemgess me the adjutmt dimmed
that the pelmet was intedeeled Wore the Widths
of the pealiment began. Case the additional ex-
Massat et the pis, the was became le Wier that
the maiiMangiess shad is his sedum, °I thought
be mme bedlam mad or drank." %load IMO was
meld Men MeLun was The insult was
elheellbefflnari to his Moor at a time
Irks lionea was infuriated byte ofdriak and
ffsegisg. Sir Caritas infers lima time facts that
the issist of the culprit, hemmer diqpreedul, wee
"se me_pseamed by the mead if duty in others
se by the ameba himelf." AM ea this ground, the
scut-martial !mein refund le Niigata their musses,
Ws Quiz= alleged that be bed se alternative but
MBmiss the primmer, and order him to Morn to
how
Aiwa ben 'heady obearmel,the canes of the dia.
pedal essinsief the 14th at Chillianwallah has
Nes 4.0.1,5rL _ T.b• proceedings of the oast-
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