The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1850.

Martin's Hall. Whether it is good generalship
to risk so much upon a mingle meeting, we must leave
it to the promoters to decide. Certain it is that some-
thing must be done, if they are desirous of saving
themselves from the reproach of baring led their
followers into the mire, without doing anything to
rattiest, them. Up to the prevent time the leaders
of the party have lost every move. They have car-
tied the Cloartait ease through every possible court,
and have been thoroughly defeated. They have
sneered at the decision of laymen, aid have at last
been nonsuited by the two archbishops. They have
made no converts, but have had tkeir ranks thinned
by desertions to Rome. We cannot help predicting a
like fate for themeotiog of to-day. Its promoters are
Battering themselves they shall originate a schism;
we feel convinced th•y will do little beyond making a
noise.

The heads of the party are however determined
that nothing shall be wanting to secure at
least external solemnity to the meeting. Those wil-
ling to attend are requested to partake of the sacra-
ment before presenting themselves at St. Martin's
Hall, and particular churches are named for the
purpose. The meeting itself has been postponed
from time to time, fir no other purpose than to
excite public interest; the high church organs are
busy in drawing attention to it, and the whippers-in
are diligent in whipping up possible wanderers.
The resolutions which are to be submitted to the
meeting are already published, with extracts born the
protests, dro., in order that the important nature of
the object may be understood. There is to be, let, a
protest against the judgment in the GOltliAll case.
2nd. A petition to the QUEEN. 3rd. An address to
the Bishops and Archbishops. 4th. An address to
the Sco'ch Bishops. sth. An appeal to the clergy
and laity of England.
Now of these apparently formidable weapons, the
protest is mere waste paper ; the petition to the QUEEN
against a decision universally sanctioned in her own
courts will be something like an impertinence, and
treated as such ; the addresses to the Bishops will
certainly not have the effect of making their lordships
abandon the golden rule of episcopal policy, to do
nothing, gracefully acd solemnly ; the Scotch bishops
have nothing to do with the matter. The appeal,
therefore, to the people of England is in reality the
only portion of the whole scheme which might pos-
sibly become of importance.
It might pots bly be of importance, we say, but do
any of our readers imagine for an instant that it will ?
Take the cue of the clergy first. Allowing for the
effect which the peculiar course of reading adopted by
• tolerably large portion of that body, who have been
influenced by the Oxford tracts, may hays had on
some, the similar effect produced on many by a more
diligent study of the Rubrics, which are, to say the
least, ambiguous—and. lastly, that produced by the
persuasion that the reception of this doctrine would
greatly strengthen the hands of the clergy—allowing,
we say, for all these effects, we are convinced that the
great majority, c f the clergy does not participate in the
belief required by the high church party ;And that a still
greater majority comprising thegreater portion of those
who do believe in the doctrine, would not conceive
themselves justified in disturbing the peace cf the
church by a secession.
If, however, we tarn to the laity, the case is still
stronger : the appellants will not meet with a sym-
pathy which will carry them over the shadow of the
smalle4 difficulty. One partion of the laity does not
care about, and another does not understand, the dis-
pute. One unanswerable question which may be put
to the clergy is : If this is such a vital point, why
have we not been fully instructed in it Mort ? Have
you, the clergy, any time the last two hundred years,
until the last ten, made regeneration by baptism the
turning point of your teaching ? Have you taught it at
all? If the doctrine has been mooted, has it not been
confined to theological treatises, to disputes between
learned doctors? Has it not been tacitly allowed to
be thrust back ? Is it not • well-known sct, capable

of .....roooration by a large number of the elder por-
tion of the clergy, that the office-books belonging to
numerous churches in all the dioceses in England had
those expressions which fe,•med to favour the doctrine
of regeneration by baptism scored out? Has not, in
fact, the doctrine 'been reckoned among the theologi-
cal subtleties of a pest age, and ceased to be regarded
as formicg a necessary portion of practical teaching?
This, however, is only the negative aide of the
TlEllent.
v we not a right to object to the clergy
of a reformed church, thst an attempt to bring
in any dogma which inc.:lsis an opus I.peratum,
is dangerous to the existence of the church itself
—is taking away one of the pillars on which the
church is founded ? Is not the opus opervawn—the
spiritual effect, namely, produced by a material sub-
stance or by an exterior agent, without the voluntary
spiritual concurreace of the person on whom the effect
is said to be performed—the great feature of the con-
troversy between the Homish and the reformed
churches? Is not this the very doctrine maintained
as necessary by the former and denied as heretical by
the latter? Is it not, in treaty, the main portion of
the wall which separates the two churches? If so,
is not this an incontrovertible prima facie argument
against the Ibmatisers?
It is not our business, however. to argue the ques-
tion theologically. Our wish is merely to point out
to the timid the certain harmlessness of the meeting
of to-day, the complete absence of any grounds fur
alarm as to the prospect of au important schism in
the church. In conclusion, we would beg the
younger portion of the clergy to pause before they
commit themselves to a course of agitation which will
assuredly fail in its effects, and which will, when
terminated, leave them nothing but the uncomfortable
reflection that they have laboured unsuccessfully to
introduce division into a church which they were
sclemnly pledged to uphold.

FRANCE.

I discharged a torrent of rain. Iu the warm of the
even's, however, he was perceived descending to the
astonishment of everybody, plump upon the middle
of Paris. Finally, the bold aeronaut stepped out of
his car amid the chimney-pots of the Rue Ste. Anne.
The MoNiteur publishes omoial tables showing the
amount of the exports from Francs to Ramis, trom
the year 1827 to 1848, both inclusively. We extraet
the following as regards the two principal exports—
wines and silks :

WIRES—APOILAOI OP
1827 to 1836 1,888,000 1827 to 1848 1.837,000
„ 1840 9,836,01t0 „ 1847 2,747,080
„ 1846 1,944,000 ~ 1848 2,864,000

OILILi—AN;11111011 OP
1827 to 1831 1,969,000 I 1827 to 1846 3,3703,00
„ 1840 4.718,000 „ 1847 3,645,000
~ 1846 2,478,000 „ 1848...... 2,010,000

By a decree of the Vice-President of the Republic,
President of the Council of State, MM. Bethmont,
Marchand, Bouohene, Charton, Pidgeon Frederic
Cuvier, Lanyer, Fournouer, Horace bay, idaberault,
Heneral de Toile, Defresne, councillors of state, are
appointed to deliberate during the vacation of the
(Lucca of State on affairs which, from their urgency,
may require immediate solution.
The sitting of the Assembly opened to-day at half-
past one. The house proceeded to ballot for the
Committee of Permanence. The ballot was closed at
half-past two. Such extreme eugerness to know the
result of this important ballot prevailed, that the de-
bate which followed on the bill relative to clearances
of timber was hardly listened to, although M. Oleiral
dwelt more than once emphatically upon the import-
ance of the subject. By the first article of this bill,
the transitory provisions of the forest code are pro-
longed till the 31st of July, 18M. The second article
abrogates the decree of May 2, 1848, relative to the
taxation of cl ces. The committee proposed ur-
gency, and to adopt the law reducing the delay of three
years demanded by the government to one. M.
Gleiral was strongly opposed to the abolition of the
decree prohibiting private proprietors from clearing
their woods without permission from the government.
MM. Dufournel and Dillon opposed the bill. After
speeches from M. Beugnot. the reporter, and M.
Fould, in its favour, it was adopted by the Assembly.
The debate upon the budget was then resumed.
After a discussion of some length, but without inte-
rest, the reduction of 130,0001 r., proposed by the com-
mittee on lyceums and communal colleges, was
rejected.
The rise at the Bourse still continues, confidence
being increased by the result of the ballot on the com-
mittee of twenty-five. The Fives closed at 96.70,
and the Threes at 38 40.

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114 93; Orleans and Ileum, 360; Boulogne and Amiens. 205;
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AS3 7a ; Tours and Nantes, 148 73; 31onterean an 4 Troyes •
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