The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-13 00:00:00

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Startling as such an assertion may appear to your
correspondent, " C. J. M'C.," I do say that the
decalogue is not, and never has been, binding or
obligatory on Christians, for I have too profound
a reverence for the truth and genius of the New
Dispensation to think that it requires addition or support
from the Mosaic one, or from any other quarter. When the
type was completed, the ante-type was as completely done
away with and superceded ; and to say that the type is not
complete in itself, is at once to demolish it. And, I believe,
that ultimately the service of the Church of England will be
reformed of all those inculcations from the ante-type with
with which it is so profusely at present interlarded, and that
it, in common with the dissenters, will only use the ante
type as a record and an illustration.
I am afraid your correspondent will have been so
horrified at perusing the preceding portions of this
communication as to at once give me up for lost,
and consider me an unclean thing, to be shunned
and avoided. Yet I would ask him to bear with
me whilst I state that his " holy Sabbath," which he
regards with so much unction, is a baseless fabrication, and
that the fourth commandment, which he so highly esteem!,
if taken literally, (and in what other sense can we expeot
the multitudes of young, illiterate, and unenquiring persons,
to whom it is so pertinaciously propounded by the Church
of England—improperly so called, bye-the-bye—to take it)
conveys a most unmitigated misrepresentation, as is amply
proved by the discoveries of modern science.
" C. P. WC." has been pleased to designate me a calum-
niator ; but, not having proved me one, the charge, even as
curses, like chickens, must go home to roost. And as to my
being a nameless scribbler. I am even content to be
numbered in the ranks of that army which, ihrough the
medium of the Press, gives expression to that public opinion
which governs the nation.
June 12, 1856

QUASIMODO.

NEW PHASE OF THE AMERICAN QUESTION.

PROPOSAL OF ARBITRATION

There is no longer any doubt that Mr. Crampton is to
be dismissed. if we ale rightly informed, the American
Government accompanies the intimation of its intention
to dismiss our minister and our Consuls, with the
most profuse assurances of good-will and respect—
assurances, the sincerity of which would be indubitable,
were they not attended by acts which harmonise so ill
with protestations of respect and amity. But this is
not all. Mr. Dallas, the present American Minister here,
is, we are assured, armed with the fullest powers to
negotiate and finally settle the disputes connected with
the Central American question ; and, if unable to come
to an agreement, the two contracting parties are em-
powered, without further reference to America, to refer
the question to the arbitration of some impartial third
person, to be selected by mutual concurrence. What,
then, is to be our course in a situation so difficult and so
novel I Shall we retain Mr. Dallas, because the dis-
missal of Mr. Crampton has been accompanied by much
conciliatory language and some real and important con-
cessions This question will be best answered by
another—has Mr. Crampton been guilty of such miscon-
duct as authorises the American Government in dismis-
ing him summarily, and at once, from his position as
minister at Washington I The English Government
must fairly decide for themselves upon the guilt or
innocence of their accredited servant. All the advice
we can offer is, to weigh the matter fairly and dispassion-
ately, without fear or tavour ; to decide jzstly, and to act
resolutely. We are strong; and it is the privilege of
strength that it need stoop to no injustice, that it need
fear no misconstruction from yielding to reasonable coin-
plaints, and shun no consequences from resisting
unreasonable aggression. The dispute is rapidly. passing
into a stage which will necessitate a speedy decision on
the whole question.