The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19.
ORANOEISM has fought its last fight, and has been
gully and completely overthrown. Its previous
conflicts were at most but partial and indecisive.
Again and again its strength was broken and its
banner humbled. Bat its pertinacious spirit was
not crushed; and though ever baffled and dis-
comfited it contrived to rally in new quarters, and
with new recruits under the old commanders. Its
tactics were those of political guerillas, whom no
general engagements could bind, and against whom
no regular force could well be brought to bear. But
in an hour of more than usual temerity Orangeism
challenged the executive government to a pitched
battle, upon whose lane it would stake its all.
Its WATERLOO hu been fought and lost ; and the
cause of civil order and religious liberty has been
crowned with full and final triumph.
Lord STANLEY'S charge against the policy and
conduct of the Irish government was characterised
last night by more than his ordinary rashness. Tne
few expressions deprecatory of bitterness and passion
with which he introduced the subject, seem to have
been uttered rather with the artistic aim of giving
higher contrast to what immediately after-
wards followed, than with any sincere desire or
expectation of being practically observed, either
by himself or his adherents. Before he was ten
minutes on his legs, the zest of the political
sportsman overcame all other feelings, and he
plunged from one dangerous and damaging topic
to another, committing himself more and more irre-
trievably at every step. His eulogy of [the Orange
yeomanry was fitly accompanied by epithets of abuse
flung upon " their cowardly and murderous" autago-
nists, whom, in the vehement), of his rhetoric, he
could find no milder term to designate than " the
rebels."

Nor was the partizan character of his speech more
remarkable than its levity. While he attempted to
account for abstaining from making any distinct
motion of censure on ministers for the dismissal of his
much-injured friend the Grand Master of Down—on
the pretence that it was in their judicial, net their I
political, capacity he addressed the peers—the tory
chief did not scruple to crack revolting jests, as
he went along, upon the manner in which the
victims of the pious Orangemen had come by their
death. One of these—an idiot boy—was found
upon the field of carnage, quite dead, his skull having
been to all appearance beaten in by some blunt in-
strument like the butt-end of a musket. Lord
STANLEY amused himself—we will not say even his
own side of the hones—by grim pleasantries, to show
that it had been with the other end of
that weapon the inoffensive creature had been
despatched ; and tried to gloss over the re-
volting fact, that two women had been slain
by his "brave, loyal, and religious" clients, with •
ludicrous quotation from the evidence of one of the
terror-stricken females who escaped. His lordship's
well-known ingenuity and adroitness as an advocate
were chiefly exerted, however, in an elaborate effort
to break down the faithworthiness of Mr. BERWICK'S
report, on which the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland had
confessedly acted in dismissing the Orange justices from
the communion of the peace. For this purpose Lord
I STANLEY set up another version of the facts and testi-

mony publicly given, purporting to to a report Liken
in short-hand and subsequently verified by affidavit.
All that this contained over and above what
was to be fourier irntthe learned commissiober's report
to government be broadly accused Mr. BERWICK of
having corruptly omitted. The passages were nume-
rous; many of them piquant; and the house evidently
awaited with tome curiosity to hear what reply
would be gives to this portion of the attack.
Lord CLARENDON'a defence of Mr. BERWICK was
brief but most complete. He read a letter from a
gentleman who had been present during the entire
of the judicial insestigations held in August last at
Costlewellan, undertaking to prove that the pre.
tended report (which had been used on a subsequent
trial in the Court of Queen's Bench, and thus
had become the subject of inquiry and criticism)
had never been taken down in short-hand or other-
wise by its putative author, but must have been subse-
quently compiled or composed! With this announce-
ment the triumph of Lord CLARENDON began: but
it did not end there. He proceeded calmly and tem-
perately to demolish each and all of the charges
which had been thrown out against himself and
oth. r members of the government on the sobject,
more especially that against the CHANCELLOR of IRE-
LAND for having acted merely in a ministerial cipa-
city, and without deliberation or conanantion. And
'finally, with reference to the efurepeated accusation,
that during the unquiet days of 1848, the birth exe-
cutive had secretly given money and arms to the
Orange lodges as such, Lord CLARENDON produeed
the written testimony of Captain KENNEDY, through
whom the intrigue for that purpose was said to have
taken place, avowing that he had advanced the
money out of his °tin pocket which the Dublin lodges
had 'tickled for, and that he thought the government
had erred in their scrupulosity as regarded the sup-
-3;:;g of arms at the period in question. Well might
CLARENDON indulge is a passing sarcasm at the
singular mode some persons had of proving the un-
parchaseable loyalty" whereof they boast so much.
With a degree of infatuation difficult to compre-
hend, Lord RODEN himself, in the very muse of his
rejoinder, volunteered an admission, if pooiible,
stronger than anything which could be said in sus-
tainment of the justice of the course taken by the
administration towards him. His lordship informed
the House of Lords, that a few drys after the m _nacre
at Nlagheramayo, he wrote privately to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ire:and, offering either to resign or to
acquiesce in his own removal from the magistracy, if
the government thought that thereby the evil cone..
quences of what had occurred could be at all miti-
gated ; them confessing his own consciousness'
of the lamentable position in which he
stood. The circumstances of the tratuiaction were
then but very imperfectly known to the executive;
and Lord CLARENDON replied, with the credulity of
old friendship, that he could hardly bring himself to
believe that any step of the kind could be necessary.
And this kind and forbearing language, conveyed un-
der the seal of confidence, Lord RODEN would bare
the world interpret into the first lick of a Macchi-
avellian chain of anti-protestant treachery and hatred!

Tun Manchester Church Reform Bill stands for
second reading in the Commons this evening. Though
promoted as a private bill, it is in reality a measure
of very high public importance. And though its
principles and objects are so sound that its second
reading will not, in all probability, be openly opposed,
there are, nevertheless, secret influences at work
sgainst its details in such powerful quarters, that
public attention to its merit will assist its progress
through committee.
The present ecclesiastical condition of Manchester
is this : the pariah contains 400,000 inhabitant,, and
is divided into 30 townships. Of the latter 8 are
' without church or clergymen. In the oilier
townships there are the parish (or cathedral)
church with 8 clergymen attached thereto, dieidi..g
amongst them 8,4001. a year; and ti 3 district
churches, whose incumbents have an average endow-
ment of 781. a year, or more than 2001. a year less
than the average endowment of the incumbents of
church benefices generally.
The Churchwardens and Bishop of Manchester
agree in thinking this an unsatisfactory state of
things, and they have united to seek its improvement ;
though in the particular mode of i s reformation they
are not quite of one mind. What, however, they
agree on is, that the property of the parish church
ought to be applied to the spiritual improvement of
the parish, respecting, of course, existing rights
therein. Now the property of that church is very
large; exceeding probably in gross rental 30,000/. a
year; but, having been mismanaged and antici-
pated by its formerand present incumbents, its present
net value to the parish church is not more than 6,0001.
a year; with, however, the prospect of ventrally in-
creasing under better administration. This 6,0001. a year
is appropriated thus: to the dean of the parish
church, 2,0001. a year, and to its tour canons 1,0001.
a year each. Though, however, these ecclesiastics
are so handsomely paid, the services of their church
are performed by three other clergymen, called chap-
lains and clerk in orders, who are paid from tees and
pew-rents 2,4001. a year amongst them. The district
of which the parish church is supposed to have spe-
cial care contains 20,000 inhabitants, not one of whom
is ever known to have been visited spiritually by the
dean who has 2,0001. a year, or by any of the canons,
who have 1,0001. a year each ; and when a govern-
ment inspector lately examined the school over which
those dignitaries, by a pleasant fiction, preside and
superintend, one of the ingenious youths there in-
structed informed that official, to his great astmish-
merit, that King DAVID was a disciple of JEbI:11
CHRIST.

To the application of the property of the parish
church to the spiritual improvement of the parish, as
proposed by the churchwardens and sanctioned by the
bishop, Dean Bowea (formerly a tutor in and still a
protege of the BEDFORD family) and his canons have
insuperable objections; and against the proposition
they are now (assisted by a clergyman notorious in
Capel-court for his railway speculations) intriguing
in London. They object, firstly, that though en-
titles to their 6,0001. a year, no parochial obligations
or duties spring out of its receipt. They object, se-
condly, that the 3 & 4 Vict., chap. 113, made the
pari,h church of Manchester as much a cathedral
church u that of Durham itself, and thereby entitled
the " dignitaries " of Manchester to be as hay as
'the rest of its inhabitants are industrious. The
first objection has, however, been effectually disposed
of by Mr. THOMAS TUR sit; who, in a series of ad-
mirable letters, has demonstrated, with almost mathe-
matical certainty, that the church establishment of
Manchester, as originally founded, was essentially •
parochial institution erected to provide for the more
efficient discharge of all the du'ies attached to a cure
of souls, and that its parochial character and duties
have been maintained in all the subsequent charters.
To Mr. TURNER'S irresistible conclusions the Bishop
of AIANCHESTER has given his assent. And, in
answer to the second objection, Mr. BA DDELEY, the
eminent and learned high church bar, biter, has given
an opinion " that the statute 3 & 4 Vict., c. 113, has
not released the Dean and Chapter from the cure of
souls, or made any material alteration in their general
responsibility;" and in this view of the law Bishop
Lee is believed also to concur. The facts and the law
of the case, the wishes of the inhabitants, the desire
of the bishop, and the welfare of the parish, are
therefore in opposition to the personal interests of the
Dean and Chapter. Long odds these against Dean
Bowes, even if backed by the BEDFORDS.
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Necessary as the opposition of the Dan and Chap-
ter may render the discussion in committee of their
dusty, dirty deeds, to place the case to be submitted
to parliament on so low a foundation appears to us to
be almost a degradation. The true principle on
which the bill rests is the necessity for promoting re-
ligion and piety amongst the 400,000 inhabitants of
the City of Manchester, and the obligation under
which the legislature morally lies of re-distributing
the property of the church in Manchester for that
purpose. Now, as the right, much more the duty of
re-distribution, was lately denied in the House of
Commons, we beg attention to its assertion by Bishop
BLOMPIELD on a memorable occasion :

Is It then to be averted, at this time of day, that there
can be no such thing as a lawful re-distribution of church
property ? My lords, the principle of re. distribution is one
which must be acted upon from time to time, or the church,
as ea endowed church, will pease to exit. It is a principle
which his been acted on by every branch of the Christian
church—by she church of Rome in different parts of Europe,
and by the church of this country. What was the alien*.
lion of tithe from their original destination—the spiritual
instruction of the priebionere, to the uses of religious
houses—but a re-distribution of ecclesiastical property? What
was the resumption of these tithes, and their appropriation
to other purposes, 'n the time of Henry VIII., but a fresh
re-diatribution ? The cathedrals, my lords, of the new faun.
dation existed only in virtue lit re-distribution ; a ,:con.l ro-