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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBEN 19.

Navn has been a greater stoat in the moral and I
religious atmosphere. Never was seen such a mass
of fiery mad framing _Glade, dark with popular in-
elastics. wading
_forth the vehement thunder of
ponies, and the brilliant coruscation of awakenfd
sad wiry intellect. The entire sentiment of the
Mies has been farad into one masa, and all classes
boss descended to the same Arum, to complain, to
inneat, to vent indignation, and demand vengeance.
Nes the humble vestry to the lordly cabinet,
vbesswer IBM &segregate, they have been moved to
tile time pestle metals lan consideration, the
*mat et Rase seastablisk its domination over us,
the telekery of week and foolish men, who have I
alumbeasg such hepes, and rendered possible such at-
=who stand In the first rank of authority and
Wow* contemplate these great popular ammo-
elea with different imperious. Some have said, I
this is too strong foe us not to be of it, let us join and
hood it. Others in the very heat of going along with
it have asked themselves, whither does it lead ? Dies
it not partake of the religions intolerance, if not of the
same, at least of an analogous kind to that which it
rants ?
Whilst some would make it an onslaught upon
Rome, others would enlarge it into a crusade against
all bishops. The Timis, evidently seeking to divert
indignation from domestic criminals, proposes to get
up an insurrection in Italy against toe Pore, or at
least to support the Piedmont's, constitatioaalista in
their oppoeiuon to him, which very constitutionalists
the said Times so lately delighted and contributed in
patting down. Others, on the contrary, consider that
vengeance as well as charity should begin at home,
and their proposed line of conduct would be to tie
WISEMAN and Perthhrerris to the same stake, and
burn them as victims to the liberty of religious
opinion.
We are not afraid of the actual perpetration of any
of these extreme and angry acts. On the contrary,
what we fear most is, that the seal of the public will
be so misled towards unattainable objects, and frit-
tered away upon merely vindictive and useless ones,
that the entire force of the reaction will be lost; that,
in consequence, no one abuse will be removed, and
not only popery left triumphant, but its great work-
shops left in full activity of creation and of props-
pndism.
The first effort of those interested for religions free-
dom and religious intellect should be to turn the pre-
sent movement to some great aim, some tangible ob-
ject. Without movements of this kind, and without
wise men taking advantage of them, nothing is ever
done under our form of government, in which minis-
ters wait on the public even more than upon
Providence. It is much to be feared that
the present efforts of indignant protestat-
ion are directed more 'giant form than reality,
more against the shield then against the body of its
antagonists. Thus a crusade against Wier.aun'e
title, against his wearing a red bat, or parfi-coloared
stockings, of what avail is it? Is this an object
worthy of the zeal of a great cation ? If Cardinal
WISEMAN, by hie manceuvres at Rome, and his arro-
pnt assuml.tion here, have got himself into the
meshes of • statute—if his display of the barbarous
latinity of Rome has brought hun, like a fly into a
spider's web, to be entangled in the equally
barbarous latiaity of our feudal lawyers, let
the Roman priest and the English jurist
fight out their ancient feud, since the former has
thought proper to renew it. If the archbishop gets
himself installed by virtue of a papal bull, and has
treasonable documents read during the ceremony, he
?elle, it is alleged, under the penalties of a pramunire,
which are very serious if the popular feeling be in-
dined to enforce them. If the cardinal, though as
Andalusian and alien, has come to exercise India,
or other authority in this country, the mere fact of
his birth will no doubt suable the government to eject
him. Hut this personal quarrel, in dealing with Wins-
MAN, is in our opinion a very minor matter. For every
casuistical or legal argument we use, the Pore, ,
we may depend upon it, will fled another. To find
such argument is his Holiness's trade, and, thank
Heaven, it is not ours. Then for every personal blow
we strike, Rome will parry one and deal another.
And this bout of polemical einghestick may go on for
a very long time, during which the POPE will not be
the first tired out. If we can seect a learned Wise-
MAN for an archbishop because he is an alien, Pica
IX may translate the anti-Copernican CULLEN to
Weethilater, and inflict the greatest plague of Egypt
on this country by the introduction to it of a when
legion of episcopal
fly personal viodictiveness directed against the
Pore's agents we shall in fact do little. All the
triumph we could achieve would be after all of no
very profitable result; nor shall we mend the
matter by directing vengeance spinet the leader
Of the semi-Romanist or tractarian movement.
Oan we depose bishops for having favoured
this ceremony, or dabbled with that doctrine?
Or is it possible or worth while for the sake of the
deprivation of even a majority of the bishops to make
• holocaust of the whole number? The culpable
have, in fact. bowed their heads betas the storm, and
the seeking to inflict more on them than their present
humiliation would fail.

Even wore moms in both instances possible, it
would be far from wise to make martyrs of either
Romanist or Traotarian, for either of them would
thereby acquire an interest and a character which
both toe the present want It is indeed imam-
bent on all to maintain the Quititit's sapeemacy.
to uphold the sovereign power of her who con-
centrates the lay and spiritual authority of the
Mate. For without this the great lay community
can never be safe against the caprices of oar own
clergy, or the hostility of a rival hierarchy. Let the
laws for this great purpose be fully enforced, wildest
making them stoop to personal or even emtarian via-
dictiveness. But at the same time lot us aim higher.
Let us set about the removing or reforming the
nests from which all this abuse and defection have
if rnag.
Let the present movement in behalf of religiose
liberty, and against sacerdotal usurpation bedirected
to prevention rather than punishment, to security for
the future, more than to vengeance for the present.
This can only be done by a searching inquiry into
the state of those seminaries of the church, the salver-
aties, into the system of education and roaring for
that &mellow well as into the entire messes of
church patronage. It is the universities whisk have
been mainly instrumental in the bold attempt, that
has fortunately tailed, to deaationaliee oar *web,
hat whisk has net tailed In dmationalielag the vie-
espate. 'Trarteriesiea step =a low aid irmaile for
the present. Bat w should maillect test these are
a knot of datum= =Nag it poem, midl ad =-
likely, by estates= mad estabiaatica semseay to
obtain it, whose unvarying principle has boa Sat of
building up sectselastiail anthoriiiee4llllllllo with
the state, or above it. Sta thseshe es
we may keen to be the tats. cha-
racter of our sovereign, we mist Ismer aim
that the power of the state and Me pahleallaof
the church may be tomorrow wie lagt
ready to reverse every principle hither,.
amongst us, and with these principles every gum=
of religious freedom and protestant stability.
If men are wise they will now put It oat el ak.
power of the national seminaries to rear at'=
of the wealthy and of the church in
Woolly opposed to
to as tie national interest' sad=
Y well the universal opinion, of the
=elm And they will pat it out of the point dm
goverament to give up the strong positkm of the
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