The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-26 00:00:00

18 PUBLISHED

EVERY EVENING.

1.0.VD0241, SATURDAY, SEPT. 26.

JR4•E.SSOR F. D. MACTD.:E.

TUE Ilf•v. FREDERICK DENISON MAITEIn
imiversally recognised as one of the teachers of
the aga— one of the architects who arc helping to
build the ecclesiastical and social fabric of the
future. Whatever view may be taken of his posi-
tion as a theologian, hit position as a leader of
~.pinion and a representative man cannot be open
to dispute. It has beca his good fortune to be
both assa led and persecuted ; and he has, in coa-
cequenc", faund himself at the head of a largo
body of enthusiastic disciples. A great lover of
petice, L.: has Lieu the occasion of much discord;
e great preach. r of is uniting spirit, he has
been the foun kr of a distinct theological
‘OlOOl. In an age of unwlling scepticism
and te'dict int doubt he ham been to
tie very apostle of faith. Ilineelf regarded
as a het etic, he has drawn many and retained more
v. Min '.he 1 s of ,rtliodosy. One of the moq
Va., if. and ou • pot en or 1110 n, he has gained a
ho-T, remit: lira, for casuistry; fink: with clear Ludt
,ed pinion., he is by many regarded
•IS P.) ~lit 1,14 post um a teacher of
lnafh.heht I, 1.11 a 6,, tern; deprived of
ip in a fingh where a few
1,, ,„
,„ it; , f s siegie church Cr. trained,
ho lie, I isq :ted as is to:110u r :ilOl :t guide
y o :my of the gi.hit s to.:Actiel4 of
lii rcl:, s. Ife h LY StOOti ill a liiishatillg
it n 1,1%, lern thought and ancient
of lie di .1 ly iiipathi,ing with both and laying
111/Wit 11l Lis of 1•••:4•3: llotw.ori thou* ii not re-
et•fici!ing el, to is at her. To some perwms he
it t roph-t aod his words are us orzicles which
111.1, liftthinfly int,rpret to the world, whit., to
multitudes he is a mysiie, and his words need ull
tha interpretation they (tall 1411:111VP. It is this me-
diating poaitirdi which constitutes lir. 3LAUKtiat'a

I.lrength and weakness. He seems to f' !kith
ways, and to those wLo are themselves halt-
ing be the two he : ii the vary
hotelier they require, while to ;!rose sem) roc.
con.p7etely satisfied on eitisi.r st 4 ha rem) to
belong to the other side, or to betray them both.
Such a position is entirely ineonsistent with p 'r-
ooms/ opularity or with wide popular influenee
The people can never understand it fully. They
ire for a definite opinion on disputed questions,
and are impatient of being told that bath sides
art• right and both are wrong, or that one side is
right for masons which the other side urges
against it, and which itself repudiates yintl con-
futes. Mr. Msetticx is oonstquently not a p:r-
pular Midler. lie has a wide and appreciative
audience, but scarcely the oar of the nation. lin
has art influential following, but no popular
h aderrhip. It is rather through his disciples than
by dime oonununication that he exerts his large
influence on the thought of the ago.
In the present eoolesissticsil crisis we should
enpect Mr. Mstatien to have something to say.
In some letters to the Daily NRIP4 he has discussed
the whole subject of Church and State in that dis-
cursive, historical; and indirect style which chs-
racterises his writings. We do not, profet to
understand exactly Mr. Mauetes's meaning in
those letters, but we at least gather from them
that he favours the disestablishuient of the Irish
Church for many of the mane reasons for which,
his clerical brethren are opposing, it. H' says
that the Irish Establishment makes the Church
a scut, end that it will cease to be a soot
%Len it is direstablished. Yet he favours
woo mystical union of Church and State.
coutimplating the nation in its religious &N, -, Its
es the Church end in its political aspects As the
Mato. His idea of the Mute is that it is " the ov-
" rersion of the dominion of law, of the emlict
et law against elf-will." The Church in Ow
&sew way is a witness for a Divine Spirit in the
WOI ld. Itut how Mr. MArRICE'S theories lu•ar on
the practical questions which now stand b..foro
the British peoplc we are quite unable to sea. Ilk
union of Church and State seems to be one which
political ccnibitations have nut created and cannot
else, but bow the actual union is to be trans-
feu reed into this ideal union it is impossible to say.
Mr. Dlsemen's speculations, in fact, lie quite oat
of the line of practical statesmanship awl belong
rather to philosophy or theology than to politim.
He expounds the crisis to us. traces its history,
shows its difficulties', and introduoes us to its Ber-t-
-rete and conflicting elements. but dare not give us
the It ast help in getting over it.

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Mr. MAUILICL Low•ever, not dependent for

his intuenoe or his practical counaols. He is him-
telf always speaking of a spirit for which all the
varior.s Churches and sect« have w!tnesse(l; but
the chief value of his own writings is in their per-
vidir.g spirit. To Mr. Attys.', there is 1101.117
thing good in everything. Ile has a singular
power of entering into the motives of other
enple, of seeing the *ad after which
they dimly sterve, and of pointing out
both the strength and the weakness of their posi-
tion. This power appears in all his writings om.l
ei.nstitutes their charm. In his History of

•' I'hiloeophy" he gives all the philoeopht•rr a
tint.to of his own iu)sticiau, but he enter.; eo fully
into them that we tometimee under ttand them
better from his account than from their own. In

lis theological writings his appreciation of the
point of view of his opponents is singularly vivid,
and his willingness to sec the good in thew is as
re...meting as it is rare. This largo sympathy is
peculiarly the point of contat.•t between Mr.
IllAtratcia and practical men. The spirit of the
present ago is one of universal tolerance, an I
this toleranee Mr. Ma'ni'c emphatically and
peculiarly eribodies. Tie FATS good in all sects,
nil admits a raison tre're for them all. He regards
tha as all as in their several ways contributing t 3
the welfare of the State, and forming outlying
branches: of tbsChureh. At the same time Le has a
hearty dislike for that Peet spirit which, whether in
religion or in politics, limits all its sympathies within
the hounds of its own party. In this he is one of
the truest representislices of an 04* which aims in
all things to be inclusive and to put all exclusions
aside. This tendency is the key to the times, and it
is a tendency which Mr. Msuicirs has, in his own
-phi re, done as much as any main to promote. We
ere glad to weitouto him among that° who, in

•
( arrying out this recon,:iling policy, wish to
mallow( the great political and eceiesisatical sotiudal
which wakes 'lnland England's an alrn.ssa.

THE EXPRF'-! SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER
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ou It miNTEmpolouliss.
-118 DAY.)

the 111111101 titre' w,,rk gene ill w ill moat -..-ibut4
ivy mi. was eqn.l hied. I i.to.rl breithlem, holang g
nwfrl Awbt, but that.kifts tit Lit IKa hut Iwee pr •-
g.rleal to rolt mud my kind ones, Ott each WOOD 1 w.ae a
Wet the. ' • '

Aud biro again Übe i•ztunt of Ots dovastation
and 1. 44 of life is painfully shown:

At Iquique the tool; it ouropietely swept away. Nothing
but a maw of mime remain The po.is uf
blip's. a, Magus. Arica, Ito, and (Isla have likeeri
amired 'Le tate of Iquique ; Ai equips, the second oily of
irpublie, is levelled to the ground ; not one huuse is
left stesidip.g, emcee a few wooden erections on the oat-
Ants of UM, oily.
Nor was the disaster confined to the land, as
tie following details show :
1 taw Me whole surface of the Fes rise as it a mountain
side, actually standing up. Another shuck. accompanied
o itb a fearful ri ar, now took place. I called to my eons-
; itn'ons to inn for their lives oe to the Pampa. Too late.
With s lum rid crud* theses was onus, and at one sweep—out
terubli sweep— dashed what was Iquique oa to the Pampa.
I I(st my onatraniens, sad in an instant was fighting with
the daik water. The mighty wave surged and roared and,
kaptd. The mice of human beings and animals were'
do ednul. A mass of wreck wowed me and kept as down,
and I wits fast drowning whoa the sea threw me oa to a
beam, but a nail piercing my cost the timber rolod
again uni,er end I lord all sense. I suppose, as in all Me I
CIIPCI, 1 must have struggled after sensation had left as,
for **ben n turning conicioasness came I was graspini

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OPINIONS OF TIIE PRFAS Oti TI I F. MICHEL OASIS.

(From t Timor)

Though Madame conviction will, por-
haps, sorptiar. PIO 0110 who knew the universal prejuil.ce
sidrig ageing hi r. or win Inani the Commissimec%l
dingo to tho jury, there can be few whom the &lark.
lan will not ii:tunish. As our readers have by
this time titan] ever and over again, the Arlo t
point in the care for the defence consists in th •
am of letters written confessedly by Mrs. B .r•
*tided's to "Dear William," but which she swears she
wrote under the impression that she woe writing to Lo. vi
Itanclegb. We need scarcely here repeat all tho arru-
merits wbk,h have been adviuseied to show how wildly
imps obable and untenable this theory is. They re tat
suggest themselves to any reader who has taken safinent
interest in the ease to read the letters for himself. Oa
DO bjpotheste whatever, however wild—assuming no mat-
ter chat folly in Mrs. Borsadaile or depraved ingenuity in
Madame Rachel, taldog Madame Eacbel, of coarse, a.
she stands, an illitende shopkeeper, not a witch nor a
miraculous gerilua—can we Mooned° the letters either with
Mn. Borratlailes belied that she was writing to Lord
llaaelagli or with the non-esistence of a "Dear William."
(From the Deily News.)

ui.dcr ur aim • large plank. Looking run Ai, a Isrti'
wrack and desolation. In a moment l was by • nit's. int
oat e sot ipt Into the bay, and meeting • MASI of be. k
Ohl er, I was struck • fearful blow ou the chin, and th
biuk..n cud of a plank pa...cid through my thigh. I knew
ItO II MO 1.1.til I found myielf on thu ['amps and all .lark
.1 Qui WO.

The jury must have had immense difkoulty in separat-
ing their diaguet at Madame goobers caUiag, end cue-
nuct ler admitted by Lrr defenders, froui the Impartial
acumen required to pronounce upon hor milt or inno.
tveste of the particular offence of which die wee chargel.
It is easy to inciM glibly that Boni was n, ev.derim
against her; that sin had a right to Nell hor mane, aa
Gym, and lotions for what they would fetch, the..
Mile Bid radeile richly merited lulr puidah,umt, end
that the despoiler was lejelly guiltless. hut th i 6,3•10:.
of le hi. 11, roc/oiling to Mr. Snrjeant Ballantin this
hapless widow lied been defrauded. the a oumption
044 even if Madame Rachel di t out po:ket
whole of the snowy, the meet Lave acted in collo sioo
with the "William" who did, and the cnrtuiuti
that the Bea 41-rtiect shop, war the trp by mean.
of which tin foolish Lint bad heen car. ct.
wire laglatloUltil it wee inspiri.ib:s to overlook. If
" t illiam " were Lout Hone agh, as Mae. B irrsd silo
&eared lii.raelf to have belivei il, thee Madame
hank the money in Lis name. if h wee:. Mrs. Boris-
dai i's uti debtiGed paramour, to whose (name:l4lmill ehe
min stare 1, an 1 for the cake of who a she
animater ly n ode herself a beggar, th •n a plane:lel, i%-
ten ace was that he was a creature in the try of the
accused. Anyhow M dam • 'Limbo! was inciraly
Fealty. sad the jury has found t at she was legally
The temyseny mystery, enveloping the chief pent-mare
is this wretched sordid drama, extends to the tube: lade
diameters, end how it was that en eld vly noblaman
varied expeneni 0, like Lewd Banelagh, visited Madame
Bechers shop, to be unnonamuusly used by that harridan
ae fowlers use a decoy duck ; bow a solicitor of the
acknowledged standing of Mr. Manes ever placed hi ui
in the painful position he hie occupied in the via.* of
these birds, are, to say the least, ineaphiable re hike.
(From the Nermir,g Awe.)

to foal to last there has been no calamity
swum :Ling the foregoing in our tinsel. It re'eli
Ilat:s flea pic:utts of the " Last Day." That
St ail, Miseries is peparated from us by nuuty
amil ands of mike has in some strange way ap-
emed to mitigate the public sense of the diabster.
I.ut these per..onal experiences are no vivid and
rel, tl.at few who wad them but will feel weighed
down Isy honor et the extent and nature of the
tu.fftv.ngs dte Bribed.

The &bolos amounted to the, that there woo no pre-
tence and no delimion at all, nor anything to do with
Lord Item larch in the matter, and that Pda.l.eno km:hot
had in fart received the money, not for pricuring :t
marriage with anybody whatever. hut VI carrying
nn an intrigue between Mr*. llorradaile aid Is third
ten.* nut produced. Wo think it is improteirge --
keeping myxteries out of eight-to read thu evidence
without mining to the coneluaion at which the jury ar-
rived, that the pretence did rind. and was the es that
induced Met. 11,r: admit, to part with her ; and that
the third per.-on wee purely fictitious, and th,
to hint in the letters insetted ode:wally 11,1 a 011.6113 of an-
Sweving any such charge as Madame ltachaa former ex-
perience led tire to suppose might provably be ceeit•ially
ands against her.