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London, England, 1850-08-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22.

Tilt Bishop of EILWR re in the field again! Van-
quished in every coed which would entertain his
plea, atd slow him the opportunity of gratifying his
pugoacions qualities, he betakes himself to his old
weapon, and sounds a note of mortal defiance over the
counter of MvRLeT. Conquered in the open country,
he bttakee himself to guerilla warfare. In other
words, the bishop appears once more in a character
foe which he was especially born, that of a pam-
phleteer.
The pamphlet is in the shape of a letter to the
churchwardens of Brampford Spoke, and is written
with the avowed object of defeating the end supposed
to be att tined by the sentence of the Privy Council.
Mr. °Ohne)! has been instituted to the living in de-
fiance of the bishop, and his lordship determines to
do all in his power to make the institution null and
void for all ussfitl purposes. With this intent, this
seek minded spiritual peer, this grave legislator,
writes to the flock whose immortal interests are en-
trusted to hie oversight, whose temporal relations he
is bound to watch over by his participation in the
legislation of the country—that they must com-
mence their ittercouree with their new pastor by
watching him with suspicion, and that they must seek
for some etession by which his lordship shell be en-
abled to annul a decision which has been con-
firmed by shunt every court of judicature we
possess.
The bishop commences his pious undertaking by
telling the churchwardens that they have got an
heretical parson, a wolf amongst the lambs. I have
examined him, says the bishop, and found that he
holds doctrines " directly contrary to the sure word of
Gad." His lordship goes on to say that it is against
his will that the obnoxious clergyman has been insti-
tuted to Brampford Spoke, but that he was obliged to
pay respect to the fiat of the archbishop. He then
follows up his charitable plan of setting clergymen
and parishioners at valiance by a series of remarks
upon the nature of his duty at the present crisis.

Gran and learned men (be writes) have advised—and I
have read the same advice in divan publiestions—that I
should license soma s .uad minister to r, side among you, and
to preach to In the pure word of Gad. But to this it is $
sufficient a..swer that I have no right to lone snob a lionise
—that tte litTll9ll would be absolutely void—any against
idiot under it, and officiating in your parish, would °Mad
against the law of the church, and so expose himself to ten•
sures which, on r,gular complaint, I sbou'd be b' urd, sa hie
bishop, to ialtet, even though I had myself beer rash enough
to pretend to authorise him. The ease would have been very
different if, not tte archbishop, bat same person authorised
merely by the state, had Minted to give imitation, In that
Cass I should hays mutinied to regard the care of souls as
void, and to supply the vacancy by a minister liotard by
myself.

It needs bat very little penetration to di'cover that
the purport of the aSfive paragraph is not to comma.
'liege to the inhabitants of Brampford Speke the
nature of the diffl.ulties which affl.cted their per-
plexed dixesan, but to give a sly blow to tie arch-
bishop, and to inculcate the favourite high-church
doctrine of the ineLyenclecoe of the church—nay, of
is superiority over tFe state. I am orthodox, says
the bishop, and wit: do none of the heretical bidding.
of the state, but the archbishop is unsound in the
faith, one with whom I have vowed to hold no com-
mutin, he may meddle with pitch without soiling his
fingers. Again, the state might have overwhelmed
me with heterodox decisions, aed I should not have
regarded them, but when the church intervenes I and
you and of all us must submit to injdstice even.
Still further to exalt the power of the church, to
explain to the wonoerieg parishioners the impossi-
bility of their berg able to free them-elves by their
own act from any inciarrnience which this mys-
terious corporation mey have isflicte d on them, ho
tells them that upon due reflection be has :visit(' to
Barn to the Ingestion that he should advise them to
Lek in neighbouring churches that pure doctrine
which it might bs linieless for them to expect to
bear in their own church. No! While Mr. GOIMAM
is there they must listen to him though he should
stun their ears with heterodoxy.

Mr. Gorham NI write-] is your appointed panto-, ap-
pointed and empowered 'y .cat high offic.r in the church to
whom its laws have, land., the special cireinistare,o of the
use, trati*Ferred from me. your bi.bop, the riAtt of
loNita-
tios. Whether he may have 'Remised that ht faithfully
ea not, lee has eaereismi it validly, and until Mr. O,rhem
shall by due rooms be ej eted from the cure of souls to
which he has bees thee validly admitted, it would be pae-
somptiecos lavuion of his r4t. to, and a sinful violation of
the cater of the church, to advise his people to mtsorete
themselves from his ministry. It would be schismatical to
advise such a 'operation, sad schismatical to follow the
advice.

If ever a poor congregation were in a sad case it is
that of the church of Brampford Speke. " There is a
heretic parson coming to you," stye the bishop, " bat
as you value your souls listen to his hetercdaxy.
Beware of going the length of the street aw from
your church to tear sound doctrine. The attempt
would be schirmatical."

What resource thin is left ? The bishop tills us
in the following words:
You, the churAwardersef Brumpiord Spike, are b ion,' by
the most solemn oblidatloi a to the church, end to the Divi-e
heed of the chunk% in which you bald the highest office you
as laymen can Enid, you are hound, I sty, to bring to the
knowledge of the bishop, or to the archdeacon, any it stance
in which you shall conscientiously believe, on
jest and reasonable protases, that your minister his
preached or taaght anything contrary to, or inc m-
ete:eat with that which the church proclaims to be the
tree word of God. . . . You have already too strong
reason to apprehend that your sew vicar may endeavour to
spread the poise: of heresy among his people by denying the
efficacy of the holy sacrament of baptism to baptised 'dams.
And therefore I now charge you, if you ever hear much false
doctrine AM from him, Mat you note word', accurately,
anda report them to or to the archdeacon, without
y
del.

Here Is pleasant preparation for peaceful living
between pastor and flock. The parishioners encou-
raged to act the spy ; t, play the informer ! Hounded
on to drive &clergyman from his puish! Here is the
beacon of pesos shining over the ocean of troubled
water. Your hope Ike in getting rid of your spiritual
guide. Watch him well. Let not a word escape.
Catch him once triiping, and then turn him over to
me!

This is the solemn advice of a dignitary of the
church to those over whom he is placed in charge. If
it is followed, what • devout congregation will as-
semble each Sunday in the church at Brarnpford Spek..,
to listen to their minister. After having tried every
other tribunal, the bishop has at last thrown himself
upon the powers of discernment of a country o ,ngre-
gation. The churchwardens of Brampford Spike are
the bishop's Doetorea irrefragabil.s.

Soma discussion has lately been raised by Lord
BROUGHAM on the Civil:List. Nothing connected with
that delicate branch of the public expenditure celled
for remark or suggested controversy; and it is not in
the Hesse of Lords that the principle on which the
civil list rest', the terms on which it was grouted, or
the details it involves, can at any time be usefully
or profitably debated. For the civil list is, par 's-
alience, a contract made between the Sovereign and
his or her "Faithful Commons ;" it is, by the pro°.
tice of our constitution as adapted to modern royalty,
and by the very form of its enaement, a grant from
the representatives of the people in parliament assem-
bled to the Morsareh for the support of the Court and
the dignity of the Crown; sad though the statute in
which the grant is clothed requires the concurrence of
the House of Lords, its ►ubject matter is oce of which
the Commons consider themselves the especial, if not
the sole guardians. Had there, cou'equently, been
any peening occasion, or any proper inducement, or
any legal warrant for reconsidering the civil list granted
1957 to the Queen, it was only in the Commons that

useful deliberation weld hays been had. When,
thee, Lord Bioratum is found, mprupoe des &Wes,
dragging the question, neck and shoulder% fate the
House of Lords, and ;here speaking by the hoer, sod
protesting by, the page, in a sense offensive to tne
Sovereigu, without being advantageous to the people,
It is only palatal to conclude that this disorderly peer
had other motives and. objects, than the good of the
public nervier.
The court of Queen VICTORIA has always laboured
ander the =Wartime of being vastly unpopular with
Lord BROUOHAM ; who, when he had the opportunity,
"aloud" and fawned on her Majesty's royal prede-
cessor with the most servile Fames of that day.
hulks the court of the Tuileries, when the Tuileries
had a court, the court of Queen Vic-Nitta has never
admitted Lord BROUGHAM to its intimacy or to its ban-
quets; it has restricted him to its state balls. He has
sever been permitted to keep the Queen's conscience,
sad though lse once forced himself, in his capacity of a
peer of the realm, into the royal pregame to give her
MAJESTY political advice, strange to say, Royalty was
not fascinated by his vivacity, persuaded of his sin-
cerity, or penetrated by his sagacity. Since, after
that memorable audience, he left the palace, his hopes
of political employment have been small indeed; his
chances of an earldom scarcely greater; his dislike of
the court mere hap than before.
Various have been the ways in which Lord
Bitoncinam has manifested this dislike. Sneers at
German learning and accomplishments ;
lions of plans in which the Prince Consort takes in-
terest; opposition to court schemes ot public ad-
vantage; exposure of court ignorance; terrible pictures
in the city of court power and supremacy ; advantage-
ova contrasts of the domestic and royal happiness of that
" great and good King" who is now a crown-less and
unhanoured exile—these have been some of the meet
facile modes of decrying the court of Queen ,
SORIA. But we topic of annoyance Lord BROUGHAM
has never lost sight of; it was his first, it is his last.
In 1837 he opp sad the grant ot the present civil
list, and predicted its speedy disorder and insolvency.
And now in 1830, disappointed in the* his gloomy pre-
dictions, be complains that it is so solvent as to have
a surplus. Don't, said he, in 1837, grant a permanent
civil list, because permanency will beget extravagance
and insolvency. Disregard the permanency of the
grant, be urges in 1830, because the civil list has
been so well managed as to produce a surplus. The
notion, he one day exclaims, of reducing political,
judicial, or diplomatic salaries can only proceed from
" ignorant men !' Let us, he next day proposes,
reduce the sum ranted by parliament to the QUEEN
for a civil list ; it is greatly too large. "My pension
of 5,0001. a year, was," he contends, and correctly,
•granted for life ; the statute in that case is imperra-
, tive, not to be disregarded." But the royal civil list,
though equally founded on a statute, is a matter, he
' argues, to be re-arranged by parliament whenever it
thinks fit, in spite of the language of its enactment.
Such is the inconsistent folly of this spiteful peer.
The Qrnitis's civil list is, as every one knows,
383,0001. a year, and was granted in 1837 by 1 & 2
Vic., chap. 2. It is divided into six classes; of which
the first relates to her M.ucrerr's own expenditure,
and amounts to 60,0001. a year ; the other five classes
relate to the different departments of the royal house-
hold and charities, and the pension-list of 1,2001. a
year; and each class has ri specific proportion of the
gross amount assigned to it in the schedule of the act.
By care, attention, economy, and the fall in the price
of provisions, however, there is now a considerable
saving in the expenditure of sonic of these classes
and her Mantenre's affair., instead of being in the die-
order and difficulties and insolver cy anticipated by
Lord BROUGHAM, are, it seems, so flourishing and pros-
perous as in the year 1849 to have left a balance unex-
pended on the civil list of about 38,0001. This Lord
BROUGHAM holds to be unconstitutional ; the practice
of the House of Hanover being to get into debt; the
duty of the House of Commons being to pay it. And
such being Lord Bitorciriam's opinion, he mists that
the early surplus of the civil list shall be paid into
the Treasury for tie public service. It is not safe, he
argues, for the 11)TC reign to have any balance at
Mews. Cortrrs's. Our liberties are gone if the
Monarch can hold console.

The fact of the Qtax having a surplus on the civil
list, however disagreeable L ird BROUGHAM; will,
we think, be generally satilVactory to her subjects.
For, in the test place, it is some security against the
civil list getting into debt hereafter, and of any appli-
cation to parliament to discharge its liabilities. In
the next place, it indicates order, carefulness, and
economy on the part of the sovereign and her per-
sonal servants. For it is to be observed, that
though the present civil list is less by 123,000 i.
a year than that granted t WILLIAM IV.,
and though the present sovereign has not, like her
immediate predecessors, any Hanoverian revenue, the
QUEEN has nevertheless not only discharged the debts
of the late Duke of KEST, but has supplied herself out
of her own resources with two residences; and this
whilst fully and sufficiently maintaining the splendour
of the court of St. James's. And, in the third place,
the very fact of a surplus existing in the civil list
constitutes an example worthy for the QUEEN to set
her subjects.
Whether it were wise in parliament, in 1637, to
settle on so young a life as Queen VICTORIA'S a per-
manent civil list, and whether the amount settled has
not now turned out to be too large, are questions on
which opinions may fairly differ. But there can be
no question that the civil•liat was then permanently
settled on the QUEEN ; and that hitherto the appre-
hensions then entertained have not been realised.

Lord BROCGRAII, to be SOT!, denies the permanence
of the grant made in 1837; bat learned a lawyer and
great a judge as Lord Baorcnem is, his dect•rm does
not yet, whatever it may do if Lord Tat:ILO allow.
him to sit alone on appeals in the Lords, override or
control statute law. Now what says 1 and 2 Vlct.,
c. 2? After reciting that the Queztv had placed at
the disposal of the Commons her hereditary revenues,
the preamble proceeds thus, in language courtly and
right royal, to address the Queen :

Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Cron
moos of the United Kingdom in parliament amembled, with
hearts full of the wormiest duty end gratitude, are divirous
that a certain and compvtent revenue for defraying the
expenses of your Msjeety'r bousetohl, and supporting the
honour and dignity of the crown during your blajeity's life
(which God long preserve), may be settled upon your Ma-
jesty as a testimony of our unfeigned affection to your
mend person by whose happy Nino seion to the throne,
your Majesty's subjects have the strongest assurance that the
religious, laws and liberues of this realm will be continued ;
end that your Msjeaty's said subjects and their posterity
may, through the divine goodness, enj•y every bleniug
under your Majesty's auspicious reign, have, therefore,
freely revolved to give and grant unto your Majesty, our
most gracious sovereign lady Queen Victoria • certain
revenue, payable out cf the corleoh.lated fund.
Here the intention to grant a civil list for the
QuEEN's life is expressed ; and in the operative part
of the stattre this intention is strictly fulfilled ; for it is
enacted" that there shall be granted to her MAJESTY.
during her MAJESTY'S life, a net yearly revenue of
385,0001."

True it is that this large sum is appropriated in the
schedule to six different classes of expenditure ; but
such appropriation cannot affect the duration of the
grant ; and nothing bat express ►nd positive enact-
ment, of which there is none, can deprive the
QUEEN of any surplus of the revenue thus settled on
her MAJESTY for life.

A bargain is a bargain, be it made with a king or
• creditor; with Queen VICTORIA or Lord BROUOHAM.
To the QUEEN the nation has engaged to pay
for life 385,0001. a Test; to Lord BROUGHAM, for
life, only 5,0001. The tenure of their respective
incomes is, however, the same. If the QUEEN'. re-
venues can, without her Mciesrv's assent, be less-
ened, so also can Lord BROUGHAM'S retired allow-
ance. Ar.d if any inch dishonesty has to be prac-
tised, it will only be retributive justice that it should
commence with the pension of the es-Lord Chancel-
lor, who first sogge►ttd to the House of Lords a gross
violation of public faith with his sovereign.

Tits strike of 179 engine drivers on the Eastern
Counties Railway has produced exactly the con-
sequences that were to be anticipated—one acci-
dent, at lent, the abandonment of several trains on
the trunk line', the closing of two brarches, the ir-
regularity of the trains which are leR, and the die-
organisation of the pubic service on the railway gene-
rally ; consequences of very serious importance not
only to the company, but to what is of infinitely more
importance, the public also. And the like or similar,
La, worm, effects may follow a combination of engine
drivers on any line in the kingdom. In abort, com-
munication is now very much at the mercy of this
particular and indispmeable claui.of railway servants ;
for they are the only class of %filch the supply is not
equal to the demand. Porters, stokers, guard., es.
Rioters may al be had in abundance; but en-