The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-31 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
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(Cape de Verde), Sierra Leone, and Atesarios, will be wade
tep tN. sewing.
TM mails at British North America, Bermuda, wed tbe
United Stem to made .p,per " Franklin," tameerew
lambi ; and per " Cambria," teemerrow evening.
TM nails for Wilco will be node up on Nov. 2.
TM mat fee the Wise lease, littersaels. New Orman,
Greptewscend Jaaasl, will bs wade op on Nov. 2.
Toe magi be Madeira, the Deeale, sad Buenas Ayres, will
be wage if Os tbmoans a Nev. 4.
The eras Oa Limbos, Rs* and Gibraltar will be Rade
us ea Nev. 7.
The meat vie Illerveillee, to the Mediterranean, Zgya,
Ceylon, Ind* llotag.lioeg, Ike., will be suede up es ate
amain aim 7.
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Chili, and Pon, will be made ap ott Nov. 17.
the Ltheeth lamas,
Tla mils fur Gibraltar, Yalta, Gnome
Etrys, Ogles. lads, and China. rie Southampton. will
be made wpm the evening of Nov. 20.

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LONDON, TRURSDAT, OCTOBER 31.

PUSltYlelt is my sick. It finds itself suddenly
taken at its word, and is utterly discomfited. The
awkward reality has broken out through the artistic
illusions in which it has hitherto been shrouded; and
in presence of the naked claim to absolute obediense,l
the long-stifled and half-starved right of private
judgment rises up in the breasts of men, and lib
them back oat of the masquerade of forms in wild&
they have been playing, half hypocrite half feet
CUSS-LIB JAMZS, Bishop of st:Ott, hobnob IA
him oat of the equivocal shadow, wherein he bath se',
long diegnisted himself in vain. When P
wu fresh and the fashion, this man of purple lim
ties
linen smiled affably upon its ghastly face, and lamed
to negotiate about the necessary number of geselles-
tions. Candles on the altar be would candidly ene-
code ; the question of their being lighted was All Of
dettil about which good churchmen need not differ.
Wearing the surplice in the pulpit, and facing round
to the east window at the Creed, were points of
equally graceful compliance with the usage of the
eider breech of the use and indivisible catholic
church: and as for ecclesiastical architecture there
was no vagary of primitive masonry which this right
reversed lord over OoD'S heritage was not reedy to
sanction and approve.
Nor was this mere flirtation with a new religions
face. Pusejism took a man like CHARLES JAMES up
to the pinnacle of the temple, and pointing to all the
free consciences of the realm beneath, said unto him—
sway over all these will I give thee, if thou will fall
down and worship me. The bishop has hesitated long
hefore he could make up his mind to bid the tempter
begone. While the dream of episcopal domination
basted, the voice of the tempter seemed unto him like
that of as angel of light. But the stern interposition
of the insatielne pretensions of Rome has wakened
our spiritual acrd of London from his dream; and
with protestant voice he at length, exclaims—No
compromise !
Addressing his clergy, who lately sought his ad-
vice how they might best resist the WillEllAN inva-
sion, this consistent ruler of the church thus incul-
cates the duty of marked and scrupulous severance
in all things from the Ronan ritual :
Let es be careful, as well is oar public ministrations us is
ear priests menitions and exhartetions, to refrain from doing
or saying asythieg which may seem to indicate a wish to
make the slightest uprose+ to a church, which far from
maallattlag a desire to lay aside any of the errors which cm&
pelted us to separate from it, is sow re-amertiog them with a
degree of boldness unknown slam the Reformation, &s.
And his lordship proceeds to indulge in the conso-
latory reflection teat after all his holiness has made
a false step in his recent partition of the kingdom into
new dioceses, inasmuch as this arrogant assumption of
power 0 will cause some to hesitate and draw back
who are disposed to make concessions to Rome under
a mistaken impression that she has abated somewhat
if her ancient pretensiohs."
'lbe bishops do not like the look of the old yoke of
the papacy. They have too long been free to relish
the notion of having the fisherman's net thrown over
there ores again. Unity as an ecclesiastical sentimen-
talism, 'tad uniformity within their own spiritual I
domain, are all very well. Nay, heard we not this
very CltAttLia hours of London during the lent
comics of parliament plead for the right of himself
and his episcopal brethren to exercise plenary jurie-
dictioa is all causes ecclesiastical whatsoever arising
within the realm, without control of either crows
or people; for were they not the successors of the
apostles in direct and indisputable summon ? But
now things are mightily changed. A greater than
York or Canterbury affects to be here. Rome
has abated none of her " ancient pretensions" to call
bishops as well as others to inquisitorial account. Is
haste the prelate falls back on his almost forgotten
protestantiem," blows out every wax-light on the
altar, and appeals in straightforward terms to the
right "feeling cf the people at large."
rio, then, it has come at length to this, and we an
rcjaced at it. It is the laity on whose liberty of
thought and single-mindedness in belief that the
safe ty of the Church of England must depend. All
toe esoteric insolence, all the jugglery of quint
words, all the charlatanism of 'esthetic formu-
kilos ends in abject confession of falsity and
failure. Oxford's eggs are addled. Exclusive wis-
dom and medieval learning have done their
best, and are fir ally as a system self-undone.
Thai have tricked same few worse of ill-balanced
minds out of the faith of their fathers; and beguiled
the toireirediiheas ambition of Rome into the delusion
that the busy, sober, tolerant, and undemonstrative
mass of the English people bad been coaxed by
petted windows, gilt crucifixes, and a muttering
method of whining through the liturgy,—halfway at
bast back to catholicism. Bet no sooner does the
Pope commit the natural mistake of supposing that
all this was true—no sooner does he prepare to take
poseession of the pen-fold into which the BLOMFIELDS
and WILDZRYORCIIII, ()LAI:MOPES and BINNITTs,
have been trying to mislead the sheep—than all is con-
fusion and fright. They meant—that is they didn't
mean—or at least no one can undertake to say what
in point of fact they were at all this time.
Thee Puisyism has fallen sick—very sick—and is
very likely to die. It has been found out : and what
is hardest to bear in such cases, it has been the cause
of discovering on itself. Had it never beckoned to
the gentleman in the red hat and Teeple stockings, it
is probable that we should have lived and died with-
out any one in that costume coming amongst us. But
such an it:present cabal of importuni les has been kept
up by our high priests and university professors, that
the College of Cardinals were at length deluded into
believing that we wanted one of their body to
dwell and " rale " within our border,. Ana by
wgy of (epeeist civility, we may presume, it was
resolved to make a cardinal for us expressly, and to
give him an English pallium. No sooner, however
is this grand step taken " towards catholic union,"
and the " obliteration of the great schism of the 16th
century," as the Puseyites loved to term it, than
with one accord they all begin to quibble and make
excuse. Trey had sighed for Red Hats, 'tie true;
but only in a non-natural sense; real red hats are
quite different things, having no affinity whatever
with the mystical garb of historical and foreshadowed
cardinals, such as are seen in Oxford dream.
Whatever may be thought of the nimble me..
sores taken by the Propaganda to persuade the
of this country to renounce the right of peivatePjst
meet which they have exercised for the last three ,
hundred years, and in whatever disappointment the I
attempt so begun may be destined to end, it is Imre'
sible not to rejoice at its more immediate consequences
namely, the exposure of the Puseyite plot, and pre-
mature explosion of that insidious scheme. From the
honeycombed guns of the Vatican we have little to
fear. Treachery within our own walls has ever been
our chief, if not oar only real danger. Every
social instinct, every political sympathy of the
Beglish people is allied with freedom of in-
quiry, of thought, and of worship. It is by
the national nee of this freedom that the strength
of the national character has been formed, capable of
great things in all that adorns or dignifies the Ewe
of civilised man. To part with this freedtenoed
kneel down again at the bidding of a foreign
• and penitently to abjure the right to mad the
scriptures to our children, the right to wonidp Goo
in whatever form we individually feel to be mest mni I
pressive of our wants, the right to hops that them wo
bye and honour among many sects on earth will am
ley meet in heaven—to give up truth, earsestnem,
eat tele:woe as a people is not within our power.