The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-11 00:00:00

'ART BUSINESS FOR THIS
EVENING.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

PUBLIC BUSINESS.
CONYTTTZNe.—SapgjeWaps sad Means ; Lodi'
gams to le esosiinsily Piety Prosessious (Inlaid);
BBL
SICOND BILDONNT—Landlord sad Tonat (Inland)
Highways; Charitable Trusts; Bills.
Continues on BiLks.—Parliantatairy Voters, SO
(Inland) ; Election (Inlaid); Process sad Practise (be-
lted); Registratioe of Deeds (liaised) ; Pirates (Head
Money Reseal); Estates Leseisw (Inland) ; Judgments
(Ireland); ML
Tann RlADUlo.—Regietrar of Metropolitan Carriages
Bill.
NOTICES OF QUESTIONS.
Passion Winn —Laid R. GROSVENOR, to ask the
lint =Jolene of the trews, whether be will move the ad-
israneut of the hewn or or W include Pr.ssion week in the
Master Men.
NATIONAL Gemosu.—Mr. OGLE, to ask the Srst lord
of the Treasury, whelk,: it is the tentative of the trustees
of the Na&nid Gallery to persevere M sings, the estates
ra
M the old nesters; eta dee, whetherthey wanneonte
Wing dee *Mee M Ole royal neaSsmnites boo that part
re-
of the building at preetat spongebag& to then.
Memnon Ann Itnournevion ACTe.—Mr. IWART,
Or Winks of the right On. fieentary for the Male Depart-
neat, wheats, the goverment in to istrodess say bill
this noise for asseadieg the Marriage and Ilenistretton
Ads paned fa the senate year of his late Majesty reign ;
ly with referees, ti the repeal of se mesh of the
Wefts. sets as rapine a sena days' nodes te he given
sod read at • neon' et the heard of Beardless peke to the
bon of a Steam
NOTICES OF MOTIONS ON ORDERS OP
THE DAY.
BOTTLT, NATT ESTnIATIO.—Mr. ANSTEY in einnarite
Me to all meanie to the illesslity of Tommie whim elude
by Olken of her Majesty's navy, without the authority of
ea
order is orentiL
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PAULI/X=7MM VOTERS, &S. (INALAID) BILL —ln
essamitme Sir D. NORREYS. Mr. °ROGAN, Bir R.
FERGUSON, Lad CLAUDE HAMILTON, Mr.HAMIL
TON, Ls,l NAAS, Mr. STAFFORD, Mr. FAGAN. Mr.
REYNOLDS, Col. CHATTERTON sad Mr. CLEMENTS,
be son var Dos slaws sad anardseats.
ESTl:rig Larne (larsmen) Elm— la simultho
R. FERGUSON, to wove canals asendateres.
INDEPENDENT NOTICES OF MO PIONS.
Tea Carr Jvencise —Lord JOHN RUSSELL. to
more for Mar to briag to a bill to regulate Us salmis of
the Sikes of Chief Justin of tie Coon of Glara's Beath
sad et the Chid Jugs of the Cost of Cosmos Pleas.
ESTAZIASZID Carex (Watse.)—Mr. JOHN WIL-
LIAMS, adder, far return hos the several Welsh dioceses
el St. Asir, Banger, St. David's, Linda; with an alpha-
lethal tbt of the several partakes sad *sir dienets within
each dies...., showing ths rand vales rid to the hams
host of seek pariah or district, the MINI of sash iseasbents,
whether reoutents vitae the part or Monist to whack
they an appointed, or aciarsidont ; the assess of every
mats or anat. s wars each parka se dishier, ths stipend
paid to each carat., and ths periatios of the park or die-
tots to the last the nears Is he jiving
to the 29th day of September, . Lad a sets..,
the was of all watt e who sane sere that MS thank or
chapel, the awes of such aurora or shirk, the maw of
the parish I. width each thank ea earl is 'inland, the
✓an of tie angst larabosto hes who. the carats
rains an stipaid the aura& sewer of stipend paid
by ear sf sash irrabesta ; oath direr to be giverelrorirw Cossnerosnrcs (laataram). Csiosel
CHAT/BETON, espies of the winesposdass brines the
gamedwas aid the asounisdasses, sod she Kr. John Dillon
Crokor's liners at the
Untose (lastAxp).llro. ROBERTS, Man of the
rhmaties it swat salons is Inland to which advances
bare bees sods sada the Rats in Aid Act of the lan see-
aka, sad the wan* advanced to each; and, of the amount
rates actually slimier in each of than salons, during
the yrs 1849, sad the proportion whisk the sweat oar-
treed bean to the rand of Tar dos ; the highest and
lowest rate assessed is say electoral divides during thri year
▪ each ; and the roatest number relieved during the walks
of January, 1849, sad January, 1830.
MONTINISTA lIISTOKICA BIITANNICA.—Er. HUTT,
Mans of the east of preparing for patelleatios, and of prin.
lag sad pabbaktag, tho jerk -entitled " Moswenta Histo-
ries Britrales, or. Ihrrisls for the Kimsey et Britain ;" of
the amber of spies pentad •• of the number of copies sold,
aid of the rise at 'kith said •of the sass of the perms
err
parties to he
eerie bar.lbssa gives gratuitously; ot
the rates of the pliers or parties yr have sd for
espies, bat wham for :.;,!," set Won with
farther with the amble despite numalaingraispossei
Mad shim of of the die whisk took piss in
PVielobse mai Delitleber, 1648, Intros the Eartary of
/has for the awl* Dopmetsmast, the Lords of the Truantry,
tai 1b Naar of the Rol* regardtag the sale and distribue
Boa of the said work.
COCILT or Cosmos Ptass.—Mr. BOUVERIE, bill to
escalate the sweat of fan noeivabli by certain ofilimen of
the Court of Cassia Plea.
TOSACCO.—IIIs. HEADLAM, return ooncerniag tobacco,
amatirmatag the Mans satsined la parliantentaryzper,
Pic 5609, cif swim 1647. to the 6th day of January, s
POSTAL Comarrircanox. —Pars, tc.—Mr. MACKIN.
NON, is aosiaate select osanattime—Mr. Mediums, Mr.
Cowper, Mr. R. C. Hildysrd, Sir J. Dar Admiral
Bawls., Mr. M'Gregor, Mr. Ropton, Mr. Brod:atom, Mr.
Brown, Mr. H. Baring, Mr. Grenville Berkeley, Captain
Fordyce, Mr. Moffatt, Kr. H. Adair, WI Admiral
Berkeley.
lirmertv CONIIIIII2.—AINT PATINAS'S. MICR&
TART AT WAR.
Nava' Ban arras.— FIRST LORD of the ADMI-
RALTY.

RZOVLATION or RAILWAY TEAFTIC.—The bill
proposed by Mr. Ricardo, to establish regulations by act of
parliament for the interchange end tiammielon of traffic,
between and over different railways in "England sad
Wales," proposes to provide that railway companies may be
required to stop resumer trains, sad to provider them at
junctions, under a penalty for not doing so, sad after one
month's due notice from the company requiring each stop.
page, of 601. Such companies m are aggrieved by
being required to step or provide trains, say apply to the
railway esormlimitaffre. Companies ere to bo blend to attach
carriages of other eempasies at junctions, orataiainr a
eartato numbsr of peessegers, sad tram emir*, atter time
me to be forwarded at the upon of the comptay ausint
leek insailerity. Proper stestiamodstios for goods and
peaseagers is to be Forded by the compeales at the jun°.
dose. When " two plates are cossetted by two or more
railways, pesmagers are to be booked by the shortest route,
sad the penalty kw booking otherwise thaa by the shortest
Has Vto be 10l." A discretionary power to relieve cow
peaks from this obligation is priposed to be even to the
railway ecommissioners. Golds waggons to be forwarded, if
required, and miasmas within twelve hoots after notice.

`TARP DlElBlOll'.

ROUSE OF COMMONS.
MINORITY IN FAVOUR OF MR. COBDEN'S
MOTION ON SUPPLY.
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=IL 1111. Wag, Ma. P. 3. L. Sirrad, 11. W.
Lag, IL C. Ilialingen, 14. A.
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Gm" J. Pip" Undo Hu" I.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—Oh Saturday an inquest was
Skim by Mr. Bedford, at the Westminster HasStal, as the
body a Frain Barry, ax n 44, who wee killed ths
horses sad carriage of Berl di Grey. Oa Warlaseday week,
about 10 o'clock at Maki, the dawn was asap; the road
opposite Feadall's H,tel, is Pa lanyard, wksa the seniors
el Earl de Orgy cams from the Mosotho a fit. Jamas,
park, towards the houses of padiumat. The suchmaa
called to Ws lewd tbase, bat damaged aroma tip.y, sad
staggered arena the pole a the asibre, sad he was
Wan dna, tha fees and had wheel gala over him.
Sad ke sand still the asks* would hauisE:hist. sod
the endues did all la his pu ka hia t hones ep.
H. was a saes essayed to thaw Hospital,
where be apprand to be safferiag hum tho sans al am;
severe latersal iajary, mad he died ea the swag M the
4th last., appsestly from sallemmatin al the law, aisle-
fatal by tle assidear. The jury. after a very aka anal-
labs, .earned a verdict aAm cii death."
BOWLS DZATH.—An inquest was belly Mr.
Bedford, at the Chariat cross Baykal, oa y of a
ass whe was head in the streets under the **swing cir-
cumfuse :—lt appeared that about four o'sissit st Wed-
sudsy seralar, es a policeman was gang round Ids beat at
Chart parer, ha observed a mesa lyre oa kb nos is the
Strad, sad appreasly quite dead. Wiaas had passed the
plan .beat sea miasma War, bat the dessered was sot
there Ikea. al was euveyed to the Charlerr.eroes Hospital,
sad essailart by the eurpees, bat aspired is a very short
time, sad, as was sebsequatly dimmed, from Morn of
this leer. TM dreard was respectably error sad had
the appears:a of a wareheasemsa ; but it is • elicitiar fact
so one has called to inquire after his, us was a papw burl
as his which said lead to his inatiikatioa. The glatkal
erUi remain la the permission of the asastable for that ps:-
pess.—Tbe jury paused a verdict of " Found dud."

_Miral Elie
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°lmolai "*.-
The wails ler Lipatee, "psha, *be vitae
"Tilateilliighl= Nal* AT. iIA sesjra; itA .m 4
Newaia, Hondaras, New Orieme, Mei" sal leelagiss
Eeff ter Nagetts, St. area•drinuregue.New armada,
Chill;esiPerw,will be uslieur W SI ITINIM.
The nails ter Gibraltar, Mahe, Green, Ow lesiaa Illa
=GO" lad* end Chime, els iliewthamartew,t
e op is the wwwits st Kra A -
The nails kw Dell* North Amelia sad the Gaited
Bates will he heehaw Mho emits ottlea 22a4 lad.
The Mak via Misidlik Mt the Porhamenees. Be
Ce7hos leele. Iwielerri, &a., will be .ads up ea t
maisi ef the Nth INC
The web kr Ilatlbe bnallo, mil Brame Area, will
he weds Sp en as ~re el hara 4..

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Tam Dav was. Ifewasta. lb. I a
.ihrxdresew allieesse. ugh&

LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 11.

Ws from the first regretted, and must continue to
censure, that extreme act of placing a British fleet
befogs the harbour of Athens (es the Pineal may be
deemed), and demanding at the cannon's mouth the
settlement of certain accounts dos to individuals.
Some of these claims—that of Mr. FINIAL for
example—appear to us to be just, and the Greek
government acted in the most childish, trifling, and
yet insolent way in meeting that and the other
demands.
The peculiarity of these claims was that they were
of a pnvato nature. For we place the demand of the
islands, kept apart from them, out of the question.
When the Greek government refused all redress, the
English Admiral might, we think, have made repri-
sals, and captured as many vessels as would in value
satisfy the claims. But the blockade, and the menace
of further coercion and hostilities were acts of aggra-
vated violence, not warranted even by the petty chi-
canery, bad faith, and ingratitude of the Greek cabinet.
We have no doubt that the menacing attitude and
the exaggerated violence were adopted merely to ter-
minate the affair the sooner, and compel the Greeks to
yield. Bet it failed in this result, and has now
proved to be wrongly calculated. As it is, we have at
the demand of the French government, fallen bask to
the position which we should have taken up at first, viz.,
that of holding a certain number of prizes to indem-
nify those of our subjects who were wronged, until
the Greek government thick fit to do them justice.
We do not think that in this purely private
matter we were bound to conult the governments or
savoys of either France or Ramis. Tom envoys in
Greece were notoriously opposed to us—were eter-
nally exerting themselves to put down the liberal and
constitutional party in Greece, and to thwart and
spits England for euppurting that party. To have
prayed for French and Raman assistance
in the pressing of our pecuniary claims, were
idle. The envoys of those nations had oaf-
ficiently displayed their animus. To have
communinved to them our intention of having re-
morse to violence and menace would merely have
been enabling them to support the Greek government
in resistance,—a support which they had time enough
to lead, and a result they had power enough to
Mine, after all.
Whatever, therefore, may have been the errors of
ar Pt/reign-office, or of the admiral and envoy, we
de mt find that Russia or its minister has the least
mod of complaint.
Our foreign contemporary, the 71mes, in recompose
for its abettal of woman-whipping in Hungary, and of
loan-mongering In London, has reesiv.d special
communication of a Russian note_ It is a vary angry
scolding that Count NIVISELRODE addresses to Lord
Par.mxisrox' as unwarranted and undignified, as it
is violent and empty. We sincerely trust that our
government will respect itself too much to re-
ply to any such note by more than a simple
acknowledgment of its receipt. If otherwise
we shall have the spectacle of the ministers of two
great states bandying vituperation from one end of
Europe e,3 ,;;!:!.e. with a toothlessand personal
spite, that ought not to be allowed to emerge from
the precincts of the national fish-markets.
Russia accuses England of c3mpelling Greece to
do justice to British subjects when wronged, without
connitingthe other great powers. But did Russia
sad Austria occult England when they swallowed up
Cenew ? England has guaranteed the constitution
and independence of Poland in conjunction with
Ramis and France, just as much as she has pa-
mateed the independence of Greece. Does Russia
emelt England or France in her treatment of
Petard? Was the rest of Europe consulted when
Aria marched her legions not only into Hungary,
hat into the principalities of the Danube? All
dem are acts of tyranny, rapine, bloodshed, spo-
liation, the blotting out of nations, and the die-
Whence of the balance of power in Europe. Compared
with these, what are our menaces or our violence be-
fore the Pitons? Count NVISELRODE pretends that
we blockade the Finns not to have pecuniary claims
attended to and English dignity respected, but to
overthrow the Bavarian dynasty of King Onto.
Fudge! No one knows better than Count Nraszt.-
RODE that toe have no interest in disturbing the
Bavarian dynasty, which the Russian party alone
has prevented from placing its throne on a national
and liberal basis.

The presence of a British fleet, and the action of a
British force, in those seas and on those coasts is evi-
dently very much to the distaste of the Russian auto-
crat. Admiral PAMIR, having got airman of bad
weather to anchor in the Dardanelles, rather than in the
exposed bay outside of them, is accused of endanger-
ing the peace of Europe. Bat his coming even near
the Dardanelles was solely occasioned by an insolent
demand of Russia, menacing the peace, honour, and
independence of the Sultan. The power which
bearded the Sultan in his palm SWUM a British
admiral of threatening the pesos of Europe by
anchoring an hundred miles off !
A firm language and a dictatorial attitude, held by
the British Admiral before Athens, are fees likely to
tell and to make a deep impression all over the
Levant. This is gall and wormwood to Russia.
Count NESSELRODE, or the Cur, has no fears
for Athens. They know right well that the English
will not bombard it, nor endanger OTLIO'S throne, nor
hurt the hair of a Greek's head. But they cannot
bear to see any power acting master in those parts,
or showing insolence in the porta of the Levant, un-
less it be a Russian envoy.
Much therefore as we disapprove of the extent of
violence practised before Athens, we should recommend
the English ministry not to relax in insisting on just
demands. They have their own character, as well as
the property and safety of British subjects, to protect.
With respect to the note of Russia, Prince SexwAß•
zwenuito at Vienna, and the noses in London, may
make the ko-too and knock their foreheads to the
pound in respect and laudation before it; but the
rest of Europe will laugh at its impertinences, and
John Bull will infallibly turn to it his most contemp-
tuous side.

be reply to a question from Lord MOUNTCASHELL, I
on Thursday IW_, Lord LANSDOWNE stated that he I
was not prepared to make any announcement on the
part of the government relative to the rumoured aboli-
tion of the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland. The LORD
MAYOR of Dublin having given notice of his in-
tention to put a similar question to the Prime
Minister, some curiosity was evinced by hon. mem•
bees connected with the sister kingdom regarding the
answer which the interpellation was likely to receive.
Lard J. Rueszu merely repeated what had been
said by the President of the (Council; he added that
the expediency of abolishing the office of Viceroy bad
been, and still was, under the consideration of the
Cabinet, bat that ample notice would be given before
any bill was introduced by the government for the
purpose of carrying that intention into execution.
The subject io one which it is the fashion among
politicalquacks, and puzzle-pates, to call " one of great
&limy and difficulty." Peers' of this kind are non-
ally applied to matters of whose real nature the pre-
tentious talkers know little, and about which they care
still less; but, regarding which they are exceedingly
anxious to find out beforehand whether the prejudices
on one side or the theories on the other are most
likely to prevail. Where there is no distinct or'
thoughtful intelligence, and no earnest or unselfish
solicitude for the public interest in the matter, every
qaid.nunc and 'huffier wraps himself up in a modish
roquelaur• of doules, and resolves:not to a it out until
the first squall is over, and until every body is sure
what sort of day it is likely to be.
We mean not to deny that, in journalism, this
species of reserve may sometime' be convenient, and

that its Anikilellesrith certain folk
Oisswisaantan-rollwonn wissionot think
! We egad UP' perplexity of *doh we are
cad we know that sl.tbo straight-
ohms of the cosi, defamed
an *dolma Wn as
te el plain
% are thmeNts Lst have not aßeny morse , l ofiltrystlisaties to offee theme
Went of solemn plaesibikf CR tht Iltsenet
The CMS appears to as a very slur and vandal cue.,
It has, es eurythisg ia this world hes, a right and a
wrens side. All the jobbers aid rogue will try to
confound the one with the other; but in the eyes of
the people tbey.will not eseseed. They have a pal-
pable intend discovering realities from shame,
and they are daily growing escutpnet idsg so.
That the executive system in some
radical change everybody feel. That the machinery
works ill ie admitted upon all heads. We speak not
now of either the chief or the subaltern engineers en-
trusted with its working. Neither are we thinking
of the comparative merits of this party cm of that. In
Lord Waususit's time the evils were as undeniable
as in Lord Ds Ciszv's, and neither the skill of Lad
Hirnuteuar nor the undoubted talents of Lord CU.
RENDON have sufficed to hide or cure the victual=
of the system. With the pomp and circumstance of
independent rule, it constantly betrays the went
of real power; and while substantially subordinate
to the bureaucracy of Downing-street, it has contrived
to elude that direct control, which imperial opinion
and the imperial legislature exercise over all imperial
iternts. In a word the Irish executive has been
stiestrange anomaly, or rather a oneatenation
of anomalies. It has not been ministerial in the con-
stitutional sensed the term, and it hes not been effec-
tive, because it was neither free to follow local opinion
nor to obey its own convictions of what was right.
In so far as irresponsibility and morality are
evils, we are of opinion that the sooner the me-
chanism of Irish administration is changed the better
—the better foe the people of both countries, but
more especially of Ireland. We believe that such is
their opinion, we are sure that such will be the
opinion of every right-thinking man, who turns his
attention to the question. Ireland wants responsible
government,—government responsible to opinion and
to parliament. But as opinion is local and urlia-
meat is imperial, responsibility in details of adminis-
tration mast practically be exacted locally, and as
legislation and the choice of the few principal func-
tionaries of state are the duty of a united legis-
lature responsibility in these concerns can be
exercised by parhament alone. What then?
Let the head of the Irish government be
a cabintt minister, having a seat either in
the House of Lords or Commons, there to be inter-
rogated and held accountable like any other minisnr,
for the whole conduct of the department ; bat on the
wine hand, let the whole and every part cf separate
business of the Irish office be transacted in Ireland,
where alone it can be properly done, and not in Lon-
don, where it cannot be properly done. What is
wanting is greater localisation and greater independ-
ence of departmental power, not more centralisation
and greater usurpation of authority by the Treasury
and the Home Office, than at present. As to what the
head of the Irish executive shall in fetus be called,
—end whether he is to be addreased as Mr.
Secretary Workkard, cr his Excellency the Marquis
of 80-and-so—it matters not a pins fee. Just
as little do we suppose that anj body cares for
the cerc mocial, enacted half a dozen times a year
at Dahlia, in imitation of a royal court. If a
court and its pegeantries are capable of affording any
gratification to the industrious millions, who only see
its glitter afar off, through the medium cf a news-
paper, let them by all means be gratified with
the presence of a real sovereign as they were
last autumn, and let all peers, pundits, and
prelates, with every creature that bath courtier
life after its kind, get them up and hie unto
the castle of Dublin, at the fitting season, then and
there to see the face of Majesty and be satisfied.
Only let them not be any longer bidden to bow to a
deputy-monarch—a vice-king—a political confede-
rate or political foe, u the case may happen to be,
who, if be have any sense, can hardly keep his emu-
tenants° u he goes through the farce of petty sove-
regnty, and apes the airs of a throne. The people of
Ireland are not quite so dell as to attach any
value to the retention of mimic parade, fit only
to remind them of their former provincialism ; and
the same feelings that prompted them to bail with
satisfaction the recent visit of the QUM'S, naturally
leads them to repudiate the counterfeit of sovereignty.
If the Lord-Lieutenancy is the only important office
abolished, there will be no other feeling than that of
indifference or acquiescence in the change.
But if, under the pretext of economy, or any other
plea of centralisation, a furtive attempt be made to
denude Ireland of her local administration for do-
mastic purposes, or to absorb in the departments
already existing in this country the functions and
duties now discharged by a separate and resident de-
partment in the capital of Ireland, great end just will
be the popular resentment, and lasting will be its
effects. No rhetoric or argument can or ought to
convince the Irish people that their affairs can in
detail be as well attended to by us in London as by
themselves at home. It were the merest impudence
of ekarlatanerie to contend that they could.

THE sentence in the great GOETIAM case is at length
formally pronounced, and is what was long since
anticipated, and commented upon in our columns.
Although the positive doctrine of the church is not one
whit better known than before, it is some consolation
to clergymen to feel that, though doctrine may be
undefined, property is safe, and that they may hold
the opinions of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY on
the subject of baptism, or the opposite opinion of the
Bishep of LONDON, without endangering their rights
to benefices is sue or in posse. The Bishop of LON-
DON has indeed saved his reputation amorget the
high-church clergy at a cheap rate, by withholding
his concurrence in the judgment; but we are tempted
to believe that his astute lordship is not at all sorry
that the case has been decided in favour of Mr. Goa-
UAW. A contrary decision would at once have es-
tablished the principle that certain opinions enter-
tained by at least one-half of the clergy of the esta-
blished church invalidated their equitable rights toany
church property they might happen to pOINIMIL We
say their "equitable" rights, for although the letter of
the law may decide that what is sufficient for the pre-
volition of a clergyman takingpossession of a benefits
is not always sufficient for deprivation, we can
scarcely imagine any honest clergyman retaining a
benefice while he held heretical doctrines. Had Sir
H. J. EUST'S dec'sion become the law of the church,
it appears to us that the Archbishop of CANTERBURY
must have felt that as an honest man he could
not retain his d*nities. Unless the 'plea-
dour of Lambeth had confused his sense of
right and wrong, he must have abandoned his posi-
tion, and ell the honest evangelical clergy should have
followed his example. The great use of the present
decision is that it re-establishes the ancient order, that
it allows a large latitude to freedom of opinion on
what has always been a vexed question in the church,
land that it shuts out all hope of successful tyranny to
a bishop like 'Win: of Excraa,who conceives that it
is the right of every individual bishop to set up a
despotism in his own diocese. This la the great value
of doe judgment pronounced on Friday.
In the meantime the chief feature of interest pre-
seated by the whole circumetanceslof thecae., appears
be be the determination exhibited by a large and
powerful party represented in this instance by the
Bishop of EXETER, to revive a state of things which
all the world imagined had burned out at the time of
the Reformation. All thinking men, for instance,
believed that the age of church councils was gone.
The bishop's party would fain revive it. Their idea
of perfection in a church is, that the boundaries be-
Wien heresy and orthodoxy should be marked out by
bread sharp lines—that council after council should
be called to renew or add to the number of these
lines. The idea introduced at the Itefermation was that
impossible council or any number of councils could ever
eneesed again in defining for countless millions of
Christians the exact paths in which the belief el
amey individual Christian was to travel. The maw
=has been, that while the great efforts of the
'bur& have been to follow out the old idea
of loaning more strictly the limits of doctrine, the
Yes distinctly visible in the operation of all other
*harebell has been that of allowing more space to the
exercise of individual speculation. The council of
Trent fenced round every old established doctrine of
the church with jealous care, and brought in
sunny doctines which had before that floated loosely
on the waves of ecclesiastical controversy, mark-
ing out their position and limits, while the
protestant council of Augsburg was careful to free