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London, England, 1852-07-19 00:00:00

MONDAY

EVENING, JULY l9, 1852.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TILE MORNING Paroles OF SATURDAY.
TIMES.—It used to be thought that a candidate on the
hustings, or at a Parliamentary meeting of electors, was in a
position only second in point of distress and squeezability to
that of a heretic on the rack, or a Hebrew in the dungeon of
a Front de Besuf. Tied to the stake, and surrounded by a
thousand inquisitors, it seemed scarcely possible that he
should avoid revealing his most secret intentions to the gaze
of a watchful and jealous world. Those days are surely past,
since Mr. Disraeli can be let off so easily as he was yesterday
on the hustings at Aylesbury. Had his questioners been
confederates, and Dr. Lee, his single opponent, a partner in
the game, he could not have succeeded more thoroughly in
the performance of his inimitable illusions. The process is
such an arrangement of perspective as shall compel a certain
class of minds to believe the existence of some distant object
absolutely in spite of themselves. In this marvellous picture
to say the least, doubtful ; but in the medium of candour thus
doubt the last and furthest, though,
theocrf
created
aforegroundyour
iiom is
f
e,
roto i s
heienvl
dei
idt to
setni
nt
el y impossible; the next distance is,
t e
st of the objects before you,
It is well known that incredulity itself is the chief instrument
of credulity, and that by surrendering a certain amount of
the popular faith yon may, for a time, obtain a faster hold
for the rest. Thus Disraeli gives up the corn-laws altogether.
He assures the electors of Buckinghamshire that he never
did-for an instant expect, or design, their restoration. Such
is the fate of the foremost object in the picture of agricultural
protection. The next distance is occupied by relief from
local burdens. This project has been sifted so often, and to
such excellent purpose, that it now affords very little solid
hope; so here, again, the candid exhibitor assures his spec-
tators that this is only a trifle, and may or may not be be-
lieved. We don't think much of this, he seems to say ; it
may or may not yield you some relief; but, when we have
exhausted this mere surface vein, we shall then be able to di-
rect our attention to our real object—a general revision of our
financial system. That is what you have to hope for. We can
only work this mine with an overpowering majority in our
favour. Let the nation but give us the requisite power, and
yen will see the whole taxation . of the country so evenly
and skilfully distributed, that none of you shall any more
feel it than he does the clothes on his body—in cooler weather
than the present. Who can doubt a man that speaks so fair;
and that knows so well whit is possible and what is impos-
sible? Mr. Disraeli takes the farmers into his con-.
tidence. " Now, my good friends, be advised. Give up Pro-
ae
all w
is
barren
Pro-
tection. Don't expect much relief from your local burdens.
But, once let us deal with the general taxation, and we shall
soon put the right load on the right horse." We really wish
it were possible to help the farmer out of that mine of hope,
the general taxation;_ but when so much of it is on imports,
u
and so much of the rest falls oa the general consumer, and of
nonfe
confess
personsthat e
v thane even
landowners
then remains so much fails on other proprietors
and
and
frfoatn Danrmers, we
to
Beer-
sheba. inust
The auriferous soil has been turned over so often
by successive generations of diggers that there is nothing
left for this new set of financial projectors. What can you
take off the farmer except what he shares with the coin-
, niunii y at large? It' a general revision of our financial
system be one of the blessing that " looms in the distance,"
we beg to suggest that even our hopes, wild as they are,
must submit to be controlled by the laws of possibility. We
cannot hope to fly, or to live for ever in this earthly sphere;
we cannot hope to be, all of us rich and powerful. Only one
in a myriad can hope to be Archbishop of Canterbury or
to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, and lead the House of
Commons. But Mr. Disraeli takes good care that the hopes
he inspires shall not be exposed to any such reasonable
scrutiny. The " loom" is to appear through a haze; so it
is a poetical and mythical haze that Mr. Disraeli raises
before the eyes of his- hearers before he attempts to denote
the promised relief. Approaching the credulous and suscep-
tible countryman, he otters sweet words and the vapour of
some spiritual chloroform. The work is soon done. Sweet
sounds and smiling faces, soft illusions and dreamy de-
lights, possess the whole . soul of the victim, and
another generation is added to the long list of political
dupes. But, besides these tender appeals to the un-
fortunate agriculturjet, another purpose and another
policy, de much more possible and practical character, pre-
sents itself, even through the hazy medium of Mr. Disraeli's
n
address. That policy is what we indicated yesterday, in
our remarks upon the copious gush of good measures that
has flowed through a really atop-cock Administration.
There are fond people who dream that Lord Derby and his
Chancellor of the Exchequer will confine themselves strictly
to Conservative measures. Do there people remember that
Lord Derby has lent a hand at every measure of reform, ex-
cept those of '46 and '47, since the Reform Bill, and inclu-
ding that wholesome, but rather revolutionary measure?
Do they remember that he helped to lop off the bishoprics
from the Irish Church ? Do they -remember that Mr. Dis-
raeli is a Liberal by birth and education ? —that Lord
George Bentmck, the saint of the new Government, lived
and died a strong Whig? Do they remember the
histtYy of the last session? When Sir James Gra-
ham laid the recommendation of the Chancery
Commissioners on the table, and exclaimed, " Where will
you find the man to carry them out ?" he was, after the com-
mon usage of mankind, confining his ken to the then exist-
ing state of things, the then temper of men, and the then
combinations of party. He did not see " looming in the dis-
tance" the vision of a" Conservative" Government suddenly
and casually admitted to power, and holding power by the
tenure of its reforming activity. He did not contemple a Go-
vernment passing measures against- time, and in order to
prolong a session and get a stock of credit, helping itself
freely- from the stores of its predecessors. It is now many
years since any change of Ministry made a change of mea-
sures, nor are we ever . likely again to see the tide of reform
ebbing and flowing according to the humours of the
dominant politicians. Mr. Disraeli will not allow
that the measures of the last session were found
i
to hand. They were only origin
al in
' al this, that they were
even more liberal than the Whigs themselves would ever
have attempted to pass. Such, in fact, is the conflict of par-
ties in these days. The question is, what men shall have the
honour cf conducting a given course of legislation? When
Peel, partly by policy, partly by accident, had become the
destroyer of the corn-laws, it -immediately occurred to some
of his colleagues that two could play at that game, and that
they also might form a Government and party of their own,
by first resisting reform, and then carrying it with a strong
hand. In this manner, indeed, the Government has spoken
out plainly enough. Be its words ever so doubtful, its acts are
decided ; they are still acts of reform ; and no one can now
doubt that it will do any amount of reform that may be ne-
cessary to perpetuate its power. It will have no other
alter-
native, and, the greater the pressure applied to it on the
meeting of Parliament, the stronger will be its budget of
reforms, let country Conservatives like it as they may.
HERALD. It must be a matter of grave surprise that so
clever a man as the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be
tound identifying himself with the agricultural party, and
undertaking their defence when it has been abandoned by so
many others. What can possess Mr. Disraeli to choose the'
;ids of justice, often the thorniest path, and abandon that
which is easier, and for his own popularity more expedient ?
Why not, like Sir James Graham, throw over all his former
princip' les leave the cause which requires most aid to pro-
tectl is
itself, and lavish justice and generosity on those who can
ifford to return them in the shape of power and popularity ?
What, moreover, have the cultivators of the soil done or
euffere
d to-
are require su h
c advocacy ? Is it not notorious
that they unusually prosperous? Have we not the
assertion of the Times to that effect, and what more
will a thoughtful man require for the satisfaction
of his doubts and his . scruples? What if the
cost of production be as great now, and perhaps
with wheat at 40s. as when it was at 60s.
greater,.
_what it 15 or 20 per cent, be the annual loss to which the
farmer is subjected—is it not an indisputable fact that men
thrive under difficulties? Have not poor clergymen and
starving e labourers always the most numerous children ? Is
it not good for the state that the burdens should fall some-
where, as costermongers load their asses on the rump to save
e
,whole body? It is surprising that men of discernment
like the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, a man also of
genius, and somewhat beyond the calibre of a mere mann-
facter of budgets, does not perceive, or perceiving forgets,
that ur
it is virtue, like the palm-tree, increases under difficulties,
so, if as
desirable to increase the virtues and excellences of
the agricultural classes, the safest method is to lay as many
weights up
on them as possible, rather than attempt to re-
lieve them, and he will be far more of a friend to them and
the nation ,
if ne will consent to shut his eyes, like the Times
their act of al condition, and look at them through the
to
free trade ; or, like the boy who was
spectacles o
cockles, if he could but ersuade himself,
roasting ,
does, that the expiringhissesof the wretched
riffle. e
as the 3 a song of satisfaction at their warm condition.
i
creatures
alr- -
theranii-bas dwelt more than once on the inequalities of
the present system of taxation—the subject formed part of
the theme upon which he dilated both at Newport I'agnell
e in at•B le' I Hshowed how those
a ve terday again nc ing lam. e
and -7 e• •es affected all classes, but especially the agricul-
inequalits .
to the time when • the Government would
ila
tural. Se pointedeondition to bring forth measures for the reduction of
be in a -ivances, and so enable the cultivator of the soil to
those gr to-
ith his foreign rival with advantage to the coun-
compete W. ,
tion to himself. Surely the Chancellor of the
and satistac
try r could have very 'little regard to his popularity
Exchequ:
was
holding such language as this. He could
when h
thinking that a time would come when words
hardl thesebe thinking
• would seem strangely inapplicable, and
likecultural interest, instead of being, what it has
the
egri hitherto been, the most important, would
alwaYs only a small part and parcel of a much
greater, t
become hough far less noble one. Does he not see,
oGobdens and the Brights, that the broad lands of
with the s its sturdy population, are rapidly merging into
England, an es to the mill and the manufacture? That if
mere aPPllllll.4er school come into power, as they infallibly
the Manehesiaihire of the
present Administration, all these
must on the • his will be remembered? As the chief interests
promises of
defend upon its exports, and consequently upon
of the natio*
eer, and must do so still more as the influences
its manufacture
increased, we suggest to the Chancellor of the
of free trade the names of Messrs. Bright and Cobden,
Exchequer, ill id not be as well at once to take the bull by
whether itneren
throw- it on the ground? What are the culti-
the horns an- -.1 except, as the Liberal journals describe
vators of the sal any obstacles in the way of the nation's
them to be, so
many bulwarks of Conservatism, of Protee-
progress ; -se /value English love of justice and fair
t ge
tantism, of the ore of.sympathy towards the oppressed,
play, and still reale obstacle in the way of treating men
which is an el5-"rti carrying out in its fullest extent the
as machines, en, beanchester and the Peelite party e
doctrines of the are influenced greatly by their
Men undoubtedly era
something long, wiry, and jarring in
there
occupations; orators and politicians; " Life among the
your Manchester
men feel as if, themselves and the world
spindles" makes machinery, as if all were to run on in
the same with the same exhaustion of oil
were part of course, . .
the same systematich;,b, the hospital in the human, the store in
and wadding, which 1 to any amount. The men whose
the inanimate, could
entire life is spent in gaining vie-
tatorieelk of beeves, and whoseover the soil, are, like their soil and their beeves, not
b confessed; the sturdy thews and
• must e
easily moved, it Now we counsel Mr. Disraeli not to
sinews of this country-
la he identify himself with their cause,
be misled. Why should ht in Seeing that justice be done to
or waste time and thonghould be which the
that estimation in
them, and that they s which the more flashy and inen
the minds of their country
.ing, portion of the press and the
blustering, oily and
bu
d to wrest from them ? He is the
nation have endeavoure
hequer. What has he to do
Chancellor of the Elc ~ or with high moral feelin ?
strife, g with "terminating
d that this was what occupied the
Where did he ever iin
thoughts of the framers of budgets ? He may be old-fashioned
the cultivators of the soil h been
enough to imagine tbat
rosperity of the construey; that
the p .
mainly instrumental in and our fleets—that they
armies
that they have manned our
of the earth, and ma.'e this
have reclaimed the waste plla.c.esbe
may
think that for this,
land the garden of the wor
somen
kindly feeling is due to them
were there no other cause, ,
usly adhere to old ways, hal-
lowed by such recollections, but
they .
d as are by a country
life,niay evenconsider that, scattered as
,social intercourse
of and social
without that advantagehand for every man who '
and scientific improvement at .
a city, some more is
re ade-
quatecrowded up with his fellows inallowed to beenprepare them
time should have
to suddenly to mulct them
r a change which was
of their profits •
of all, orPortion Governments , them
all,
A. large think, that as
a statesman he might
'ons affecting the welfare which intend seinegreat alterations •
large • g•subjects give notice
of their intentions
portions of their
- Prepare them for the change, and sometimes Award even

compensation, so a large body of his fellow-men, cruelly de-
ceived in all their expectations, and suddenly subjected to
the operation of a sweeping change, demand to be treated
with kindness and • consideration: ' If such be the feelings
and the thoughts of the present Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, it is to be regretted that his previous studies and pur-
suits have fitted him rather to represent the old-fashioned
heart of England than the new lights of the present age,
and that the speeches of the .elected of Carlisle are lost upon
him, and the Times, unfolds its columns to dull eyes. He
may now count on the gratitude of the nation hereafter
for such exertions ; he may, have cast in his lot with that
which is noblest and' fairest ; he may show that he is above
the narrow spirit of the age, but he will not show that he
is fitted to form one in that combination of Cobden, Graham,
and Russell, which, if it never shall in reality, dreams that
it shall, direct the energies of this great empire.
CHRONICLE.—Even the most fertile orator, addressing
two similar audiences on the same topics, with only a day's
interval, may be excused if he partially repeats himself. Mr.
Disraeli's more elaborate address of yesterday, at the Ayles-
bury hustings, followed almost word for word, in some pas-
sages, the speech delivered by him on Wednesday at New-
port Pagnell. The achievements of the Ministry, in passing
the Chancery Bill and other measures of last session, were
made for the twentieth time the subject of self-congratula-
tion ; and there would be little advantage in repeating our
frequent ceposures °fan obvious fallacy. Facts, it is said,
are stubbon:n things; but, in the hands of skilful narrators,
they exhibit a most convenient pliancy. The late House of
Commons alternately figures in Ministerial speeches as the
most factious of Oppositions, and as the most accommodating
of legislative bodies. One phase gives lustre to the supposed
victories of the Government, who, in another point of view,
exhibit themselves as the trusted leaders of a confiding Par-
liament.. The present year, we are told, will be rendered
immortal by the reform of the Court of Chancery. All the
honour of the measure is claimed for Lord St. Leonards, who
would certainly put forward no such pretensions on his own
behalf. It is much if the Chancery Commissioners who
framed the Bill are ever mentioned by complacent Ministerial
orators. Mr. Disraeli only allows them, with somewhat un-
gracious candour to
" Pursue the triumph and partake the gale."
After all„ however, there are subjects more interesting to
Bucking hamshire freeholders than even the abolition of pro •
ceedinga in the Masters' offices. Once more it seems that
there is something looming in the future; and political spe-
culators, atpecially of the agricultural section, are anxious to
discern its form. The features, at least, are not those of Pro-
tection. "No one ever believed," says the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, with happy audacity, that the Government
had any intention, or ever expressed an intention, to bring
back the 'laws repealed in 1846." No wonder that some dis-
sentient 'groans interrupted the applause with which this
startling assertion was received. The old alternative of re-
adjusting, the taxation'of the country might naturally have
been expected to take place' of the abandoned corn-laws;
but we 'cow find that even this boasted discovery hats
shrunk into secondary importance. Mr. Disraeli " car-
ries his •views much farther," and promises other
measures, which " will redress the grievances of
the cultit -ator of . the will place him in a
. _ _

fair positio ea for the exercise of his industry and the em-
ployment of his capital, and will at the same time, by their
wise and 'co )mprehensive character, relieve every class in this
country, by the introduction, into our system of taxation,
of principles more just and more beneficial than those which
have hitherto been its basis." This, then, is the change
which lotans in the future; 'seed yet the world is little the
wiser for the definition. it ill becomes a master of language
to use his skill in concealing, by phrases so plausible and
sonorous, • a conscious absence of meaning. Does Mr.
Disraeli reo illy intend his hearers, or the country at large, to
believe tbitt he has an entirely new, just, and comprehensive
scheme of..finance ready formed in his mind? The project
is certainly unknown to his colleagues, and by himself it
has been kept in the profoundest secrecy. During all the
fiscal debates of the last Parliament, the new policy never
oozed out ; and in the budget speech the existing system
was mentioned with unbounded, eulogy. Statesmen and
economists know well that political science con-
tains no such mysteries for any Minister to dis-
cover ; •• but the simplest understanding may judge
whether ,an active party leader would have ab-
stained der ing the contests of the last six years, from using
so irresistible a weapon. One subject which occupied a pro-
minent ptaee in the Newport Pagnell speech was entirely
omitted yesterday at Aylesbury—Mr. Disraeli left Maynooth
out of his address at the hustings. He might be justified in
boasting,'on the former occasion, of his consistency with re-
ference to. the Maynooth endowment, if he distinctly avowed
his hostility to its continuance; and it is not necessary to ex-
amine mineitely the motive which induced him to take a con-
spicuous part in opposing the Bill of 1845. He saw, according
to his own account, that the measure Was adverse to the spirit
of the age--in other words, he knew that a No-Popery cry
might became dangerous even to the strongest Minister. But
Sir Robert Peel was in the habit of thinking of justice and
the public
.good, rather than .of the easiest methods of con-
ciliating pepulatprejadice. The bitter opponent who has now
virtually adopted his finapcial policy does not even pretend
to share in the vulgar fanaticism to which he finds it conve-
nient to apbeal. It is enough for party purposes that May-
nooth is unpopular in England; and as for Ireland, it is
further off', and its support is in any case lest to the Govern
ment. If the Chancellot of the Exchequer is consistent in
his disapprobation of the endowment, what is to be said of
his colleagues? Lord Derby carried the Bill through the
House of Lords, and advocated it in speeches of remarkable
ability. The majority of the•present Cabinet adopted a simi-
lar coarse; nor has it yet been officially announced that the
Ministers are prepared.to rah the -risk of withdrawing the
grant. On this question, as .on thataf Protection, the con-
stituencies are probably expected to dictate the policy of the
Government. A calcelation of votes will show, when the
elections are finished, whether English clamour or Irish
discontent will be found the more endurable evil. In the
meantime; Mr. Disraeli 'judiciously countenances the popular
cry, taking credit at the same time for the forbearance of the
Ministers in not adopting it to its full extent. In dealing
with the Pro clamation against processions, it would have been
impossible ti i surpass the wonderful statement which astonished
the market table of Newport Pagnell. A new Popish plot sud-
denly sprang up in the fertile brain of the ingenious Minis-
terial leader. Good Mr. Walpole had only thought of one
or two religious processions; but Mr. Disraeli, at one stroke,
transformed them into seventy, disturbing all the principal
towns of One kingdom with their obnoxious pomp. Mysteri-
ous inforniation had, he informed his auditors, been sworn
before the' Privy Council ; and the public peace was only
preserved by the issue of the Proclamation which first in-
formed the world at large of the existence of the proceedings
which it denounced. Electioneering objects, indeed! The
Minister sea ins the imputation. All the other acts of the Go-
vernment Islay have been prompted by party motives; but
the manifes to against processions was a necessary measure
of policy, peremptorily required to meet a grave and
practical inconvenience. The coincidence of the Pro-
clamation with the ~elections, and with the agitation
against Maynooth, was merely a happy accident.
When any Roman Catholic ecclesiastic next applies to Mr.
Walpole tar directions as to his proper and legal costume, it
might be well to ask the Home Secretary whether the law
allows priests to conduct religious
processions in buckram.
There would be little nee in discussing with Ur. Disraeli the
probability of a Ministerial Majority on the opening of Par-
liament. The comparative strength of the rival parties will
materially depend on the nature of the issue to be tried. Mr.
Disraeli him self will scarcely venture. to deny that there is
a great preponderance of numbers in favour of Free-trade;
and his otiier hopes of. securing a victory lie in schemes for
evading the. struggle. The protective duty was first ex-
changed for the project of shifting local burdens from the
hand; and already, as, we have seen, the ingenious Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer is. . preparing some new device
to mystify his less decided opponents. If they will neither
pay a tax to the landawner, nor compensate him for losing
it, surely there can be no objection to the policy of cheapeningcaha
productions • A leader of Oppnsition might, !what", catch
few unsteady votes by proposing a resolution in terms osten-
sibly so harinless ; but a Minister must embody his policy in
definite measures, and must cheapen production, if at all, by
some felancial concession which will necessarily be made at
the expense of the rest of the community. There will be an
undoubted majority ready to, resist any such proposition.
Mr. Disraeli cannot—Lord Derby, probably, will not—ab-
stain from bringing forward some measure of the kind. The
Government will be forced either to try its strength on the
question which it has so carefully avoided, or to face the just
indignation 'of supporters defrauded of their final hope.
POST--Our dissenting contemporariesare in high feather
at what they cousider the great increase of the numerical
strength oietheir party •in the' new Parliament. They are
• now nineteen strong instead of six.. And although they
plaintivel lamext over the lose of the so-called Rev. W. J.
Fox, ex-ftember for Oldham, and Mr. L. Heyworth, ex.
Member for Derby, they
contrive to comfoit one another
with „triumphant songs over 'the success of Mr. Miall and
Alderman Challis. The formet of these is, however, their
chief card. The bitter controversies, which have annually
been re-opened in. the divided. borough of Rochdale, on the
subject of church-rates" must be only too painfully remem-
bered by our readers. If you.wish to see dissent in its worst
forst, .rabid, °owe, unscrupulous, stimulating all the bad
Passions, cultivating none of the good, pandering to the mob,
exciting to violence, desecrating what is sacred, and abusing
what is holy, go to Rochdale on Easter Monday, and
be present at the annual audit' of the vestry accounts. If
You wish to see this system argued for and upheld,
your own... Church abused, your clergy reviled, and
Your services scoffed at, go to one of those anti-State
' Church meetings, where the new Member for Roch-
date ,and Mr. EllataCe Giles maintain their periodical
ravings, assisted by the rich Hibernian brogue of the more
scrupulous but not less zealous Mr. John Burnet. You will
thus have a much; better notion both of political dissent and
of its favourite champions than you 'cbuld gather from any
description that could be given here. Such a visit would
disclose at once what is meant by the " dissenting interest"
--what it is; in short, that Mr. Miall is to champion so
'reliantly. For ourselves, we freely confess •that we view
kr. Mall's • retard. as holding out • a remote good to the
ellurch. We remember what Mr., Disraeli said of Mr.
Cobden;,e. and, applying, the same considerations to the
Member for Rochdale, we are not sorry that a gentleman
'bent upon so much mischief should be amenable to
thee
rules of the-House,of Commons. Thete is no place
in
World so well calculated to take conceit out of a man as that
Rouourable House ; and there, as surely as he, ventures to
speak, that-hero of the platform and stump will find his own
'-e"ee So theelectors of Rochdale are welcome
,to the man
:after their own hearts, and the .Radicals are welcome to their
INPosed triumph. They may blow the Puritan blast for many
'„..,usYebut the walla of Jericho will take no heed.
will
Ihneyo
rant and rail. but . the Church and the Stateh
more be released from their conjoint energy
tatiOn of this country than the Nonconformist will a p
to
in
se wu
c opnl sa tni ;
the Quarterly, or the Member for Rochdale become st
have lived long enough, and. seenieenaonudghc
Church
world„ and learnt enough of religious princitop
411bilt°179 to know the absurdity of trying
put fetters on
..,e htinian conscience, or tie down to onent formula utluao exer-
cisetmhueohnutto late:
to
of human opinion. We have learuestion,
ere that, viewed as a religious q dissent is en-
titledpart of the Government
of this great consideration on the
country. And„,therefore,
we advocate religious
any attempts to restrict
liberty, and.will resist to the utmost
its But we have also learnt that
iplcordetiiscaafflecleitsiseonn;t iasnfdounaidmesd,
not on religious liberty, -.but civil
of liberty of con-
not 80 mach at
destruction several essential insti-
science as at the . destthrue
rutiolie of this country, sad - of them more particularly, the
rri
Church. Dissent aY be' considered as thheerseedwi tha royh,
apvogel igthoi ceoaednle,.
ij 1. Against
and formal or schismas-ea who sincerely believe what they
horn and edneattddisasen
have been taught, dntetrhaSrefore sincerely disbelieve th
Mr.. Baptist
We accord them what we a
Church, or at least slisbeheve her claims to anythin
we have nothing to saYs.
ourselves. .We Ya
I let them go their way, Whilesk for
we
gain, when men like
claim to ge.eure' tot;Nveuefnormeiathlleyr
hseecreeddei
Noel or Mr.
or fall
;ear; d
dissentersthore
because they doubt the Church's- join
ranks of dissent, we leave them to stand or J. E-
are impatient of h®r
to their own Mastert• s not • content with h
or formal 5011101 a lc • desire •to increase their
the same
other men,
libert as •ase their own im-
portancehe cost of their
neighbours,
at
iiteegees, and we take u the case is
altogether
° ters, as such telt on le the cudgels, not
against dissen
wh. h theybehalf of our Church
y ass.%
and constitution, ,
.f so doing, we.give offence We stand on the defen-
sive, and
defend eta'. It b We may be very sorry,
but we musecora
eti Pe more a theological
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