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large towns. The case, nominally " Hodgson v. Glad
stone," in the Arches' Court, claims a far more startling
title throughout Protestant Europe, for it is the_Pope v.
Christianity; and should the plot succeed in England,
the blood-red flag and the fiery cross will be sent through
all lands iu which the Word of God is revered as the
only rule- of faith,.ancl the only hope of the Christian.
This ease is said, by a legal fictien,nr a limited and tech-
nical use .of the word, to be promoted by,Hodgkon v.
Gladstone, while all the world knows that it is insti-
tufo,' and carried on by. the Bithop of London—by that
prelate who licensed and suffered several Tractarian priests
to preach unscriptural and profane doctrines, to practise
the most offensive idolatries, and to utter the most re-
volting impieties—all without rebuke. •He licensed and
endured, in the same manner, Mr. Bennett, 'whom
all knew-to be one of the-disguised emissaries of-Popery,
and aid not withhold his licence until his mummeries,
buftioneries, and profaneness had nearly occasioned a
public riot "in time Of divine service. And when' the
Bishop withdrew his licence, be-joined with others:in
reconstnending this disguised•Popish priest to-the. Pdpish
holder of,the-Protcstant living of Frome as a proper pee-
son to bo incumbent. 'That priest, finding his attempts
at deceptidn no longer practicable, hasiiniv acknowledged
his allegiance to the Pope, and yet, for aught we know
to thecontrary, still. Colds the living. Under
,this Bishop
of the. Established Church, the following persons-have
thrown off the mask in less than six month from the
publication of the last Catholic Directory announcing
what are falsely called " Clerical Converts to the Catho-

lie (Popish) Faith. The men never belonged to any
other Faith or Chureli:--

Rev. G. Carey, Curate of Margaret Chapel.
Rev. C. B. Garside, ditto.

Rev. Mr. Bodley, Curate of Archbishop Tennyson's
Chapel.
T. W. Allies; formerly Examining Chaplain to the
Bishop of London.
-Rev, Henry Bedford, Curate of Christchurch, Heaton.
Rev. DodsWorth,. Incumbent of St. Pancras,
-Lon(laa.
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Rey. Harper,-St. Peter's, Prea.hce.
•Rsv. Joseph Henry Jorrard, D.C.L., Member of the
Senate, and Examiner in Classics and History in the
,Unitersity of London.
Rev. Vale, of Buckingham Palace Chapel.
To these are now to be added the Rsv. William J. E.
-Bennett, of the notorious St. Barnabas Chapel, Pimlico,
whom Lord John Russell and numbers of the nobility
and-gentry ps,troniied, by their constant attendance on
his buffoonery and profane mummeries, assisted by 'three
or four other Popish priests •in diignise. We are,
astonished . that Protestants have not generally seen
through the shallow device of the Jesuits in intruding
. their pupils into the universities and the Church, for the
very pawn) of inuring the, people to' the practice of
idolatry, and then pretending to be reconciled to Rome,
in the hope and expectation of carrying over their flOaks
in a mass. - Besides Mr. Turnley, in his 4' Poniry in
Power," Mr. Gladstone, in his excellent sermon, a Trae-
tarianism is, Popery, and must ,be expelled," and our-
selves, no one seems to have noticed the artifices. As to
that sermon of Mr. Gladstone's, and another on the famous
text," Speaking lies in hypocrisy," we have very little
doubt- that they contain the seals of that animosity
with which he is persecuted. A Bishop, under whom so
many unchristian tenets and 'practices are allowed to be'
tried, to. the intended overthrow of the Church, which
he is most enormously overpaid to Serie, and under
whom so many !` clerical converts" to Popery, swell the
lists of the, Catholic Directory, had need of very clean
hands before going into a court to prosecute a clergyman
whose real offence is that he preached the doctrines held
by the Latimers, Taylors, Stillingfleets, Tillotsons, and
Sherlecks of his church—men before whom the modern
bench of bishops hide their diminished heads. He has
also fearlessly, and in the strictest accordance with his
duty, denounced the,. insidious practices which well-
known bishops publioly protect and encourage in their
dioceses; and, therefore, he and all such clergymen are
to be put down, if possible, with the forms of courts and
appearances of law, but, at all events, they must be put
down. Who does not see the perfect keeping in fos-
tering Bennett, Allies, and the other disguised priests
'in the lists just given; the refusal of the services of such
pious. and. Protestant 'clergymen -as the celebrated
Merle D'Aubigne, a man with a world's fame for
ever, to the foreign visitors - of the Protestant faith;
and the: inhibition and persecution of Mr. 'Gladstone?
The connexion is visible—palpable; gross to every
sense of perception. There are four bishops now pub-
licly notorious as deeply implicated in the Popish plot,
and no stronger proof, can possibly be adduced of the
weakness of the State Church, and the defectivenesa,of
its GOvernment. Where is the power to inhibit and
expel these bishops? Does it 'conveniently sleep? and
why have they' not Jong ago been; every one of them,
tried, even in ecclesiastical courts? Why should a
bishop have his court, into which he can drag and ruin
an honest clergyman, and neither clergy nor people have
a court to punish, in like manner; a traitorous bishop?

If the Church is to stand as a Protestant Establishment
twenty years longer, it must be presided with a remedy
for this glaring defect and als4uret inebnsistency-in Its
internal discipline. With reference to the people, and
such upright clergyman as Mr. Gladstone, we would
beg them ' to temember the great movement in the
Church of Scotland a few years ego. Let the former
support those of the clergy, whom the Popish bishops
now in the Establishment displace, and endeavour to
deprive of all means of subsistence. Their teaching
will be as pure, as holy, and es effectual, in an uncon-
secrated place, as any house made with hands, and
blessed by a bishop. The church, for nearly two cen-
turies and a half, had no such rite as consecration. It
was borrowed from the heathen custom of dedicating
the temples of the mythological deities, and is now as
pure a piece of Popery as processions, tapere;crucifixes,
and dolls. A magistrate's licence is all that is suffi-
cient, and, for .any purpose of true religion, it will be
fully as valuable as a bishop's, or anything that a bishop
can grant, confirm, or do. The bishops of apostolical
and primitivetimes were not men exercising authority,
but elders among elders in each church, which was no-
thing more than a congregation for prayer an 4 mutual
exhortation, and their whole business was to moderate,
and look over .or rather sifter, the community of goods.
Hence their name. The rest was an encroachment
of the Popes for personal aggrandisement, and bor-
rowed from the sacerdotal usages of the Pagans, as soon
as the Popes divested themselves of Christianity and
professed -M-ariolatry and the old worship of pictures and
doll.. Let the people abjure all prelatical authority.over
their judgment and conscience, and reaintaio their faith-
ful preachers. A movement of this sort will commence
the second Reformation, which will spread over Europe
like a train of 'gunpowder. The opportunity now pre-
sents its( If, and the direct foes of God and man may be
britfly defeated with their own weapons. 0:1 reference
to the proceedings in the Arches' Court on Monday, it
will be seen that Mr. Gladstone was not allowed' to enter

upon those subjects which are alone materiel to his de-
fence. We do not doubt that the Judge's objection is
strictly technical, but what a farce are wo witnessing,
where a vory different person and far heavier offences
ought to be the subjects of legal investigation. The
proceedings, without some such, timely warnings as the
present, will carry the public mind away from tho real

a., . .
nd only important matters at issue.
of
Sir John Dodson,
DAILY NEWS.—The decision
judge of the Arches' Court, in Mr. Gladstone's case, is
another exampla. of the loose and bishopsunsatisfactory state of
the law regulaing the powe.ls, the facts powers of
of their licensed clergy w.; i
'i
the incomistent manner in
Of the car
afford another illustration of
is
governed
which the diocese of Lendeng
The Mr. Gladstone in question,
it is ::arcbeyly necessary
to state,its
Bishop.
is not the right reverend gentleman of that name
who occasionally preaches in
the SOUSE) of Commons—
whoChurch of England in the
colonies—who has assumed
in
is for revolutioniSing the
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care
and protection of
the episcopal communion
Scotland—and whose
works, pamphlets, and essays on ecclesiastical subjects
already fill many volumes remarkable for antthing
and everything but coherency ofopinions. The de-
fondant in this case is a Reverend G
eatl omen who was
lately licensed by the Bishop of London to perform di-
vine service in en unconsecrated proprietary chapel
in Long-acre, where, i
and
t seems, ho made himself as re •
a Church
rkable for his low opinions as the Other Mr.
MGladstone is for his high Church views. Pond as the
Bishop of London is of building new churches, even
t
where '
they are net a. all times wanted, he has a huge
dislike to private proprietary chapels. He was always
sorely troubled Omit the one in John-street, Bedford-
ow, where Mr. Baptist Noel preached so long and so
rpopalarly. He still keeps a sharp look out after Dr.
Thorpe and his chapel in Belgravia, where he will not
have tresh curates, however able, pious, or devoted. It
was in a proprietary chapel in the Bloomsbury district
that he, last year, silenced the foreign ministers. •He is
now in hot water with Mr. Gladstone about his: style of
predekieg in S. similar place of worship in Long- acre;
and come of these clays we may see him fall foul of the
reverend author of " Satan," 'a Poem, who occupies the
Percy-street conventicle. Doubtless proprietary chapels
such as these are makeshifts. Now-a-days no one thinks
of resorting to such irregular, and. defective• means of
Church extension, and the sooner they can be all used up
as district churches the better. But bishops should re-
collect their origin; how they were started to supply
great and notorious deficiency of church accommodation,
how in those days the liberality, the means and the
legal facilities of the present time were wanting; how,
wanting themydissent would have received the overflow
of the old parish churches. And recollecting all this
and the supineness, the indifference, and the perverse-
ness 'of their predecessors, bishops might be excused if
they treated proprietary • chapels, their ministers and
their congregations, with a little less haughtiness and a
little more respect and consideration than they do. But
so it is—bishops look harshly and unkindly at them;
and no bishop more so than Charles James o. London.
It must, however, be admitted that their incumbents are
not especially bishop-loving clergy; they cannot,
.is
f
o
course, belong to the high church party,. for none of its
members would condescend to sacrifice or meditate within
they
unconsecrated walls; and of the low church pater;
non.
are generally the lowest. They look mere to t
of the
gregrations than to their diocesans, and have much__
Qy
c work
sturdiness and independence of dissenters.T
FerhaPe,
hard, preach with vigour, and lecture frequently.ern einlarge
we may add, that they love to see theirdn
school seems to
pla-
cards on the walls. Of this sort arra_
earnest, active,
have.been Mr. Gladatone, of LOD,FijaCts
little elrogg ad
decided, and,cif we judge cow-- P- - .' - •' •
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