The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-06 00:00:00

' 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 Eogiand,
th • blood-red fl ag and the fiery cross will be sent through
all lands in which the Word of God is revered as the
only rule of faith, and the only hope of the Christian.
This case is said, by a legal fiction, or a limited and tech-
nicsl use of the word, to be promoted by Hodgson v.
Gla lstone, while all the world knows that it is insti-
tuted and carried on by the Bishop of London—by that
prelate who l icensed and suffered several Tractarian priests
to preach unscriptural and profane doctrines, to practise
the most offensive iddstriee, and to utter the most re-
volting impieties—all without rebuke. He licensed and
endured, in the same manner, Mr. Bennett. alo7nn
all knew to be one of the distaised emissaries of Popery,
and did not withhold his licence until his mummeries,
buff ,oneries, and profaneness had nearly eccasioned
public riot iu time of. divine service. And when the
Bishop•svithdrew his. licence, he joined with others in
recommending this disguised Popish priest to the Popish
holder-of the Protestant living of Protne as a proper per-
son to be incumbent. That priest, finding his attempts
at deception no longer practicable, has now acknowledged
his allegiance to the Pope, and yet, for aught we know
to the contrary, still holds the living. Under this Bishop
of the Established Church, the following persons have
thrown off the mask
.in less than six months from the
publication of the. last Catholic Directory announcing
what are falsely called " Clerical Converts to the Catho-
lic (Popish) Faith." The men never belonged to any
other Faith or Church:—

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

Rev. Mr. Bodley, Curate of Archbishop Tennyson's
Chapel.

T. W. Allies, formerly Examining Chaplain to the
Bishop of London.
May. Henry Bedford, Curate of Christchurch, Hoxton.
Rev. W. Dodsworth, Incumbent of - St. Pancras,
London. z
- Rev. Harper, St. Peter's, Pimlico.
Rev. Joseph Henry Jerrard, D.C.L., Member of the
Senate, and Examiner in Classics and History in tho
University 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 patronised, by their constant attendance on
his buffoonery and profane mummeries, assisted by three
or four other Popish priests in disguise. 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 purpose 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 flocks
in a mass. Besides Mr. Turnley, in his " Popery in
Power," Mr. Gladstone, in his excellent sermon, a Trete-
tarianisea is Popery, and must be expelled," and our-
selves; no one seems to have noticed the artifices. As to
that sermonof 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 serve, and under
whom so many " clerical converts" to Popery, swell the
lists of the Catholic Directory, had need of very clean
bands before going into a court to prosecute a clergyman,
whose real offence is that he preached the doctrines held
by the Latimers, Taylors, Stilliogfleets, Tillotsons, and
Sherlocks of his church—men before whom the modern
bunch 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 publicly 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.jast 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 arc 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 defectiveness of
its Government. 'Where is the power to inhibit and
expel these bishops? Does it conveniently sleep? and
why have they not long ago been, every one Of them,
tried, even in ecclesiastical courts? Why should a
bishop have his court, late 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 Establiehment
twenty years longer, it must be provided with a remedy
for this glaring defect and absurd inconsistency in irs
interns! discipline. With reference to the people, and
such upright clergyman as Mr. Gladstone, we would
beg them to remember 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, rind endeavour to
deprive of al means of subsistence. Their teaching
will be as pure, as holy, and as effeetuel, 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 uo such rise 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, tapers, 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 primitive times were not men exercising authority,
but elders among elders in each church, which was no-
thing more than a congregation for prayer and mutual
exhortation, and their whole business was to moderate,
and look over, or rather after, the community of goods.
Hence their name. The rest was en 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 Mariolatry and the old worship of pictures and
dMle. Let the people abjure all prelatical authority over
their judgment and conscience', and maintain their faith-
ful preachers. A movement of this sort will commence
the second Reformation, which will Tread over Europe
like o train of gunpowder. The opportunity now pre-
sents itself, and the direct foes of God and man may be
briefly defeated with their own westing. O.s 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 material to his de-
fence. We do not doubt that the Judge's objection is
strictly technical, but what a farce are we witnessing.
where a very different person and far heavier offences
ought to be the subjects of legal investigation. The
proceedings, without some each timely warningsae reals st
b
e
present, will carry the public mind away from the
and only important matters at issue.
DAILY NEWS.—The decision of Sir
John Dodson,
case, is Dodson,
judge of the Arches' Court, in Mr Gladstone's
p
another example of the loose and
,hoi and the rights
unsatisfactory state of
the law regulating the powers of bishops
of their licensed clergy;
whilst the feats of the case
afford another illustration of the inconsistent manner in
which the diocese of London is go.veranseedarebeyiyitnseßeetsahmorp.
The Mr. Gladstone in
q"stic'nei t i
that
name
y
to state, is not the right reverend gentleman of
who occasionally preaches is the House of Con:moue—
who is for revolutionising the. Church of England in the
colonies—who has assumed the care and protection of
the episcopal communion in Scotland—and whose
works, pamphlets, and essays on ecclesiastical subjects
already fill many volumes remarkable for anything
and everything
but coherency of oplulous. The de-
fendant in this case is a Reverend Gentleman who was
lately licensed by the Bishop of London to perform di-
vine service in an unconsecrated and proprietary chapel
is Long-acre, where, it seems, he made himself as re •
makable for his low Church opinions as the other Mr.
Gladstone is for his high Church views. Fond as the
Bishop of London is .of building new churches, even
where they are not at all times wanted, he has a huge
dislike to private proprietary chapale. He was always
sorely troubled about the one in John-street, Bedford
row,
where Mr. Baptist Noel preached so long and so
popularly. He still keeps a sharp look out after Dr.
not
halve and his chapel in Belgravia, where he will
hairs fresh curates, however able, pious, or devoted. Itt
was in a proprietary chapel in the Bloomsbury district
that he, last year, silenced the foreign ministers
now in hot water with Mr. Gladstone about his style oisf
preaching in a similar place of worship fin
and some of these days we may see him
reverend author of " Satan," a Poem, whoafoul". acre,
g of
the
1-i
occupies the
Percy-street conventicle. Doubtless proprietary chapels
such as these are makeshifts. Now-
a_dof resorting to such irregular and dealtsctnivoemmeetahnisnkosf
Church extension, and the sooner they can be all used up
as district churches the better. Bat 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 them, dissent would have received the overflow
of the old parish clihirches. And recollecting all this
and the supineness, the indifference, end the perverse-
ness of their predecessors, bishops might be excused if
they treated proptiotary
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 of London.
It must, however, be admitted that their incumbents are
.not especially bishop loving clergy; they cannot,
.otaf
course, belong to the high church party, for none of its
members would condescend to sacrifice or meditate withinheh
unconsecrated walls; and of the low church party,
they
Y-
are generally the lowest. They look users
gregrationa than to their diocesans, andhavte°
et muchee ).,_f
work
hard and independence of dissenters. TheeY_Lwhtt:
hard, preach with vigour, and lecture frequently.erherne Perhaps,
we their:Verne ""6' pia
" ma3t. add, that they .lope to
cards on the walls. Of this sort std school seems to
have been Mr. Gladstone, of Long.acre--earnest, active,
a
little Aron and
decided, and, if we judge correctly,