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LONDON.
SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1837,

The behaviour of the clergy of Norfolk towards their
Liberal Bishop will exemplify the principles of their
clergy of the Established Church, and will show to
the nation that the factious will not stop at any mea-
sure to carry through their Tory party spirit, reckless
of the consequences to the people.
The conduct of the clergy of the Established Church
at the late general election has in many places been highly
improper, and particularly where they had raised the
cry against Lord MELBOURNE'S Administration for
supporting the system of general education in Ireland,
which Lord STANLEY introduced when he was Secre-
tary for Ireland. In many plaCes the Ministerial can-
didates were assailed by that clergy, and the Tories
charged the candidates as irreligious, merely for sup-
porting Ministers, who gave their support to the sys-
tem of education in Ireland which tended to produce
relizion ; and further, because they received support
from O'CONNELL and his friends. Our opinions of
the great advanmge of education to the mass of the
people have never changed, and we hailed the intro-
duction of a system by which Catholic and Presbyte-
rian, Churchmen and Dissenters of all classes, might

attend ono common school, to receive instruction,
without the interference of the particular religious
tenets of each or any of these several denominations,
as a great advantage to the cause of religion and of
the people. We have often regretted to see the violent
opposition and the public hostility which Peers and'
Commonen, in both Houses of Parliament, manifested
a;ainst that Irish system of education ; declaring, as
they did, that education without religion being taught
at .the same time, was more mischievous than if no
such schools or system of education had been esta-
blished. 'The clergy, in a vast proportion of the
parishes of this country, and more particularly in
Norfolk and the adjoining counties, have been load in
denouncing, in the same manner, the giving of educa-
tion without religious tenets—taking a most mis-
chievous and party view of that most important and
vital subject. 'We call it important, as we believe
the existence of crime and misery, to a great
extent in the united kingdom, has arisen from the want
of sufficient moral and political education—in fact
from ignorance, which it is the intention of the system
hi-Ireland to remove. We say moral and political
education, because we are confident that the knowledge
of right from wrong—the learning the duties which
one member of society owes to another—the informa-
tion requisite to enable every person in society to
conduct himself properly towards time Government an
thorities, toward.; their fellow-men, and to themselves,
are all embraced in those two branches of education ;

and may all be learned before the young mind is ca-
pable of comprehending the particular doctrines of
faith, and the characteristic differences of opinion which
separate one sect from another. We think that incal-
culable benefit to society is not only to be derived from
the acquisition of that knowledge ; but we are further
convinced that the groundwork of those moral and
political opinions is the best preparative for the due
consideration and permanent reception of proper reli-
gious feelings, so essential to mankind in all their
progress through life. Lamentable as this state of
ignorance and its concomitants, crime anti misery, are,
in eve'ry part of the united kingdom, we could stare
many places where the clergymen have set their faces
against all kind of education, which does not include
the religio'us tenets of their own Church ; meaning'
thereby, of course, that the tenets and religious opi-
nions to be taught in the schools should be those of the
Church of England—thus, by every such attempt, ex-
tending the principle of exclusion of Dissenters, anti
making wider and wider that separation which, unfortu-
noely for the general welfare of the people, already

exists so generally between Dissenters and Churchmen
in this country. We lament the extent of those erro-
neous opinions amongst any class of men, acrd parti-
cularly so amongst clergymen ;because the Squires and
country residents being generally desirous of supporting
their dergymcn in matters of education and religion,
generalipfollow the advice of the clergy, and support
them in their coarse, though it may be narrow and ill-
judged. The extraordinary conduct of the clergy of
the diocese of Norfolk, at the late installation of
Bishop STANLEY, has induced us to bring it before
the public eye more generally than it has hitherto been
by our Morning Contemporaries and other papers ; and
especially the conduct of the Rev. Lord BAYNING,
as
,the leader of these proceedings. As few cleri:Vmen can
the selected more attentive to their duties, or more truly
devoted as a pastor of his flock than Lord BAYNING,

we can single him out as a memorable proof of the
mischievous proceedings of our exemplary clergymen,

arising from the erroneous opinons We have just
stated—opinions which have orifinated from bitter

party-spirit; and which are kept up with great ani-
mosity as a means of attacking the Whig Minis-
try. We, therefore say, in common with the organs
of the Reform body, that it is to be regretted
by every sincere Christian, that the teachers
of Christianity—men whose duty should be to pro-
mote peace and goodwill on earth—to instruct
the ignorant and make the criminal repentant—should
take the course they have done in scattering firebrands

of discontent, and in thus maintaining ignorance and
crime amongst the people ; for such virtually are the
results of the conduct of such inn as Lord BAYN-.

NG. It is a serious accusation against a Clergyinat

of the Church, and we say so with the deepest regret ;
but truth demands that we should state honestly what
we believe to be true.. We may be asked then, do we
consider such professing and outwardly good Chris-
tians, as his Lordship, and those who approved with
cheers his speech at the late dinner at Norwich, as in
reality the great enemies of their fellow-men, by the
course they have taken ? We answer without hesi-
tation what our own matured opinions are; but let
every man read with attention and study with care
what we have stated, and what further we shall now
state, and let him then judge for himself, whether the
facts and reasoning we hare offered do not inevitably
lead to such conclusions. It may be considered, per-
haps, too severe, were we to liken Lord BAYNING and
his brother Clergymen, who take so much pains to
blacken the present Ministers for their support of edu-
cation in Ireland to the Pharisees old, who in public
places went about praying and making their piety
known to all men, with a desire that they should be
considered more pious and holy than their neighbours ;
but we do consider all such Clergymen, with his Lord-
ship as their leader, as acting towards Lord MEL-
BOURNE as the Pharisees of old did towards their
neighbours. Let us see in what way we support our
assertion. The excellent Bishop STANLEY, in his
sermon on his installation, said—
" Education was not a simple term ; although it bore
one interpretation, it still had a two-fold one. One part
was unconnected, and the other connected with religion.
By some persons education was not encouraged unless reli-
gion was then introduced in all its bearings. From this
opinion he in some degree presumed to differ—not that he
was of opinion that religion was not the great end of all
knowledge ; on the contrary, there was no branch of it
without that important end. It was the object of education,
by raising the people in the scale of society, by elevating
them above mere sensual and profligate lives, and by pre-
paring the soil to enable them to become recipients of the
higher sentiments and sober truths of religion. It should
be recollected, that what was commonly called teaching
religion, was not always synonimous with inspiring religion.
There might be forms of religion without its spirit. To
the mental advancement of the people, under whatever
form or shade, his Lordship would be always ready to give
his most zealous support, provided it was uncontaminated
with party views, and free from any, desire to propagate
any one particular opinion, and ho was sure that every
member of society who had a heart would take an active
part in the diffusion both of worldly and Christian know-
ledge through him, and through the means of others. The
moral improvement of the people had ever found a place
in his desire, and it was an object every clergyman ought
to follow. In its pursuit no meaner object ought to inter-
fere. In the promotion of that object he had been met by
some from whom he had presumed to differ, but to whom
he had ever been ready to extend the right hand of fel-
lowship."
Lord BAYNING at the dinner, when proposing the
health of the Bishop on the same day, said that " he
was well aware there were points of difference be-
tween a large majority of the Clergy (there being 800
in the Norfolk diocese) and the Right Rev. Prelate,"
—" that he claimed for himself, and the great body of
the Clergy who concurred with him in opinions, the
same liberty and the same credit for conscientiously
maintaining their sentiments as they were ready to
give to his Lordship." Every person who heard that
speech, and they were chiefly Clergymen, understood
that the difference of opinion alluded to was upon the
subject of education without religion—the Bishop
advocating general education, with or without creeds
as the means of instruction might offer ; whilst Lord
BAYNING and his clerical supporters mean that there
should be no education for the poor, if sectarian instruc-
tion cannot be given at the same time. The difference
of opinion is, we admit, very great between the Bishop
and his Lordship and the results to society will be
most injurious, if the bigoted and narrow opinions of
the Bishop's opposers should prevail generally in the
country. The evils have been pointed out very forcibly
by the Examiner and Chronicle; but the all-absorb-
ing importance of the subject induces us to bring to
our support the opinions of men as exemplary in their
lives as Lord BAYNING and his noisy after-dinner
supporters of Clergymen of the Established Church,
though their minds are cast in a d.fferent mould from
Lord BAYNING. The lion. and Rev. BAPTIST
NOEL has published "Notes ofa Short Tour in Ire-
land in 1836 ;" to which we would refer the op-
ponents of the Bishop We can assure our readers
that they bi eathe a truly Christian spirit, quite
in accordance with that which appears in Bishop
STANLEY'S sermon, speech, and letter to his late
parish flock—equally honourable to the man and the
Clirstian, and such as ought to make the Rev. Lord
BAYNING, and his friends, hide their heads, and
ienceforth shun the lustre of their Diocesan's coun-

tenance.

Bishop STANLEY says, " It was the object of edu-
cation, by rais:ng the people in the scale of society,
by elevating them above mere sensual and profligate
lives, and by preparing the soil, to enable there to be-
come recipients of the higher sentiments and sober
truths of religion ;" and all his sermon agrees with that
Christian and philosophical sentiment. When the
Rev. Archdeacon GLOVER proposed, after dinner, to
epair an omission (which might be unintentional),
and to request the Bishop to print the discourse he had
that clay delivered, the Rev. Lord BAYNING rose,
and admitted that it was intentional, and that it was
because he could not be supposed to sanction or iden-
tify his (Lordship's) opinions with those of the ser-
mon—namely, " that education was useful in itself as
elevating the people above sensual and profligate
lives," "This exposition," the Norwich Mercury ob-
snves, "was received (by the company present, con-
sisting almost entirey of Clergymen of the Norfolk
diocese) with demonstrations of applause, which
evinced neither a temperate, nor a Christian, nor even
a decent feeling of respect towards their new Dioce-
san." Can it thzn be wondered at that Norfolk, during
the late general elections, has given proofs of a
greater want of principle, than any other county
in England ? It must, we think, be evident,
that when the Clergy, either from want of good
principle, or from party spirit, thus publicly, and with-
out shame, oppose the really mild, benevolent, and
Chistians opinions of their Bishop, their moral or
religious instructions to the people can be of little ad-
vantage to them. We will not say that it is altogether
from ignorance that the electors in Norfolk sell them-
selves, and disgrace the name of freemen, intrusted
with the sacred trust of their country's weal. But
we believe it will be proved before the House of Com-
mons, that men of an apparent respectable class of
shopkeepers and householders in Norwich, and tenants
and freeholders in the county, as far as property can
show respectability, have taken bribes to a large
amount to sell their birth-right—their eGtac,---- vainst
their conscience. And let all those who, with us, cOf'r
deinn so shameful a perversion of the rights of the
people, bear in mind that the most active canvassers
in every parish, if not the very parties who have been