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London, England, 1840-08-31 00:00:00

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.)
(From the Globe.)
If we were called upon to designate the desire which
pervades all classes and sects in Ireland, we should un-
hesitatingly describe it as a desire for peace ; that the
benefits of good government may be realised to the
fullest possible extent ; that civil disabilities being re-
moved, the party jealousies and dissensions they occa-
sioned may subside ; and that the members of the same
commonwealth, inhabitants of the same town or dis-
trict, instead of regarding each other with cold suspi-
cion, or cherishing the elements of furious hate, may
bury beneath the tree which shelters their common pri-
vileges, the hatchet of intestine war, and imprecate
a curse upon the head of him, of whatever creed or
party, who would dig it from the grave to which a sense
of common interest in the general pacification of the
country, every real friend of that country would consign
it. We do not regard the intemperate speeches of
violent men, of whatever party, as tending to shake
the positiorf we have assumed. The exception rather
establishes than weakens it. The conspiracy which the
Standard and other Orange organs recommended, as the
best means:of rendering the Irish Municipal Bill a source
of perpetual bitterness and strife, instead of hailing it
as another step towards allaying the hostile feelings
which the exclusive corporate system had engendered
and kept alive—and the " Repeal agitation" belong to
the same class—originate in the same motives, and will
be doomed to the same result. Both will expire of in•
anition ; the food on which factions feed has been cut
off by the common consent of the leaders of both par-
ties in Parliament, which the concessions of both to ef-
fect the settlement of this long agitating question fully
proved, will be productive of a correspondent disposition
out of doors. The march of real patriotism in his on-
ward course of pacification, will be rapid ; and the be-
nefits, social, civil and religious, which will spring up
and flourish in her path, will be as numerous as the fruit
they bear will prove beneficial to a long-divided and
therefore degraded and impoverished people.
(From the Standard.)

M. Thiers is 'the type of an order, the representative
of the pauper politician class, and as we suffer something
by this class ourselves, it is well to show the temptations
to which pauper politicians are exposed, the opportunities
which they enjoy, and the unscrupulous profligacy with
which, if not narrowly watched, they may employ these
opportunities. M. Thiers, moreover, has threatened
and insulted this country, and though, thanks to the
wisdom of the King of the French, the good feeling of
the French people, and—let us not forget it—the good
onduct of the British press, the menace and the insult
re passing away like a summer cloud ; still it is
a heavy offence to create an unfriendly feeling
between two great neighbouring nations, an unfriendly
feeling which the least accident might have kindled into
a desolating war. It is right, then, to expose the pro-
bable motive of the firebrand, if for no other purpose
than to render difficult or impossible a repetition of his
crime. It is melancholy to reflect upon what slight
threads the peace of the world depends. We have it
upon record that a dispute between Louis XIV
and his minister, about the proportions of a window
in the palace of Trianon, led to the wars which
desolated Europe at the end of the 17th and be-
ginning of the 18th centuries. " I will give him," said
the minister, " something else than criticising my taste
in architecture to think of;" and more than a million
of better men than either the King or the statesman
paid the forfeit of their lives as the consequence.
This was bad enough ; but surely a viler and more de-
grading origin of war would be the enlargement of the
rotundity of the breeches pocket of a mean adventurer.
We believe that the security of the French Throne, the
well-being of France, and the preservation of the
peace of Europe, will be doubtful until M. Thiers and
his class are repudiated from the councils of Sovereigns,
and therefore we must regret to see the Morning
Chronick, or any other respectable journal, apologising
for them.

(From the Courier.)
We beg the particular attention of our readers to
one of the charges to which the seven suspended minis-
ters of the Church of Scotland are now called upon to
plead. It appears to us one of the most grave of all
the counts within the four corners of the libel. They
are charged with having profaned and desecrated the
Christian sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist, by
administering the same to their parishioners after they
had been suspended from their ministerial functions by
the Commission of the 11th of December and the Gene-
ral Assembly of 1840. This charge, upon the face of
it, is a most grave and serious imputation, in so far as
it lays profanity and sacrilege at their door, is grounded
on the assumption that the sentence of suspension took
from the seven ministers " the power of the keys," as
it is called in the Confession of Faith ; and that until
this power is restored, by the same authority that took
it away, all the acts of the Strathbogie ministers are acts
of gross profanation of religious ordinances, these minis-
ters during this period being, as Mr. Candlish expressed
it—" no ministers of Christ at all !" Without at pre-
sent showing, as we could do, that the doctrine involved
in this assumption, and on which aloce this count in the
libel is made torest, resolves substantially into the most
purely papal dogma that can be imagined, and proves
to a demonstration that the Kirk is but half-reformed,
we must ask our readers to look at it under another
phasis. It holds, that Ministers deposed by the Church
Courts, which gave them " the power of the keys,"—
although these Courts are themselves of " this world"—
cannot administer the word and ordinances as ministers
of Christ, whose kingdom is of another world, until the
same Courts shall restore them. Let this be granted to
the present guides and leaders of the Kirk ; and let us
just remind them of an historical fact, in connexion with
their own recent proceedings. In 1736, or thereabouts,
the Church Courts in Scotland deposed a body of minis-
ters, who afterwards originated and formed the well-
known and most highly respected Secession. From these
ministers so deposed " the power of the keys" was
taken ; yet in face of this deposition they exercised this
power. Among other things they exercised the highest
functions understood as coming under this power—the
ordaining of future office-bearers in the Church of
Christ. But according to Mr. Candlish, these
Ministers so ordained were " no Ministers at all :"
every act they did was an act of gross profanation
and sacrilege ! and the grossest of all was " the laying
of their hands" on others, and assuming to authorise
them to dispense the word and sacraments. And who
do our readers think arc " the office-bearers in the
house of Christ"—the General Assemblies and Com-
missions of the Church of Scotland—now aiding and
abetting in condemning the seven suspended ministers
of Strathbogie, as profane and sacrilegious invaders of
Christ's crown and kingdom? the very men who re-
ceived ordination at the hands of the deposed seceders !
who, according to Mr. Candlish, were "no ministers
at all !" We are told, that when the Rev. Gentleman
uttered this sentiment he was loudly cheered by the
spiritually-begotten children of the deposed seceders,
now sitting in the General Assembly. Surely if ever
men were called upon more than others to make com-
mon cause with the ministers of Strathbogie in with-
standing the doctrines, under which it is now attempted
to crush them, they are the descendants of the Erskines
and Gillespies.

EXCLUSIVISM AT PlSA.—When I was about
to enter the Campo Santo, I was followed by an old man,
a peasant, with three daughters, who were by no means
handsome, but looked very good-natured. My consequen-
tial guide admitted me only, and shut the door in the
faces of those who were behind me. On my asking the
reason of this, he replied, " Such low people (popolaccio)
ought to come on the public days." " When are those
days ?" " Five times a-year." " Are then these poor
people to wait, or must they come on purpose." (They
were sixteen leagues from their home.) " Yes, sir."
" Then I will wait too, and come again on one of the pub-
lic days." This had the desired effect, and the door
was opened for the grateful party. My philanthropy,
however, as I had no small change left, cost me, of course,
somewhat more.—Raumer's Italy and the Italians.
CHURCH EXTENSION.--A report has been laid
before the Town Council of Glasgow, exhibiting the num-
ber of let and unlet sittings in the City churches ; on the
face of which statement, the following significant fact ap-
pears, namely, that in the ten churches in the City, the sit-
tings let amount to 6,820, and the unlet sittinegaTsstzo_4l,BB2397.,
3
But this is not all. Instead of the number of these unlet sit-
tings diminishing of late, with the progressiBvy2. No
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population, it has been rapidly and steadily increasing ;
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this rapid diminution has been caused in some degree by
the opening of new churches in the suburbs ; but if the
' effect of building new churches is only to rob the old ones
of their congregations, the expenditure of the money for
which the zealots of the Scotch Church, and the dishonest
politicians who join with them, are crying out so lustily,
would not be attended with much benefit. One of the
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for the dis-
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lington,stChembi saikrntiaiestdti
:w:nwiwlolihtf pohtuhhtteohi laerdn end to the foolish outcry which has
been made on the subject of national grants for building
churches.—Manchester Guardian.
ARCHIVES OF VENICE. Yesterday I saw
this collection for the first time.
ni It is a collection arranged
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in a countless succession of rooms and halls, and so volu-
minous that millions of worms mays f
to come, and a thousand literary
gluetetodnosnwiot
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hcoetuittuarhielso
to read it through in a thousand years. There was a time
when such a spectacle would
have made me grieve over
the limited nature of human
powers ; but I have grown
bolder, and now, in presence of all this
rather grieve over humanb folly, The arpraanpgeermweingdt,ounPonl
the value of each individual elleellent ;
the whole, appears to
never likely to be exploreda bp), but the contents and
navigatorsarthterefemwailnitearaterryrain
appointed to the service. •
The masses will, probably, re-
nl
re-
main for a long time in a state of profitless neglect, till
accident, or some disciple of Caliph Omar, destroys the
1 whole.--..Baumer's Italy and the Italians.