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LONDON:
MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1541.

According to a Tor- Journal, the highest
authority in the Church of England, the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY, " has felt it his duty to
lay an injunction, or some equally binding order, !
on the Editors of the " Tracts for the Times," to
cease from troubling the Church. Supposing
that to be true, and supposing the Archbishop of
CANTERBURY to have power to enforce such an i

order, and supposing, whatever may be his
power,,that the order, out of respect for him,
may be willingly obeyed, will such a termination
of the heresy and schism in the. Church (to be
delivered from which is one of its weekly, if not
daily prayers) be satisfactory ? We venture to
assert that it will not.
A very important question has been started
by the Puseyites, namely, how far the Church
of England, as governed and adminis-
tered up to this time, is suitable to the pre-
sent condition of society; and how far its
doctrines, as hitherto taught, are adapted to the
hopes and affections of man. They have an-
swered this question, or both questions, prac-
tically—which is the most forcible of answers—in
the negative ; and they, in consequence, pro-
pose great alterations in the Church. Their
enemies admit them to be men of integrity, of
honest purpose, of simplicity of life ; men of
winning behaviour, of great knowledge and
learning; and it would equally belie their cha-
racters, the great progress they have already
made, and the expectations of the public, to
suppose that their answers to these important
questions, and their inquiries to arrive at
the truth, can be suppressed by the order
of that amiable, but insignificant prelate, Dr.
Howlxv. Quench such a conflagration as that
which consumed the two Houses of Parlia-
ment by a squirt, but do not think of ex-
tinguishing inquiries into the Church of Eng-
land, and hostile convictions, by the decree of an
Archbishop. He has no authority to suppress
discussion, and his attempt will only add to the
materials for dispute which already exist.
We have no doubt that the Archbishop, the
Bishops, and the inferior clergy, would be ex-
tremely glad to suppress Puseyism at any price,
much less at so small a cost as as Archbishop's
injunction. We have no doubt whatever that
the supporters of the Church—the demanders of
Church-rates, the denouncers of Maynooth, the
solicitors for Church extension, the advocates
of Church supremacy and clerical intolerance—we
have no doubt that the whole tribe of the holiest-
of-all men would think that the Archbishop
has " laid the Church of England under the deep-
est obligations," if he can so easily stop what its
friends call the poisonous stream, and heal the rent
which exposes its nakedness and deformity to the
world; but the Archbishop has no such power.
The public have taken up the question. The
newspapers have ranged themselves on different
sides. The character and influence of the Church,
and the moral effects of its teaching, are matters
of great political importance, and inquiries into
them, after the deductions and condemnations of
the Puseyites, are not, we can assure the Church-
men, to be put a stop to by Dr. HOWLEY'S com-
mands. If Dr. PUSEY should be silenced, if
Mr. NEWMAN should cease to preach and
write, if Dr. SEWELL should be steady in his rat-
ting, if Dr. HOOK should prefer the plainness of
Methodism to the blandishments of a quasi Po-
pery, other men will arise in the bosom of the
Church itself, who will help the public to expose
the faults and the vices of the corrupted and de-
caying institution.
We hold the Puseyites to be quite right in
their main and first conclusion, namely, that the
Church, as hitherto administered, has not an-
swered either the wants of society or the hopes
of individuals. Dr. NEWMAN has said—
" There is at this moment a great progress of the religions
mind of our Church to something deeper and truer than satis-
fied the last century. The age is moving towards something,
and most unhappily the one religious communion among us,
which has of late years been practically in possession of this
something, is the Church of Rome. She alone, amid all the
errors and evils of her practical system, has given free scope to
the feelings of awe, mystery, tenderness, devotedness, and
other feelings which may be especially called Catholic. The
question then is, whether we shall give them up to the Roman
Church, or claim them for ourselves, as well we may, by revert-
ing to that older system which has of late years indeed been
superseded, but which has been, and is, quite congenial (to
say the least), I should rather say proper and natural, to our
'Church. But if we do give them up, then we must give up the
men who cherish them. We must consent either to give up
the men or the principles."
A High Church authority explains this to
mean—and there can be no question about it—
that the Church of England, as at present con-
stituted, with her creeds, her liturgy, her homi-
lies, are not sufficient to satisfy the age. There-
fore Mr. NEWMAN and his friends seek after
something deeper and. truer. That is the great
truth which the Puseyites maintain—their first
discovery ; but, with singular obtuseness, they
search only amongst the despised mummeries of
a departed age for means to satisfy the wants of
this age, though its own feelings and tendencies
have (and nothing else) forced on them the con.
viction of the inefficiency of the Church. In-
stead of seeking, in the knowledge of the age,
for the means of satisfying its" the Pusey
ites go back to the Fathers.
Mr. NEWMAN has no contealment about him

He maintains boldly that the Church of Rome is
in possession of that something which is to satisfy
the age
SHE A LONE, not the Church of England, he says,
gives free scope to awe and mystery, or, in other
words, cherishes the vague and puts down the
tangible. She alone keeps alive those feelings
of devotedness and tenderness on which the
priesthood fasten their iron hooks to hoist them-
selves into greatness ; and though the eulogium
is somewhat scandalous in a member of that
Church which has been persecuting Rome po-
litically for many years, on account of tendencies
the reverse of these, it is not the less instruc-
tive, as a clue to what these new reformers of re-
..

ilgion propose.
The Church of Rome, according to the plain-
speaking Mr. NEWMAN, is the steadfast adherent
of that older system, which has of late years
been superseded; and the Church of England
must, he says, conform to the practices of
Rome, or it must lose the votaries who will have

the vague, the mystical, and the awful. In
plain language, if the Church of England, ac-
cording to Mr. NEWMAN, does not go back to
the Church of Rome, it will be deserted.
He has a logical mind. He feels that
there is no stopping half way with a
mystery. Men cannot believe a part, and deny
a part. Mr. NEWMAN is a believer in the mys-
teries of the Church; he perceives, however,
that they do not satisfy this inquiring age, and
he flees to Rome—there, amidst the awe and
mystery of the theatrical celebration of Easter
at St. Peter's, he. fixes the anchor of his hope
and kis faith. The first discovery of the Pusey-
ites is a great truth; their deduction from the
Church dogmas, that safety is only to be found
through Rome, will be scouted and decried by
all but the slaves of the Papacy.
Dr. PUSEY and his friends, however, teach
doctrines too congenial to the Church of Eng-
land for that Churchi
to
ordination
able to put them
down.
Presbyterianismle the
wh
denounced as no
Church England—is
priest at a ,
to lds
what goodthe Church the Church
Pa-
pale Church of
the quasi Popery of Mr. NEWMAN
and not
friends. Accordingly, at the eleventh hour his
doctrine is censured, not because it is.funweihliteihstitahne
contrary to the Gospel, and opposed to tradition
and apostolical succession, all c
Church cherishes, but because it is contrary to
the statutes of the University. If Dr. HowLmy
is only to receive the thanks of the Church when
he has succeeded in putting down this important
investigation—if the Church will not accept the
will for the deed, the poor Archbishop, we may
safely prognosticate, will descend to his grave
without the plaudits of the Church. The Puseyite
heresy has too much truth in it to be blown out
by the motion of one of his lawn sleeves.

We were a good deal interested by reading a
few days ago in the Morning Post the following
description of a gentleman who was lately the
Governor of the Bank of England, and of course
was one of the most conspicuous merchants of
the City of London :

The balance-sheet handed into the Court of Bankruptcy
yesterday, in behalf of Sir. Timothy A. Curtis, has been scru-
tinised with extraordinary interest, the items of which it is
composed being, in certain instances, of a very startling cha-
racter. Mr. Curtis's debits, on his private account, are put
down at the considerable total of 106,692/. 15s. 2d., of which
the portion comprising the original capital brought by him into
the business of Garry and Curtis, in 1819, was 1,7741. 13s.
To this it is proper to add, as a gift of Sir W. Curtis, 5,0471.,
and, as a legacy received out of Sir William's estate, at his de-
cease, lt9Bo/. further, the three items forming an aggregate of
8,7711. 135., or less than one-twelfth part of the debits. Mr.
Curtis takes credit, on account of bad debts, for 6,0601., and
on account of losses, for 27,2521. 16s. 4d., which sums form,
between them, it will be allowed, no mean amount; but, when
the expenditure comes to he brought simultaneously into view,
and it is seen that, between 1819 and 1841, Mr. Curtis has
taken out &the concern as much as 53,130/. 125., 0r2,5004