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FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1841.

In the House of Peers last night, the Marquis
of NORMANBY gave notice that after Easter he
would move for a Committee to inquire into
Sunday trading on canals. We hope that Minis-
ters do not intend still further to encourage that
class of men, whom Mr. MACAULAY so well d •
nounced in the House of Commons on Wednes-
day. The Noble Marquis laid on the table the
Report of the Drainage and Building Regulation
Bills. He proposed that they should go
through a Committee to-day, and not be fur-
ther proceeded with till after the holidays.

,Lord ASHBURTON recommended a clause to
prevent burying the dead where there is scarcely
room for the living.
The Jews' Declaration Bill was brought up
from the Commons, and read a first time. Who
is to oppose it in the House of Peers we are not
aware, except the Bishops have undertaken that
office. Lord LYNDHURST, with, we presume,
the Duke of WELLINGTON, is favourable to it,
and we shall probably see, as in the St. Sulpice
case, the most forward of the Bishops again
thrown overboard by his Tory friends.
Their Lordships examined Mr. ARMSTRONG
touching the Clonmel Union case, and the
Earl of GLENGALL gave notice that he would
call their Lordships' attention to the subject
after the Easter holidays.
Their Lordships then adjourned at an early
hour.

In the Commons the Report of the St. Albans'
Election Committee was laid on the table; it de-
clared Lord LISTOWELL duly elected. Mr. BLACK-
STONE, however, gave notice that he would move
that the minutes of the proceedings of the Com-
mittee he printed.
Mr. HumE postponed his motion, relative to
the Caroline, till Tuesday.
On the motion of Colonel SIBTIIORP some re-
turns relative to cruelties committed in the Poole
Union. Workhouse, were ordered to be laid be-
fore the House.

The Newfoundland Committee was nominated.
Leave was obtained to bring in a Bill to en-
able her MAJESTY to purchase some land on the
north bank of the Liffey, to be converted into a
place for the recreation of the inhabitants of
Dublin, and to exercise the troops.
The Ordnance Survey Bill went through a
Committee.

The House was engaged for the greater part of
the evening with the Poor-law Bin in Committee,
and got as far as the 24th clause.
The House adjourned at Half-past Twelve.

The Morning Post, we see, agreeswithus—and
it is not the first time of late that our Radical
sentiments have been echoed by that most Con_
servative of all Conservative Journals—that the
Puseyite heresy is not to be blown out by the
3novement of one of the Archbishop of CANTER-
BURY'S lawn sleeves :

The wonderful effects (it says) which have attendedthes
publications ( the Tracts), and other writings of a similar
cha-
racter, during the last few years, are not likely to ceasebecause
new Tracts cease to come forth. They have inculcated devo-
tional habits intelligible to all, and practicable by all. They
have given men's minds not only something to work upon, but
aomething to rest upon. They have given intellect plenty to
eto, and yet have set up metes and bounds for it that it may dis-
.cern the accomplishment of its task and then be at rest. —We
therefore believe, that though the " Tracts for the Times"
should be discontinued, or continued but for a short time longer,
they would still lire in their fruits in the production and re-
production of earnest theologians, and dutiful as earnest—of
mien powerful in knowledge of the Scriptures, from which all
sound doctrine is to be proved, and strictly obedient to the
Church which furnishes the doctrine which Scripture is to
prove.
Our Contemporary, then, is quite convinced
that this " heresy," as the Church of England
Review calls Puseyistn, that this " poisonous
stream," as the Standard designates it, and this
trouble, as all the anti-Puseyites in the Church
call it, is not to be and cannot be put down by
any censure. Messrs. NEWMAN, PUSEY, SEWELL,
HOOKE, hEBBLE and Co., have tasted too much
of the sweets of popularity and power, they have
become too notorious, to pass the rest of their
days in slothful ease. Though the " Tracts"
may be suspended at present by their own free
will, and not in consequence of an injunction
front authority, as the Post says, these enthusi-
astic priests will and must continue their teach-
ing and -preaching, and the PUSEY heresy will
and must continue to spread amongst the priests
of the Establishment.
It is far too flattering a heresy, too soothing
to their pride, and too convenient for their con-
scieuces, for them not to adopt it • and no ana-
themas of the University, or admonitions of the
Archbishop of CANTERBURY, will be able
to surmount the attachment to it of their cor

rupt and sinful nature. The Post tells us that
the Church, that is, the priesthood, fur-
nishes the doctrine that Scripture is to prove. Ac-
cording to Puseyism, the eternal priesthood, not
the Bible, is the source ofreligion; and the Bible
is only, then, like a pair of scales, in the hands
of the priest, the accuracy of which no layman
must verify, or prove the doctrines which
the priesthood furnishes. The priesthood
makes the moral law for all men, and is a law to
itself. Such teaching is much too agreeable to our
fallen nature not to make continued and great
progress amongst Oxford divines.
The reader will readily remark, too, how lay-
men encourage this belief, and nourish the
pride of the priesthood. The Post, a lay politi-
cal Journal intended for the people at large, not
only ascribes to the priesthood the duty of fur-
nishing mankind with a creed, it assigns to the
Pu eyites powers and faculties far surpassing
those hitherto posSessed by all the reli-
gious teachers, and all the philosophers
that have ever appeared id the world. These
wonderful doctors, to whom the seraphic ST.
THOMAS AQUINAS was a ninney, have given the
"understanding something to rest upon." "THEY
(not Nature or GOD) have set up metes and
bounds for the intellect, that it may discern the
accomplishment of its task and be at rest." They
are to convert earth, therefore, into Heaven, and
bring men into a state of beatitude, when the
restless intellect is to be satisfied, and the sing-
ing of Hallelujahs to be the only work
of the human race. Such are the immense
powers ascribed by hymen to the priest-
hood. No ecclesiastical thunder will shake
a heresy which brings laymen to the feet of the
priesthood, and makes the Church, in fact and
truth, the object of worship.
It inculcates, moreover, a most convenient
latitude of interpretation, which enables the holy
men who embrace it to retain possession of all
the endowments that are supposed by the people
to be appropriated to a faith furnished by the
Bible not by the priests. The Post vaunts the
"dutifulness" and " obedience" of these theolo-
gians to the Church, which means, according to
Mr. MA Ca ULAY, "holding her endowments while
they teach the doctrines of Rome." They will
on no acctwnt separate from her, but they teach
confession and absolution, and maintain that the
Church of Rome alone is in possession of that
something on which the understanding can rest,
which at once excites, satisfies, and regulates the
intellect. A doctrine which enables the priest-
hood to hold fast by the wealth of the Church,
and teach self-glorification, is much too conve-
nient to be easily put down. It would be easier
to eradicate from the mind of the democracy the
soothing doctrine of the sovereignty of the peo-
ple than to root out the• heresy of Puseyism from
the congenial minds of the priesthood. One way
there is of extinguishing it—namely, for laymen
to cease from flattering and paying this race of
usurping, arrogant pretenders; and when they can
no longer gain power, or ensure themselves a
rich reward, by their inventions, they will cease
to poison the Church, and plague the public with
their ingenious casuistry.
We feel extremely grateful to Mr. MACAULAY
for his brief but masterly exposure of the
Puseyites. From the House of Commons his
voice will spread over every part of the land,
and the Oxford Doctors will be set down, on
his high authority, as engaged in demonstrating
• that the Church Articles, like Acts of Parliament,
may easily have a coach and six driven through
them; that the tests they frame and advise for
others have no binding power over them. Such
a character it is well known, from the debates in
the House of Lords provoked by Lord RADNOR,
the Oxford priesthood have long deserved. Their
Jesuitism is not of this day, though this day has
brought it prominently into notice. Mr. MA-
CAULAY has only described in his place in Par-
liament, in a few pithy sentences, the well-known
character of the Anglican priesthood.
How far that was prudent in Mr. MACAULAY,
a Minister of the Crown, is more for his consi-
deration than ours. He is one of those who rely
on the Anglican priesthood to teach the people
morality. For that he insists on appropriating
to their use a large part of the annual produce
of the national industry. For that he upholds
the law of Church-rates, .and insists, with Lord
John RUSSELL, that it must be obeyed. The
priesthood are, in his estimation, and in the es-
timation of our rulers, " the salt of the earth ;"
and had he meant to maintain the doctrines for
which he in general contends; had he meant to
preserve for the priesthood their authority over
the minds of the people, he should not have stig-
matised their leaders as ingenious perjurers ?
The sanctity which " doth hedge in" a priest,
was cruelly violated by Mr. MACAULAY, and we
know not on whose authority the Legislature can
henceforth rely to inculcate Church and State
nostrums on the public mind.

The class whom Mr. MACAULAY described as
exercising their ingenuity how they might most
conveniently practise perjury, have long been,
let us remind the public, at the head of all our
instruction. They have, in particular, formed the
minds of the ruling classes. Nearly all the
Peerage and the bulk of the great landowners
have been bought up by them. We cannot be sur-
prised, therefore, that these people should be so
like their instructors, and that in all public mat-
ters, however amiable and just they may be in
private life,. they continually study how they
may hold the faith of despotism with the endow-
ment of freedom, how they may claim our reve-
rence as protectors while they are only intent on
enriching themselves. If Members of the two
Houses ofParliament do not verbally take an oath
to consult and act only for the public good, they
come, in reality and practically, under such an
obligation. Like their teachers, however, their
pleat study is how they may dispense with this
obligation and consult and act for their private
advantage. With them the casuistry taught at
Oxford has done its work. They are apt pupils
at that sort of learning, and, with a perfectly
clear conscience, to enrich themselves they starve
the people.

Grave philosophers have given it as their opi-
nion that there are certain questions, varying
according to the different tendencies of the hu-
man mind, upon which all mankind, taken indi-
vidually, exhibit insanity. If this be true of
every person, we can be at no loss to discover
the intellectual stumbling-block of Mr. DAVID
u
RQUHART. He takes leave of his wits as often
as he n
approaches even in imagination, the
doors of the Foreign-office. So bent is he
bringing
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about the impeachment of Lord
P ERSTON,
that he spares himself no dis-
playthe Eastern gnce to effect it. His career on
France
of extravagance a
questionknew
nis well known—even the
e:ivipsahmsotw to appreciate it at its
people of
l failures and rebuffs
proper value.
jauactduy. The case of Mr.
eAnI tt.
against Lord
T for a pretext
have only increased his
M'LEOD has served Mr
Upwards of a hundred
for preferring a fresh in
PALMERSTON, occupying
pages of an octavo pamphlet. Mr. unclunAitT
contends that the difficulties of the question have
arisen out of the treasonable apathy of the Noblee
Foreign Secretary, who, not content with the
burning of the Caroline, should • have insisted at
once upon reparation for the piracy of the Sy m_
pathisers. Of course Mr. URQUHART is satified
that this apathy was the result of a secret un-
derstanding with Russia on,. the part of the
Noble Lord. This he puts beyond a dotibt,
by giving, in a postscript to his pamphlet,
the copy of a letter, which he—'atklressed in Au-
gust last to Lord MELBOURNE and the Duke of
WELLINGTON, from which, for the satisfaction of
our readers, we quote an extract :
"By personal intercourse with her Majesty's principal ,e- •
cretary for Foreign Affairs, in connection with public trans,
actions during e ght years; by an examination of publfshed
d;plomatic papers ; by the study of the speeches of that Mi-
nister in the House of Commons, anT'of the Acts of Great
Britain under his direction, I have come to the conclusion that
that Minister is, and has been, acting to further projects of
Russia hostile to Great Britain, using for that end the power
of Great Britain. J, therefore, believe him to be guilty
of High Treason."

Mr.I7RQUHART is the only person known
to us in the United Kingdom holding such a be-
lief, we cannot help regarding him as one' of the
most unqualified for sitting in judgment upon the
case of Mr. IVPLEoD. We will therefore not
take the trouble to examine and controvert in
detail those figments of his brain which appear
to him so copclusive of the guilt of Lord PAL-

MERSTON, whom he accuses of uttering deliberate
falsehoods in the House of Commons. There is
the subtlety of hatred and the ingenuity of word •
catching in his pamphlet, but it is utterly defi-
cient in soundness, in accuracy, and even in the
semblance of impartiality.
It is with pain we make these observations.
Mr. URQUHART is a man from whom we once
expected better things. But the beauty and fra-
grance of the blossom is not always to be taken
as a certainty of the wholesomeness of the
ripened fruit.

Letters from Constantinople, of the 11th of
March, have just reached us. On the 6th the
SULTAN conferred the Order of Nishau Iftihar—
a magnificent decoration in brilliants—together
with a present in cash to the amount of ten thou-
sand pounds sterling, upon RESCHID PACHA, his
Prime Minister, for his successful termination of
the Eastern question. Immediately after this
manifestation of the Imperial favour, TAHIR
PACHA, the mortal enemy of the Premier, pro-
posed, in full Divan, that henceforth the Mem-
bers should reverently kiss the hem of RESCHID'S
garment ! It was generally supposed that these
extraordinary favours portended the fall of
RESCHID PACHA, who is too great a favourite
with the Franks, for his reforming spirit, to please
the orthodox Mussulmans. The victims of Ori-
ental despotism, like the victims of the Pagan di-
vinities, are always ornamented before being led
to the altar of sacrifice.

On the 7th ult. a grand Council was held at
the Porte relative to MEHEMET AL's refusal
of the firman. The modifications claimed by the
VICEROY were supported by the majority of the
diplomatic body. One correspondent states that
the answer of the Porte would be sent off di-
rectly by a steamer to Cairo ; but another as-
serts that the Porte would refer all points of dis-
pute to the arbitration of the Four Powers, whose
decision it would accept as final. On the same
day four vessels of war, with 800 troops, sailed to
quell the rebellion in Samos, while six vessels,
carrying 2,000 men, sailed for Candia, where
disturbances still continued. A strong north
wind prevented the entrance of the Turkish fleet
into the Bosphorus. The Albanians were re-
called from Syria:

Madrid journals, of the 24th ult., have reached
us. The Cortes were engaged with the verifica-
tion of their powers and the Regency question.
The Five per Cents. were done at 261 for cash.

The Paris journals of Wednesday have reached
us. The proposed amendment of the Peers'
Committee upon the first article of the Fortifica-
tions Bill was lost upon a division, there being
only 91 votes for, and 148 against it. There is,
therefore, no longer a doubt that the Bill as
passed by the Deputies will be adopted.
The illoniteur of Wednesday contains the fol-
lowing official correction of the report of the Na-
tional, relative to the attack of the police upon
the Reform banqueters :
" The National gives an incorrect account of the measures
taken by the authorities on the occasion of a projected banquet
intended to be given on ili onday, by some Reformists and Com-
munists. We now give a true statement of the facts. Con-
trary to the injunctions of the authorities against these tumul-
tuous meetings in the form of banquets some Itacli,.al Re-
formists fixed on this for Monday, and distributed a great
number of subscription-tickets, the place at which the
dinner was to be given being kept as secret as possible, the
stewards alone knowing where it was to take place. At
about two o'clock on Monday the guests were assembled at dif-
ferent points, where shortly afterwards the stewards went and
led them off, without telling them where they were going.
About half-past two nearly 250 persons were collected at the
Pere la Galette, the house of a tra.iteur at Montrouge, and
they immediately elected a President. lie returned thanks
•in a speech, containing expressions in favour of the works
ing classes and reform, and uttering opinions of the
strongest Radicalism. Two other similar speeches were de-
livered, and political toasts were drank. Upon this the
Mayor and Commissary of Po'ice of Montrouge interfered,
and ordered the party to disperse, as their meeting was un-
authorised. After several observations, they were allowed a
quarter of an hour to settle their bills, and then they left
the room. Instead. however, of separating peaceably, they
marched in a body towards Vaugirard, singing the Marsel-
laise' and the Chant du Depart.' Atter violently insulting
the Commissary of Police they attempted a riotous entry into
Paris. Then it was that the municipal guard interposed,
stopped their passage, and dispersed them, after arresting
several of those who had violently insulted and maltreated
the Commissary. Public tranquillity nevertheless was not all
disturbed, but, on the contrary, the inhabitants loudly ap-
plauded the measures taken by the authorities to maintain
order."

Nothing can be clearer than that the whole
mischief was the consequence of the uncalled-
for, impertinent, and insulting interference of
the police. Had the Reformers been left to
themselves they would have toasted and
_ _

talked themselves into a vapouring patriotism,
and walked quietly home to their beds. lut if
230 persons cannot now meet, and dine, and talk
Radical r o:itics without having their heads
broken and their persons imprisoned by the po-
lice, what will be the state of public liberty when
Paris is Bastilled ?

The Constitutionnel says that the creation of thirty new
Peers is now more talked of than ever; it is said +hat there will
be only fifteen deputies included in this new creation, the re-
mainder will be general officers both of the army and navy, and
magistrates.

A letter from Marseilles of the 27th March says —" The
King's Attorney and examining Judges of our tribunal are very
actively engaged in preparing the proceedings in the Criminal
Court on account of the late attempt, the principal details of
which we have given. More arrests are spoken of. We learn
with pleasure that M. Borely, Attorney-General in the Royal
tribunal of Aix, as soon as he heard of this affair, hastened to
Marseilles.

We find the following passage in a letter from Alexandria of
the Bth March:—

" The Government continue to sell cotton ; the quantity
disposed of up to this time is 50,000 cwt. Large quantities of
corn of the last harvest are brought to market. There is still
a great deal in the warehouses, which will be increased by the
new harvest, which promises to be as abundant as the preceding.
" The Government is taking measures to render trade en-
tirely free."
A journal says The expense of the fete to be given on
the Ist of May in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, on the oc-
casion of the baptism of the Count de Paris, is estimated at
no less than a million. Above 1,000 musicians are (ngaged
for the orchestras. The illuminations will be brilliant, and
every precaution is taken against fire."
It seems to us that the fear of fire should alone suffice to re-
pel the idea of giving a fete in this precious depot, where there
are so many paintings, the destruction of which would be a
subject of eternal and useless regret. They already suffer
enough from the annual exhibitions, without exposing them to
unnecessary danger.—Le Commerce.

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