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THE SUN, LONDOTZ, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1860,

fI.ARIBALDI and ITALY. —WEDNESDAY
k_A NEXT. —ST. JAMES'S WALL.--Mr. MASON JONES
wilt deliver a SECOND ORATION on Garibaldi and Italy,
at the above Hall, on Wednesday Evening next, Dec. 12, com-
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the Author.
DR. LA'MERT on the Treatment and cure of
NERVOUS and PHYSICAL DEBILITY, resulting
from pernicious habits contracted in Touth, excesses in Man-
hood, or residence in Tropical Climates. With Cases and En-
gravings from Life, representing the various Organs In
Health and Disease.

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great—mtasure to the fact that the Author is the only duly
qualified and legally registered Practitioner who for 20
years has made the Diseases arising usually from
Imprudence the peculiar objects of his attention. The im-
pediments which so often either prohibit wedlock, or embitter
and render it a state of misery, by disappointing its fondest
hopes and marring its highest objects, are, though varied in
form, closely analogous in reality. The mischief may arise y
in-
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necessities of position—from circumstances which occurred
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long preceding that at which reason could be matured by ex-
perience.

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pearing, though it still lingers with no little obstinacy in
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PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of
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MR. DISRAELI UPON CHURCH-RATES.

A very numerous and influential meeting of the
clergy and laity of the rural deanery of Amersham
was held at Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, on the
4th inst., to consider the present aspect of the church-
rate question, and the course expedient to adopt
with regard to it. The Rural Dean (the Rev. T.
E vetts) was called to the chair. After some discus-
sion,

The Right Hon. B. DISRAELI said that in this
practical country great issues were generally tried
on collateral points, and now it was generally
announced and accepted that the discussion of the
question of church rates involved that of a National
Church. It was, therefore, of the last importance
that Churchmen should not make a mistake in this
matter. He would view the question now only
se.allarly, and, even in that limited sense, he shrank
from realising what would be the consequences to
the country of the termination of the connection
between Church and State. The political and social
relations of the National Church to England must
be considered. As for the political, the termination
of the alliance must break up our parochial consti-
tution. Our political constitution was built on
our parochial constitution. The parish was one of
the strongest securities for local government; and
on local government political liberty mainly de-
pended. As for the social relations of the Church
with the community, they were so comprehen-
sive and so complicated, so vast and various,
that the most farseeing could not calculate the
consequences of the projected change. It was not
merely the education of the people that was con-
cerned ; it was even their physical condition. He
would almost say, that if, by some convulsion of
nature, some important district of the country, one
on which the food and industry of the community
mainly depended, were suddenly swept from our
surface, the change would not be greater than
would arise by the withdrawal of the influence of
the Church from our society. The fact was, the
Church of England was a part of England—a point
of view not sufficiently contemplated by those who
speculated on changes in its character and position.
It might be asked how it happened that, when so
much was at stake, the movement for abolition of
church-rates had been so active and progressive of
late years. He attributed it to the want of union
and organization among Churchmen. When
Churchmen were united, the Church was never
endangered. This was shown in the years that
elapsed from 1831 to 1841. During that period
England was in a state of semi-revolution, Ireland
of semi-rebellion ; the Church of England was the
chosen arena for the fierce struggle of parties,
and Governments absolutely were formed on the
principle of appropriating its property to secular
purposes. But the Church baffled all these attempts,
because Churchmen were united and organized.
Why were they not united and organized now ?
There had been no union and organization among
Churchmen since 1841. He would state what he
deemed to be the causes of this condition. He had
been asked to speak frankly ; he would do so with-
out reserve. He attributed this want of union and
organization to two causes—first, to the disruption
of political parties; secondly, to disputes among
the clergy themselves. Were these permanent
causes ? This was not the first time by many
instances that political connections had been broken
up in this country; but there was an irresistible
tendency iu our public life that parties, both in and
out of Parliament, should reflect opinion, and not
personal interests and feelings ; and time, therefore,
inevitably adjusted, as it was now adjusting, the
balance properly. With respect to the controversies
among the clergy themselves, as distinguished
from the Church generally, he thought that upon
this head there was exaggeration, and greater
misconception. It was impossible, and, were it pos-
sible, it was perhaps not to be desired, that in a
National Church of a free country like England
there should not be discrepancy of opinion among
the clergy on matters of ritual, and even, in some
degree, of doctrine. It had always been so. Where
there is opinion, and especially religious opinion,
these will be periods of excess. We lived in one
of these periods. They were periods of trial, but
not necessarily of danger; and those who too readily
augured from them the worst consequences-showed
an ignorance alike of human nature and the history
of their own country. They shohid remember that,
before this, a cardinal's hat had been offered to an
Anglican archbishop; while there was also a time
when a Socinian prelate had sat on the episcopal
bench ; but the Church of England had survived
these temptations and experiments. The great
body of the community had always rallied round
that via media, which had been eulogised and vin-
dicated by the most eminent of our divines—by
Hooker, by Taylor, by Barrow ; the period of excess
had passed away, and the influence of the Church
had remained, only greater and more beneficial.
Between the temple and the tabernacle there was
the Church. But then the question arose, suppose
Churchmen were again united and organised, as he
hoped they might be, on what course should they
agree with regard to church rates ? They could
not conceal from themselves that on this subject
there were two opinions among their friends. Some
were for compromise. What did compromise mean?
Did it mean improvement ? If so, he was for com-
promise. It might be expedient that the church
rate, levied in a district, should be applied to the
church of that district; that when the rate was
levied, the purposes to which it should be applied
should be more precisely defined ; that the means
of obtaining the rate, when voted, should be more
prompt and effective ; that there should be no
particular charge called church rate, but a gene-
ral parochial rate, from which the necessary ex-
penses for the fabric and service of the church
should be deducted by the wardens under certain
limitations. All these might be improvements, but
all these were mere matters of detail ; and what
was the use of attempting to legislate on matters
of detail, when the principle was not only con-
tested, but even rejected in a branch of the
Legislature ? But some of their friends would go
further than this. They would exempt the
Dissenter from the charge. That was not com-
promise; that was surrender; it was acknowledg-
ing that the Church of England was no longer a
National Church. But it was conceding more even
than that. There was a public charge of which all
the circumstances were of a popular character. It
was ancient-4 it was for a general, not to say a
common purpose ; it was levied by public vote. If
in a country where the majority decide everything
the minority were, on the ground of a conscientious
scruple, to be exempted from a public payment, on
what principle could your society be held together ?
Landowners might have a conscientious scruple
against paying the public creditor; peace societies
might have a conscientious scruple against paying
war taxes. What the Dissenter demands is, in
fact, an oligarchical privilege, and the principle, if
conceded and pursued, may lead to general con-
fusion. But there was one more objection urged
by their friends against levying the church-rate ;
that it was impracticable. Was it impracticable ?
In the vast majority of parishes it was raised with
facility. But then it was urged that the parishes
which refuse were the parishes of the large towns,
and that their aggregate population was scarcely
inferior to that vast majority of parishes in which
it was raised. But this immense population were
not Dissenters. They were not the .votaries of
rival creeds and establishments. They were
ignorant, or indifferent, or more unfortunate.
Were we, then, to maintain that the Church was
to retire from the duty of contending with this
unsympathising or unbelieving mass ? The greatest
triumphs of the Church had been accomplished in
great towns. If the influence of the Church was
limited in great towns, it was not because its
means were ineffective, but because they were insuf-
ficient. When they considered the nature of the
religious principle, he would be a bold man who
would maintain that in their teeming seats of
industry there might not be destined for the Church
a triumphant future. Who could foresee the history
of the:next quarter of a century ? It would not
probably be as tranquil as the last. What if it
wore a period of great religious confusion and ex-
citement ? The country would cling to a Church
which combined toleration with orthodoxy, and
united divine instruction with human sympathies.
Is it wise, then, publicly to announce by legislation
that the Church of England relinquishes the charac-
ter of a National Church ? On these grounds, he
could not recommend the present meeting to sanc-
tion the principle of exemption. He felt deeply the
responsibility of giving such advice ; he knew he
was opposing the recommendation of the Committee
of the House of Lords in 1859, and of what, was
then, at least, the unanimous opinion of the Bench
of Bishops. He need not say that for the IHouseo off
Lords he felt a profound respect. In maturitythoitt
judgment andlin calmness of inquiry he
the labours of the great committees of the Lords
were superior to those of the Commons,inferior
in acute-
ness of investigation they were not ;. out in
the interpretation of public opinion he thought, and
it was perhaps in the necessity of things, that the
Commons had the advantage-
He thought that the
Lords' Committee had
been precipitate in their
course in the matter of church-rates he thought