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enactments are violations of Divine Law. No
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Now, the gentleman -who has purchased such Legislature. would deny for a moment that
his commission, who can at any moment vote the all ought to obey GOD rather than man ; it must
service a bore and declare his intention assume, therefore, that none of its enactments are
of selling out may be regarded as an amateur, such as men ought to be allowed to disobey under
certainly not as a professional. He is merely the pretext of serving GOD. it has been recom-
"playing at soldiers." He feels that he is re- mended to hand over all the remarriages in ques-
ceiving but little more than the interest of the tion to the Registrar ; which to us seems very
money he has invested—that his services are to a like treating the unfortunate Registrars as the
great extent gratuitous—and, he therefore natur- publicans and sinners of the community. They,
ally chafes at any extra trouble or annoyance to and the State through them, may bid the divorced
which he may be subjected. Let the same man "go and sin as long as they live"—at least such
know that he is bound to his profession by strin- is the logic of the clerics.
gent bonds, which cannot easily be severed, and We would point the attention of all our readers
we venture to assert that in ninety-cases out of ato the admirable warnings of the Attorney-Gene-
hundred he will become a more useful, and even ral. He evidently regards the concession, small
energetic officer, striving by every means within as it may seem, as the principle of infinite mis-
his power to qualify himself for the duties that chief. An Establishment is a Church governed
may devolve upon him. by the law of the State, and therefore paid by
The Royal Commissioners have suffered them- the State. Dissenting Churches, as churches,
selves to be influenced by petty obstacles. They are perfectly uncontrolled by the law, and there-
have not ventured to grapple with the existing fore receive not a shilling from the State. No
difficulties. They perceive the better course, but statesman ought for a moment to grant liberty
they will not enter on "the straight and narrow from law to those who enjoy all their privileges
path." They maintain the purchase system up and emoluments by virtue of acts of Parliament.
to theirankof field officer, nay, more, it is merely the We respect equally the Established and the Dis-
situation of lieutenant-colonel that is rescued from senting clergyman where each keeps to his own
the hands cf Mammon and given to the worthiest principle. We should resist the Dissenter who
or, perhaps, we might say, the most influential would retain his ecclesiastical liberty, and yet
claims. Hitherto it has, with some few excep- take State pay—and we equally resist the clergy-
tions, been a prize only open to the fortunate man who wants to gain his liberty while he
possessors of some eight or ten thousand pounds, pockets the benefit in honours or money, of
for be it remembered, it usually costs far more connection with the State. The law-controlled
than the regulation price. Henceforward it will Church of the State, and the Free Churches of
the Voluntaries have all their uses in the body
be a valuable piece of patronage in the hands
politic ; to confuse the clear line between them
of the Commander-in-Chief, who may be inclined
to reward the most worthy applicants. will prove a fatal mistake. The clergyman
We, however, coneeive that it would be better may now ask liberty to refuse a reli-
to get rid of the money power in the earlier stages. gious service on a hundred grounds. Scruples
When men enter the army without any payment, wilt spring up as a plentiful harvest from
but merely from the possession of the qualifica- this small kernel. No seed is more prolific
tions, physical or intellectual—and due allowance than a scruple in a favourable soil. The admini-
should be made in both direotions—they will stration of the sacraments, the burial service, the
strive to fit themselves fur promotion. That Popish parts of the Liturgy, the Calvinistic and
promotion should be partly by seniority anti-Romanistic parts of the Articles, almost every-
and partly by selection. We would not have a thing iu the services and working of the Church
dunce, without zeal or enthusiasm, maintain the will become a matter of scruple to some one, and
accidental lead which he had obtained over an eventually the House of Commons will become as
efficient officer. That is the case at present in theological as in the days of the Long Parliament.
the Engineers, where twelve officers were recom- Indeed, whether to their credit or otherwise we
mended for valuable services to obtain some extra- will not say, but the elect of the Chinese dissolu-
ordinary promotion, and yet not one of these dis-
tion have shown marvellous casuistical and thee-
logical—we suppose we must not say Jesuitical—
tinguished officers has been promoted over those
who remained at home in inglorious ease, while
skill in discussing divorce, bigamy, adultery, and
they 'were toiling and risking their lives in the the kindred elevated topics. DENS himself could
Crimea. Nor would pure favour alone answer ; hardly have surpassed GLADSTONE, either in sub-
but, if one out of three vacancies were given to tlety on ugly topics, or in pleading, in cases which
merit, a far better system would be introduced. buited his purpose, for what he pronounced wick-
Those who entered the army in the manner edness in the sight of heaven when it did not.
above suggested could claim no compensation We call upon the House of Lords, then, to
for any alteration. The purchase system would preserve ietact the principle of complete subjection
thus gradually die out. It seems to us, of the State clergy to the laws of the State ; not
therefore, that the Royal Commissioners have to allow them the power of complete marriar
commenced at the wrong side; and that it would (which the Dissenter has not) without requiring
be far better to allow the purchase of Lieutenant- also that they use their power for all whom the
Colonelcies ; but to make the first and every State permits to marry. The clause just conceded
future step free to those who may desire to enter we believe to be the Rubicon of the Romanisers•
the army on the new system, the nation paying Let them once cross it and the road to Church
the value of the commission to those who may supremacy is open t ) them.
purchase their promotion to a higher grade.

HER MAJESTY'S CRUISE.

The House of Lords professes to be the con-
servator of Great Constitutional principles ; and
no one will deny that it has frequently in its his-
tory performed, and nobly performed, that offiee.
The Barons of England are so far mixed up with,
or rather shaded off into, the people of England,
that on great questions their own liberties are fre-
quently implicated with those of the citizens
generally. When they can be separated, as in
the case of the Jew's Emancipation, they are but
too ready, it must be confessed, to make a sadly
perverted appeal to " the principles of our
glorious Constitution." Under that guise they
have locked the door of the House of Commons
for another Session on Baron ROTHSCHILD.
They have now, however, an opportunity of stand-
ing by their boasted function in one of the most
important cases which, within our recollection,
has come before the English Legislature.
We refer, of course, to the license just granted
by the House of Commons to State Clergymen,
to set up private judgment against law, in regard
to the remarriage of divorced persons. It is true
Lord PALMERSTON has conceded but the minimton,
and some of the apologists for the clergy pointed
this out in the house. The great majority of those
who profess to have scruples about, or clear con-
victions against, marrying divorced persons, must
object to a remarriage of the innocent, as well as
of the guilty party. The indissolubility of mar-
riage is the sole basis of their conscientious ob-
jection—plainly, therefore, the innocent divorced
party is still in their view as much a husband or
a wife, as the case may be, as the guilty party.
In accepting Lord PALMERSTON'S compromise,
therefore, the Romanizers give up all principle
on their part. They consent to remarry those
whom they pronounce still married.
We have, however, little concern about the elas-
ticity or the firmness of their consciences. What docs
concern us is, that some concession is made to them.
Lord PALDIERSTON has consented, though under
the most solemn protest from his Attorney-Genc-
ral, to allow the recalcitrants the option of re-
fusing to marry a person whose crime has been
the cause of the divorce. The law says they are
at liberty to re-marry. The view of those who
frame this law is, that the guilty party had better,
for social reasons, re-marry, and marry his or her
companion in guilt ; but the clergy are to be per-
mitted to frustrate this intention of the Legislature
—to be permitted to refuse marriage to those to
whom the statutes of the land explicitly allow it !
Bishops have just been called to account, and
justly so, for refusing, as servants of the State, to
consecrate burial-grounds declared fit for conse-
cration by the State authorities ; and now private
clergymen are to be allowed to plead private judg-
ment in bar of an Act of Parliament I Surely
this is retrogression.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY ETKNING,

The Royal Mail steamer Despatch, Capt. Babot,
arrived this evenng from Jersey. She reports
having seen, at a quarter past 7 this morning, the
Royal Yael.it entering Alderney, with her Ma-
jesty, the Prince Consort, arc., on board, all well.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the Prince
Consort, accompauiei by the elder royal children,
arrived in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert
before Cherbourg yesterday, and were saluted by a
salvo from the batteries of artillery.
In the prevision that her Majesty's excursion
might extend as far as Havre, orders were given to
have measures taken to salute her Majesty, and
two detachments of artillerymen were posted, one
on the Place de Provence, and the other en the
southern battery, where they remained the greater
part of the afternoon without their services being
called into requisition. Pilots were also directed to
proceed out into the roadstead, in case the royal
yacht might require any assistance.

In our view, the admission of a single Jew to
Parliament shrinks into utter insignificance com-
pared with the admission of the clergy to supre-
macy over Parliament ; for this is what is really
in question. If the Lords pass this amendment,
they will indeed have " strained at a gnat and
!wallowed a camel." They will have kept out a
Jew, but have admitted an out-and-out un-Ena-
lish
principle. They will have refused the powe'r-
less, but have surrendered to the most restless of
agitators,
the times of the
one of the keys of civil liberty. From
Reformation and the birth of the
Church of E
ng l a 1:1 d ) under the not-to-be-trifled-
with rule of the Eighth at m,
r,the object of en-
lightened Christendom has been to retain
in complete the clergy subord* • illation to
the Civil Power ; and this
is perhaps the
first concession, fir generations, of a liberty
to clergymen never allowed to laymen. If it be
sinful, for instance, to remarry divorced persons,
why may not the Registrar as well as the clergy-
man claim the privilege of not being an abettor in
a sinful act. Parliament stultifies itself if it even
admits that it can enact a sinful law. N 9 iogis"

741, 7,71,

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THE- INDIAN 11WAILS.

(13w ELECTRIC TELU',IRAPII.)

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The European and Australian Company's steam-
ship Jura, from Alexandria, with the Bombay
mails, has just arrived in the river with 40,0001.
in Australian gold.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

Their Majesties and the Prince Imperial arrived
at Bayonne yesterday morning at half-past ten
o'clock, and were received with the most enthusi_
astic acclamations. Although the Imperial party
had expressed a desire to travel incognito, several
triumphal arches had been erected in the town, and
an immense crowd was assembled in the streets to
welcome their Majesties, who, after a short pause,
proceeded to Biarritz, where they arrived a little
before &even o'clock, in excellent health. A special
train had arrived some hours before at Bayonne
with six carriages and twenty horses for the service
of their Majesties.
Prince Jerome, yesterday, after visiting the
Public Garden at Havre, took an excursion a short
way out to sea, in a pleasure boat which had been
sent from Cherbourg to be at his Impetial High-
ness's orders. The Ariel, state steamer, is moored
in front of the Hotel Frascati, awaiting the Prince's
orders.
Rear-Admiral Clavaud has been appointed to the
command of the French squadron in the Levant,
vice Rear-Admiral Count Bouet-Willaumez, whose
term of foreign service has expire l ; Rear-Admiral
Viscount de Chabannes succeeds Rear-Admiral La
Rocque de Chaufray as Commander-in-Chief at
Brazil ; Rear-Admiral Fourichon replaces Ad-
miral Vicomte de Chabannes as commandant of
the naval force at Algeria ; and Rear-Admiral
Aubry-Bailleul has been appointed Major-General
of the Marines at Toulon, in the room of Rear-
Admiral Clavaud.
By imperial decree, 26; military medals have
been conferred on non-commissioned officers and
privates who distinguished themselves during the
late expedition in Kabylia.
" Our correspondent at Mogador," says the
Semaphore of Marseilles, writing under date of the
4th, states that the Emperor ct Morocco, after a
residence of four years at the capital of that name,
has left for Fez. His son, Sidi Mohamme I, the
heir presumptive to the throne, who had been go-
vernor of Fez, replaces the Emperor at Morocco.
The prince, just before his journey, put down an
insurrection which had taken place among some
tribes."
The following telegraphic despatches have been
received here :
MARSEILLES, Aug. 18.—Intelligence from Tunis of
the 13th announces that three days before a sanguinary
disturbance took place against the Jews. Even the
Coristians were menaced. Several persons were killed,
and the English consul was insulted. Military measures
of repression were adopted, but not until after grave dis-
asters had taken place.
BERLIN, Aug. 18.—At a general meeting of the share-
holders of the loyal Bank, held to-day. it was proposed
to raise the rate of discount from 5 to SA, per cent., leav-
ing the rate of interest on advances as before at 6 per
cent.
BOURSE, Aug. 19.—The following were the last
quota ions :
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4 per Cents
3 per Cents 67 5 67
Bank Shares 2,790 Credit Foncier —
Credit Mobilier 965 - ltoman i
Do. Account 960 Austrian i
Belgian 4)
Fiedmontese (5) B9l— Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOR CASE.

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tr._ c. tr c.
Orleans 1,445 Western -
Northern
Lyons and Med 895 -- New Ditto
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New Ditto BBl Grand Central -
Geneva
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