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aideration, in either House, of every important mea-
sure, and avoided the contemptible and intolerable
mockery of legislation presented by the latter days
of a protracted session. It might possibly, too, have
avoided the humiliating catalogue of abortions and
postponements, and the parallel between the conduct
so pungently satirised in Lord Lyndhurst's Parlia-
mentary resumes, and that which is now pursued by
the Government of which that eminent person is a
distinguished member. And what has been the prac-
tical course of the Administration ? Far from check-
ing impertinent prating, our highly-gifted Premier
plunged as readily into prolonged " debating"—was
as liberal in the exhibitions of his wit, his eloquence,
his ♦ast range of knowledge and great argumentative
power, upon some trumpery motion of a Hawes, or
Hume, or Bowring, as on the most vitally important
questions of national practice or polity that could
engross the devoted attention of a patriotic statesman.
And now, at the close of the session, the Premier

grows pathetic at the recollection of the abuse,
whereof his own good nature, or complaisance, or as
singing folks say, " willingness to oblige," was as-
' suredly a main promoter.
HERALD.—Of all the productions of the Trac-
tarian school, the work of Mr. Ward, of Balliol Col-
lege, which has just appeared, is the most offensively
Romish. He inculcates what his predecessors only
insinuated, and proclaims as his deliberate creed those
conclusions at which the subtleties of Newman and
the mysticism of Pusey merely hinted. What is still
more remarkable, and perhaps important, he avows
himself to be the author of those anti-Protestant and
anti-national articles on which we commented at the
time of their appearance, with no disguised indigna-
tion. In fact the work before us, which he designates
The Ideal of a Christian Church, consists of the no-
torious articles which disgraced and ultimately de-
stroyed the British Critic, enshrined and set in a
series of defensive comments. He does not retract
one sentiment, or recant or abjure one expression.
lle glories, on the contrary, in what most Church-
men must reprobate as his shame, and sets up a de-
fence for papers which demand from a clergyman of
the Church of England unqualified retractation and apo-
logy. From Mr. Ward's remarks it is easy to perceive
that what has been long anticipated has at length come
to pass—the Tractarian party are divided against
themselves. Mr. Palmer, startled at the ominous re-
sults which their writings were precipitating, shrunk
back into a moderate and by no means helpless iT:ac-
tarian ; but Mr. Ward has pushed on his Rcineward
excursus till he finds himself at the very doors of the
Vatican, a fugitive from Protestantism, and a penitent
and patient candidate for admission, absolution, and
communion with Gregory XVI. It is the pervading
characteristic of this book that it denounces every
person and institution, Protestant and English, and
lauds and idolises everything foreign and Romish.
After quoting other doctrines, usages, and persons in
the Church of Rome, on all of which he pronounces
glowing eulogies, he turns to speak of things nearer
home as follows :—" I know no single movement in
the Church, except Arianism in the fourth century,
which seems to me so wholly destitute of all
claims on our sympathy and regard as the Eng-
lish Reformation." " The Lutheran doctrine
of justification and the principle of private
judgment sink below Atheism itself." " That a
sustained and vigorous attack on the principles of
the Reformation is the only course, is my deep and
certain conviction." " The Church of England is
wholly destitute of external notes, and wholly inde-
fensible as to her position by external historical ec-
clesiastical arguments." " When I feel called on to
use strong language about the corruption of our
Church or the sinfulness of the Reformation, the
words I use do not even fully express the convictions
that are among the very deepest I feel." Thi3
work brings Tractarianism to a crisis. It is the
concentration of all its heresies in the ample and
avowed creed of Mr. Ward. Palmer, Hook, and some
others, whose policy modifies their principles, he de-
nounces as timid and intractable associates. In New-
man, Pusey, Oakley, and himself, does he see the
types of Catholicism—the living exponents of primitive
principles, the fearless witnesses of true religion. We
have no great fear that sentiments so alien to the
Protestant faith and to English feeling will very
widely prevail. The recollections of other days will
rise with freshness and with force in the minds of our
countrymen, and lead them to protest against this
influx of pollution and persecution into our churches
and our families. English maidens will not approach
the confessional, and English men will never cringe
at the feet of a presumptuous priest, and neither the
one nor the other, we trust, will part with Old Eng-
land's heir-looms—the Bible without a clasp, and the
cross without a screen. Mr. Ward may find an echo
to his sentiments in Belgium and Spain, and there also
plenty of scope for his thirst for confession in their
convents and nunneries. But a Protestant people
abominate alike the principle and the practice, and
honest men will ask with yet greater emphasis, why
is this man suffered to designate himself a minister of
the Church of England ?

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The Dutch mail arrived this morning with
a decree for the reduction of the Old Five per Cents.
The Government will proceed on the Ist of October to
this reduction, when a portion will be drawn for pay-
ment. The holders of the drawn bonds will have the
option of receiving their money in Holland, subject to
exchange on remittance, or to accept Four per Cent.
bonds at a rate not yet fixed. This decree creates no
surprise, since from the clause in the decree for the con-
version of the " Indians" which relates to the Old Fives,
it was evident that some plan for the con►ersion of these
also was in contemplation, otherwise there would have
been no reason for the holders to avail themselves of the
option offered them. The price at which the change of
the Old Fives is to be effected is, as will be perceived,
left open, and the object is probably to make the
holders come forward and take the terms offered by the
former decree, viz., 4 per cent. bowls at 95,i, with 43-
per cent. in money. Persons who are willing to ac-
cept these terms, and not to wait the event of draw-
ing, when perhaps less advantageous conditions may
be offered, should signify their intention to the London
agents by the 16th inst. at the latest, as the list at
Amsterdam will not be open for subscribers after the
20th inst.

At the meeting of the Chester and Holyhead Railway
held to-day, a letter was read from Sir George Clerk,
stating that as Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Goulburn were
both out of town, it was not in his power to make any
communication on the part of Government to be sub-
mitted to the meeting.. This had reference to the nego-
tiation at present pending between the Government and
the Company, relative to the mail service proposed to
be performed by the Company; and as this was the chief
object of the meeting-, an adjournment was made until
the 30th inst. It appears that the Directors ask
40,000/. for carrying the mails, which is stated to be a
reasonable and a less sum than that for which the Go-
vernment can do it; and Mr. Glyn expressed his opinion
that the Company should maintain its position with
firmness in requiring that amount from the Government
for the service.