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is still more gaudy than that of the Church of England.
The daughter is still at a great distance from the mother ips
point of finery. If we are to believe an able writr-on pro.
selytising, who has just published a work, on that subject,
in Germany, Bretschneider, the King of Prussia bas been
induced to give Bishops to the Lutheran Church, in order
to arrest the desertion' of the German Nobility to the Ca-
tholic Church, to which they are led by their natural par-
tiality for ecclesiastical splendour. It was long ago ob-
Nen ed by Bayle, that there could not be a stronger proof
of Calvin's honesty, than the simple Republican footing on
Which he placed his Church. It was impossible, he said,
that so acute a man could have overlooked the advantages
of the splendour of that of Rome, in working on the
imagination; and he could only have been induced to re-
nounce that splendour, by a conscientious determination to
adhere 'rigorously to the rules of the Scriptures.—Morn-
ing Chronicle.

The King is expected to arrive in town to-
day, to settle, as report says, the new Ministry.
His Majesty has been much blamed, but, we
think, without reason, for having so long post-
poned a business of such importance. Con-
sidering the sudden and dreadful complaint with
which Lord Liverpool has been recently visited,
and which could not by any possibility be fore-
seen, his Lordship being a remarkably stout and
healthful man, and much accustomed to horse
exercise, we think it would have been ungracious
to appoint a successor immediately, as some per-
sons seem to say ought to have been the case—
the more so, as his Lordship had so long and
faithfully served his Majesty. It appears to be
generally understood that Mr. Canning is to be
his successor, and we by no means think it im-
probable. Now that Lord Liverpool is regarded
-
as politically dead, a man of strong nerve, elo-
quence of tongue, and free delivery, is wanted
in the House of Lords to cope with the Oppo-
sition. We scarcely know any one at present
so well calculated for this purpose as Mr. Can-
ning. He would be a complete match for the
Opposition ; for he is of good deportment, highly
endowed with the gift of language, ready at re-
partee and reply, witty, sententious, and sarcastic.
Such a man would be an acquisition in the
Upper House, to oppose Lord Lansdown, Lord
King, and other Noble Lords who embrace their
line of politics. Should the Right Hon. Se-
cretary for Foreign Affairs be raised to a seat
among their Lordships, he would certainly bring
with him the advantages we have alluded to. The
country too would derive no slight advantage from
the circumstance, inasmuch as Mr. Canning
being in some degree nearer the Lord Chan-
cellor, might profit by his counsels in religion
and politics. While we state thus much, how-
ever, on behalf of the Right Hon. Secretary
we will not disguise our opinion, that if any other
could be found equally capable of filling Lord Liver-
pool's place, it would be wisdom on the part of his
Majesty to retain Mr. Canning in his present situa-
tion. There can be no question but that he hasade-
quately discharged the duties of the Foreign Depart-
ment; and notwithstanding all that has been said
on the subject, we should not be surprised if he
were still continued to do so,and that the Earl of Har-
rowby or Bathurst would be promoted to the rank
of Premier. It has been insinuated, that what may
be called the Irish interest in the Cabinet is on the
decline latterly, and that the English interest, at
the head of which is Mr. Peel, is gaining the ascen-
dant. This we are not at all surprised to learn.—
For since the union with Ireland has done away
with all those duties which served as an impedi-
ment to a closer intercourse between the people of
both countries, Irishmen do not experience the same
difficulties as formerly in acquiring ingress among
Englishmen. In fact they are now precisely in the
same situation that the Scotch were 20 or 30 years
ago, when Mr. Dundas stood at Mr. Pitt's right
hand. The Scotch then found their way here, and
great numbers of them were promoted to places and
situations. We think that the Irish interest has of

had been in this country, and we should not be sur-
prised if it turned out that for some time past great
numbers under Mr. Canning's patronage were in
search of places and profit, as the Scotch were at the period
;alluded to. But perhaps the number is, by possibility too
great, and the Crown is too much teased by the appli-
.cants, for whom, in fact, there are not situations enough
;vacant. This circumstance, if we be right in our conjec-
iture, must in some degree deteriorate Mr. Canning's in-
fluence on the present occasion. If we take into consi-
deration also, the line of politics he ;,as adopted latterly,
seconded by Mr. Plunkett and other Irishmen, with regard
'to the Catholic question, and that the King probably
'cherishes a secret dislike to the project of further conces-
tien to the Catholics, we need not be surprised if the Right
Hon. Gentleman's progress be impeded on these grounds
alone. We have always remarked of late, that when his
hlajesty comes to town, the Bishops are not slow in visit-
'g him. Now, it is well known that the Clergy have at
itll tunes had great influence over the minds of Monarchs ;
and as the Bishops of this country do not wish that any
iitange should take place in favour of the Catholics, lest
it should lead to contentions about tithes, it is not at all
improbable that they have conceived a lukewarm opinion
bf the services of such men as Mr. Canning, Mr. Plunkett,
and others, on the Irish side of the question, who express
themselves so liberally on the Catholic Claims.--Morning
Herald.

At seasons like the present, when important
arrangements of a public nature are known to be
in progress, it is not surprising that the faculty of
invention should be stimulated to unusual acti-
vity, or that the most gross and monstrous fabri-
cations should be presented to an anxious, eager,
and susceptible community, as substitutes for ac-
curate information; for patient and industrious
vigilance, and for sober anti penetrating sagacity.
At such a juncture, fabrication is the staple com-
modity of the political market ; and the valuable
qualities we have enumerated are converted for
the moment into positive disadvantages, inas-
much as they form so many impediments to the
workings of the imagination, and withdraw from
its power the very materials out of which the
most effective fictions might be manufactured.—
One of our contemporaries presented us yester-
day with some remarkable proofs of his happy
exemption from all the disadvantages and re-
straints to which we have alluded, and illustrated
in a manner the most striking the effect to be
produced by mere invention and effrontery, when
the mind has fairly cast off the shackles of truth,
probability, and decency. His statement is
briefly this :—That the Duke of Rutland had
recently obtained an interview with the King, for
the purpose of dictating to his Majesty, in the
name of a knot of Boroughmongers, of whom
his Grace is represented to be the leader and the
mouthpiece, as to the selection of a Prime Mi-
nister, and of announcing their determination to
the Sovereign not to support Mr. Canning,
should he be the object of the Royal choice.
Now certainly no story can be better adapted
than this to illustrate the position with which we
set out ; for by no possibility could it ever have
been engendered in the mind of the inventor, if
he had possessed the slightest knowledge of the
character either of the Monarch or the Noble,
to whom it relates. They are, perhaps,
the two men in the world in relation to
whom such a tale is the most incredible ;—the
Sovereign the most incapable of brooking—the sub-
ject the most incapable of tendering an insult. The
transaction, we have no doubt, is fabricated in all its
parts; but our contemporary so contrives to manage
his story, as to intimate that the approach of the
Duke of Rutland to the King, for the purpose of
tendering even his respectful advice at the present
crisis, would have had in it something censurable
and suspicious ; and he thus, in the doctrinal part
of his production, shews himself as great in the
knowledge ._of Constitutional principle as in its in-