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est form of a Sunday-school

pleased to sti

the (Episcopal) Church in Scotland as a company of sec-
taries because it does not happen to be Endowed by the
state. and the Presbyterian community does. But neither

can the C
these. S

Tonal arrangements are but accidents

of her outward existence, that her authority is not civil
but spiritual, that the fruit of her inner life is not from
kings or from states, but emanates from the throne of the
incarna:t God. She claims state recognition because of
her character and her mission, not that she may receive a
character and a mission, and as her claims upon all who
come wit' • hc- ',dic It from her character and

ain her jurist .cion resu._
mission, she requires not state authority _
her obligations upon them or make schismatical .._
rebellion against her. She lived before the conversion of
Constantine, anclwill survive the ruin and the infidelity

of Christian states. If it would have been schismatical
for Timothy or for Clemens to have introduced independ-
ent authority, or set up separate congregations in Philippi,
or in Crete, and equally schismatical for Titus or Epahro-
ditus to have intruded into Ephesus or Rome, she knows
f that it would be schismatical for a Scotch bishop to in-

trude into an English diocese, or an English bishop into a
Scotch one. The power which makes a bishop is wholly
spiritual ; the relation, a dissolution of which is schism, is
wholly spiritual ; and when my Lord Minto, with a con-
fidence that gives no force to assertion, but makes igno
ions, for"- b: " Act ,f UP'

once more ridicule brim his anion
to prove that there is no (Episcopal) Church in Scotland ,
that Church, as well as her sister of England, replies in
the language of her creed " I believe" not in Acts of

which Christ, supreme over all law, imposed ; obligations
which bind her not to earth but to heaven ; not to human
states but to her Divine Redeemer and Head. She cannot
therefore divest herself of her duties to make way for state
bargains or political conventions ; she cannot neglect the
use of the authority which Christ has given her because
governments refuse to acknowledge it; deny the grace of
ordination because government sends no surveyors to
mark out dioceses for her bishops ; betray her charter
because she has no state confirmation of ifs articles, or
search the Act of Union for the credentials of her church-
manship. Lord Brougham denies her orders, indeed,
because she does not receive them from the " United
Church of England and Ireland," but all true Churchmen
know that the English is but a branch of the Church like
the Scotch, and that in the words of Hierom, in reference

ly power,

to the already encroaching inclinations of a worlo..
which had crept into the Church, " Wherever there is a
bishop, whether at Rome, or at Eugubium, or Constan-
tinople, or Rhegium, or Alexandria, or Th-- • •
the same worth and the same priesthood,—
successors of the Apostles."
lam compelled, however abruptly, to break off, but
will, with your permission, sir, return to this subject on a
future occasion, when shall have more leisure at my
And am

command,

they are E

31st May, 1849

Your obedient servant,
NIGEL

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FREE TRADE INCOMPATIBLE WITH GOLD

MONEY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

I think your remarks appended to my letter on
the evils of our gold money hardly borne out by any opi-
nions I may have uttered. I would still maintain that
free trade is a more natural state than protection, which is
a self-defeating policy ; but on this, as on the navigation
law, I don't wish to enter into controversy. Free trade
is certainly an extension of foreign trade, and conse-
quently must of necessity give more injurious energy to
the absurd principle of Sir Robert Peel's bill, that gold
only is fit for an internal money. My position is what
Mr. Samuel Holme stated, that free trade is incompatible
with Sir Robert Peel's bill. It might, however, be very
compatible with a paper money.—l am, sir, &c., J. H.

THE NAVIGATION LAWS.
WHAT WILL RESULT FROM THEIR REPEAL

TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORDS SPIRITUAL AND TEM*

PORAL, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED

MY LORDS,—A few parting words—they are words of
truth. Time will show you, my lords, the results of the
policy you are pleased to pursue. To such as myself they
are already sufficiently apparent. Our daily avocations
reveal facts unknown to your lordships. The stern reali-
ties of business life, can alone be known to those who
mingle in them. You known them not, my lords, and
you cannot know them except through the medium of the
people's petitions—their honest prayers. The ministers
of the Crown have thrown aside as worse than worthless,
the opinions of the inhabitants of the great commercial
town of Liverpool. They, the inhabitants of Liverpool,
were of all others the most qualified to give an opinion on
the momentous queston at issue. Forty-seven thousand
of the male adult population of that place—ranking
amongst them—hundreds of names familiar, from their
gigantic mercantile transactions, to the whole civilised
world—protested against the proposed navigation mea-
sure. Their petitions have been trampled under foot.
Their prayers have been held in derision, and the opinions
of those who are the germ of England's greatness are
made the laughing-stock of political theorists, and theor-
ists who have signally failed in .the management of their
own. affairs. Such men—legislators, forsooth,!—tell us