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s consisted in the invention of a new

office that Lord Jonx Rt

88ELL might have some osten-

a salary. Und

phalanx of new appointments, by

have been enabled to fortify their entrenched camp of
office, while our gallant soldiers have been left to perish

a thorough reformation

RESIGNATION OF ARCHDEACON
WILBERFORCE.

A PERSONAL sacrifice, a sacrifice of income or of position
or both, is an earnest, to som

extent, of the

erity of the

party who makes it. And when that earnest of sincerity
is given, men are not disposed to be hypercritical as to
the form in which the act is done. Still, a public an-
nouncement embodying a statement of facts must be

ject to correction, in the event of those facts being in-
accurate ; and without calling in question the bond fides

Archdeacon,

viewing the state of the ease, we must demur to the
grounds on which he puts his resignation of the offices he
has hitherto held in the Church of England.
The causes assigned by him as having given rise to the
determination at which he has arrived, are two,—one, the
controversy in which he has become involved on the sub-
ject of the Holy Eucharist, the other, the difficulties he
feels on the subject of the Royal Supremacy. The con-
nexion in which he places these two topics with his resig_
imewha'

Royal Supremacy, he intimates, had suggested itself to his

was wai

subject

of which he g

ives the public to understand that he has
'- On the other

delayed his resignation for some time pas
hand he has now determined no longer t<

nation, because he has waited in vain, so long that hi

gives it up in despair at last, for the opportunity of de-

his doctrinal views

To our apprehension, and to that

Leon Wilb

Ity about the Royal

Supremacy, we had always imagined, was as old as the
protest published by him, conjointly with the late Dr.

Mill, and the prevert Manning, after the decision of th

Privy Council in the Gorham cas

Still more do we feel

pair which th

Archdeaco

:e of vindicating his doctrine of the

;t in the Ecclesiastical Courts ; for we labour-

gradual
genuity

the end to bi

last, tl

n, and learn

with oth

lar mann

leadings of an organised system, wit
patient labour, and steady perseveranc

tained is slowly worked Ili) fo, so that, a
ho kn

vey his thoughts in the tongue of his native country; and
he who was ignorant of almost everything which language

nary subjects as may qualify him to get his own living,
almost, if not quite, as well as those who possess the pre-

dons faculty of hearing. Nor is this all. that knowledge
which the most gifted of our race could only sigh for and
dream of,—which comes to mankind by Divine revelation

alone, must, more than anything else, be beyond the
attainment of the deaf. Yet this, too, is placed within
their reach. _ By the education given to them, and by the

nfluenc

,
which are brought to bear upon them during
is progress, they are humanised, civilised, christianised.

Little better t:

flan animals otherwise.

moral influence which is exercised in a well-ordered school
is, indeed, one of its greatest benefits, and can scarcely b(
overrated. It is direct and immediate ; it is felt at once
and its fruits appear at the very first sight. We, at lea
have no hesitation in making this remark, after seeing t
reverence of these children at church, and the

attention during the devotions in the' school-room

me, the,

conducted in their own silent language of
themselves repeating the Lord's Prayer, after their i
structor, in the same touching manner, and adding the
mute "Amen" upon their fingers, after each prayer
These circumstances, together with their order, obedience

to whit

vr
%.CADE.III

THE opening of the annual exhibition of worna g
is or
always a period fraught with lively emotion aill°ll,
circles having any pretension to intellectual culture

mental refinement. To t

.ue artist it is one pregnant iv,
ed°
--,inuarrassed by misgiving. He has exPencl,
mt!ess hours and anxious days in reducing toembolic
.m ciihiioh 'lava arlNTraTlafi arcla.MS and give°

3 his waking thoughts ; an

nowonn . he
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ception which his labours will meet with at the hall .ed
the public,—whose good opinion he has assiduouslY,
to deserve and to secure,—from whom he is to recet„ty
ward or suffer condemnation ; or, probably, more ta
cciesi
lizing still, to endure neglect. Nor is this the only
to which he must submit; in the first instance, his „rt of
lectual toil and its fruits have to receive the judgine' Its
, • Oi,

his compeers, and in accordance with their fiat Bo.ur
are presented to the public, not only with the impriti.4* it
of their estimate of its worth, as that is dispjaYed
position on the walls, but more important still, its ch for
of being noticed, or even at all seen, by that pub'
whose good opinion he has been content

-to wake by nights,
And live laborious days.
Different sections of the public look with differing etre
upon the treasures deposited within the saloons an is
exhibition. To one class, the opening of the exhibifieo
productive of unmixed delight : the ardent lovers 0,10.
, for its own sake; those who, like the duke and his f°'"
3 ers, in the forest of Ardennes,
Find tongues in trees, books in the running brow,

Sermons in stones, and good in everything ; f 11°
—to another class the exhibition opens up a series
less interesting attractions in the varied subjects ibp
sents for the interchange of mutual emotion ;—YBt 3104
will derive not less sincere pleasure from it as a 90 gi:

place of resort, in which to escape from the severe

A. these classes the opening ofthe Vannualexilibitioo