New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-16

I35 wears. has now resumed lie ancient habits Of
deliberstion, and asserted, though a. YET bat tim
idly. its night of selfgovernment. The Hmss,
and other mere political journals are alarmed at
this proceeding but they will soon perceive that
il is one of the unavoidable necessities OF theag
Political and social theories arc not enough 70
meet the exigencies OF the times when other
grounds are taken BY the enemies OF liberty and
progress. The Roman Catholics are preparing
for religious onslaught, and Protestant coun.
tries will not be able 10 repel them with poll
ties and commerce only. In Italy, the priests
and congregations are offering up public prayers
more ostentatiously than ever for the conversion
of England, and this is only one of the modes to
be attempted for her conversion. The French
army will most assuredly be required to back
up these prayers with practical demonstrations
The recent disbanding of $1,000 soldiers. ~ .
guarantee Of peace To facilitate the recognition
of the Empire, is merely a ruse de gHerre, 20 put
the Protestant powers off their guard. Tho
Jesuits will assuredly call upon Napoleon to
"ayenge the battle Of Waterloo and "dissi.
pate the vanity OF false doctrines and the Polit-
ical supremacy of Professionalism. The Roman
Catholic prayer. offered up in the churches Of
Milan. for the conversion Of England, contains
the following sentence: Danish Ignorance from
that country. dissipate the vanity ct false doc
trines. and prepare the minds of all for the OBJ
servance OF the real faith. in order that they
may reenter the bosom of our mother the Holy
Church" Socialism and Republicanlsm will
now be merged in this new revolutionary conflict
betweenl liberty and orthodoxy in religion. The
revival of the Conyocation therefore, in the
Church OF England. is of more Importance than
political writer's are aware Of lt ha$become,
in fact positive necessity. lnopposlngthe re-
yival, The Times observes that the partizans OF
Convocatiou have succeed sdroitly enough in
shaking the authority which has heretofore limi-
ted their proceedings, and in providing means for
the permanent action of Standing Committee,
even when the two Houses are prorogued. They
have got In the end, and something more than tho
end of the wedge, and A. they have carefully
abstaned from all that could throw discredt on
theirproceedings at this stage, they have consid'
cradle reasons TO congratulate themselves on
the result. IL is only from the omission Of all
recognition of the rights of the State, and from
some expressions that dropped from the Bishop
of Exeter, on what he calls the temporal bon
dage of the Church. that the significance and
Interior purport of these apparently unohensve
discussions and transactions can BE- Inferred"
The Times seems utterly unconscious OF tho
coming change in matters Of religious contro-
versy, and very naively exclaims, in the very
same breath: "But what are we TO think OF
Government and Home Secretary who alto
gether ignore the most important events that
have occurred for many a long year In the
Church of England and who, while Syn0dical
Assembly of the Church is sitting and debating
for the first time since III, tell the House a
Commons that there 10 no intention OF depart
ing from precedent and established practice.
We presume that the course that they mean TO
adopt is TO withhold for the present the license
of making new canons, but to leave C0nvocatiOn
in the free enjoyment of as much oratorical ex-
ercitations as the Archbishop is inclined to listen
to-" The Times afiirms, however, that Tho
Church must either be governed mainly by the
same power which rules the State, or il win
raise itself to position independent o. and
sometimes adverse TO the State-an Empire
within an Empire, Of the most formidable kind.
If this course be perseveredin, the Church and
State are entering upon state OF things, Of
which neither one power nor the other can f0ro-
see the end" This is true enough, but The
Times should look at the doings Of othersStates
and Churches, rs well rs those of the Church
and State of England, and then it would per-
ceiye that something is brewing in them all,
which cannot be avoided by merely closing the
eyes, or looking solely i'm one direction. Social
ism and Republicanism as they broke forth in
ls4s, may seem To be extinct, but the spirit OF
revolution is as actively vt work us ever, in Eu-
rope. and the NATIONS seem to be threatened
with CONFUSION from another source ~ violent
in its extremes Of opposition, as Socialism and
DespOtism in politics; for il is always the same
question of liberty and progress against domi-
nation and authority, in II one-sided arbitrary
form Rome and Carthage are preparing for
deadly war, and one Of them must fall, or both
must be considerably changed. I'D.