New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-24

Protestant England, st whose head was MEN,
Der of the ultra Protestant family of Russell
were warm in their approval OF the same eIpe1l'
ton. This religious restoration by such pro-
cesses was indeed only redeemed from universal
ridieule by the extremely critical posture OF at
fairs which for the moment, in the interest OF
"order," did not allow the public men of Europe
to indulge in the sense OF the ludicrOus.
But the submission of the classes Of leading
social influence to ecclesiastical control. which
was hollow and bypocritcal at the beginning Of
this century after the Revolution Of l792, has
been far more precarious and superficial since
1913, and is only acknowledged BY those classes
so far as it suits their immediate political in
teIest. The humilatipg position OF utter de-
pendence which the ecclesiastical power sus-
tsins toward the temporal arm Of Government
hiss been made fully manifest since Isis. The
Pope, indebted to the French Government for his
present tenure of the chair Of 81. Peter; the
French clergy for the sake Of their salaries, bless
ing trees Of liberty and proclaiming tho sover-
eighty Of the people, and afterw,rd canonizing
the present Emperor Of France As the Chosen
their old proper doctrines of legitimacy and the
divine right of Kings being in each case laid aside
with the downfall Of the corresponding political
regime: the Anglican clergy, whose eI ctF 40
he sd is temporal Queen, dependent for promo
ton ON the recommendation of the Prime Minister,
now generally Liberal, and looking for fsyors
and support against popular eucroa chment to Par
Lament, in which the Liberal element is ever on
the increase, constitute an ensemble from which
1t would be absurd to expect acts of pure eccle-
siastcal independence, except in the morally i'm
posi- bic case of an overwhelming popular sup
port to fal back upon.
Such was the position of affairs in 1888, when
the governing classes Of England and France
deemed it necessary and polite to espouse the
cause Of the Ottoman Porte against the Christian
Gar and that policywas not only sanctioned, but
in measure forced upon them by the popular
sentiment oftbe two nations. Then the Govern
ments of France and England entered upon q pol
icy totally inconsistent with religious consdera-
tiops and threw of unhesitatingly their feigned
eccle siastcsl alliance. Then at length the up
per. class current Of revolt (Which had been
so long dssembled) formed a juncture with the
broad popular current, and thu two together like
the Missouri and the Mississippi, rolled onward a
tide of opinion which the ecclesiastical power
saw it would be madness to encounter. Beneath
this two fold assault the pure ecclesiastical point
Of view has not dared to manifest itself; while on
the contrary, the State clergy of England, on the
appointed DAY of the national fast and humiliation,
had to pray and preach patriotic sermons on be-
half Of the success Of the Crescent aud its allies.
These ccnsi ieratiOns seem to afford rational
explanation of two apparent anomalies with
which We started, namely, the defense of the
Crescent by allied Catholic aud Protestant Eu-
rope against the assaults Of the Cross, as repre-
scented by Christian Russia, and the fact that no
voice of any influence has been lifted up to de-
nounce TO Christendom the novel position 10 which
it is placed.
This coalition between the politicians of West
ern Europe and the popular opinion in behalf of
purely secular policy is likely to generate ute
ror consequences and to subject eccles asst ,al in
nuence TO further shocks from its Old accOmpices,
the politicians Ii is doubtless owing to tho
ripeness Of the public miod in this respect, that
Lord Palmerston ventured to refuse the request
of the Edinburgh Presbytery for day Of public
fest and humiliation to avert the divine scourge
Of cholera, the Home Secretary audaciOusly aver
ring that prayers would be of no consequence un-
less they cleaned their streets and habitations,
and that cholera was generated by natural causes,
such as deleterious gases from decOmposed veg
etable matter The vain and unscrupulous
pslmerston knew that bufeting the clergy would
be cheap and easy way of acquiring popularity;
otherwise he would not have yentured on the ex-
pertinent.
4 further evidence of the extreme incompe
tence of ecclesiasticel policy to answer the ex-
igencies of the European situation is found in the
consideration that the ecclesiastical view, if .
logically carried out would condemn Catholic
Europe to entire indifference in the present Eu-
Iopesn crisis; for though it might be permissible
for Anglican orthodoxy to side with the Greek
Cross against the Turkish Crescent, Catholic
Europe could not unite with go mpious denier
of the authority of the successor Of st. Peter,
and so unballowed pretender to the highest
spiritual functions as the Car Of Russia, aud
would apparently have no other opinion to utter
than that both the bellgerent parties were in
spired by Satan
To complete the disparagement which ecclesi
astica authority has undergone in the present En-
ropean crisis ii is patent to the world that while
the advanced communities of Western Europe are
in forward stage Of ecclesiastical decay, in bar.
baIian Russia, 1.-THE other hand the State Church
retains powerful and uniimnshed visOr. While
Western Europe, discardiDg religious bases, has