New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-01

Canada wisbs1 N Under-rand me Pablo senrnsn;
OF the country. they must nos seiroo ff II Ia 'n'
De~sl8peIs 4 e. n0lt 20 to It's ejg 'ated mn
TO tie Clergy q tie Church, ana - thPsc W.
-iucied Shskspefe, ana MiitOo, snd Hooksr-1ho
'itey you'd fEa hat Trey were beaft ara -'1i ~
EDgls IA this Struggle, and daily Otis ca up ~"
prsyeTs for her suc;sss. Tbs D.. a. Il 80. -
Not a, the ar for its sake, Is rex a1oe1 y uS.
vi.e than with pain and regret; but tie o.Sc' 10.
which il became unavoidable Is undouD'-ci' On IL
which evely American ,reenss. sal every oI-io .I
man cannot ,utsy mpshize We a. ~ - a.; !,
r,islce 20 t1is expression, howefer - reIu Fi
- IL current idea both in Cauads and IN knSleno
tbaf he s. tirneut Of America upon tai' as
80, N many otbers-s 10 BE- found II TIE nsWsPipers
There are. Of CO1Ise, some honorable eIceeuons
Ruf he secular press which arrosates TO Itself most
frwsdv the privilege Of Representing the real pub
lie oJIriOn OF America, does nothing OF the kind;
We 81 among bore who reverence ihe ap0theS On Oi
roz 1oDah, rox Dei Bat press |hich, sin all IL
iossifg Of regard for he pe0pe has nothing Of G0L
in 81 iis Thoughts, surely be no repres OIL
80 sacred principle.
Az one OF me Churches has recently added
new dogus to the Iubrics Of the fal'h In REGARD
TO the immaculate conception Of the virgin IL Is
biobly prooer that another of them should relieve
our soul, as to the true authority 10 all questions
Of opinion. The latter point is, perhaps, quite as
imoortsnt as the former, and DOW taas We have IL
determined, we cannot be too grateful TO the Dig
mites by whom We are dispensed from all thought
90 the question in future.
The ground upon which the Bishop rests the
superiority Of the Clergy as opponents Of opinion,
il, that they are educated men, Students Of
sbakspere, Milton and Hooker, aud therefore
peculiarly qualified TO reflect American senti-
"ment and American feeling 10 regard to the
"war." The logic Of the thing is only surpassed
by it's charity and that the Canadians might have
living evidence Of the truth Of his assertion, the
Bistop, as We are informed in another part Of The
Churchman, proclaimed bis attachment to Queen
Victoria, "whom he prayed for on sea aud land,
God bless her" What pity that the ancient
invocation Of the Church of England for the
Queen and all others in authority, shOuiihsv
been altered in our fofmuaries TO the : President
"of the United States" ard "tbe Congress as
"tembledi" Had ii not been for this uhforta-
nate revolutionary incident We might have co.
joyed public prayer at home for the good Queen
and her army, instead of being obliged TO go TO
Csnsda for the luxury.
There are some peryerse minds, no doubt, who
will dissent from the Bi,hops dietum, tina, the
two thousand editors Of the United States are an
uneducated class, but they will be glad to heat
at the same time, that the clergy of the Protest.
ant Episcopal denomination are such diligent and
accomplished students Of Shakspere and Milton
Considering that Shakspere, if he cherished any
religious connection at all, was, most likely a
Catholic, and that Milton wss rampant Puritan,
We cannot but congratulate Bishop Poste5's
clergy on the liberal range Of their ltudies. Nor
writings If the latter passage in whish he
gives his idea of Pfelacy, and which shows that
the admiration was not reciprocal Though
God" be says, for less than ten just persons
"would not spare SOdOm, Jet, if YOU can end,
latter due search bu. only one good thing in
"Prelacy, either to religion or civil government,
"to king or parliament, to priRce OF people, to
"law, liberty, or learniDg-spare her; let her
live; LET her spread among ye,' and SO on. Worse
than Sodom and Gomorrah; OBJ, what Milton
We should like TO ask 10 passing, when it was
that the clergy became such students of Shaks
perez 1t is not long since it was considered by
the congregations great scandal to quote him
from the pulpit and, as a body, We believe, the
clergy are not eminent patrons of the .heater.
Some Ofthem are said to visit it, at times, par
ticu arly when they are travelling abroad or when
the place is called by the unsinful name Of
Garden" but, as a whole we must acqnit
them Of any damaging familiarity with the living
drama. That wickedness lie reserved for the
editors, who, though mostly trained to one or the
other of the liberal professions, as they are
termed and some of whom have presumed TO
edit an edition Of the Bard, are poor, uneducated
fellows, incapable of spPrecstDg him without!
the assistance Of the actor. 1t is your closet.
student, who has never entered prcfane play
house, that is beet qualified for the pursuit of
dramatic literature, and your Coeridges, Lambs,
Hszittf, G6ethes, and S:hlegels, must give
way to the Bishops, Priests and Deacons.
We are afraid, too, that certain intractable and
rebellious natives will refuse TO discover in the
study Of Shakspere, Milton, and Hooker, any
peculiar and fitting preparation of mind for the
discussion of the conduct Of the Allies, ahd the
war in the Crimea. They will say-the super
fetal rogues that the jOurnalists-who pro-
fession it is to make themselves thoroughly ac-
quainted with all the facts to consult all the best
authorities, and to decide in the light of military
science and practical e1pe'ience-sre likely to
be better judges than the clergy whose days are
passed with Hooker, and who sleep with SAaks-
pere under their pillows. They will say, too
pre.umptuous rascals that these same journal
ists-by means of their exchange papers, their
intercourse with all classes of persons, their
comprehensive and varied cOrresPondence-will
be more likely to know what the general senti-
meuts of the community are, in respect TO the