Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-27
THE MIDDLE IN ENGLISH
CHURCH POLITICS.
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cursed of leaning Towards Itosne.
Prom the New York World, May o.
A very curious feature OF The political
situation in England at this moment is the
fact that each Of the two parties accuses the
other With being in league with Rome.
Mr.. Disraeli is attacked because he pro-
poses 10 endow another Roman Catholic
college in ireland; and 10 divide the pro-
perry Of the Established Church among all
the churches in that kingdom in proper
ton 10 their numerical strength. Mr..
Gladstone Is now abused on the snpposi-
ton that the opposition which he offered
TO the motion in the House, discIaiming
any intention of giving the property of the
Established Church to the support OF other
religions, signifies bis intention Of trans
ferring that property TO the Catholics.
There can no longer he any doubt says
q tory paper, shat it is Mr.. Giadstone's
Intention, ifsuccessfnl, 10 hand over the
greatest part Of the church revenues for
the maintenance and propagation Of Roman
Catholicism and Papai supremacy in the
sister island" If these stories are to be
credited, the agents of the Propaganda in
England have done their work well. They
have succeeded in playing Iago to Disra-
ellis Cassie and Gladstone's Roderigo,
and they can say, "Whether he kill Cassie,
or Cassie him, or each do kill the other,
every way makes our gain" The. fear Of
the Pope, which Englishmen have long
been taught TO believe is the beginning Of
wisdom, is still strong in the breasts of the
people, and that it can be played upon
with great effect is shown BY the mass
meeting called by the church prelates in
London on the 9th ofMay, for the purpose
of supporting the United Church Of Eng
land and Ireland, and maintaining the
union between church and State" The
meeting was 'the largest and most inAuen-
tial gathering that has been held on this
subject" but for all that it was very
queer affair. The Archbishop of Canter-
bury, Primate Of all England, was in the
chair, and on the platform we're three
other Archbishops, twenty-one Bishops,
thirteen Deans, thirteen Archdeacons, and
no end of Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Wis
counts. members Of Parliament, and other
dignitaries, while the hall and galleries
were filed with miscellaneous clergy
and ladies. The excitement was very great,
insomuch that these men Of peace went
on" very much as less sanctiGed mortals do
in ordinary assemblages. There was Cup
roar, and "hissing," cries Of "put him out,P
"sit down, you old coyey !" and ION
Stanley, on p ard the reports show that
bishops are men Of like passions with our
selves. When the Bishop of Oxford was
interrupted, as he frequently was, by Kisses,
he denounced his foes as "sibilant geese
who find their natural utterance,n and de-
fed them by declaring that they had mis-
taken their man" and that he was not to
be put down. He and the other Episcopal
orators Exposed Mr.. Gladstone's scheme
in all its naked deformity," and showed
how it involved, the complete separation
of Church and State, and would lead to an
archy and Papal supremacy. The Lord
Mayor Of London moved the first resolu-
ton, aud said that in doing so he repre-
sented, in his civic capacity, a majority of
the citizens of London. Some of the cler-
ioal speakers, however, in their zeal went
30 very far that they got into dangerous
ground. The Bishop of London aud the
Archbishop of York, for example, both
demonstrated that the Church could not be
disestablished, by any possibility, since il
was founded upon rock and the gates
of he'll could not prevail against it which
proposition, when once accepted, is apt to
produce a feeling OF security that mas per
haps be imprudent.