, 1874-12-23

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parent defeat by the House, and the abb
senc6 ofany prosecutions of Opposition
Members, that he wished his hand to be
forced, so as to be able to say to the FEEDER
al Council, This is the will of.the peo-
ple." He does not give way like that
when he is in earnest.
General Schenck evidently does us the
honour to believe that we are a nation of
shopkeepers. At the Cutters Feast
at Shefield-a very dull meeting, at
which nothing was said worth re-
portlng-the American Minister told his
hearers that England and the United States
ought to love each other, for we are
your greatest market" we /" take a hum
bred and. FIVE millions sterling, one sixth
your aggregate trade with all the worlds
This he considered a practical proof of
affection which would come "home to the
hearts" of the men of Sheffield. Do deal
ers and customers love each other so much
in American They don't here. We
should say, on the whole, that the feel-
ing,in Europe. between those two classes
is not universally fraternal, that it is Just
DC NOtLl1lOu CLlC cCllCl tLIluh GuC UuY~
er a skin-Aint, and for the buyer to call
the seller an extortioner, as for the two
to embrace with ~effusion. General
Schenck seems himself to have doubted
his own sentiment, for, he Immediately
clinched it by announcing that his peo-
pile were becoming our rivals, and now
produce 9200, 000, 900 sterling of manu-
featured goods. If the General were to
include all the mines manufactured in
a year. for British consumption, the
total would Figure up" heavier than
that.
The Liberation Society have been made
prematurely hopeful by Mr.. Gladstone's at
tack on the Vatican DEGREES, and Mr.. Faw-
cett's exhortation to study the true princi.
Piles of Disendowment before Disestab-
lishment bursts upon them like q thunder
clap in a serene sky. At Bristol, on Wed.
nesday, the Society held q. meeting, at
which the Rev. J. AllansOn Picton deliver
ed an eloquent speech. He declared that
the discussion of the extreme claims of the
Roman Catholics tended to help the Liberia
ton SOciety's movement,-but why, and
how, he did not explain. AS far as we
can see, the fear of the Roman Catholic
Church is one powerful motive for the
support Of the Establishment. If all
churches be placed on q perfect level, the
Church which claims most authority, and
which has the most imposing history,
would probably gain much more relatively
on its competitors than it does now, when
one gifts rivals has the dignity of a nation
al position and repute. Mr.. Picton also
expressed his belief that Mr.. GEadstone's
motive for his recent pamphlet was much
deeper than appears, apd that it was really
intended as o sort of prelude to a new
deIiverance of his mind on the subject of
Church and State. Possibly, though we
cannot ourselves see it. But even SO, is
there anything at all in the pamphlet to
point to the dissolution Of all ties between
Church and State as the solution of the
problem 2 Mr.. Gladstone carefully re-
trains from condemning Prussia, and Prus-
sian statesmen think his pamphlet equiva-
lent to a tacit approval of their coufse,-
which is certainly not an anti-State Church
course. Seeing that the Roman Catholic
Church receives no sort of State support in
this, country, how. any reasonable man can
read into an attack on it's, imperiousness, an