that authority has been denied, no matter in what clime or by what people, the result has been immediate and uniform. Besides the "revival of long extinct heresies," as even the reprobates of the Anglican Reformation deplored, "and the multiplication of new ones; "besides the utter extinction of Christian faith in vast multitudes, as in England and the United States; the impious rejection of the Pontifical authority -i.e., of God's own scheme for the perpetuation of truth and unity has led to that chaos of opinions and scandal of warring sects which are the special infamy of our own age and country. The world has never seen anything which could even be compared with the actual condition of the so-called Church of England. But for the intervention of the civil power, and the consciousness that a sullen mutual forbearance is the essential condition of prolonged existence, it would not hold together, as its old members proclaim, for another week. And the contrast in respect of liberty is not less patent than in respect of truth and unity. There is no liberty out of the Catholic Church, because the condition of liberty is obedience to the only authority which has the power to secure it, and that authority exists nowhere else. Error, as St. Thomas says, is not liberty but bondage. And this consideration applies equally to heretics and unbelievers. Both refuse to obey, and both become slaves. It is not reason which produces either, but revolt. Hence their common rage against the Church, which, they both siy. while their own limbs are bound in fetters, is the enemy of liberty! She is, in fact, its enemy, in the same sense as God; that is, not at all. Liberty is His highest gift, and hers also. He gives it through her. Liberty attains its perfection in heaven, but so does obedience. And therefore only they who obey in this world have the smallest hope of being free in the other. We are here that we may learn to obey, and the malediction of heretics and unbelievers is that they cannot obey if they would. They recognize no authority which has a right to command them. No Anglican, for example, ever made an act of obedience in his life, except to a human teacher of his own selection, that is, to himself. By their own avowal, therefore, they are out of the scheme of God's moral probation, and this life is to them no sort of preparation for the next. If they can fancy a heaven where everybody is at liberty to believe and to do whatever he pleases, which is their notion of liberty, they may consider their places secured in such a paradise. No doubt an elysium of that kiud exists; but in Holy Scripture it is called, not heaven, but hell. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.-The Great Need.-The blood is the life, and on its purity depends our health, if not our existence. These Pills thoroughly cleanse this vital fluid from all contaminations, and by that power strengthen and invigorate the whole system, healthily stimulate sluggish organs, repress overexcited action, and establish order of circulation and secretion throughout every part of the ody. The balsamic nature of Holloway's Pills commends them to the favour of debilitated and nervous constitutions which they soon resuscitate. They dislodge all obs ructions, both in the bowels and elsewhere, and are, on that account, much sought after for promoting regularity of action in young females and delicate persons who are naturally weak, or who from some cause have become so. Cushions, -Seat Mattings-Carpets-Hangings, &c. THOS. BROWN and SON, Church Furniture WHITSUNTIDE, A. D. 1876. THOMAS PRATT and SONS have now ready their usual large Stock of CINCTURES, GIRDLES, AND WAIST-BELTS. This shape of Surplice was entirely the invention of Messrs. PRATT, and their use has now become universal. Although imitated and advertised by nearly all the clerical firms in England, none fit equal to those supplied by the Original Inventors. In Black Leather Case, sent on receipt of Post Office Order for 21s., payable at Charing Cross. Extra length, 25s. Upwards of Five Thousand of these Surplices are now in use. Colonial Shipping Agents. Catalogues, Estimates, and Designs sent by Post. ALBS FOR ACOLYTES AND THURIFERS, ROCHETS, AND EVERY KIND OF LINEN VESTMENT FOR USE 22 and 23, TAVISTOCK-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN; and LAMBETH HOUSE. We are daily sending to all parts of the Kingdom COSTUMES made from MERINOS, REPS, BLACK SILKS, warranted to wear, 24 inches wide, 3s. 6d. and 4s. 6d. the yard. THE Contains every Article requisite for Superior Mourning. On receipt of letter or telegram, patterns will be sent free. HARVEY AND CO., WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. W. BARRINGER, (Established 50 Years,) CHEESEMONGER AND ITALIAN PROVISION MERCHANT, 15, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 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FORTNIGHTLY NOTES: German Erastianism and PersecutionLegitimacy and Order-Report on VivisectionAnti-Christian Education-The Burials' Bill-The Folkestone Case-Canon Carter's Letter-Archbishop Tait Burking Convocation-The Vulgar Gilt Statue of Prince Albert-Radical Ritualists-The Discipline of Christ and the Discipline of Devils.-Church News, Art, Oxford Notes; with Letters to the Editor from Mr. De Lisle, Mr. Charles Walker, &c., &c. CONTENTS OF No. II. LEADING ARTICLES: Religion in Germany and its Warnings-Other Fallacies of Lord Penzance-What is Conservatism? No. II. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS: Some Modern Difficulties, by Mr. Gould-The Discipline of Christ and the Discipline of Devils-Animal Torture, by Mr. G. R. Jesse-Scraps from my Scrap Book-Dr. Pusey's Sermon at Oxford-Funeral Discourses on Lady Augusta Stanley-Mission Life in East London-Dean Burgon's and Calon Baynes's Sermons-Oxenham's New Books, &c. FORTNIGHTLY NOTES: Religious Persecution-Don Carlos of Spain-Observance of Lent-Queen or Empress?- Non-Christian Education- Water-drinking by Act of Parliament-Threepenny-Bit LaymenThe Hon. C. L. Wood's Apologia-The Vagaries of Ritualism Mr. Tooth's Policy. CORRESPONDENCE: Letters from Messrs. Huff, Hobbs, Mossman, Preston, and "Presbyter Anglicanus." Art, Letter from Rome, Church News, &c. CONTENTS OF No. III. LEADING ARTICLES: Is Disestablishment likely to be a Cure for Present Evils? Judex Judicatus -What is Conservatism? No. III. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS: Seccombe's Science, Theism, and Revelation-The Life and Times of Prince Charles Stuart-The Church in Baldwin's Gardens-The Annals of EnglandMagrath on University Reform-Nevins's Christianity and Astronomy-Can Churchmen Recognize the New Judge? FORTNIGHTLY NOTES: The Queen an Empress-Inspection of Convents-Dr. Mylne, Bishop of Bombay-The University of S. America-School Board Elections-Magna Charta and Church Freedom -City Swindlers- Bishop Perry's Fears - Mr. Grueber's Declaration-Filth of the Divorce CourtNew Bishoprick for Cornwall-Observance of LentThe Gauntlett fund. LETTERS: Mr. Huff on LawMr. Shipley's "Three Hours' Service at Santa Maria Novella, Florence." Church News, &c. CONTENTS OF No. IV. LEADING ARTICLES: Religion at Oxford-Constructive Policy-What is Conservatism? No. IV. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS: Memorials of the late Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A., sometime Vicar of Morwenstow. Edited by the Rev. F. G. Lee-The Dead in Christ: a Word of Consolation for Mourners -The Anthem Book: An Antiphonal, adopted to the Book of Common Prayer-Studies at the Foot of the Cross-Seven Last Words from the Cross. POETRY: The Curse of the Abbeys, by the late Rev. Dr. J. M. Neale. FORTNIGHTLY NOTES · Empress of India-The Barbad an Difficulty-Infidel Education-" Scientific' Barbarities-Dr. Arnold and his Opinions-Bishop Lord Arthur Hervey's Charge -Bishop Wordsworth and the anti-ErastiansPastoral the Bishop of of Winchester-Lord Penzance and his Salary-Mr. Disraeli's Appointments-Good Friday Services at St. Peter's, London Docks-Death of Lord Lyttelton-Demoralization of the Stage, &c. LETTERS: Mr. Earle on the Spiritual Body-The English Church Union-The New Lambeth Court-The Free and Open Church System. Mr. C. S. Grueber's "Declaration." The High Church Press and "Presbyter Anglicanus." CONTENTS OF No. V. LEADING ARTICLES: The Report of the Royal Commission on Vivisection-A Contentious Conference-What is Conservatism? No. V.-Archbishop Tait at Keble College-Tennyson's "Queen Mary at the Lyceum. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS: Report of the Proceedings at the Reunion Conference at Bonn, translated from the German, with a Preface by H. P. Liddon, D.D.-" Do They Well to be Angry?" by Queen Presbyter Anglicanus Mary, by W. J. Blew. FORTNIGHTLY NOTES: The Royal Titles Bill-Rev. Greville J. Chester's Paper on Cruelty practised in Egypt-The Church Synod of the Irish Church-Prebendary Irons at the London School Board-How to treat She- and He-School Board Inquisitors-Middlesex Conservative AssociationThe Opening of Keble College Chapel-Dr. Pusey's Sermon at Opening of Keble College-The May Meetings: Dr. Ellicott, Dr. James, and The Comic Gospel-Dr. Pusey's Theory as Oxford Notes (from our Own Correspondent). LETTERS: "Presbyter Anglicanus" and the E.C.U.The Two Jurisdictions-Lee's Memorials of Hawker. -Want of Fuel.-A Letter to the Bishop of Rochester from Archdeacon Denison. Church News, &c. The Prospects of Christianity in the East-What is Conservatism? No. VI.-Nebuchadnezzar and Henry VIII. Letter to A. P. De Lisle, Esq., on the Formation of an Uniat Church. No. I. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS: Delivery and Development of Christian Doctrine-Terra Incognita: or the Convents of the United Kingdom-Confidence in the Mercy of God-How to Communicate Properly-Stories from the Old Testament-Bidding to Intercession-Law and Vestments. ANTI-ERASTIAN DOCUMENTS: No. 1. Declaration touching the Royal Supremacy in Matters Ecclesiastica!-No 2. Resolutions Regarding the Gorham Case-No. 3. Fourteen Objections to the Constitution, Powers and Mode of Procedure of the Existing Court of Final Appeal. INDICATIONS OF CURRENT OPINION: The High Church Party "Drifting Tory Patronage. FORTNIGHTLY NOTES: Mahometanism-Return of the Prince of Wales-Reception of the King of Hanover-The Convocation of Canterbury and the Burials' BillLords Selborne and Coleridge on the Burials' BillLord Sandown and the Education of the Poor-Counsels' Fees The Divorce Court and Morality-Agitation against Drunkenuess-Legal Reform-The Working Men's Petition" to Convocation-The New Parliamentary Irish Church "-The Necropolis CompanyVivisection-Church House for S.P.C.K and S.P.G.The Appointment to the Bishopric of MelbourneRitualistic Wesleyans. THE CATHOLIC REVIVAL AT HOME. Ecclesiastical Art, &c.-Funeral Hymn, &c. LETTERS: An Important Admission-Parliament the Dernier Resort in Things Temporal: Convocation in Things Spiritual-The Horrors of Vivisection-St. Saviour's Hospital- Do they Well to be Angry"-Protestantism, Rationalism and Monasticism in the Church of England - Invocation of Saints. 64 CONTENTS OF NO. VII. LEADING ARTICLES: Eastern Complications-Lord Carnarvon's Vivisection Bill-What is Conservatism? No. VII. Letter from Charles Walker, Esq., to A. P. De Lisle, Esq., on the Formation of au Uniat Church. No. II. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. Delivery and Development of Christian Doctrine-The Great Commentary of Cornelius A Lapide-The Person and the Work of the Holy Ghost-The Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist: an "Oration" by Father 1gnatiusCardinal Manning and History-So Sinks the Day Star. The Bishop of London and the Vicar of St. Vedast's, City. INDICATIONS OF CURRENT OPINION: The Education Policy of the Tories. FORTNIGHTLY NOTES: The ex-Sultan-Corporate Reunion-The Education Act-DisestablishmentArrogance of the Bishop of Bombay-New Bishoprics -The Working Men of St. Alban's, Holborn-London Gregorian Choral Association-The Church Quarterly Review-Canon Baynes and "Ritualism "-Ld. Shaftesbury and His Letter to the Governors of St. George's Hospital-The Committee of Dissenting Deputies -Foreign Titles-Twycross v. Grant-Horse-racingVulgarity of the Liberal Papers-Depression of Trade. CORRESPONDENCE: Vivisection (three letters)An Uniat Church. OXFORD NOTES: The Catholic Revival at Home, &c., &c. CONTENTS OF NO VIII. LEADING ARTICLES: The Endowment of Research-Can the Establishment be Defended?-The University Bill. Letter from Charles Walker, Esq., to A. P. De Lisle, Esq., on the Formation of an Uniat Church. No. III. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS: A History of the Catholic Councils from the Original DocumentsDisestablishment; or, a Defence of the Principle of a National Church. (First Notice).-The Church Association and the Rector of Broadwater-The Principles of the Reformation-Sanctuary Meditations for Priests and Frequent Communicants-Wafted_Away -Brief Memorials FORTof Lord Lyttelton. NIGHTLY NOTES: The Mahometan InfidelsThe Holy Father, Pius IX.-"Third Synod" of "Old Catholics"-Necessity for a Minister of Public Works in England-New Bishopricks-The "Liberals "Annual Meeting of the English Church UnionRitualistic Talkers-Mr. G. R. Jesse and his Crusade against Vivisection-The P.W.R. Act. CORRESPONDENCE: Signs of the Times-The Society of Anglo-Israel and the Blessed Virgin Mary-The A.P.U.C.-The Bishop of Bombay-Evidence for the Eastward Position-To Churchmen. The Catholic Revival at Home. Fragmenta Varia. Oxford Notes. Failure of the P.W.R. Act. Dean Stanley's Insult to the Colonial Bishops. CONTENTS OF No. IX. LEADING ARTICLES : NOTES: War in the East-Garibaldi-"Old Catho- vocation. CONTENTS OF NO. VI. LEADING ARTICLES: Lord Granville's Resolution on the Burials Question CONTENTS OF No. X. LEADING ARTICLES: The Need of More Parsons-Casting Out the Children of the Poor-Repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act. Eight Reasons for Not Agreeing with the Doctors Memorial to, and Arguments before, the Home Secretary in Favour of Vivisection. Mr. De Lisle on Corporate Reunion-Reply to Mr. Charles Walker. REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS: St. Thomas of Canterbury: A Dramatic Poem: By Aubrey de Vere.-Dean Goulburn's "The Child Samuel "-Mr. Willis's Sermons Preached in St. Agatha's Chapel, Finsbury. FORTNIGHTLY NOTES: On the War-Depression of Trade-Dissenting "Ritualists"-The Bishop of Oxford and Rev. Dr. WillisSecession of the Son of Hon. Mr. Nelson-The Vicar of Rugeley-The Radical Ritualist's Game-Eccentric Ritualistic Parsons-The Scottish Guardian and its Admirers. THE CATHOLIC REVIVAL AT HOME: The Lay Protest against the Public Worship Regulation Act-Crosses on the Altar-Fragmenta Varia, &c. LETTERS: Barbarity, Demonism and Lying of the Vivisectors-Neo-Ritualistic Rant-Where are Wo Mr. Bruce Stuart and the Bishop of Brechin-Corpu ? Christi Day at Arundel-To the London Congregations of the Rev. 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[PRICE THREEPENCE. of saintly Prelates, should have come at last to be covered with dishonour. his " ETWEEN three and four weeks have now elapsed since As we pass in review the period of Dr. T ait's occupancy of a contemporary first gave to the world the letter, the Primatial See of England; when we remember, in order, which we now reprint in another column, addressed open alliance with the deposed heretic of Natal, his part by Dr. Tristram, Chancellor of the Diocese of London, to in the notorious sacrilege committed on the Blessed Sacrament in Westminster Abbey, his determined plotting against it appears, the Chancellors and Registrars of the various diothe Catholic Faith as embodied in the Creeds, his only too ceses, on the subject of the Ecclesiastical Offices and Fees Bill. The revelation thus made was so extraordinary, and successful attack on the Church's liberties by the Public moreover involved so serious an imputation on the good faith Worship Bill, his share in the concoction of so-called "law and honesty of no less a person than His Grace the Arch- by the Privy Council, his sanction of a deliberate falsification bishop of Canterbury, as to warrant a daily expectation that of the officially published and authorized text of its formal at least some effort would be made to offer such a public judgments, and, finally, the figure that he has just cut in this explanation as would set the matter in a less unsatisfactory which to wonder at the most, the patience of the Church his latest-we wish it were his last-job, we hardly know light. The letter itself has been copied into other newspapers, and severe strictures have been made upon it by which tolerates his rule, or the unequalled effrontery which journals which represent various shades of opinion. And yet, prevents him from at once retiring from a position which was up to the time when we write, no such attempt at explana-never-excepting only in the case of Thomas Cranmer-so tion, or even at palliation, has, so far as we know, been made. unworthily filled as it is by himself. For the long rigmarole addressed to the Times by Dr. Tristram deals only with some of the technical issues raised by the Bill, and leaves wholly untouched the conduct of the Archbishop. We are therefore perfectly justified in assuming that no explanation has been offered, simply because none was possible; and accordingly we shall not shrink from performing the unwelcome task, which our duty as public journalists imposes upon us, of characterizing the whole proceeding as it deserves. As the Saturday Review has pointed out, Archbishop Tait introduced this Bill of sixty-two clauses with the avowed object of lightening the burdens now weighing so heavily on the Clergy; and it provided for the abolition of a number of ecclesiastical offices which His Grace asserted were useless. The Chancellor of London now declares that "one chief object of the Bill was to provide" the ex-Divorce Judge, who sits in the New Court established by the Public Worship Act, with a salary. Dr. Tristram, be it observed, does not speak of this as the chief object, but as one chief object, of the Bill. But, inasmuch as he proceeds to show that, if this one chief object be attained, the Bill itself will be dropped next year, it is quite clear that Dr. Tristram does in effect affirm that the provision of Lord Penzance's salary was the chief object of the Bill. For the Bill would assuredly not be abandoned by its promoters if anything less than its chief object were realised. Therefore the position is this :-that the Chancellor of London virtually accuses the Archbishop of Canterbury of promoting a Bill under false pretences. If this serious charge were untrue, ample time and opportunity for refuting it have been, as we have pointed out, afforded; and yet no such refutation has been attempted. If even this were all, judgment would go by default against the defendant. But it is not all. For a glance at the letter must satisfy anybody that the proposals embodied in it were made with His Grace's own knowledge and connivance. Why! before this precious circular was issued, Mr. John Hassard, the Principal Registrar of the Archbishop's own Province, had offered to start the Penzance Relief Fund with a contribution to be made on condition of His Grace's sanction. The Most Reverend the Primate of All England stands, then, clearly convicted of having solemnly stood up in his place in the House of Peers to promote what he well knew was a barefaced imposture, and one of the most disreputable jobs ever attempted. This is indeed strong language; but it is demanded by the exigenIcies of the case. We write it with feelings of the most intense shame and unmitigated sorrow, to think that the Church of England should be compelled, even for another day, to put up with such a scandal as this, and that the venerable Chair of St. Augustine-once filled by a long line. C LOSS AND GAIN. RITICS and complainants are numerous, especially against those defending great principles which, through evil report and good report, it has always been our lot to champion. The literary tricksters-who deal exclusively in expediency, and whose mad inconsistency is becoming apparent to the least thoughtful of their thoughtless followers--are wholly silent as to first principles; dealing with the more frivolous subjects of the hour so as to gain a temporary dialectical triumph, rather than the permanent advancement of that which is good and true and old. But we go our own way, deliver our own preachment, write our own criticisms of men and things; and, as we believe, aid in doing a good and necessary work. Let us take one example. For months after the passing of the P.W.R. Act, two of our penny contemporaries wrote of Lord Penzance as "the Judge of the Arches' Court," "Dr. Phillimore's Erastian successor,' "the noble Lord who presides over the altered Court of Arches," "the Archbishop's new Official Principal"-terms which nobody for one moment could have used, who truly realized what the new Act had effected, viz., the abolition of the Arches' Court. The truth is, the cheap literary guides of the Ritualists, being painfully devoid of principle, only fight a harum-scarum battle, in which their friends and allies are always losers; and fail to rally their supporters when beaten, or to plan a wise campaign for a future day. A grave Loss has been sustained, therefore, in this particular. The policy of the cheap irreligious newspapers reflects to some extent the policy of too many members of the National Church—a fact which may well call for deep searchings of heart. For it is no gain to have sacrificed old truths, or cast away well-tried principles. The steady light of a solid wax candle is better to read by than the explosive and brilliant sparks of an elaborate firework. Some people are everlastingly letting off fireworks to light up their own magnificent proceedings. When Losses and Gains are carefully balanced, it will, we fear, be found that the former predominate. The Tractarian movement began about the year 1829, and was an honest attempt to restore what was so obviously lacking in the old Church of England. That movement was eminently Conservative, and was for a quarter of a century worked on the old Conservative lines. So long as this was the case, certain and obvious Gain was the result. When destructive principles were insidiously introduced; when personal politics and all the undignified and selfish squabbles about Mr. Gladstone came into consideration, Loss was constantly scored. The National Church has been unable so to influence the nation as to have hindered deterioration and Loss-more particularly as regards politics and legislation. Now that nearly half a century has passed since the Oxford movement began, we may well begin to see where we stand, what we have done, and for what (in the future) we may look. And, thank God and the Saints! it is possible to rejoice over many Gains. If the nation, in its corporate capacity, has cast off much of its Christianity, (as in so many respects is unhappily the case,) a considerable section of the people of England of all classes has, notwithstanding this, made solid approaches to the one Catholic Revelation. An influential and respectable minority has practically returned to the Faith of our forefathers; while the nation has obviously receded from it. The Reformation tolerated Calvinism; for Calvinism was blasphemously rampant under Queen Elizabeth's decline and decay. Calvinism ran its impious career, and wrought out numerous evils-developing first into Fatalism, and then finally into Atheism; while the other remarkable 'Isms with which England has been cursed, by and through the Reformation, have, in their sweet combination, produced that rejection of all Revelation which, alas! is so current now amongst more persons than evereven than in the days of Hobbes and his allies-and which goes by the absurd name of "spiritual culture." There is one point too often forgotten, however, and it is this that negative systems seldom exercise any great or extended influence over a nation, or live very long. People feel no interest in them: so they die and come to an end. This is a Gain. On the other hand, the changes and improvements throughout England, resulting from nearly half a century's labour in a Catholic direction, have been more than remarkable. As regards church restoration and building, we venture to assert that at no time, and in no part of the Christian Family, has such a solid and magnificent work been effected as in England. It is a work of which we may all be proud. There are some Dioceses in which churches, services, schools and parishes are in the best of order-models for imitation and examples of the influence of Divine Grace. The artificiality of developments later than those of the Tractarian movement is evident enough; but the hundreds of thousands of truly Catholic books of devotion, manuals of prayer, hymnals, children's catechisms, and such like publications, which have been printed and circulated, have done their work, and will continue to do their work for some time to come. Furthermore, as regards decent, or even a stately and solemn performance of Divine Service, we are much in favour of order, regularity and dignity. We were not opposed even to the principles of the Directorium Anglicanum,-the Editors of which, aiming at a high standard of reverence and order, got well laughed at and powerfully abused for their pains. On the contrary, our sympathies were with that which was old and true. Here, then, whatever our Losses, certainly our Gains have been great. There is nothing which is more marked than the external improvement in the services of the National Church which has taken place, more or less everywhere. And this may be reasonably regarded as an outward sign of an inward grace. There are, we know well enough, shadows (sometimes dark indeed) which constantly alternate with sunshine. But, on the whole, Gains predominate over Losses while, amid all the perplexities that trouble us, and the assaults which have to be met, there is a progress amongst a large minority, and a sure Catholic influence which cannot be ignored. T : HOME RULE. HE Home-Rule Convention just held in Dublin has, we learn from a private source, been a complete success. Whatever difference of opinion there may be as to the benefits likely to accrue from Home Rule, there are two facts about it which seem to us to be beyond dispute. The first is, that the Act of Union was originally passed by injustice and fraud, though the corruption of the Irish Parliament of that day must have been very great indeed, or else English bribes would not have effected what they did. Secondly, we are quite satisfied that the Home Rule agitation, so far from diminishing, is daily on the increase. Now, it is all very well to deny the existence of Irish grievances. That, no doubt, is a short and easy, but not very satisfactory, method of disposing of the whole question. Men in these days seem equal to denying anything-even Bulgarian Atrocities. But when a wise man sees smoke, he will always suspect the presence of fire. At all events, the existence of great and intolerable grievances is continually insisted upon by the Irish themselves; and, if these assertions be so entirely false as they are said to be, then surely, in the interests of truth and of order, it would have been a prudent and politic course to enquire into the matter, if only for the sake of closing the mouths of the agitators. And yet such an enquiry as this, to be conducted by a Royal Commission, has always been steadily refused when asked for. We have already said that the question of the benefits to be derived from Home Rule is a fair subject for difference of opinion. There is something to be said on both sides. How to steer clear between the two opposite evils of a loose Federalism on the one hand, and a strict Centralization on the other, is a problem which may well exercise the attention of statesmen The first produces a weak executive, and is inimical to the welfare of large national interests. The second crushes out freedom, and reduces the whole nation to the position of a mere tool in the hands of a few. France and Spain both yield excellent illustrations of the evil of Centralization. In the former country, revolutions are always effected in the streets of Paris, and the whole nation is expected to follow suit. It is this that gives Communism, or, as some prefer to call it, Communalism, its real strength. So far as it represents a protest against the gigantic evil of Centralization, Communism takes up a ground of great advantage to itself. But this abuse is cordially detested by other parties as well, and by far the ablest and best-conducted Legitimist paper in France, which is published in Lyons under the editorship of M. Charles Garnier, is named La Décentralisation. The same holds good as regards Spain. Both Carlists and Communists agree at least in this-in opposing that centralized system which places the whole country at the mercy of military pronunciamientos; and had Don Carlos happily succeeded in securing the throne which is his of right, and upon which we still hope to see him firmly seated, it would have been as the representative of the principles of Decentralization. Here in England there is one form of Home Rule on which our countrymen most justly set great value: we mean the right of local self-government through our municipal institutions. For the While, therefore, we admit the great difficulty of rightly adjusting the balance between the benefits of local selfgovernment and the protection of national and imperial interests through a strong central executive, we cannot but think it a subject well worthy of more attention than it seems to have received at the hands of English statesmen, how far it would be possible to grant more autonomy to Ireland without weakening the British Empire. Certainly, a chronic state of agitation and discontent can hardly be considered a source of imperial strength; especially as this Home Rule movement is-unlike the revolutions fomented by foreign agitators abroad-a thing of native growth. Englishmen have, perhaps, been inclined-and not without reason-to doubt the possession by Irishmen of the qualities which fit a people for any very large amount of self-government. But might not these necessary qualities be acquired in time? Might not the gift of more self-government tend to develope the qualifications most needed for its right exercise? discord that exists in the Irish Nationalist camp between the more moderate and the more advanced sections may be ultimately due to the irritating provocations which have driven the advanced party into the position they now occupy. Indeed, the wonder would, under the circumstances, seem to be, that any moderate party at all should remain. And if it were possible-we do not commit ourselves to saying that it is possible-to grant the demands of the moderate Home Rulers, we strongly suspect that we should hear no more of Fenianism or of Separation. After all, the Irish are not the only subjects of the Queen who would benefit by some such change. English Tories cannot forget that for years Mr. Gladstone was kept in power, and enabled to work incalculable mischief, simply by the support of Radical Scotchmen and Irish Home Rulers; and English Churchmen who have studied the division-lists of the House of Commons on the Burials' Bill-a Bill which, be it observed, touched England |