s craments are gone already, and, i f they live long enough and continue Protestants, they will find no lack o f Gorhams, who will dispose o f their claims to speak the mind o f their Church, even upon such questions as the Incarnation and the Trinity. As for Catholics, our functions in these matters are very simple. Would that we performed them better. W e can only help these poor people by praying for them more fervently, by setting them a better example, and by avoiding more scrupulously every semblance o f uncharity or illwill in their regard.

Calile of Contenta the Times." That recreant print now turns ^round upon the Italian people, and orders them to lie still, for that no one will help them, and it would be “ futile ith which— according to the maxim o f Dr. Newman Fiction is necessary to the Protestant Tradition”— our contemporaries gratify the diseased appetites o f their readers. That the Pope escaped from Ro: le disguised as a footman, and that Dr. Cullen belieies and teaches that the sun is only three yards wide, have now become the landmarks o f the Elizabethan tradition. The respectable Spectator, the intellectual organ o f the cultivated minds o f England, tells us “ The Church o f Rome still upholds the

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Thc p :'~~The Neapolitan Question. Spain and the and culpable” o f them to trust to themselves. They are called cowards now ; but when did the Times omit to insult whom it betrayed ? We hear now o f a secret treaty between France and England guaranteeing the throne o f Naples to Ferdinand. That would indeed cap the climax. But though we are o f good hope, and trust that the wisdom o f the Emperor o f the French, and his reflections upon his own by no means very assured position, may enable him to find a way to a safe solution o f the difficulties into which he has been led, much cause for anxiety remains. The peace of Europe hangs upon a thread. There are men desperate enough, mad enough, wicked enough in Italy to originate a disturbance o f which the consequences would be incalculable. The presence o f Lord Minto and Lord John Russell at Florence is an ill-omened sign, and, though the prospect is clearer than it was, the elements o f disorder and strife are yet plentiful and busy. The Siècle promises us another European war. The English people has abdicated ; its powers are in the hands o f Lord Palmerston, and civilised Europe lives from week to week in dread lest the volatile viscount may explode with a detonation that will astound the world.

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Ptolemaic system, and requires a teaching mharmony with that starting point and, again, “ The Bishops implore fathers o f families.......... to oblige their sons to attend Catholic schools based on the Ptolemaic system.” The cream o f the joke lies in the unsuspecting self-complacency with which these idiots betray their ignorance while giving themselves all the airs o f condescending superiority. The Observer o f last Sunday gives a paragraph about Cardinal Wiseman, Dr. Grant, and Dr. Errington, about original appointments and coming removals, in which the falsehoods are so clotted and the folly so egregious that refutation would be an idle task.

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The sentence o f deprivation pronounced upon Archdeacon Denison, and against which notice o f appeal has been already given, was the long-anticipated and, indeed, the only possible result o f the judicial inquiry which has just closed, supposing, what so few supposed at the beginning, that the question would be tried upon its merits, that no compromise would be allowed to stay the proceedings, and that the Archdeacon would hold out to the last. The issue being, whether the teaching o f the Archdeacon was or was not in conformity with the Articles o f the Church of England, as the teaching o f the Archdeacon was a simple contradiction o f those Articles, the case was clear from the commencement. W e are not now alluding to the technical difficulty raised by counsel as to whether one o f the Articles had received the same sanction from an Act o f Parliament as the rest, nor o f the possible result o f an attempt to interpret that Article by forcing upon it a meaning consistent with Holy Scripture or the traditions o f the Church. On the particular point on which Archdeacon Denison came into collision with it, its sense was clear, and its language unmistakeable. Scriptural or unscriptural, true or false, are questions quite immaterial.

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More news, and more important still, from Spain. Happily, too, it is all news o f the best kind and o f the fairest augury. The first acts o f the Prime Minister Narvaez have justified all the best expectations founded on his advent to power. We give elsewhere the decrees by which the Concordat with the Holy See is declared to be in full force, and by which the disamortisation law is abrogated. The sequestration on the property o f Queen Christina has been removed. The Univers gives us the text o f other decrees, re-establishing the constitution o f 1845, with its municipal and administrative laws, and repealing the measures o f the revolutionary government. What is o f even more importance, and more gratifying to all Catholics, we have the text o f a decree, by which the Queen o f Spain has deigned to order “ la miss a néant” o f the royal circular o f 1855, suspending the admission o f novices in all convents o f Nuns. By another decree the ordinary and diocesan powers o f the diocesan Prelates are re-established in full vigour, according to the Concordat o f 1851, and the royal decree o f August, 1855, suspending their power o f conferring Holy Orders is quashed. The Ministerial report on which this decree is founded is o f the highest interest.

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“ For some time past various organs o f the English press have been occupied in circulating calumnies upon the French government: calumnies made more odious by being advanced under the shelter o f the anonymous, and which admitted o f no other reply than that ot contempt. W e know the respect which surrounds the liberty o f the press in England, and, therefore, in pointing out its errors we confine ourselves to making an appeal to the good sense and loyalty o f the English people, and to forewarn them against the dangers o f a system which lessens the confidence between the two countries? and also tends to disunite two nations whose alliance is the best guarantee for the peace o f the world.”

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p } y^ ° would be a correspondent o f the ^ to u ” has forgotten the wonderful effect that *Aratir e.Pr°duced upon the Neapolitans by the ap.3 0 ln the Bay o f Naples o f the allied fleets ? v adÜ3i at has watched for the last few weeks the ft aua[ was waiencu xur me last tew weelcs tne 0^ Pro abateiT|ent o f these high-sounding prophecies ¡k08Hosyared for s0 thorough a stultification o f every J e.tigLtlCati°n as is now recorded? After not only u^ittiej1’ out the duty o f intervention had been proin" e*pi-f,° '°.udly ana enforced so lengthily, we have ■ 'he *juss disclaimer o f the Western Powers recorded

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The High Ecclesiastical Court o f the Church o f England has the same duty and the same functions as the smallest county court to construe a document according to the plain sense o f the words used, and where the language is unambiguous in itself, to refuse all evidence from without adduced for the sake of introducing ambiguity. But what, in some persons has raised a hope for the Archdeacon, and now suggests a doubt as to the fairness o f the court’s decision, is the Gorham case. Mr. Gorham, it is said, contradicted the Prayer-book, yet was allowed to remain in the Church. Archdeacon Denison contradicts an Article o f the Church, and is deprived o f 2,000/. year. Is this fair ? Perfectly.

Her Majesty’s Ministers advert to the fact that the Catholic religion being proclaimed the religion o f the State, with all its rights and prerogatives, the disposition o f the Concordat— that the Bishops should enjoy the faculty o f conferring Orders— was superfluous, seeing that this power is one o f the most indispensable privileges o f the Church, which cannot conceive itself without Pastors.

After a full recognition o f the enlightenment and virtues o f the Spanish Episcopacy, and the many surprising proofs o f its ardent zeal and noble patriotism, o f its self-denial and disinterestedness in critical epochs, o f its love, respect, and fidelity to the throne in every trial, and after recording that, far from there being in Spain any redundant supply o f Clergy, there is an actual insufficiency o f Priests, which has been felt in the deplorable direction given to the ideas o f the people for some time, and the flagrant demonstrations o f the fragility o f the social edifice, which does not rest on the solid foundation o f religious principles, the Ministerial report continues thus :— “ Never was there greater need than now of “ the fervent co-operation o f men charged by Divine “ institution, thanks to the powerful and efficacious “ means which their ministry places at their disposi“ tion, with instilling rectitude o f conscience, im“ provement o f habits, Hierarchical obedience, love “ for the throne, and other virtues which make the “ morality o f nations, and form the only barrier “ against the flood which threatens to swamp the trad i t io n s o f civilisation, fostered and directed by “ Christianity.” The report goes on to say that, moved by the profound conviction that the religious principle, from the origin o f the Catholic Church, has helped to consolidate moral and civil order, her Majesty has resolved to give it all the force and strength possible, and to commence this work o f regeneration by restoring the Prelates o f the Church to the free exercise o f their canonical rights.

— The grand Crimean banquet has come off successfully,_and, without any power or wish to rival the magniloquent flourishes o f the Whig and Tory press upon the occasion, we may record our modest satisfaction that a well-deserved compliment has been liberally and tastefully rendered. The Lord Lieutenant spoke, as he_always does, an appropriate speech, full o f kind feeling. The naval and military worthies returned thanks well. The services o f Miss Nightingale and o f the Sisters o f Mercy were gratefully acknowledged. There was much good management in all the arrangements, and the peaceful and orderly appearance o f the streets at night reflected credit on the troops. And, no doubt, more might be said in praise o f all concerned ; but there is one thing which we cannot sav, and without which our praises will ring flatly on the ear. It professed to be, and it has beer boasted o f as being a national demonstration Never was misnomer more signal. It neither was a national demonstration, nor had it the ghost o f a resemblance to one. But it is unnecessary to insist on this, as every one knows it, and none so well as those who are loudest in proclaiming the contrary.

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T h e Moniteur has published an additional convention between France and England, relating to reciprocal extradition o f malefactors. It contains but one article, which declares that the design of attempt at assassination against the life of any Sovereign, or any member o f his family, shall no longer be considered as a political offence.

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Private accounts from Madrid speak o f another ministerial crisis, the object o f which is to get rid ot Narvaez, who is but the step-stone to Absolutism. T h e Queen shows a firm determination to get rid of every sort o f check, and the convention on which Narvaez now retains power is in complete submission to her will.

Another private letter states that a quantity of arm* and ammunition had been discovered in one o f tho faubourgs o f Madrid.

The attempt to exclude Mr. Gorham failed because his teaching was not contrary to the language o f the Articles. The attempt to exclude Archdeacon Denison has succeeded, because his teaching was con trary to those Articles. Now, the question whether a man’steaching is according to the teaching o f the Church o f England has to be decided by the courts according to their construction o f the language o f the Articles. They refused to put an interpretation upon the Article which its words did not convey, in order to exclude Mr. Gorham— they have refused to put an interpretation upon the Article which its words do not convey, in order to retain Archdeacon Denison. In both cases the Articles have triumphed— in both cases the Prayer-book and the Scriptures have been beaten. The Prayer-book and Scriptures, which failed as a weapon o f offence against Mr. Gorham, have failed as a weapon o f defence in favour o f the Archdeacon. Those who vainly tried, by aid o f the Prayer-book and Scriptures, to narrow the sense o f one Article so as to exclude the denial o f baptismal regeneration, have vainly cried by their aid to widen the sense o f another Article so as to include the assertion o f the Real Presence. In both cases Protestantism has triumphed. I f there were any consistency, any regard for logic and any determination to act up to principle, the decision in the present case ought to have a far more serious effect on the High Church party than the decision in the Gorham case. Then they contended that the failure to _exclude from the Church the deniers o f baptismal regeneration involved neither their Church nor them in heresy for that the want o f the express condemnation which would have excluded Mr. Gorham from the Church implied no approbation o f his error. They asserted that their Church would yet repair the omission and make good the delay by condemn

— Trustworthy accounts from Madrid are to the effect that the question of a change o f ministry was now openly discussed, even by the better classes, who are represented to he in a state o f great alarm. The Queen actually required Narvaez to prepare for her signature a project o f law tor the restitution to the Clergy ot their property, some of which has been sold above twenty years, ana ever since has been bought and sold by thousands o f Spaniards. Narvaez attempted to persuade her against it. He then lost temper, and offered his resignation, on which the Queen told him he might do as he pleased. It was then that the Marquis o f Villuma was sent for, but he declined becoming minister under the responsibility of enforcing such a decree as the one in question. There was some rumour that the Queen would appoint the A rchbishop of Toledo Prime Minister. Serano is to retain his embassy at Paris.— Times.

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Paris, Oct 13rd.

A despatch has been received from Baron Brenier. announcing that i f in two hours from that date he did not receive any communication from the Neapolitan government, he should then present his last instructions. What they are is not stated, but they very possibly require him to demand answers favourable to the demands of the allies. Another despatch states that the K in g was about to disarm his ships at Naples and Palermo.— Times.

T h e Leipsic Gazette states that Baron Kissellef, th* Russian ambassador at Rome, has been charged to call the attention of the Neapolitan government to the consequences o f persisting in its present course.

ing his innovation as a heresy. But now they are themselves condemned as heretics. Their Church, whose want o f energy they mourned in the case o f Mr. Gorham, has shown energy enough in their case to require them to renounce their faith, or be thrust out o f her communion. W ill they believe her on her own word,uponherown express assurance ' The fact is, that the High Church party remain within the Church in defiance o f her spirit, and solely by virtue o f their own cautious avoidance o f bringing their opinions to the test o f authoritative decisions. The indifferentism o f the age has allowed them great facilities in this course, but nothing has been more certain, from the very first, than that, as soon as their attempts to Catholicise the essentially Protestant nature o f the Establishment should have terminated the indifference with which they were regarded, they would find discomfiture in every conflict. T h e Sa

The Paris correspondent of the Post says a report was circulated that the Neapolitan government had asked France and England to suspend the withdrawal o f th« ministers, with a view of satisfying their demands.

T h e Independence says that the Mazzinian party ar* very restless.

RU SSIA . , St. Petersburg, Wednesday. Four Russian men o f war have arrived at K i e l ; they are the Victory, Biibora, Polka, and Castor. Their destination is the Mediterranean.

SU R R E Y G A R D E N S A C C I D E N T . The coroner’s inquest terminated yesterday evening. Inspector A . Lund said that his first impression was that the disturbance arose from the opponents of Mr. Spurgeon, but he had now arrived at a different conclusion, though, as he was prosecuting inquiries concerning the cause of the panic, he declined giving the grounds on which he changed his views.

The coroner summed up, and the jury returned ^ verdict of accidental death,