operations have not yet been commenced. Here is another very considerable engine of power waiting only a little lull in the storm, to be launched upon the ocean of experiment, and destined without doubt to be enlarged and multiplied according as circumstances may encourage Mr. Kay Shuttleworth to adventure. It is impossible for any one to be conversant with these facts and tendencies and not to feel some degree of alarm in reference to the result of the pending struggle. In voting for Mr. Denison's motion, churchmen will feel that the point at issue is much wider than the mere question of appeal: it is this, whether or no the Church shall have justice done her, that same amount of freedom which is conceded willingly to every other religious community in the kingdom. "More than this," (says Mr. Denison) "we do not ask; less than this we will not have." Whether or no it is expedient to invoke the interference of Parliament is a question into which we will not enter at the present time; but most heartily do we concur in the general appeal to churchmen, not to rest satisfied with things as they are. We will conclude with extracting a portion of Mr. Denison's letter, which ought to express the resolution of the whole Church. "Whatever may be our necessities we will not sell our principles for a State grant; we will not, so far as we can prevent it, we will not have any impediments thrown in the way of the full and unrestrained use, in Church schools, of the formularies of the Church of England. If we cannot altogether, and in every case, prevent this being done, we will never fail to enter our solemn protest against it wheresoever it is attempted to be done. We will not have the schools of the Church of England withdrawn from the supervision of the Bishop and placed under the supervision of the Committee of Council on Education. We will not have those schools submitted to an irresponsible management, a management which offers no sufficient guarantee that it will be the management of the Church. We will not surrender the position in which God has placed the Clergy, and which is a sacred trust in their hands, a trust to be used humbly and faithfully for the temporal and eternal welfare of CHRIST's people, the position of being the authorized and responsible teachers of His people, and of being commissioned to uphold, amid all the shiftings of political opinion, and all the wanderings of dissent, the one fixed unalterable standard of Church doctrine and Catholic truth. "We would seek then to act with vigour and determination now, as in a time of very great peril, and so to get rid, so far as we may, of causes of jealousy, and suspicion, and distrust, and to have all our time and energies to devote to more worthy objects. It is naturally, so to speak, a very painful thing to us to find ourselves compelled to oppose, in any shape, State authority. It is not the vocation of the Clergy and Laity of the Church of England to be forced to concert measures for registering a formal complaint, and entering a solemn protest against the unjust and injurious treatment of the government of England. May God grant that this sad necessity may cease, but most assuredly does it exist now! "It is our most earnest desire to co-operate, so far as possible, with the State in the great work of educating the people; it shall be no fault of ours if we cannot. But if the co-operation and assistance of the State be a thing very earnestly to be desired, it is infinitely more to be desired that no part of that precious deposit, which God has committed to the keeping of His Church, should receive aught of damage at our hands. Let us hope and pray that both these things may yet be reconciled." Mr. Denison's pamphlet gives, in an Appendix, a careful report on the present posture of the Education question lately drawn up by the Committee of the Bristol Church Union-a Society which has already done great good in calling attention to this matter, and by giving rise to other similar societies about the country. We beg to tender it our best thanks. MARRIAGE WITH A WIFE'S SISTER. 1. A Resolution of the proposed Quære of Marrying the Wife's Sister. By the learned and pious HENRY HAMMOND, D.D. Being a reprint from Vol. 1 of his Works. By a Member of the University. Oxford, 1849. 2. Three Letters addressed, by permission, to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Oxford, on Marriage with the deceased Wife's Sister. By the REV. E. S. FOULKES, M.A. Oxford, 1849. 3. Marriage with a deceased Wife's Sister repugnant to Christian feeling, and contrary to Christian Practice. By the REV. PHILIP HALE, B.A. London, 1848. 4. Against profane dealing with Holy Matrimony in regard of a man and his wife's sister, a tract for all English Churchmen and Churchwomen. By the REV. JOHN KEBLE, M.A. Oxford, 1849. 5. A plain Statement of the grounds on which it is contended that Marriage within the prohibited Degrees is forbidden in Scripture. By HUGH BENNETT, M.A., Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Rivingtons, 1849. 6. A Letter to Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P., on the Law of Marriage with a deceased Wife's Sister. By ALEX. BERESFORD HOPE, Esq., M.P. London: Ridgway. Ir is now about six months since we directed attention in this Magazine to the very important question of Marriage with the sister of a deceased wife. We concluded the remarks then made by expressing a hope that the Clergy would unite with energy and activity in endeavouring to defeat the objects of those who have arises another claim, not upon the individual receiving the grant, but upon the school which he teaches. Her Majesty's Inspectors must have admittance here likewise. Upon the most obvious commercial principles they have a right to their money's worth. Thus wide spreading are the ramifications of this most subtle organization. Her Majesty's Committee of Council are to hold the purse-strings of all the chief schools throughout the kingdom. The correspondence which follows illustrates the unpleasant alternative to which school-managers find themselves reduced: " No. I. Committee of Council on Education, Privy Council Office, "REV. SIR,-The Committee of Council direct me to call your attention to the conditional grant of augmentation to which your schoolmaster is entitled by his certificate of merit. The payment of this grant, if allowed, will be made as from December, 1847. "In order to ascertain whether the remaining terms of this grant are duly fulfilled, I have the honour to announce that I purpose visiting your school on the 15th day of December. "The enclosed form of report is that which I shall have to transmit to their lordships. "I have the honour to be, Rev. Sir, your obedient servant, "The Rev. C. S. Holthouse. (Signed) J. J. BLANDFORD, No. II. SIR, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th inst., intimating your intention of visiting the school of this parish on the 15th December. In answer, I wish to state that I am very anxious that this school should be subject to an efficient inspection. I hold it to be very desirable in all cases, and urgently required in most rural schools. I am also very desirous that the master of this school, having received a certificate at the examination at S. Mark's, should receive the benefit of the Government grant. But I must most distinctly state that so long as the requirements of the Committee of Council are what they are, and the negociation between the Lords of the Council and the Committee of the National Society are in their present unsettled and unsatisfactory state, I altogether decline inspection for this school from any of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. I have, &c. Privy Council Office, Downing Street, Dec. 4, 1848. "REV. SIR,-I have to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 28th of November, in which you decline my visit as one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. You are, doubtless, aware that the augmentation of the master's salary depends upon the annual inspection of the school, and I shall be obliged by your informing the master of this, in the event of his not being aware of it. "I have the honour to be, yours obediently, ་ "SIR,-I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th instant. I am fully aware that the augmentation of the master's salary depends upon the annual inspection of the school,' and I again express my regret that I feel unable, under present circumstances, to submit to this condition, even though I should thereby secure two so great advantages. The schoolmaster of my parish has already been informed of your offer, having seen our correspondence from the beginning, and I am happy to think that he has sufficient good sense and right feeling cheerfully to acquiesce in my views on the subject, I hope, without any feeling of dissatisfaction with his position, which under the circumstances, your last letter was but too well calculated to produce. "I have the honour to be, &c., "CHARLES SCRAFTON HOLTHOUSE." From the Guardian, Dec. 15, 1848. To this sketch of a stealthy progressive encroachment on the part of the Committee of Council through their secretary, we might add instances of such positive unfairness in their dealings as leave no room to doubt that the animus which directs this policy is not simply the love of self-aggrandizement so much as a spirit of direct hostility towards the Church. Further, as though it were not enough to force the Church to submit her schools to all these modifications of an influence external to herself, to determine who shall hold the Trust-deeds of her school-buildings, to starve her Training Institutions into an unwelcome alliance with a body whom she cannot trust, and through this alliance again to get a hold upon her masters and the schools taught by them; as though, we say, all this were not enough, the workhouse schools are taken at once into the hands of the Privy Council; and on the plea of providing for them masters (and others, we presume, who may be willing to take them) the same ubiquitous body are about to establish a Training College of their own at Twickenham. It is more than a twelvemonth indeed since the Principal was appointed; but for some cause not explained, probably not unconnected with recent symptoms of discontent in the Church, The one which we are about to relate has not, we believe, been made public. Application was made by a parish in a northern county for aid in building new schools on a very advantageous site, but was refused on the plea of the ground being leasehold. Other ground in consequence was obliged to be procured in a much less convenient situation and at greater cost. The Dissenters immediately set on foot a rival scheme and apply to the Privy Council for aid; when we are informed, incredible as it may seem, although their site was leasehold and inconvenient, a grant to the same amount as that given to the Church, was made to them without the least hesitation ! operations have not yet been commenced. Here is another very considerable engine of power waiting only a little lull in the storm, to be launched upon the ocean of experiment, and destined without doubt to be enlarged and multiplied according as circumstances may encourage Mr. Kay Shuttleworth to adventure. It is impossible for any one to be conversant with these facts and tendencies and not to feel some degree of alarm in reference to the result of the pending struggle. In voting for Mr. Denison's motion, churchmen will feel that the point at issue is much wider than the mere question of appeal: it is this, whether or no the Church shall have justice done her, that same amount of freedom which is conceded willingly to every other religious community in the kingdom. "More than this," (says Mr. Denison) "we do not ask; less than this we will not have.' Whether or no it is expedient to invoke the interference of Parliament is a question into which we will not enter at the present time; but most heartily do we concur in the general appeal to churchmen, not to rest satisfied with things as they are. We will conclude with extracting a portion of Mr. Denison's letter, which ought to express the resolution of the whole Church. "Whatever may be our necessities we will not sell our principles for a State grant; we will not, so far as we can prevent it, we will not have any impediments thrown in the way of the full and unrestrained use, in Church schools, of the formularies of the Church of England. If we cannot altogether, and in every case, prevent this being done, we will never fail to enter our solemn protest against it wheresoever it is attempted to be done. We will not have the schools of the Church of England withdrawn from the supervision of the Bishop and placed under the supervision of the Committee of Council on Education. We will not have those schools submitted to an irresponsible management, a management which offers no sufficient guarantee that it will be the management of the Church. We will not surrender the position in which God has placed the Clergy, and which is a sacred trust in their hands, a trust to be used humbly and faithfully for the temporal and eternal welfare of CHRIST's people, the position of being the authorized and responsible teachers of His people, and of being commissioned to uphold, amid all the shiftings of political opinion, and all the wanderings of dissent, the one fixed unalterable standard of Church doctrine and Catholic truth. "We would seek then to act with vigour and determination now, as in a time of very great peril, and so to get rid, so far as we may, of causes of jealousy, and suspicion, and distrust, and to have all our time and energies to devote to more worthy objects. It is naturally, so to speak, a very painful thing to us to find ourselves compelled to oppose, in any shape, State authority. It is not the vocation of the Clergy and Laity of the Church of England to be forced to concert measures for registering a formal complaint, and entering a solemn protest against the unjust and injurious treatment of the government of England. May God grant that this sad necessity may cease, but most assuredly does it exist now! |