The writer of an article in the December number of
the British Critic, the organ of the High Church party, labours to prove that there is really but little difference between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches ; and is quite indignant at the imputation of Dr. Wiseman, a learned Catholic divine, and one of the editors of the Dublin Review, that the Church of England rests upon the authority of the Bible alone. The Evangelical party and the Dissenters may be of that opinion, but Church. of-England orthodoxy is of a different descriptions. The reviewer, like Lord Wharncliffe, would prefer a Catholic Establishment to the Voluntary principle. The article in the British Critic is stated by a correspondent of the Morning Chro- nicle to have been written by Mr. Newman, the head of the opposi- tion at Oxford to Dr. Hampden ; whose crime, we suppose, was not being sufficiently Pap istical for the Church and King gentry.
The recent death of the Reverend Charles Simeon, an Evangelical clergyman of eminence at Cambridge, provoked a grand display of pious sorrow from his admirers. The High Church party seem to have been much annoyed thereat ; for while the Standard professed godly sorrow for the loss of so great and good a person, the John Bull, on Sunday last, blurted out something like a malediction on Simeon and Co. in reference to the refusal of Mr. Crick to shut up his class on the occasion of Mr. Simeon's funeral- " To Air. Crick (saith Bull) the affair is of no consequence; but to the public it is important, as it may serve to open their eyes to the spirit of des- potism and intolerance which these soi-disant pious, serious folks are aiming to establish. Loathing and detesting the fallacies of Popery, we sincerely admit that we suspect the ascendancy of such people as call themselves Simeonites would be a greater scourge than the triumph of our open and avowed enemy:. Wo be, then, to all who dared to use any other language than their Slit- boleth,"
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