Correspondence and Table-Talk (Volume 1); With a Memoir

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1876. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... From Earl Grey. Howick, 10th December, 1834. Had I the means of the Duke of Northumberland, I Bhould feel no difficulty in following the example which you quote. But at the end of four years in office with the demands of a numerous family upon me, and threatened at this moment with the additional expense of a contested election, I find myself deprived of the power of complying with your request. I am sorry, therefore, to be under the necessity of adding that I can do no more than I have already done.* I am, my dear Sir, yours truly, Grey. To Lord Stanley on his inaugural Speech at Glasgow. My LORD, London, 23rd December, 1834. I honour you for your moral courage in boldly speaking of the necessity of deep religious feeling. It was new and grand. Be assured half the liberality in such matters is cant, and proceeds from a total indifference to all religion whatever. There is a want in our church of such a genius as yourself. There is no great church leader, no zeal, and if ever the church sinks it will be not from the ignorance or want of conscientious conviction, or deficiency of piety in the heads of it, but from submissive apathy. Look at the llomanists, my Lord! See how united, how persevering, how daring, how defying in their conduct! They quail under no circumstances of danger or disbelief. Can that be said of our church now? In Ireland I am told there are livings which are sinecures, for no congregation of Protestants ever assembles to listen! In such cases would the Romanists have thought of suppressing the livings? Not at all. They would have colonized the villages. Instead of shipping off the English poor to Van Dieman's Land, why not ship them to Ireland, plant colonies of Protestants, and provide congregations for such places? There seems to me to be n...