The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

e xpectations for the future! The future is in them-1 loc h-es ; and in themselves only. But to secure pros perity in it, their application, which will have to be severe, intense, almost heroic, must not be diverted f ro m its task by glimpses of hope never to be reached, by inch illusory prospect as that Mr. I GRANITET BERKELEY'S motion raises. Already in some of the smaller islands, where these qualities of mind and body have been roused into great exertion, their effect on adversity is to be seen and felt. The wages of labour have fallen, improved means of cultivation have been introduced, new articles of culture have been resorted to, the cost of production has been lowered, encumbered estates have been sold, capital is flowing slowly in, and society itself is improving in moral tone. This is what is wanted, not protection, throughout the West Indies; and this the pressure of free-trade will give them all, sooner or later. A MORNING contemporary, somewhat given to hyperbole when discussing ecclesiastical subjects, yesterday ventured on two assertions as to the educa toad relations of the State with the Church and other religious denominations, which, if made in ignorance, are in discordance with its general intel ligence ; but which, if made with a full knowledge of the Privy Council has really said, written, and done, are at variance with the obligations of good faith doe to its readers. 1. It is stated that the Roman catholics, after a three years' contest, have carried their point, and have succeeded in obtaining the State's neutrality with reference to the religiowi teaching and eccle siastical management of the schools. The very re verse of this allegation is the case. In no part of the multifarious correspondence with different sects and bodies carried on by the Lords of Council is the objection to the predominance of the spiritual power over schools half so plainly and emphatically pro nounced and insisted on as iu that between the Privy Council and Mr. L.tsnv.ttt on behalf of the Roman Catholic School Com mittee, and it is the last correspondence that has occurred on the subject. We have quoted and re quoted passages from the c‘,..c pondence just pre sented to parliament, showing this; and shall nut now repeat them. But, we must impress upon the public this fact, that, high as the pretensions of the ltomish priesthood are in everything affecting religion and religious instruction, they never rose in that corre spondence to the height of the claim put forth by the National Society for the English Episcopacy. Mr. LANGDALE, to do him and his church bare justice, distinctly informed the Privy Council that itoman catholic bishops would refuse "to accept were it tendered to them, an appellate jurisdiction over schools in matters purely secular;" that juris diction being the point contended for under the guise of " local freedom" by the Committee of the National Society. The matter of dittirence between the Roman Catholic School Committee and the Privy Council was not the point on which the latter dif fered with the National Society, but was whether the ecclesiastical authorities of the church of Rome should have the power of deciding what questions do or do not affect religion and morals." This power the Committee of Privy Couneil dcained to grant. " wrote Mr. LINGER to the Roman Catholic Committee in reply to the pressing claims to have this power confided to their ecclesiastical authorities, not a year ag*: If upon any point of this nature [such as the choice of buoks or the dismissal of teachersl it is incumbent upon Homan catholic* to defer exclusively to their spiritual authorities, tb. it lordship, cannot anticipate that the Roman catholic conintittces for the time lade will be Imo ready to etercise sue,' deference than the original promote', of the buikling. If, howeser, the committee should not be so inclined, there remains the appeal to contruul them. Their lordship. must deline subjecting them to any further limitation. And in the very letter in which Mr. L.tNGDALE accepts the clauses as ultimately settled by the Privy Council, he places on record (as if to contradict this allegation of our contemporary) the fact that the Council had yielded less, not more, to his church than it had to the National Society: The Poor School rounnittee regret the refusal of their lordships to insert the word " moral " together with " reli gious before " instructions," mot from m addition which, as catholic's, they conceive would thereby have been made to what they believe to he comprehended under the tern. "religious instruction," but becar , e, as tutroducisl into the deeds of the National Society, they are at a loss to interpret the motive which can have induced their lordships to object to its insertion, equally in deeds prepared (or schools belonging t.. Roman catholic,. And with that expression of regret the correspon dence closed. bet we are now coolly told that after three years' contest the Roman cathoties have carried their point ; and have obtained privileges refused to the church, and the National Society. There can surely be but ouc way of characterising such an allegation. 2. Next we are informed that the church of Eng land schools remain out of the pale of that impartial and open handed toleration which is extended to all others ; tlio religious opinion of some members of that church that the clergy and their bishops arc the proper arbiters and supervisors of the religious educa tion of the children of their own flocks being relent proscribed by the government. Such is the alle gation; contrast the facts. 1. Out of 659,217/. granted by government in eleven years for the promotion of education, 404.8221. has gone to church of Eng land schools. 2. So far front the religious opinion that the clergy and their bishops arc the proper arbiters and supervisors of the religious education of their own flocks being " relentlessly proscribed by the government," the State actually makes knelling grants to schools the trust deeds of which embody and incorporate that opinion, as interpreted by the journal in question, refusing only building grants to a school-house the promoters of which seek to exteud that opinion from religious to secular instruction. 3. Instead of the church of England schools being excluded by the State from the pule of that impartial and open-handed toleration which is open to all others, they arc all included in the same pale. The principle of lay control in the secular management of schools assisted by building grants is applied by the Privy Council equally to the British and Foreign Society, to the Wesleyan com munity, to the free church of Scotland, and to the ltoman catholic sect. For each a different set of management clauses has been re ppared; each set in harmony with the religious views of the communion for which it is intended, and all aiming to carry out practically the principles on which these communions profess to carry out their schools. But in the case of none of these sects has the " impartial and open-banded tole ration" of the Privy Council gone so fur as to pre pare clauses which would exclude the lay subscribers to the schools assisted, from all participation in the management of their secular affairs. That was left for the National Society to demand ; and, when de manded, it was simply but courteously refused. The people who now exclaim against government " proscription," altogether forget that, originally, sets of clauses far has favourable to their views than the modified clauses now settled, were actually accepted by the National Society, and were recom mended by the late Archbishop HOWLEY for adop tion in church schools ; that the government now chared with" relentlessly proscribing" the religious opinion that the clergy and their bishops are the proper arbiters of the religious education of their Clocks, have always admitted that on matters con nected with religious instruction, the bishop should have appellate power ; and that they now only refuse such power in matters not connected with religious instruction. The literal truth is, therefore, that government have sanctioned the reli gious opinion they arc charged with " relentlessly proscribing." Such is the fairness of the opponents of the Privy Council. Just let us, however, for one moment take a com parative glance at the church's demands in this question of education, and at the manner the com mittee of council have dealt with them ; and so see, with greater distinctness, whether the government can honestly be accused of " relentlessly pro scribing" any opinion in this all-important question of education. The church, in 1840, required that no inspector of its schools should bean ted without the concurrenee el the arch ' of the province, and that*, appointment be revoked. if at any the. the welbisisep should real nth emir rearm The Committee of the Privy Coma asersted to the regiment. The inn 4 IsMman that the reneged sat isms skid be midi es tr osi se i tiets. 1. That a free dine el dr dolor a hi to the promoters at ire ashen. 2. net as appeal is arialeVon Andien of mengunet arid be prond ladall lay members of school committees should qualify by subscription to a declaration that they are members of the church and not frequenters of other religious denominations. The Commit tee of Privy Council yielded large discretionary powers as to choice of the clauses. They increased the appellate power of the bishops over school books and schoolmasters on religious grounds, and they i provided a board of appeal to be constituted by the I president of the council and the bishop, each nomi nating a member; that of the former to be a school inspector, that of the latter a beneficed cler,;ynian ; and these two to appoint an umpire, to be a magistrate and a member of the church. And finally, the Privy Council adopted as a qualification for all lay mem. hers of school committees the following declaration : .‘ I, A. 8., do declare that I am and have been for three years past a communicant of the church of England." And yet, because the Privy Council refused to give episcopacy an appellant jurisdiction in matters not affecting religion, they are now charged with'' relentlessly proscribing ' a religious opinion. Can folly and injustice and inaccuracy go further ? What worse can our contemporary's bete noire, Mr. 0. F. YOUNG, in his fashion, do than this? Tile verdict of " manslaughter" against the driver of the luggage train which caused the collision at Clay Cross on the Midland Railway must, at least, have this good effect (even though it may end in the acquittal of the prisoner), that, by his trial before a QUEEN':, Judge, the publc will know, with greater accuracy than it now does, the state of the law on the subject of carelessness, recklessness, and dis regard of order and rule in railway servants ; what legal responsibility they arc under; and what means of punishing them for avoidable fatalities there are. And if the law thereon be at all in accordance with common sense, with the safety' of travellers and the interests of railway shareholders, it will impose on Directors the imperative task of rearing and educating for, and of bringing into such dangerous employment, what is really the great want of railways, a higher and better clan of men ; and of laving down a system of travelling and con veyance that shall guard against the improbabilities u well as the probabilities of collisions. But, satisfactory in one sense as this verdict is, it is, we must recollect, founded on two deaths. Now, had not the collision resulted in this mortality, there is too much reason to apprehend that no criminal proceedings would have been instituted against the driver for the broken legs and arms, for the injuries and bruises, for the incalculable personal misfortunes his conduct has inflicted on those who survive the collision. No preliminary legal investig.ation would, except for the unhappy deaths of Mr. MEV NELL and Mr. BLAKE, have followed the occurrence; that full and authoritative legal investigation to which the verdict is owing would have been avoided ; it would have been difficult to have procured all the evidence wkielt . those fatalities rendered indispensa ble, and compelled even Mr. 111.WACLAT, the Com pany's attorney, to produce ; no magistrates would I have been bound to have interfered in the matter; if any had done so, the obstructions in thcirway would have been so great, that the chances are, though persons were maimed and crippled for life by his carelessness, yet the driver would have escaped in dictment fax any offence, had it not been that man slaughter has Leen committed. This, to say the least of it, is a most unsatisfactory state of things; ono requiring serious consideration. For, unless every collision of this sort be made the subject, not merely of administrative or superintending, but of cri ' minal and legal investigation, a degree of legal im punity is cast on all railway accidents short of death, ill calculated to increase that sense of responsibility, an which the security and safety of railway travel ling entirely depend. In this Clay Cross collision the inquest has clearly traced its immediate cause to one individual, and has thereby simplified the case that will be handed over to superior criminal investigation and adjudication. But, at the great majority of railway collisions, that immediate and direct agency cannot be traced and established ; and, though their results may be quite as fatal and disastrous, all that such inquiries gene rally terminate in, is the expression of opinion that the system has been: in fault. Here, again, there is something most defective in our legal forms and pro cedure; for individuals are and must be morally responsible for the system thus censured; and yet they escape the legal consequences of the fatalities caused by general bad management. They are not punishable, it would appear, except for special or separate negligence. For the bad, dangerous, and murderous system no one is answerable. One day last week a young man pleaded guilty to a scandalous, and what might have been a very dangerous, but was a harmless frolic in throwing two signals on a line, and was sen tenced to nine months' imprisonment, accompa nied by hard labour, for his offence. Yet only three weeks previously, an avoidable massacre of seven persons in the Sutton Tunnel, produced by in excusable negligence, recklessness, and carelessness, was formally pronounced to bo " accidental death," far which no one is to be prosecuted or punished. The contrast between the extreme severity in the one case, and the complete impunity in the other case, is very shocking, and not at all creditable to our law. And we must think that the railway department of the Board of Trade would have been far more usefully employed in seeing whether, notwith standing the verdict of the coroner's jury in the Sutton case, the criminal law of the country could not be brought to bear on some of the authorities of the Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Company, than in teasing these incorporations generally for idle and ageless returns relative to the pecuniary management at their affairs. Since the enactment of Lord CAMPBELL'S most valuable and humane act these accidents have im posed very heavy pecuniary liabilities on railway sheettaolders. But those penalties paid out of the general funds, only operate on railway manage ment in an indirect manner, and are clearly insufficient to produce that sense of danger on the part of those concerned in the management which is so indispensable to public security; and as calculated to infuse into railway management that sense, the verdict of the ooroner's jury on the Clay Cross collision is invaloidge. Yesterday a painful report of the sudden death of the Right Hon. R. L. Shell, her Majesty:s minister at Florence, reached London. Oa hearing of the suicide of the late Mr. J. Power of Ourteen, the son of Mrs. Shcil by a former marriage, it is stated that Mr. Shcil was seized with gout in the stomach, which carried him otf very unexpectedly. DEATH 01' THE EARL OF , SHAFTESBURT.—Crop ley Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, Baron Ashley of Wimborne St. Odes, county Dorset, Baron Cooper, of Paulett, county Somerset, died yesterday, aged 83. He married December 10, 1796, Anne, daughter of George, Duke of Marlborough, and aunt of the present duke, and succeeded to the title of Earl of Shastesbury on the death of his brother, the sixth earl, in May, 1811. Four sons and three daughters survive the late noble earl, the eldest of whom is Lord Ashley, now Earl of Shaftesbury, whose elevation to the House of Peers creates a vacancy in the representation of the city of Bath. The late earl for many years filled the office of chairman of committees of the House of Lords ; and on his retirement a short time slaw mind the well-merited eugoliee of the heads of all pardss. AEZITAL OF TUE LAEATETTEE AT LIVERPOOL.— , shortly before noon, the United States screw Lafayette, under the command of Captain Stod do% We of the American steam-ship Crescent Ci/ s z , rived io the Meracy from Queenstown, where she had =srto put in for a supply of co al. On !nails( dr .....d very fast up the river, and Immo* rap thee s shildag emanate. Her bull is ecesstrodad ICON mbia shoe this oVi sc rhieh the Americana have meetly sleeted la fink Teasels, being TeV km and aft. Sho is WNW tarries a larg e . el asance, and fres her fin ev en wi h er anew power, nest be tesyCl " tsea g to the boo& af the air-posop die liesiosseare piano= stioraml, the womb deal eloped by a pipe pined en the qwertswisch. THE AOCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND BAILWAT.-011 Tuesday, the rtmeits of Mr. Maya were entrensl to their last restiesvisse et Langley, near sod were there latexes& la the theft vault. At a qtr bdue 9 o'clock, the sseantal preestiaa laft Tams Ovens, and es road eta Irene, with a nemesia cosh 1M bream of the heented enema It was . /Py • swims et linestice sag tests inkling is =sat =heft se tetemerlhe nines& weerrilt ands% when a huge enseesse el em asembial Y par their het lelbsie et to the sunny oleos els led .. r MAMA hit to all duels el, the rensersittg. • siaielar esindissee, the nine whisk meal Ms draw_a Nome train after his min Apo 911114119, anner. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1851. FRANCE. ' , Alas, MONDAY EvExixo. Yesterday took place the inauguration of the sec tion of the Lyons Railway between Dijon and Ton nerre. A burst of glorious sun shine, which is the soul of all fiqes, favoured the efforts of the inhabi tants to do honour to the day opening their closer union with the capital. 'rho President, having passed the precediug night in the Palace of the Arch bishop of Sens, reached the terminus of Dijon at three. Although no enthusiasm characterised his reception, it was such as, compared with his last visit, must have been highly gr iteful to him ; for his welcome was quite undisturbed by those democratic manifestations which called for the protection of the troops ; and the cries of " Vive Napoleon!" certainly drowned all others. As I was present on the spot, I can bear testimony to the favourable character of the l'resident's reception at Dijon. I do not, however, draw from this auspi cious circumstance the ' , AMC inference as the partisans of Louis Napoleon, who attribute his warmer welcome to pohtical motives; while it is clear the inhabitants were bent upon doing honour to a !Pe marking an important era in the existence of flick eitv ; and their acclamations were addressed rather to the occasion than the guest. But, however this may be, it is clear from the speech which the President made that his spirits were excited by what ho seemed to regard as a demonstration of enthusiasm for his person. Leaving to the fancy of your renders the decorations of the ceremony, consisting in flags and wreaths of flowers tastefully arranged about the terminus, suffice it to say that as soon as the Bishop of Dijon had sprinkled holy water and uttered a benediction over the engines, in presence of a gaily-dressed crowd of citizens, the President, and those who were with him, mounted their horses and rode through the acclaiming city, followed by squadrons of cuirassiers, dragoons, and gendarmes, to the palace of the Duke of Bur gundy, now the Hotel du Ville. A more beautiful city un a small scale it is impossible to see. Every where the churches lift stately fronts, which are among the purest models of Gothic and Cinque-cento art; and the present fate of some of these fine edifices attests the decay into which the old capital of Bur gundy is fallen. Under the vaulted roof of one is held the corn market; vegetable stalls are ranges' in the dim religious ai,les of another; and a third serves as a stable tor cavalry. The palace in which the president was received is a spacious patchwork of old and modern piles, in which jou may discern, rising with its peaked roof and grey round turrets, behind the new facade, the old tower where the wily Louis found himself trapped by Charles the Bold. Having received the authorities, the president retired until dinner-time. The mayor then made an appropriate speech, which was answered by Louis Napoleon in the following words: . . . Gentlemen,—l wish those persons who have doubts as to the future could have accompanied me in my journey through the populations of the Yonne and the Cote d'Or ; they would have been aida to have judged for themselves of the true state of public opinion. They would have seen that neither intrigues, nor the attacks, nor the passionate discussions of panics arc in harmony with the senti ments and with the condition of the country. France neither desires the return of the ancirn njime, under whatever form it may disguise itself, nor the ex : perimcnt of sad and impracticable Utopians bermes. It es because I am the most natural enemy of both one and the other, that France has placed confidence in me. It' this were not the ease, how could we explain the affect ing sympathy of the people towards me, which resists the most subversive polemics, and which acquits me of being the cause of their sufferings. If my govern ment has not been attic to realise all the ameliora tions which it had in view, we must attribute the failure to the manmuvres of the factions, who paralise the good intentions of assemblies as well as that of :overnments most devoted to the public welfare. It is because you have thus comprehended the state of the question, that I have had, in patriotic Burgundy, a reception which it for me an approbation and an encouragement. I take advantage of this banquet, as of a tribune, to ex hibit, to lay bare my heart before my fellow citizens. A new phasis has commenced in our political life ; from one end of France to the other petitions arc being signed for the revision of the constitution. I await with confidence the manifestations of the country and the drcisions of the Assembly, which will be inspired only by . the sentiment of the public interest. Since I have been in power I have proved how much, in presence of the great interests of society, I set aside all that had affected me personally. The most unjust and the most violent attacks could not shake my equanimity. Whatever may he the duties which the country may impose upon me, it shall that ine resolved to obey its will; and, be assured, gent:cmcn, that France shall not perish in my hands. - Three ministers, MM. Fould, Magne, and Leon Faucher, were present. Other distinguished guests were MM. Dupiu, Montalembert, and General Castellano. The two former looked exceeding grave at the sharp and decided language of the President, and retired early. By the remaining company the speech was vociferously applauded. In the evening there was a sumptuous ball, which presented a more pleasant variety than falls commonly to the share of such entertainments, from the circumstances of the theatre, the Hotel de Vile, and the Museum having been thrown into ono vast range of building, by the construction of tasteful galleries ; so that, without being incommoded by, the immense crowd, you could peep through a box into the dazzling theatre, and see the President in his silver epaulettes walking through a quadrille with the prefect's lady ; or you could repair to the rich store of monuments saved from the revolutionary icono clasts, and the handsome tapestries, pictures, and busts of the civic palace. Among the latter you note those of Carnet and Menge, illustrious natives of the Cote-d'Or, and an eager intense head of the first con sul. But the gems of the exhibition were those famous tombs of the early Burgundian dukes. A little Gothic cloister, fretted in alabaster, and filled with mourning monks, surrounds the pedestal which supports the painted effigies, and was lit up with wonderful relief by ingeniously disposed lamps. The President, having inspected all these interesting relics, retired at eleven. It is said that the President did not speak the speech as it was set down, and shown to the minis ters; but that his boutudes against the Assembly were much more violent. On this account M. Fau cher is represented as rather compromised and ag grieved. He returned by the train which arrived this morning. I had almost forgotten to mention the chief wonder of the railway, which is the tunnel of Blaisey, two or three miles m length. M. Thiers is gone to London. General Aupick has arrived in Paris. GERMANY. We have news from Berlin of the 31st of May. The inauguration festival of the statue of Frederick the Great took place quietly on that day. M. Man teuffel made one of his usual old style speeches, talked of the fidelity of the army and ancient institutions, and was followed by the King, who also delivered an address. _ _ A telegraphic despatch from Vienna announces the arrival at Olmutz, on the evening of the 28th, of the Czar. The questions to be treated at Olmutz seem likely to be th at of the incorporation of Schles wig-Holstein into the confederation. and that of the absorption also of all the Austrian non-German provinces. Our correspondent writes as follows : FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Mar 31. Yesterday's sitting of the Diet lasted but a very short time. Of the proceedings which took place nothing more boa u yet reached the public than the appointment of a select committee of seven members for the purpose of examining and reporting upon the resolution and ma terials which have been transmitted from the Dresden conferences. The members of the committee are Count Thug, Baron Itochow, General von Xylandcr, Herr von Nostix, Herr von &hide, Herr von Bunch, and Herr yea Scheele. Until their report be ready the sittings I will be without importance. THE DIME OP WELLINGTON HAS ABATED THE Hikers of his Strathileldsaye estates. His Grace inquired of the steward if he had made any abatement of the reatals. The steward replied that he had not, for the tenants had all pad cheerfully, without asking for any reduction. The Duke replied that was the very reason why the abatement sheuld be made, and he directed that it should be made on the last, as well as on the rentals of the current year.— , Widens Times. BIRKENHEAD RIOT.—At the last Chester assize*, Thomas Smith, J. Feehan, James Haggarty, and Matthew GM*, with another prisoner, since discharged, were con victed of a riot at Birkenhead, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. A petition praying for a mitigation of the sentence received 17,000 signatures in one day.. It was palmated to Sir George Grey by .1. A. Roebuck, Esq., Sr 0110. Stephen, and the Earl of Arundel and Surrey. Upon consideration of the whole facts of the case, her 11Nefty the Queen ordered the immediate discharge of the Coend arrived in Birkenhead on Friday morn :effi;epool Mit Court. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg Gotha and the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, continued theit inspection of the Works of Industry of All Nations, at the Exhibition, yesterday morning. In attendance on the august party were the Hon. Mary Seymour, Baroness de Wangeitheini, General Wemyss, and Colonel Bouvcrie. The Queen arrived at half-past nine o'clock at the Exhibi tion, and remained till five minutes before eleven o'clock. The Prince of Wales and l'rince Alfred, attended by Mr. Birch, also visited the Exhibition yesterday forenoon. The Queen held a court at three o'clock in the afternoon. Baron do Beust, Saxon Minister, hail an audience of her Majesty, to present his letters of recall from his sovereign. His excellency was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., the Queen's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cost, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.— Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons had an audience of the Queen, to take leave on his departure for Stockholm, as her Majesty's envoy extraordinary to the court of Sweden. Sir Edmund was presented by Viscount Palmerston. The Queen was attended by Lord Dufferin, lord in waiting, and Sir Frederick Stevie, groom in waiting. His 'Loyal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, attended by M. B. deTreskow, went to Hampton -court yes terday morning and inspected the royal stud. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, Prince Aifted, and Prince Arthur, the Princess Royal, and the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha and Duke Ernest of Wurte:nberg, and attended by the royal suite, left Buckingham Palace at twelve minutes before tour o'clock yesterday afternoon fur Windsor Castle. Her Ma jesty, Prince Albert, and the august circle were conducted to their carriages by the Master of the Horse, the Lord Charah?rlain, the Marquis of Abercorn, the Viee-Cliamber lain, Viscount Mitten, and Colonel Wylde. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal family, with their illustrious visitors, left the palace in seven carriages, escorted by a de tachment of Lancers, and proceeded to the Paddington sta tion of the Great Western Railway, where a special train was in readiness to convey the august party to Windsor. WINDSOR, MONDAY, JUNE 2.—Her Maje sty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha and Duke Ernest of Wurtembcrg, with Ric Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Prin. news Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, and attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Caroline Bar rington, Hun. Matilda Paget, lion. Mary Seymour, Lord Dinferin, Lieut.-Colonel Hun. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Hun. Charles Grey, Sir Frederick Stovin, General Wemyss, Col. llauverie, and Mr. Birch, and the Baroness de Wangett heim and M. B. de Treskow, in attendance on the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, arrived at the station of the Great Western Railway, this afternoon. A guard of honour of the Grenadier Guards was on duty at the station. The Queen and Prince Albert, and the august party, pro ceeded to the Castle in seven carriages, where they arrived at a quarter before b o'clock, and were received by the Master of the Household. His Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands, attended by the Chevalier van ltappard, the Chevalier de Caserahroot, and Captain May, arrived at the C e tle at a quarter before six o'clock, on a visit to the Queen and i'rinee Albert. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked out in the Hanle Park, atter their arrival from town, and the Royal Family were also out in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Isis Equerry in Waiting, is expected to arrive at the Castle on a visit to her Majesty and the l'rince. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, and Lady Adelizu Fitralan Howard, the Duke of Duccleuch, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Constance Leveson Gower, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and Lady Octavia Grosvenor, the Marquis of Itreadalbane the Marquis of Abercorn, the Right Hun. Sir George and Lady Grey, and the Earl and Countess of Iles& borough, are also expected to arrive on a visit. The Queen entertained her guests at dinner in the Waterloo Chamber this evening. The royal circle and in vitations comprised his Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, his Royal Highness the Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg the Duchess of Sutherland and Ludy C. L. Gower, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk stud Lady A. F. Howard, the Duke of Buceleuch, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Newcastle, Barques, ile Wan genlieim, the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and Lady 0. Grosvenor, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Mar quis )f Abercorn, the Earl and Countess of Bessboraugh, tae Right lion. Sir George and Lady Grey, the Chevalier de Casembroot, the Chevalier van Itappard, Captain May, M. IL de Treskow, and the Equerry of the Duke of Cam bridge. The Duchess of Kent left town at ten o'clock yesterday morning for her residence Frogmen!, near Windsor. The Royal Duchess was attended by the Lady Fanny Howard, the Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Cowper. The Prince of Lciningen left Clarence•house in the alter. noon for Frogmore. A deputation from the Commission of Sewers had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home otfice. The deputation consistul of Mr. Veto, M.P., Sir 11. DeLa Beche, Captain Dawson, Sir J. Burgoyne, Viscount librington, M.P., Mr. Hardwieke, Mr. Stephenson, M.P., Mr. Bendel, Mr. Lewes, and Mr. Wuolrych, Secretary to the Commission. Mr. John Wilson Patten, M.P., and Mr. Gregory, attend ing as a deputation from Preston, had an interview yester day with the General Board of health at their office, Whitehall. A deputation from the Directors of the London Mission ury Society had an interview yesterday with Lord John Hassell at his official residence ha Downing -street. The deputation consisted of Sir Edward Buxton, Bart., M.P. ; Mr. Veto, M.P.; Mr. Hiudley, M.P.; Mr. Harris, M.P.; Mr. Kcnhaw, M.P.; Mr. Heald, M.P. ; Mr Evans, M.P.; Mr. Piper, and the Bev. Dr. Tillman and the Rev. J. J. Freeman, Secretaries to the Society. Mr. John O'Brien, Mr. Gooltl, and Mr. John O'Connell, had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Laboucherc yes terday at the Board of Trade. Deipatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Canada and the governors of the other North American colonies. THE GREAT EXHIBITION Yesterday was decidedly the greatest day yet known at the Crystal Palace. As early as 9 o'clock the accesses of the building were surrounded by an impatient throng, and from that hour to the middle of the day a rapid stream of well-filled omnibuses, carriages, and cabs showed how thoroughly the interest of the million had been aroused. From Albert-gate a dense procession was for some hours passing across the open park to the eastern en trance of the Palace. By 10 o'clock the transept, nave, and north and south avenues presented a very crowded ap pearance. By 11 o'clock more than 15,000 persons had passed in—nearly as many as entered during the whole of Saturday. At the expiration of another hour, 12,000 more had entered, and at one o'clock the number had reached 34,600. The increase was maintained during the day, and at the close it was found that as many as 42,460 persons bad I paid the shilling admission fee at the doors. Notwithstanding the ingress of air through the louvres, and the cooling operation of the watering machine, which was drawn hither and thither, the heat was generally very oppressive. Although it cannot bo said that the crowding in the building was productive of positive inconvenience, there is a very observable determination of company to the tran- Sept, which it were well to counteract. The galleries were anything but well filled, although including some of the gems of the exhibition. The various costumes which figured so grotesquely in the anticipatory sketches of our artists before the opening of the Crystal Palace are gra dually becoming , features in the actual spectacle. In the course of Saturday afternoon a Spanish cavalier and his daughter appeared in the picturesque costume of their country, and excited much attention. The provincial cle ment is revealing itself with more distinctness, as was to be expected as soon as the excursion trains commenced running. Her Majesty and the royal visitors came to the Crystal Palace at 9 o'clock, and as some 400 or 600 exhibitors had been formally requested to be present, more than usual in terest attached to the occasion. The portion of the Exhi bition marked out for inspection was the south gallery on the west aide of the transept. Her Majesty began with the cbymicals, in which department she specially admired the contributions of Pontifex and Wood. Her attention was also drawn to the display of preserved meats, and particu larly what related to the supply of the navy. She made particular inquiries into the regulations adopted for aster- Wising that this supply was good and proper for the use of the sailors. In the survey of vegetable products, the tine specimens of grain from the Home Farm exhibited by Prince Albert, did not escape attention. One of the most important features of this survey was the illustration of the conversion of flax fibre into a substitute .for cotton by the Chevalier Clausen. WOOLWICH, JUNE 2.—LAUNCH OF THE BRISK STWIL SLOOP. This line vessel, built at Woolwich Dockyard, to mount 14 guns, was launched to-day in the presence of a great number of spectators, amongst whom were many fore*ners. The fo llo wing are the dimen sions of the Brisk :—Length between the perpendiculars, DV ft. 71 in. ; length of keel for tonnage, 169 R. 11 in. ; breadth, extreme, 38 ft. 21 in. ; breadth for tonnage, 34 ft. 81 in. ; breadth moulded, 34 ft. 11 in. ; depth in engine-room, 18 ft. 2 in. ; burthen in tons, 1,087, 39-94 old measurententi Imams in tons, 979, 2973.3500 new mea surement. 'this steamer is constructed for a screw-pro- peller ; her engines, which are of 230-horse power, will be put in by Kr. Na*r, of Glasgow. Admiral Berkeley, C. 8., and Captain Houston Stewart, Lords of the Admi ralty, Were present, with Peer Ibrahesna Khan and Colonel Biz Mad Wade, distinguished in the affair of the Khyber Per. THE BISHOP OF EXETER'S SYNOD. A meeting of influential gentlemen and trades men of the diocese of Ex^ter, members of the church of England, was held on Saturday, at the Atheneum, to pro test against the Synod proposed to be held by the Bishop of Exeter on the 25th inst. Sir JOHN KENNAWAY, Dart., having been called to the chair, proceeded to say that they were met to consider the advisability of same expression of opinion by the laity on the synod which the bishop had announced his inten tion of holding on the 25th of June. lle trusted they would all approach the subject with a deep sense of its importance, as connected with the molt sacred and solemn matters which could occupy the attention of the mind, and with that feeling of charity towards others and respect for their conwlentious opinion, which, claiming for themselves, they were bound un every principle to accord. For himself, he would say, that it was with a deep feeling of the responsibility wilieh attached to him that he tame forward on the occasion; because, as a member of the church of England, end believing that the episcopalein was the best form of church government, he felt that it was not a light occasion which should induce him to condemn the measures of the individual who happened to hold the highest office of the church in this diocese. But he could mot also help feeling that he owed to the church deeper attachment than to any office or officer concocted with it ; and when he saw steps takeu tending to impair its energies and to weaken its position, he thought it time to express his own convictions, in conjunction with others who con- eurred in his views. (hear, hear.) Considering the sacredness of the subject and the excitement attendant upon it, several individuals, who felt as he did, thought the most suitable and advisable course for obtaining the ex pression of the mduion of the leap was by the eirculdiou of a well-digested protest. The aleyor of Exeter, whilst con curring in that view, preferred to take part in wine protest which was authorised by and emanated from each a meeting as this, rather than in a pretest of is more private or limited charaet, r, and it was rather in deference to that suggestion that the meeting was held. The Lord- Lieutenant of the county (Earl Forteseue) had ex pressed his assent and approval of the resolutions which would be proposed, and, in a letter un the subject, observed on the large number of clergy who had expressed their opinion against the synod, which he said justified the extending to them " a well-merited countenance and support." (Cheers. He (Sir J. li...nna.va)•) wished to guard himself against being suppined to concur in eny desire to prevent the bishop and clergy meeting together to consult on those matters p. culiarly belonging to them as pastors of the Hocks committed to their charge. lie rather thought it was their duty to meet together, to commit on such things within their proper sphere as were necessary and advisable for the spiritual benefit of those over wliont they were appointed overseers. But when it was proposed to enter on matters which hid been settled by the adjudica tion of assemblies which had gone before, by courts now ex- Whig, by the authority of tine Queen and the church in general—nut limited to one particula diocese but applying to the whole church—when it was proposed to enter on these matters, by collecting representatives from all parts of the diocese, by a meeting of an imposing character, which would have influence and weight with the minds of per sons who had deep re pest for the church to which they lie longed, he thought it became a duty to inquire and ascer tain whether it was in accordance with the practiee of the church, likely to promote is peace, or likely to tooter its best interests. (Hear, hear.) A proceeding so new in it: cha racter, so unheard of not only in the present times, but during the time of their fathers, was likely to produce results the very opposite of these which he led just indicated. They were told the synod had no power to lay down anything binding on the consciences of the clergy or laity • but, if unoppoe .d, it would have a great moral power. if, at the suggestion of the bishop, resolutions were passed at the sy nod either adding to the definitions of our faith whicit had been already laid down, or substituting other definitions for them, he thought the resolutioneof such an assembly would hove great weight, by enabling the bishop, by that very large power and authority entrusted to the episcopal °flee, to impose those detinieioue, and require accordance in and acceptance of them, from those clergy whom it be came his duty, as bishop, to examine for admission to holy orders, or to approve on their entrance to cures in Iris dio cese. They (the laity) wanted no such additions; above all, they wanted 110 curls' substitutions (Cheers.) Suleetitution the bishop could not make ; addition he might attempt, but the laity were satisfied with that which had been already laid down, and were anxious to preserve to themselves and the clergy that liberty of conscience which they had enjoyed ever since the Reformation, more particularly on that sub ject which formed the topic of consideration at the approach ing assembly—the subject of baptism. The church hail allowed to her ministers the liberty of receiving the inter pretation of that subject, which, in accordance with tho words of the articles and creeds, might be satisfactory to their own consciences. The church had not thought right to define the subicet, upon which—particularly as to infant baptism —comparatively little light was thrown by Scripture. To give any precise definition would he to impose fetters or tire 01.1i8C1CUre8 of men, which, neither s thri,tiens nor as members of the free and liberal Church of England, would they be justified in approving and accepting. (Cheers.) They did nut meet there to ad vocate any particular views—to say that Mr. Gorham was right or that the Bishop of Exeter was right. There were many who, perhaps, did not agree with Mr. Gorham, nor with the Bishop of Exeter—marry of various shades of opi nion ; and he trusted they would not see the day when those shades of opinion were excluded from the church, end either one extreme or Vie other alone permitted to be accepted by her ministers or taught in her congregations. (Hear, hear.) That was the must important point referred to in the programme published by the bishop of his intended proceedings—proceedings which seemed to him (Sir J. Kennaway) to he wholly unnecessary. Tho bishop desired an expression of adherence to the doctrine, " one bap tism fur the remission of sins." To that doctrine the clergy expressed their adhesion every Sunday when they read the services of the church. 'What more was necessary ? If a meeting wee assembled of SO grave and important a charac ter as to call prisons from all parts of the direct-et., the infer ence was that something more was intended. (Hear, hear, hear.) Some other matters more fit fur consideration might be settled, without such cumbrous machinery as that pro posed to be collected ; and there were some upon which that part of the church as essential as the clergy—namely, the laity—were quite as calculates) to express their opinions. , Had they been called upon to express their opinions, they might have assisted iu their respective districts in practi cally carrying out measures for the benefit of the people, without regard to instruction in spiritual things, but to civilization and education in every branch of art and learn ing. (Cheers.) lu conclusion the hon. baronet stated that letters of concurrence had also been received from Lord Efrriugton, Sir H. F. Davie, Mr. Hamilton (the Retreat), Mr. Drewe (the Grange) ' Mr. l'orter (Ilembury Fort), Mr. ltendle (Tavistuek), and from gentlemen at Plymouth, Tot ncss Axmouth, Sulmouth, and other places. dr. L. V. I'ALK (llaldon-house), wished it to be clearly understood that no 'Personal feelings prompted thane who had takers part in this movement against the Bishop of Exeter. To him they were ready to pay all that honour and reverence which were due to his character. They were ready to support hint as bishop of their church in all his legal requirements. That was their duty, and they would not shrink from it; but there was another duty which they would also observe—to maintain the purity of our reformed protestant church. Whilst they would carefully guard the existence of the rights of that church, they would rigidly guard the rights and liberties of the laity; they would not permit the church to be wronged, neither would they permit a great portion of that church to be overrides and dictated to by a small minority. (Hear, hear.) All doubts of the correctness of the course they were taking were dispelled by the answer whim the primate of Eng land had returned to an address from the united parishes of Tormoham and Upton, expressing most forcibly his dis approbation of the Bishop of Exeter's proceedings; and, as he believed it had not yet been published, he would take the liberty of reading it : " Lambeth, May 21, 18.51. " Sir,-1 have the honour of acknowledging an address which you have forwarded to me as chairman of the vestry of the united parties of Tormorham and Upton, in which you express your objections against the measure proposed by your diocesan of holding a diocesan synod, and desiring my interference to prevent the evils which you anticipate us likely to result from such a measure. " I am by no means blind to the probability of such evils, and I greatly regret that such a measure should have been devised. But if it is not a transgression of the law of the land it cannot be successfully resisted ; and if it does violate the law, I have no doubt that the officers of the crown wilt interfere by means more effectual than I have authority to employ.—l have the honour to be, air, your obedient and humble servant, "J. B. CANTUAIt. " Wm. Kitson, Eeq." Supported by the opinion of the greatest dignitary of the church, by addresses of the clergy, and by the opinions of many of the leading noblemen and country gentle men of this diocese, he believed they were taking no unauthorised step, or one that could be termed a step of persecution to the bishop. They had no wish to perse cute him. They threw no obstacles in his path when from court to court he sought the decision of every court of law upon the question between himself and Mr. Gorham. They held no meetings deprecating that course. The question was fully and fairly tried ; the law of the land was laid down, and they were now only meeting to protest against the bishop convoking a putai-legal diocesan synod, to condemn the judgment of the highest court of law in the kingdom. (Cheers). gm Such a course, if taken by an individual layman, would have brought upon him the reprobation of all reason able men, and he said the high position which the bishop held ought not to prevent the expression of opinion by the laity. He (Mr: Palk) wished that opinion to be carefully and calmly embodied in a form which should abstain from any thing capable of being twisted into a theological discussion. lie wished to protest most firmly against the step which the bishop was about to take ; and which, if not illegal, trenched so very near illegality, that to make it of the slightest possible legal use it must become an illegal act. (Cheers.) It would militate against the supremacy of the Queen, which every Englishman was prepared to main tain at all hazards. The bishop was arrogating to himself a power which the church never possessed, which he believed to be totally unconstitutional, and which every goad churchman would resist. He (Mr. Palk) was ready I to maintain the supremacy of the Queen in all things tem poral and ecclesiastical ; and he had no hesitation in saying publicly that he differed from those who asserted that there was any limit whatever to the Queen's supremacy. He could not admit for one moment that her supremacy was less in ecclesiastical than in temporal affairs, and he believed this was a blow at the existence of that supremacy, because it was arrogating a power of calling a synod together to make a declaration of faith, which declaration would be clearly against the legal decision of the highest court in the land. The bishop in his pastoral had maintained, in effect, that tho opinion of the church WWI to be followed, even a.tain.t tho opinion of the Queen. That was a proposition which he, US a loyal individual, could never admit. Why, it it were so, they would owe the elevation of the bishop to the blessing of GA :,:c1 nut to the supremacy of the crown. Another point was e. follows "True it ii that the unity of the church depends on the unity of the epi , :apate. But to this unity of the church in any nation it is not necessary that there should he a national church; for that unity would be effected by the cooimunion which very particular church is bound to hold with every other." Ile (Mr. Palk) had no knowledge of any but the pure re formed protestant church of this country. Ile knew no other church to which the bishop could refer. Possible ' to the 'torch of Home! Were they then to give up a national church that they might embrace the tens of Home ? Could it b: postable—for he shuddered to suggest such a thin;—couid it be possible that the bishop of that diocese could put language on paper which would admit of such a suspicion ? He would not wrong the Bishop of Exeter. Ile did not believe that he could fur one moment mean that; but he maintained his language would allow of such a sus pieien to be entertained. Ile further add : "The consNuenco is, that your bishop thus finds his spi ritual rights, duties, and responsibilities in Christ's Holy catholic and a?ostolic church, impaired and muted by his position in the national church. And yet, need I say that a national church is only an adventitious gund accidental ordinance in that system of which paiticular church.s aro integral and c.sential parts ? For, as you know, 3 teciailing to the ancient principles of the catholic church, every dio cese is, in itself, a whole." He (Mr. Pali) supposed the meaning of that was that the diocese was the church itself; that the articles of faith pro mitigated in the diocese would be binding on a:1 those who were ministers in thatdiocese. To give it additional force, the legal way of proceeding was for the bishop to hove peti tioned the Qe to call a diocesan synod. The bishop did not do se; hr invited his clergy to a diacesan synod. But why not seek redress by legal means? If the eirenindanca which the bishop stated csietcd, and he reim.red the tiss.-c -mice of his clergy, why not summon them in a legal m instead of summoning them in a particular ca.,' to nuke a declaration in point of faith ? The clergy were to express their adhesion to the bishop's definition of baptism, and the bishop would he obliged strictly to examine all future minis ters, whether they held his dogmatical opinion ; let there be a dilference, however slight, whether un one side or the other, and the minister so ditf..ring would be a heretic. Thus, the religion of the diocese would be a solitary ampu tated religion, no longer belonging to the church of Eng land, hut belonging to the church of Exeter. (Clic, rs.) Ho thought those who held extreme opinions had better, be fore promulgating them, satisfy themselves whether they be long. il to the acacia of Entland or to sonic other church. (Hear, hear, uud cheers.) 11c trusted that, in adopting tho protest they would he prepared to take any other course rind any further course which that protest might entail upon teem; and, as they had taken this up solely as nutter of duty, so they would carry it out at all Iwards. Mr. Palk concluded by moving the adoption of the protest, which was as follows: " We, the undersigned members of tho church of the United Kingdom, resident in the diocese of Exeter, do ear nestly prut•st against the steps taken by the tli.diop of Ex eter, for convening n diocesan synod on the Y•ith of June, and we fully concur with the presbyters of our church, who have publicly recorded their btrun; objections thereto. "I.`"lSecutise with them we deeui it 'altogether unneces sary that any member of the church of England should be called on to renew the affirmation of holding that article of our faith—one baptism fur the remission of sins—since we express our full and unshaken belief in the RIM', winusu ever we repeat the Nicene Creed; anti we do not consider that the decision of the judicial committee iu any liOgreo infringes, or is calculated to infringe, upon that article; or that it att*ects our position as members of the branch of Christ's holy church universally established in these ec.ffins. " 2. Because, although inch assembly may not lie dis tinctly prohibited by the laws and coustituti.4l4 by which the church of England is regulated, it is ceetainly at vari ance with the general practice of the church since the lie fonnatian. "3. Bixnuse we do not consider that any emergency has arisen sufficient to warrant a proccedim whica isolates the diocese from the general body of the united church of Eng land and Ireland, places ourselves in opposition to the most reverend the metropolitan of the province, end briny into question, whether justly or nut, our loyal =lama letigment of the supremacy of her Majesty the Queen. "l. liccauue we arc apprehensive that th., proposed deliberations, instead of strengthening the church and heul ing the lamentable divisions which already esi,t, would have the effect of weakening her influence nod increasing those divisions--would present an example of resistance to the solemn adjudication of the law, unbetittiug the sacred office of her ministers; and that, if generally adored, they might lead to the separation of the church front the state, and thereby be productive of the most fatal consequences to the a...11-being of the nation, the existence of the monarchy and the lituintenanee of the principles of the rammed faith throughout the world. . . . . " And we further protest, because we object to whatever has a tendency on the port of the bishop or de re y to exclude from the diocese many honest and conwientiour elergyincn, who do not concur iu the bishop's interpretation ot the great article of the creed—' One baptism for the remission of sins.' " Mr. MoxTAGut B. Britt (Commissioner of the Exeter District Court of Bankruptcy) heartily concurred with the chairman in the expression with which hr opened the meeting, and in a spt-ch of some length se corded tho protest, which was adopted without dissent. Mr. E. I'. Pltllol.ol moved the appointment of a com mittee. _ _ Mr. G. Mr. SOLTAI: seconded the motion on behalf of himself, Mr. Bennett, and lit Homy, a deputation from the Plymouth Church Reform Association, expressing the ap proval of the protcNt by that association. Mr. J. MAtseit Pit t tti VS thought it unrulvisable to pro• sent the protest to the bishop. lie doubted the expediency of opening any communication with the Bishop ..t Exeter, because he would readily tare it to advantage, anal by some very clever and plausible answer, perhaps, turn them (the laity) over. The better plan would be to calla County sooting, and lay the protest before it. Then it would ad mit of uo reply. The motion for appointing a committee was slightly altered, giving power to them to take all necessary steps to give effect to the protest, and then passed. Captain Fonsrett, of the Wilderness, Dartmouth, and Mr. BELLAMY, Plymouth, urged the importance of a county meeting being immediately convened. Mr. 'LARVA:Tr expressed his concurrence in the pro test, though he repudiated the modern liberal,sm which had brought popery into the state, until now it affected our church. . . . . . Gentlemen were invited to add their names to a subscrip tion list for the purpose of defraying the expenses. On the motion of Capt. ltuonEs, a vote of thanks was given to those presbyters who had signed a Finable . protest. Thanks were then given to the chairman :And the pro ceedings terminated. SIR R. PEEL AND MR. G. F. YOUNG. TO THE ZDITOIII OP THE TIMES. Sir,—l peas over without note or comment Mr. Cl. F. Young's reflections on myself which appear in your impression of to-day. I leave public opinion to judge of tho tone and taste of his language, while personally 1 have a consciousness, with all my defects, of not !luring merited his aspersions on my private character. These is, however, one portion of the letter which I can not leave unnoticed, namely, that ulerring to the relatior.s between my tenantry and myself, which is stated to be characterised by the "most contemptible freaks of impotent tyranny." I enclose a communication, which I hope you will oblige with publication, written by me on the 10th of May to my agent, on the subject of the then anticipated Protectionist meeting at Tamworth. This letter, which was read to some of my tenants, the contents of it being made known to others, will show the amount of interference I was disposed to exercise on that occasion, and I shall leave the vindication of the general course I have pursued towards them to their own apprecia tions and testimony. 1 remain, Sir, with much respect, Your obedient servant, itOIIEUT i'EEL. London, Juno 2. "London, May 10, 18.51. " Mr. Matthews,—l understand there is to be a protec tionist dinner at Tamworth—a proceeding which I highly disapprove of, and upon which, iu this sense, I shall be glad of your expressing my opinion on every occasion. As a landed proprietor, and one who looks upon his tenant , farmers as members, as it were, of one great family of which he is the head, I feel deeply interested in their welfare and prosperity, and would most gladly assist in relieving, by legislative measures, the pressure under which they and the agricultural interests are unquestionably suffering ; but in the character of landlord, and from the social position I enjoy, I consider it necessary for me to let my opinions be known to them upon every occasion that presents itself; and while I am most ready to tender advice, if solicited, or emplane nations, if required, I also expect due consideration to be paid to the views 1 have expressed, or am known to entertain, and admit that I would hope to see them frankly adopted by those who arc in the position I have named. " After all, I consider myself as much the farmers' friend as any ono else. I certainly have as good a reason as any one else. " Their prosperity is mine; our interests arc common, but 1 look upon a return to protection (so called) as fatal to us both, and as likely to be productive of consequences far more injurious than the pressure which free trade has occasioned, I believe only temporarily. "Make no hesitation in lotting my opinions be known distinctly. " I wish to leave the most complete independence to those who have a perfeet right to judge for themselves. I would only direct their judgment, not interfere with it. " If any of my tenants were to ask you whether I would disapprove of their assisting at a protectionist dinner, you can say "Yes," and for this reason—because I believe they would be endeavouring to promote that which would be in jurious to them and to myself, and that which would injure us both must clearly meet with my disapprobation. • " Even should they not inquire, and you have an opportu nity of alluding to the subject, use it to propagate my views. Yours very truly, "To Mr. Matthews, Fazeley." ".KOBERT PILL. WAR MEDAL.—ACCOrdifff to the United Service Gagetk, the Commander-in•C ef has extended the period for the reception and investigation of claims to the war medal to the end of this month ; such claims aro to be for warded immediately to the board of general officers, White hall, as no further extension will take place.