The Express. — London, England, 1868-04-14 00:00:00

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Ms. TO-Noßitor —l(mulax. 713. 19m— —..AttansooD, 76. 50m. 310TICE.i of BIRTEI3. MAMMON, and DIATFII Me received Wit It o ' clock toe insertion same evening. price, 3e. 6d. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Watt City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS PUBLIMHZD EVERY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 14. MR. 1a1.41:A ELI AND TB E RITUALIST CONSPIRATORS. MR. DI4RARLI has been taking a lesson from Mr. Wnam.sr. The mysterious allusions to Jesuitical machinations which form the stock-in-trade of the Member for Peterborough have evidently fascinated the imaginaton of the Patna MINISTER. Still, even in the agony of his assumed terror, he has an eye to business. In politics, as things go just now, the Jesuits do not count for much ; so Mr. DISRAELI adroitly substitutes the title of a party in the Church of England which happens to be the object of • good deal of present unpopu larity. If the trick were a little less shallow it would not be altogether unskilful. The stereo typed cry of "No Popery " has lost its effect ; but Ritualism has plenty of enemies, and if it can but be identified with the movement for the disestablishment of the Irish Church, it may invest the latter with some of its own discredit. Probably this was all Mr. DISRAELI had in view when he made his now famous declaration that the High Church Ritualists have long been in secret combination, and are now in oven confederacy, with Irish Romanists for the destruction of the union between Church and State. He wanted to give the dog a bad name, and lie took the first name that came to hand. Unfortunately, how ever, he proved a little out in his theological nomenclature. The High Church Ritualists were a larger body than he had reckoned, and, what wail worse, they were in many canes sound Conservatives. Mr. DISRAELI had consequently to explain away his words, and his letter to one of his clerical constituents which appears in to-days paper is the result of this disagreeable necessity. Taking the difficulties of the situation into account. the change of front is not badly executed, Pint of all, the letter is dated " Maundy Thursday "—thereby showing that Mr. Dia- East' i.i not a mere thoughtless worlding, but a Walt to whom the ecclesiastical calendar has a real meaning. A High Church correspondent is naturally conciliated by such an opening. Per haps, if he has a taste for ceremonial, be even pictures *.o himself the PRIME MiNisrea washing the feet of twelve old men "It the Hughenden estate. When he further reads that Mr. DISRAELI has " the highest respect f.•r the High Church " part ," contid...me in his repro. tentative i,s no doubt complet€ I v restored. But politicians, as Mr. Dish 1 ELI occasionally found to his cost, must look a little beyond the vote for which they are actual:y angling, and in soothing a High Church Bopp .tto., the existence of evangelical supporters innst not I e lost sight of. I Consequently, after praising High Churchmen for all they have done " for the maintenance of the " orthodox faith, the rights of the Crown, and the " liberties of the people," Mr. lliseasu takes care to d i sc l a i m any w i s h o t.o intimate that the " obligations of the country to the other great party "in the church are not equally significant." He probably thought, and 1.0 dollbt rightly, that after the handsome way in which he had spoken of the party he had immediately in view, the most exclusive high churchman would not grudge his opponents the vague commendation conveyed in the phrase " equallysigniticant obligations." At the same time, if Mr. DISRAELI should be brought to book by a low churchman, he would be able to say, " [ called the High Church party orthodox, loyal, "and patriotic, and then I sail the Evangelicals " were as good as they. What more can you " want 1" At this point :t to have struck the writer that he lied as yet Lt d n fling to account THE EXPRESS, for the words actually used in the House of Commons. It is all very well for • Minister to praise the High Church party in a letter, but this of itself does not alter the fact that he has abused them in • speech. From this position Mr. DISRAILI extricates himself with considerable ingenuity. He knows enough of human nature to be aware that no man ever allows that his views are extreme. That term is always reserved for some one of his friends. Consequently, when it is explained on authority that Mr. DISRAELI'S words only referred to "an extreme faction in the " Church," all the sting is taken out of them. I 1 Every Conservative High Churchman will com placently apply them to a brother clergyman whose opinions are one degree more pronounced than his own, and be quite ready toallow that there is a great deal of truth in what Mr. Distuata says. To cele brate this happy reconciliation all round, a victim I was wanted fur sacrifice, and Mr Disaanza had one i ready in the Liberation Society. In Conservative and ecclesiastical circles this body has no friends, and the PRINZ MINISTER proceeds to paint its cha racter and predict its future without any fear of giving offence. During the many years the society has pursued its unobtrusive way it may often have been called shallow and fanatical. It was reserved for Mr. DDSRABLI to discover that its folly is equal to its guilt, and that when it thinks itself most important it is nothing but an " instrument in the " hands of this confederacy" of Ritualist*. Hap pily, however, a terrible retribution is in store for it. " The Liberation Society will probably " be the first victim of the spiritual despotism "it is now blindly working to establish." Even in bowing to Mr. Digerati's providential decree we cannot repress a cry for mercy. Must they all perish ? We venture to think there is hope. Even an " extreme faction " may not be so bloodthirsty as it is painted, and when Mr. hfacitowocnis re kindled the fires of Smithfield on the open space near Field-lane he may perhaps content himself with burning Mr. MILLI. and letting the humbler members escape. It is impossible to suppose Mr. • Dittaasid in earnest when he gives utterance to such vaticinations as these. But what estimate must be formed of a Minister who, in the midst of a great constitutional struggle, does not think it beneath him to appeal to apprehensions of which even Mr. NEWDR•IATE would be ashamed ? POLITICAL PEELERS. IN an article bearing this title, a writer in the Pall Mull GaaetP "sets up" what appears to be a false antithesis between obstructives who feel, and reformers who think. Neither in the nature of things nor in the history of political and social progress does any such anti thesis seem to be justified. The writer of the article says :—" It is perhaps an open ques " lion whether the world gets more harm or good " out of the people who habitually make their " feelings the guide and standard of all their " judgments ;" but as people who answer to this precise description are fools, the question is hardly an open one. There is a confusion here ; and it is so commonly made that it is well worth signalis ing. A person who is greatly deficient in culture or acuteness may be nearer the truth, on a question of political or social progress, than a very clever and cultivated person ; but, if so, it is not because he is ignorant and dull, or because he makes his feelings the standard of his judgments, tut because he has so quick a sense of what is just and kind that a very little intelligence— meaning by intelligence the power of drawing in ferences—suffices to lead him straight to the truth. The eating-house keeper who was vexed with the hungry man for sniffing the hot savoury food at the door so long, called in the first passer-by to determine what the hungry man should pay for his enjoyment. The first passer-by proved to be an idiot, but he promptly decided that as the hungry man had only had the smell of a dinner the keeper of the slap-bang shop should only have the jingle of the money that would pay for a meal. And the story has been repeated, in a million shapes, from the beginning of time until now. In other words, political and social progress has often been hugely indebted to those who were techni cally fools. Our contemporary jumbles together, as engaged iu the @common cause of obstruction, the adherents of " tradition " with the lovers of " luminous 1 , 4 haze " and " the unspeakable enthusiasms." But this is worse than Monmouth and Macedon. " Good God, my Lord ! " as STERNE said to the Bishop, " you might as well confound As.sx " ANDRA: the GREAT with ALEXANDER the copper ' " smith ! " Enthusiasts and lovers of luminous haze being, ex ri termini, faith-intoxicated : men, are almost universally found at the extreme left of every question of program. Who are the real obstructive@ ? Not the enthusiasts, but the acquiesoents ; not the lovers of luminous haze, but the lovers of solid pudding in high places. " Why," inquires our contemporary, " has the " Irish Church so long cumbered the ground?" , We should have thought an answer both obvious and final lay in some such words as these—Because the feeling of justice is weak in so many people ! who have a voice in public questions. If it were I not for that final reason, there would never have been found a feather's weight in such reasons as these :—" Because the majority of people cared " nothing at all for solid argument, but preferred " to hover in pleasing !nista of feeling about " missionary churches, bulwarks against triba -1 " montaniam, outworks of the tolerant Church at " home, and so on." These are not reasons of " luminous haze ;" they are reasons of pure expedi ency, alleged not in any spirit of enthusiasm but in a spirit of pious scepticism against reasons of natural justice. With admirable artireti our contemporary proceeds to say that a time is coming when an "internal feeling for a thing will have hard work "to stand its ground in the face of a good outside "reason against the thing." But are the above quoted reasons against disestablishing Protes tantism in Ireland " internal reasons ? On the contrary, they are purely " outside reasons," and matters not .f feeling but of argument. Our con temporary then adds :—" The demolition of the " Irish establishment will give heart and courage "to the trampled minority who believe that the " Reason has some respectable right to be consulted " in politics, as well as tradition and the unspeak "ableenthusiaams." Thereisaconaiderable majority who believe in " tradition " as a guide in political matters, but " thetrampled minority" of believers in Reason who are crushed by votariata of " un " speakable enthusiasms " we shall compassionate —when see them. It will be a fine time when , Reason—with a capital letter —is at the head of ! affairs ; but we should just like to see it go ahead ' without the " luminous haze " people before it, and the " unspeakable enthusiasm " people behind it ! RICHARD COBDEN was the most clear-headed of men, but it was not Reason that repealed the Donn laws. Nor was it Reason that emancipated the slave. Much leas was it any u unspeakable `• " that stood in the way of either of , those reforms. .~;~~ Briefly, the article in oar contemporary raises afresh a confused issue, which has hem raped a hundred times before, and for the express prposs, in too many cases, of throwing dust in the eyes of sincere Liberals. MR. GLADSTONI miy safely leave his enemies to decide among themselves the character of his of fences. At present they rather contend with each other than prevail against him. While Mr. Dune Aim and the Record charge him with allying himself with Popery and Ritualism, the organ of the Papal government, the Osservatore Romano, re ' pudiates him in this wise :—His proposal, it says, " is merely inspired by the spirit of freemasonry " which is msking war on the papacy, on the catholic " religion, on divine revelation ; and its object " is to ruin heretical and protestant churches out of " hatred for that remnant of positive religion and " that small glimmer of revelation which some pro " testant sects and amongst them the Anglican " Church still preserved." A proposition for dises tablishing an ecclesiastical institution seems to bring about wonderful associations. Ma. R. .Awrgra AiNOLD, in a letter to the Times, gives an account of the modern Greek system of voting by ballot. The elector, he says, receives perfect and complete protection against intimidation, for the vote is really and truly secret. The machinery is very simple, resembling that which is in vogue in cur West-end clubs. A ballot-box is provided for each candidate ; one-half of the box is painted white with the word " Yea," and the other half is painted black, with the word " No." As the clerk pronounces the name of the candidate the voter passes his arm up a funnel about a foot long until his hand reaches the division opening to the two compartments, into one of which, unseen, he drops his bullet and votes according to his inclination. In the box of every candidate there should be found a bullet for every voter polled, and the watchers of the election can therefore verify their observation. When the poll is closed the " Ayes " and " Noes " are quickly counted upon wooden frames, with holes sunk like those of a bagatelle-board. The bullets are poured over this frame, and when all the holes are occupied there is no doubt about the number so included. Tau Archbishop of Mounts has just peiblished his " Shortest Way " with starving Mahometans. In a pastoral letter on the famine, dated April 6, he says that the only remedy for the woes of the Arab population is to endeavour to convert them to Catholicism, and failing that to drive them out into the desert, and leave them with their Koran, cut off from the civilised world. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THR MARQUIS 0? SALIBBOBT. Speculating on the future political career of the new Lord Salisbury, the Tiatee observes that had he remained in the Lower House it ia not impossible that he would have become the conservative leader, and it may be that be his an equally distinguished position before him in the Upper House. If there were sufficient maim for the attempt, Lord Salisbury and Lord Carnarvon could assault the Treasury bench in such farce as to carry it by storm ; but this would be of no value if there were no allied body ready to light a similar fight in the House of Commons. Lord Derby for years ruled the Upper House, but without a sufficient following in the Commons he could do nothing but lead an Opposition. It is doubtful whether Lord Salisbury in the House of Lords could reckon on any efficient lieutenant in the Lower House. Persons of a speculative temperament may sug gest certain names, but none of them could be promoted to the leadership of a party. There must undoubtedly be • great rupture of existing alliances immediately after the reformed parliament is convened, if not at an earlier date, but the issue is too unoertain to warrant • conjecture as to the form in which reorganisation will be accomplished. The Daily Nem is of opinion that the representative character of the House of Commons is impaired by the re moval of Lord Cranborne. He was the intellect of his section of the Conservative party, which, now that it is represented in the House of Commons only by the uncouth eccentricities and dilettante churthmanship of Mr. Beres. ford Hope, the bluff good humour and honest prejudices of General Peel, and the feline smoothness and malice of Mr. Sandford, ceases to be formidable, or to have any corporate existence or force. While he was there he was a standing protest, and an effectual one, spinet the arts of trickery and deception by which Mr. Disraeli has cozened his party and pilfered power. With such a representative to rally round, and with the reproach which his fidelity and contempt ad ministered to the men about him, there was no saying when the reaction of conscience might not occur, and the dupes might refuse to be hoodwinked longer. The loss to the House of Commons is, however, a gain to Mr. Die. raeli, whose most serious trouble and danger are removed ; but the intellectual and moral supremacy of the noble lord in the House of Lords cannot but tell upon a party sympathising with him at heart, and no longer subject to the personal authority of Lord Derby. The Herold enlarges upon the honourable and useful services rendered to the conservative party by the late peer, observing that his sphere was in council and not in debate. Before Lord Cranborne is a long and magnificent career if he only chooses to run it. He has no superior in the House of Peers as a debater, and he enters at a time when the principles to which be is so firmly attached need, especially in that assembly in which they should naturally be triumphant, earnest and eloquent vindi cation. The change, says the Star, which relegates Lord Cran borne to the placid and colourless society of the peers will hardly affect to any marked extent the results of the coming struggle. Lord Cranborne might have stood back from such an amendment as Lord Stanley's, but in any division taken on Mr. Gladstone's resolutions he would of course have been found firm with his party, and him suer censor, doubtless, will do just the same, and the questions to be settled have now peened beyond the power of mere eloquence to affect mush either way. Perhaps Mr. Dis raeli will not be very sorry that the sharp, unsparing tongue which lately need to expose his tergiversations so pitilessly can vex him no more in the presence of the Commons. Lord Cranborne is still a tory, exclaims the Telegraph, but at his age Mr. Gladstone was a tory too—and look at Mr. Gladstone now ! He is too personal in his speeches. bat at his age Mr. Disraeli was nothint if not personal. It is a cruel stroke el fate that a young man should suffer thus from arrested development--should be fossilised into a reactiosist peer—abould be petrified into an aristocratic image of impraotibillty and pride. He will not be po lineally dead, but worse—he will kit) on like the Struld bruit', old in politics, but still alive. Exercising no control whatever over its own destinies, France, the Times points out, evinces a feverish anxiety respecting the possible melt of the most trivial political complication. The language of the mouthpiece of its government may be equally taken as a challenge to disarm or to fight. The only power she means when she talks of foreign powers is Prussia ; and the question arises if the duel for supremacy between the two is to be fought by actual war or merely by preparation ter war. But, if Pianos was not ready to try a fall with her rival in 1866, en what ground an she now &UST hermit that the last two years have changed their relative swim Wee ? Has Penile lest either ierrilery ar poniaken ? Or has she fallen haat her meradamay over Germany? is her great shaken or her exchequer exhausted! Or has she been lulled by success into a inacheroos semi* ? WU the wand to ?mimes those martial isedteliono which have tamed the whole of the Tentoate Wks into an embattled boat ? Is France any more sure of the odds in bet favour than she ever wan? APRIL —owl* the " more newel ~,_ —.meal! ha thee reliability of peace " dellijra no emu. TM material Ms ark of Praia* would always remotes Ur from eggremiss, even if ohs were set mfr. eiesilireseir mast Bet it could set save bier fry* areeelswesees this her armament is crushing bre ; (Elena** ii must needs be wood to the injury of otbers, sisal& effect her own decimation. When the leabrey, the amblidos, all the dangerous passions of a ..ties have bra ministered to" in order to incite it to asYes r Glee aggssimagon that its energies may be turned to IMINIESI dierehanee toe readily suggests the expediency of employing them in foreign enterprise. The Pat bas no doubt that Mr. Ohdstone is prepared to indicate the means by which the Irish church should be diseetablialsed, and is confident it will be of such a nature as will commend itself to the acceptance of parlia ment and of the country. Giving an aexacit of the Indian budget, which Mr. Mammy has just laid before the Legislative Council, the I Doily New shows that the result of his examination of I possible alterations in the system is to maintain with little alteration ths present arrangement. It does not quarrel with this as a provisdonal measure, but the fact is tolerably plain th►t • stronger head in finance than the present holder of the once will be needed soon in order to reduce the system after the experiments that have been tried by so many amateurs, into • method more in accordance with sound principle, and weighing with leas injustice on the inhabitants of the country. _ _ The Times heeds but little the surmise of those who think we may find it harder to retire in Abyssinia than to advance. If the chiefs of the country respect our force at present, surely they will do so with at least as much sincerity when we have obtained a victory over their dreaded monarch, and we shall have this advantage in our retreat, that the roads will be ready made and the depots established. When the news arrives of our sucrose at Magdals our contemporary will be ready to regard the ex pedition as virtually at an end. The Herold thinks we may confidently 'seams that on April 2, just a fortnight ago, a division of the army, numbering nearly 4,000 men, was in front of Maeda. This army corps took with it a battery of Armstrong guns and two mortars, with which ear It. Napier was prepared to storm the place. Theodore, who probably had not room for his army in the Amba Itself, was entrenched on the plain of Dalanta, with a force variously estimated at from 5,000 to 15,000 men, and with 26 guns. trite Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Arm. 13. The Queen went out in the grounds this morn ing, accompanied by Priapism Louise and Prince Arthur. The Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mel. Ponsonby had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family yesterday. The Prines and Princess of Wales, with Prime Albert Victor, Prince George, and Princess Louise, arrived at Marlborough•boass yesterday afternoon from Sandring• ham. The Hon. Mrs. W. Grey, General Sir W. KnoSys, Major Grey, and Mr. Holzman were in attendance. DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES FOR IRELAND.- (THIS DAY.) _ _ This afternoon their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and suite leave Marlborough House for Ireland. Their Royal Highnesses will drive to the Buxton square terminus of the London and North-Western Railway, where they will be joined by his Royal Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and suite. It has been arranged that the royal party shall leave Euston-square by the 2.45 p.m. express, which will be divided into two portions. The first part will be a separate railway train, and will consist of the Prince of Wales's. with two other Royal saloons, a first-class, and other carriages. The route will be over the London and North-Western line, rid Stafford to Crewe, 179 miles, which will be reached at 7.30 p.m. There the Prince and Princess and Duke of Cambridge will dine, and after a delay of half an hour the royal train will leave Crewe at 8.57 and arrive at Cheater at half-past 7. It will leave Chester at 8, and pass Holywell at 8.25, Rhyl at 8.45, Conway at ten minutes past 9, Bangor at 9.34, and arrive at Holyhead Pier at about twenty minutes past 10. The Prince and Princess will arrive at Kingstown in the royal yacht some hours before they land to morrow morning, and remain there for rest. No salute will be fired, or recognition of their royal highnesses' arrival take place until the time of landing, which is fixed for 12 o'clock. DUBLIN, MONDAY NIGHT. Everything in the way of preparation for the reception of the distinguished visitors is going on steadily and satisfactorily here. People from various parts of the country are coming to Dublin in large numbers by special trains. At Cork, Tralee, and other places, great interest is mani fested in the royal visit. The weather is tine, and warmer than a few days ago. We have to announce the death of the Hon. Mrs. Frederick Pete*, which took placer on the 11th at Oakhurst, Brentwood, Essex. The lamented lady was the eldest daughter of Sir Christopher Nu/grave, Bart., and was married in 1847 to the Hon. Frederick Charles Edmund Petro, son of the 11th Baron Pare. Mr. Charles Saville Roundell, who was secretary to the Jamaica Commission of Inquiry two yearn ago, has issued an addrese to the aleatory of Clithero. " The bane of Ireland," he sem " is ascendancy—the saceadaney of a privileged anti-national church, the ascendancy of an absentee unsympathetic proprietary." And he adds, " While professing supreme allegiance to the liberal cense, I look to Mr. Gladstone aa my political leader, as the hope of the nation, the true friend of the people, se the statesman of largest been and widest sympathies ; who, standing upon ancient ways, will beat know how to moderate between the old and the new, between the glorious but outworn traditions of the past, and the national hopes and emigrations of the future." RIPRISINTATION Or PENNY'S AND FALIOUTH.— PINATD, MONDAY NIONT.—Mr. R. N. Fowler, the defeated oonservative candidate for the borough last election, addressed • crowded meeting of conservatives here to-night. He declared he would never submit to the destruction of the Irish church. The ques tion was whether the Queen of Ragland or the Pope should role the country. Cheers were given for the Queen, and groans for the Pope. A vote of confidence in the gov eminent was pulsed. Mr. Hod gso n, of the Bank of England, is expected to contest the nh on the liberal side, and his victory is believed to be ThIPILIAINTATIONONCIIKLTDNHAN.—ApreIiminary meeting of influential gentlemen representing the various 'maims of the liberal party of Cheltenham waa held at the Queen's Hotel, is that borough, on the Gth instant, to receive Mr. H. B. Samuelson, eldest son of the member for Banbury, and bear • statement of Ms political views. Kr. Samoolaon having admired the gentlemen present at ososiderable length, it was unanimously resolved that, subject to his acceptanes by • public meeting of the libe ral eleeten he Amid be invited to beeome • candi date for the representation of Cheltenham at the next elastics. Or. Moses, Kamnauron.—The unhappy feel ing existing in this parish between the Rev. H. H. the eta, I curate, and has parhobionese, on account his china tendencies , tendencies, culminated yesterday on the mut election of churchwardens. The meeting was celled by the incumbent at the unusual hour el 9 o'clock a.m., and by half-past S the vestry was dewed crowded. At apeoling of the Mark's Protestant Il Are elation recently, h was resolved to melee! Mr. W.Burrap. el Mirth lkixten, ss parish churchwarden. A mangos hod bats previously S en th e a s t oesosgasnee of the =Piatadition of the inoumbent had entirely o assure that which ought to exist between him and the perishissors, and that esnalerable discredit was being relleseed en the established church, se smash so that be ought net to osittlase is eraida el the minister ; and this reeslation was reed at the inesting, which was throogitont of a tem dloorderly elisraster. the majority of those present being evidently opposed to the rev. gentleman. Mr. Burrup was elected amidst greet 1991•40‘ 4, 1868. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) WAR RUMOURS. Rumours of war once more prevail in Paris. They are circulated with so much persistency that one of the officious journals has thought it neces sary to say that " those who try to prove that the government wishes for war and is preparing to de dare it are guilty of a flagrant abuse of reason." The Journal des !Abuts of to-day has a long article pointing out the causes for these rumours, and showing that the government of France has not only no motive for going to war but is using the greatest diligence in avoiding every thing that might lead to a simple difference between the Powers. On the other hand, the financial correspondent in Paris of the Indipendanee Beige says that military preparations are urged on with an extraordinary activity, just as if the country was on the eve of hostilities, that business is wholly suspended and that commerce will not resume its natural course till these military prepa rations are given up. A letter from Mayence Nays that great activity prevails in the fortress. Large quantities of gun powder and many cannons have recently been removed from Mayence to Wiesbaden and Castel. One would suppose that war was imminent. (trim% vancsaas.) PORTUGAL. LLEIBON, Ana 1.3, EVENING. Disorderly bands of unemployed workmen pa raded the streets to-day, and many of the shops were closed. The municipal guards have patrolled all day. Several members of Count Peniche's com mittee went with a petition to the Minister of the Interior. Public order has been maintained. HAMBURG. HAMBURG, APRIL 14. General Raasloff, the Danish minister, arrived here yesterday evening upon his return from Paris to Copenhagen. THE BRAZILS. LISBON, APRIL 13. The Messageries Imperialee steamer Esteemed ure, from the Brazils, arrived here at 8 o'clock this even ing. She brings 773,074 fr. in specie, and diamonds valued at 1,019,0064 r. The Navarre arrived at Dakar on the 3rd inst., and the Seine at Pernam buco on the 28th March. (Per the Estremsdure, ell Lisbon.) RIO DE JANEIRO, MAR(II 24. No news has been received from the seat of war. Exchange on London has been negotiated at from 18 to 20 ; on Paris at 490 to 512. Coffee, good first, 7'900 to 9200 reis. Total shipments since the departure of the last mail 39,838 bags, of which 2,690 were for the Channel, 8,341 for Europe, 3,310 for the Mediterranean, and 25,497 for the Baltic. Sales, 39,838 bags. Stock, 125,000 bags. Freights, 37a. 6d. BAHIA, M.tacii 29. Exchange on London, 20 to 21. Sugar, whites, 2.300 to 2.500 reis. Cotton, 11'200 to 10.200 reis. PERNAMBUCO, Aran. 2. Exchange on London, 191 to 20i. Sugar, whites, 4 . 800 to 4100 real ; brown, 3100 to 3•&00 rein. Cotton, 11100 to 11100 rein. OUR PARIS LETTER. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDINT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. After Maas at the Tuileries Chapel yesterday (Easter Sunday) the Emperor and Empress stood godfather and godmother to the sons of Marshal Canrobert and the Duke de Montmorency, who were baptised by the Archbishop of Paris. Their Majesties looked at the ceremony from their gallery pew. The Emperor was represented at the altar by the Viscount de Laferriere ; and the Empress by the Countess de Montebello for Marshal Can robert's son, and by the Viscountess Aguado for the Duke de Montmorency's son. This lady is the grandmother of the infant. A grand clerical dinner will be given at the Tuileries this evening. Among the guests invited by his Majesty are the Archbishop of Paris, the ' Bishop of Vannes, the Bishop of Adras, and several official chaplains. The marriage of Prince Achille Murat with the Princess of Mingrelia will be solemnised in Paris on the 28th instant. The Emperor of Russia was informed by telegraph of the engagement, which was rather suddenly contracted. The Emperor will be present to-morrow at the exhibition in the Palais de l'lndustrie of the 60 equipages which have obtained prizes from the Hippie Society. The Prince Imperial, with the suite which I have already mentioned, leaves Paris for Cherbourg at 9.40 to-morrow morning. The Em peror and Empress will go to the railway station to see him off, and the directors of the Western are making preparations for a gate reception of their Majesties and the Prince. It is now said that the Emperor will meet his son at Rennes on the 17th, and accompany him to the Princess Bacioochi's. The Avenir National is enchanted to find the royalist and clerical party declaring by the mouth of such a considerable leader as the Marquis de Drina-Brad that at the coming elections it will support neither official nor revolutionary candi dates. To this "candid and honest" programme the deenir, u a loyal enemy, desires to oppose, as the democratic motto—" No official and no clerical candidates," Suum cuique and no heterogeneous alliances. M. Gustave Chain d'Est Ange, a rising advocate, son of the eminent Chaim d'Est Ange, now a sena tor and secretary to the Senate, is likely to be the government candidate for the seat in the Ariege, vacant by the death of M. Henri Dither. The Bourse, it being Easter Monday, was thinly attended, and the absence of London quotations and of anything like positive news of any kind left speculators to their ()an unassisted impressions. These appear to be sombre, for offers predominated all day, and Rente closed with a fall of 15c. both for cash and account, at 68fr. 75c. and 68fr. 80c- ; Italian fell lfr., cloning at 46fr. 90c.; Mobilier fell 10fr. ; Credit Foncier, sfr. ; and several of the rail ways Mr. or 6fr. It cannot be denied that the public mind is disturbed by apprehensions of war which smooth official assurances fail to allay. A telegram was received in Southampton yester day from Constantinople, stating that Captain Gass, with his party of English exonnrioniets, had arrived them after travelling through Egypt and the Holy Land. They were about to amend the Danube and pace through Vieens and Paris on their way home. They hews hem guns two months, end will arrive in Southampton in a folasigkre time. The government have agreed to reduce the quan tity of gunpowder stored at the Earobwood niegadnes opposite Southampton to 1,600 tam. They declined to vireo to the request of the authorities of that town to re• move all the powder ken Karohwood. MR. DISRAELI UPON CHURCH AND STATE The following letter, addressed by Mr. Disraeli to the Rev. Arthur Baker, rector of Addington. B uc k s. • constituent of th e r i g ht hon. gentleman, has been for. warded to Us for publication "Hugbenden.roanoe, Maundy Thursday, iggg. "Reverend have just received your letter, in which, as on e o f my constituents, you justify your right to ask for some ex planation of my alleged assertion th a t th e high church ritualists had been long in secret combinati on and were no w i n o p en confederacy with Irish R uman i a , for the dest ruc ti on o f t h e union betweenchurch and state. I acknowl e d ge your r i g h t o f making this inquiry; arid if I do not notice in detail the various suggestions in y ou , letter it is from no want of courtesy, but from the neces sity of not needlessly involving myself in literary vent'. You are under a misapprehension if y ou suppose that I intended to oast any situ upon the high church party. I have the highest respect teethe high church party ; I believe there is no body of men in this country to which we have been more indebt e d, from the days of Queen Anne to the days of Que en ri c• toria, for the maintenance of the orthodox faith, the right, of the mown, and the liberties of she people. In say. lug this I have to wish to intimate that the obli. gations of the country to the other great party in eh,. church are not equally significant. I Lave never look e d upon the existence of parties in our esiurch as a tar ty I look upon them as a necessity, an I a benefice n t netts. sity. They are the natural and inevitable consequen iet of the mild and liberal principles of our ecclesiastic polity, and of the varying and opposite elements of the human mind and character. When I spoke I referred to an extreme faction in the church, of very modern date, that does not conceal its ambition to destroy the coo. nexion between church and state, and which I have reavon to believe has been for some time in seem: combination, and is now in op en confederacy, wink the Irish leomaniats for the p ur p ose . The LibST4O% Society, with its shallow and short-sighted fanaticism, i. • mere instrument in the hands of this confederacy, amt will probably be the first victim of the spiritual despotism the Liberation Societyis now blindly working to establi,t, As I hold that the dissolution of the union betweet church and state will cause permanently a greater revolt. lion in this country than foreign conquest, I shall use my utmost energies to defeat these fatal machinations, —B e , lieve me, rev. sir, your faithful member and servant, " B. DL.R.II LI. " The Rev. Arthur Baker, A.M., Rector of Addington. THE REV. W. J. E. BENNETT AND HP , CHURCHWARDEAS. The recurrence of Easter Monday—the day the election of churchwardens—was seised upon bi the protestant& of From. as a fitting occasion upon which they might express their opinions on church matters. In coo- sequence of the re-election last year for the second in, of the parish churchwarden who had assisted in the pre. sentation of the vestment, and the introduction of otk: ritualistic practices at St. John's Church, the Rev. J. E. Bennett, vicar, represented to the Ritual Commit. sion that the parishioners of Frome approved of his ince vations. Theratepayers showed that they repudiated the vicar's miarep_resentations by mustering in overpowenci numbers. The vestry room was utterly is,vie. guts for a tithe of those who flocked tlntLei, and an adjournment to an adjacent auction rune became necessary. The vicar presided, and is tie coarse of a lengthened speech defended the eviZence he gave before the Ritual Commission, contending that when he used the word parishioner he used it on an eulesiastical and not a civil sense. As he had done away with church rates and Easter dues. he appealed to them, to their generoeity, and as they would that men should do to them so they Munk) do to others, to leave him alone in his work. Having mat. nated his warden, two of his former churchwardens pro. posed and seconded the re-election of Mr. E. Bally u parish warden. Mr. 0. W. Sheppard, in an able speed, as an amendment that Mr. Henry Cockey g r t " a ° n7l )d proper person to serve the othce. This meal. meat having been duly seconded the vicar de alined to put it to the meeting, and awl was illegal, the custom having been to elect the wards for one year, but that he should serve for two years. He should stay the proceedings, and not allow them to racy the amendment. The vestry clerk, Mr. W. C. Cnittedf. solicitor, having been appealed to fur the law of the PM. decided against the vicar. Mr. Bennett refused to gm way, and ultimately (by the advice of the clerk) Lieute• nut Sheppard was elected chairman (the vicar protestia; against the step), and Mr. Cockey was then duly pro- pmed seconded, and elected by an overwhelming majority. J Mr. J . W. Singer, having consulted the vicar. dr. mended a poll for Mr. Bally which WAS 11%A to take place on the two following days. Afte the majority of the ratepayers, the second chairman. and the vestry clerk had left the meeting, the vicar and hie friends went through the process of electing N. Bally. Some amusement was caused by the fact that although the vicar and his supporters repudiated the election of a rival chairmen and the subsequent proceed. ins, they should so far forget themselve s as to demand poll and vote against the electioa of Mr. Cockey. Thee is great excitement in the town, and in all probability Cockey will be elected by a very large majority. THR IRISH CHURCH QUESTION IN SCOTLAND. There is a rapidly increasing agitation amongst the Preihy. aria' of Scotland upon this question. The United Pres. bytery of Glasgow has met, and agreed to and a depot, :ion to wait upon Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone with re ference to the Catholic University question. At Edinburg a meeting of the same body has been held, the Rev. Dr. Ogilvie, moderator. At this meeting Dr. Peddle gave ea report by a committee in reference to the Irish Church question. The report recommended the Presbytery to petition parliament "not only to refuse to endow a KOLIII2 Catholic University, but also to disestablish and dieendu the Protestant Episcopal Church In Ireland, to withdraw the Regius* Donau from the Presbyterians, and to abolish the Maynooth Grant to the Romeo catholica, and with s due regard to existing interests, to appropriate all the, revenues to national and secular purposes. Dr. Andrea Thomson moved the adoption of the report. Mr. Marshall. East Calder, said he considered the Presbytery was a won of Jesus Christ. and as such had nothing to do abates, with the kingdoms of this earth, or with politics, and be objected to the motion, more especially as in the petinoo proposed to be sent to parliament the church of Irel.u3l Tree oondemned upon political as well as religious mina. plea. He moved that the Presbytery do not adopt the yr =Mr. Seat seconded the amendment. After sore on the report was = i t ces ed by 37 to 2. A meetly; has also just been held at wrie, which was attended by several of the neighbouringPresbyterian ministers. It was addressed by the chairman, Mr. Mitchell, by the Revs. Mr. Bland end Mr. Wilson, Mr. H. D. &codex, Rev. D. Young, Mr. James Luke, Rev. Mr. Russell. aid others. A motion in favour of disendowment was carnal by a large majority. At Ayr, Dr. James Taylor, the tile bested U.P. minister of Gbagow, has delivered a lecture on the same subject, which was attended by a most la • antis! audience. Dr. Taylor's lecture was of a vent - er haustive character, end the meeting was subsequently ad• dressed by the Rev. Mr. Mclnnes and the Proved, who said that he thought it would be wise for the defenders of the Irish church to accept the majority of GO, and act . We understand that petitions for the diens dowswarmdinenflYof the Irish church are being largely sigeol throughout Scotland. Tim IRISH CHOWN QIIRSTION AT SUNDERLANP. —At Sunderland, en Saturday ght, a great public meets ing was held in the Lyman Theatre Lambtonareet. under the presidency of the mayor o f the borough (Mr. Alderman Gourley), to petition parliament in favour of Mr. Gladstone's reeolations, and the diseetablehmentaa disendowment of the Irish church. Though only two days' notice had been given of the meeting there was e vnry largeattendanoe, everypart of the house, exceoa gallery, being crowded. Mr. Candlish, MP. rat amongst the speakers. Resolutions in accordance with the objects of the meeting were adopted with but few dime. bents. ST. ALBAN'S HOLBORN. —Yesterday afterneol the anal Easter ' elsetice of oharchwardese for the church of St. Alban's, Holborn, took place, and a great deal of excitement prevailed in the parish. The proceeding. conducted in the school rooms, Leigh-court Itiookatrea which were crammed to excess. The Rev. Ur. Medea chi* (the chairman) nominated as his churchwarden Hubbard, a ratepayer, but one who did not reside in the pariah. Mr. Scutcliff nominated Mr. Baker, of (le) •• , ma-road, as the people's churchwarden. Mr. Nett and Mr. Denman also nominated Mr. Spiller, the Inc churchwarden, as the people's churchwarden. A protest having been entered against the election of Mr. Hofstad and Mr. Spitler on the ground of non-residence in the pariah, a show of hands was taken, which resulted le favour of Mr. Baker, who was then declared duly elected amidst cries of "No Popery !" "No confession !" In rail to a vote of thanks, the Rev. Mr. Mackonochie trusted the daring the year he would work amicably with his church . wardais. THE SPITAL SlRMONS.—Yesterday afternoon at three o'clock the Lord Mayor, who was attended by Sr: Sheriff McArthur, Mr. Sheri ff Stone, Mr. Thomas CW ben, Q.C., M.P., the Common Serbia, Mr. Somas/ 1 Potter and th*Rev. F. K. Lloyd Jonas, the Lord Mari! tunesproceeded in state to hear the " Sermon, zialbeaPk'w.,.....dleledThaiwas'aireacdatwilpectabiltanat4ugblnuyle:e.-cthesa°ll*rigearritinboinvfedy,hon Bishop ::claCthßocrThhriletoibofil:te::.:o3whrhe:fulirellllle.: con a the Rev. Michael Gibbs, M.A., vicar of Christ Church, after which the bishop ameba hone the leek chow, of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthiems, verses 42 sea 43, his subject being the " Resurrection." Daring eh' mourn of his sermon he made no allusion, even of the slightest ohs/ester, to the royal hospitals, or to the cil• easioleates trideh had brought 'cia to o party to 4 ° ' aura. Thb afternoon the Blt boys will go th Maamisabouse, where they will be regaled by the Lon Meyer, who will hand them a shlMese li i y t;the Greta" acerselbies seers. Afterwards the and Sheri'? will attend a Christ Ohara. whore a emcee sill be re p ached by the Rev. F. Lloyd Joan, M.A., OrdisalY , Neirgate, sad chaplain to the Lord Mayor. a