The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-30 00:00:00

THE BISHOP 07 01101 D AND TEE BISHOP

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The Bishop of Oxford has addressed the following
pastoral letter to his dery :
" Cadderdoo Palm" March 27.

" Reverend and dear Brethren,—Yen have doubtless read
the letter addressed to the Bishop of Nand by nearly all the
bishops of our church who were within reach of Ragland.
His reply announces, as you will have seen, that be is re-
solved to persevere in the course on which he has entered.
"Yon will not, I feel sate, think it possible for um to
leave the matter here. As our exportulation bee failed to
lead the bishop either to reconsider his views or to resign,
se we think him bound in honesty to do, the office which wee '
committed to him on his profession of that belief in the
Holy Scriptures which he now declares himself to have
abandoned, it seems to me, and to the great majority of my
brethren, to be our plain duty to guard our own dioceses
from the ministry of one who is, in our judgment, disquali-
fied from the szercim of any spiritual function in the church
of Euglaod. I therefore forbid his being suffered to minister
in the Word sad Sacraments within my diocese.

W" This) prohibitioa seems to me the more °scenery, be-
cause it is his Milos osly which gives any importance to
speculation so rash sod so feeble in themselves as us those
of the Bishop of Natal. In all essential points they are but
the repetition of old and oftes-answered cavils against the
Wad of God.

"It bi a matter of deep thankfulness to me to believe
that there is no leaven of this unbelief to be found among
as But, my beloved brethren, let us not rest contented
with this mere immunity from error. Bather let the sight
of a brother so misled humble and warn ea Let us all
learn to esteem more highly God's blessed Word, to guide
our lives more closely by ita teaching, to receive more
revereetly its truths, and to build our hopes more entirely
on its prossises.
"So shall the, se se rosily former assaults of the enemy
upon the Faith have dose, lead, through the unbouodieg
mercy of our Gad, to the exaltation of His Truth awl the
advaaeseeent el His Glory.—l remain your faithful Wised
and teethe?. " 8. °ION."

The Jews of the Grand Dishy of Baden, who
obtained some months teak the sojoymset of their political
rights, resolved to give a public mark of their gratitude by
cleat* a fluid la aid of the schoolmasters of ell creeds, who
we lasellicieritly paid. A collsctioa made luaoag that reli-
gious bod► for t►e object in gosetioa has produced the sum
d 30,000 &alas (70,0000.

On &birds] evening the crews according
to the usual custom, were entertains:l at dinner
bz.tles: Thames Subscription Club. About a hundred gee
at St. Jamee's Hall-
seemilded for this purpose
and me down to dinner at 7 o'clock. The disk wan
taken by the Hoe. G. Burma., M.P., oa whose right,
pissed alteeeably, ware the members of the reeperative
crew. OxfordapPying the post of greeted howur.
The wool Wails were honoured with beams*
eatheeleent, •no less medial reeeption wee extras.' bMr. Hammen, who renewed thanks for the Houma
of Lords and 00CUISOMS.
The CHAIRMAN, is introducing the neat toast, The
Health of the Oxford and Cambridge Crewe," mid
bad now been twenty noes bailees% Oxford and Cam-
bridge, sod the more at prima stood—ten for Oxford
end tee for Cambridge. If he were asked to what, more
than thything, the recent swormive victories of ono
university bad been due, he should say to the fact that
for the lest three years there bad bees in the stern of
the Oxford boat ow of the steadied, one of the pluckiest,
one of the moat competent of oarsmen. (Applause.)
For three years running Mr. Hoare had pulled stroke
I. the Oxford boat, and for three years running that boat
had won • he did not believe in either university that there
was Randier instance in which the same man had pulled
slacks in each of his noes and won them all. (Applause.)
Mr. Cain returned thanks on behalf of the crew of the
Oxford Usivemity, °Warring, sa be did to, that he was
placed in the awkward positioe of acknowledging a com-
pliment altogether due to smother MAIL They had hoped
at Oxford to have brought • batter crew to the start at
Putney ; but, in preparing for the tame, they enjoyed some
great 'dean and soots great diesdrantagn. They
were ex y fortunate is having all the eight men
who rowed I. the race last year to choose from, and their
mown had seen further facilitated by the excellence
of the boat built for them by Mr. Salter. On the
other hand, the loss of their great *each and captain,
Mr. liornwo, of Bethel, wino had led them on to victory in
the two preceding years, was a great dwouragement. Mere
than to any other caws they owed the remit thin day to
their stroke, Mr. Hoare, compered with whom the effoets 0/
all the rest of the crew were as wthieg. (No, no.) There
never was such .stroke. (Applause.) The stamen were al-
ways meatioesd on owasioas of this kind. (A laugh.) They
hoped last year to make web arrangements as would enable
the crews, in ewe the steamers did not choose to keep be-
hind, to pull beck to the house and to caws to start that
day. (Loud erne of " Hear, bear.") But this year it had
been found impossible to abide by that decision ; the extent
of time at their command and the state of the tides min.
pelted tam to row the ram. He would only. say might it
never be their lot to do so agaia aoder similar circumstances.
Although the day might just as well have been cold or rain-
ing, the men were kept
.waiting in the middle of the river
with nothing but their jerseys on, while steamers ran up et
each side of them, frequently creating such confusion that
they had almost to start themselves without any umpire at
all. lie hoped the nice would be rowed next year under more
favourable circumstaeose, and that as time progressed they
would be enabled to improve their arrangements, so as, on
the one hand to keep steamers babied the starting point,
and, oa the other, to enable those on board to see the race,
which he feared many had not dope that day.
Mr. SirvLY thanked the amembly for the warm manner in
which the health of the Cambridge crew had been reoeived.
It proved that they bed not quite lost faith ir. them, and,
though defeated, that the members of the Thames Subecrip-
tion Club gave them credit for having done their best (Ap-
plause.) Mr. OUT had expressed regrets& not having brought
up a better crew from Oxford. Hs was only sorry that he
had not brought up a worse. Lauhter.) tie hoped next
year that Oxford would not (
takeg so much trouble in its
selections. The steamers bad bees so often abused that he
thought that day they ought to receive a little credit ; for
really they had kept behind pretty well. (Hear, hear.)
Allowance being made for the state of the wind and tide,
they had as fair a start as could be expected.
Mr Cans then proposed the toast of the • Thames Sub-
earipties Club," which entitled itself to sympathy by the
encouragement its operatioos gave to rowing interests gene-
rally ;by thepart which it annually took in wows-ion with
the Thames tta, and which had an especial claim on
the gratitude o university men, by the hospitalities it ex-
ercised towards their representative crews every year. In
connexion with the toast he begged to place the name of
their chairman, Mr. Denman, himself an oar of no inoonsi.
derable repute. (Warm applause.)
The Clean/LW, in respoieg on behalf of the Thames Sub-
scriptioa Club, said it was the aim of its members, by assist-
ing the Intermit, by promoting the Thames Regatta, and
by every other mune is their power to keep up the rowing
of the London river. To that sad, not without difßcalties,
perhaps, they had laboured for WOW years past. They were
always happy to receive the crews of the rival uoivetsities
at their table, but, in doi therebyy were uponlly disin-
terened, for prestige wan coeferrethe club,
and • direct stimulus given to its labours.
Other touts followed, and the proceedings were agreeably
protracted.

Ehrvews, Mssca 17.—Under telegram from
Ham Nobs—Our settee 00111111141i041 has purchased a
large quantity of Appian send, await* the orasignimemts
on the way. Yeeteedey measures were lakes far the die-
tributioa. The spots of the Ails Miser Cozzy am
expected. Bale bee fallen. The city is pert quiet,
and the prosecution of the Greeks for minishing Jews
is going oe. Amon tbe English and leeks@ peat agile-
tmile spiest the poll-tax sad the Elapreme
Court, sod yet
more thee six English.
women hare submEted to the tax.

es see`, Mr. Baialgen,
The liefpont to obi& mententioa Ms bees director&
in preparing the designs for the Thames embankinen, is the
depth sad character of the requisite fonadations, and the
mods of constructiog them sad the mabaakment wall. In
ardor to determine teem pox a, borings were made in the
bed of the river, &beg the Ilse of the face of the embank-
mot, down to the Leedom clay ; the remit of which L
herewith submit for the omaidemnon of the based, and
from them • longitudinal mediae of the substratum of the
river under she promos& ..mbeakatent wall hr been
formed. From this section it appears that, with non
exception, Indicated apse the section, the river mad and
lead averages about 7 fed in depth, and that below it, is
• bed of gravel, varying ia annesses and ohmmeter , over-
laying the Loudest clay, end averaging from about ISfeet
to 25 feet in thickness; and that the London day is readied
at • depth of about 42 feet below Triad" high-water math.
I am of opinion that a 'efficient sad solid fonndatioe for the
embankment wall can be obtained upon the lower ponies
of this bed of gravel, at a depth of shoat 14 fete below
low-water mark, sad 10 feet above the Louden clay, or
about the depth of the bottom of the deep water chan-
nel of the river in the mid train. In order to gat
in the foundations to this depth I propose, by exonstmg
within them, to sink • acerbated lino of iron mimosas an
shown upon the accompanying drawing Na 1, and to fill
them with Portland cement ocaorete to Man 6 feet of low
water ;at this depth, sod upon the ooneroto, will be built
the brick granite-faced enthankimat wall shows rime the
lame drawing. TM caucus will be so oesstreoW se to
form a full tide dare, and the work will be earned on is
short lengths, so that the upper maims of the dam drove
low water can be removed, as each senile her eampleted, sad
employed in the farmatien of the adjourn' Leith ; thus
the ironwork seed as a dam between high and low water will
not be wasted, but will become available for other parposs
after the whole work is completed. This, thrdon, will
be • sale, rapid, and somornical mode of operation. Be-
hind the embankment wall, and underneath the roadway,
itis proposed to coonntot the sobway and sewers, as arrange-
ment which will add smelt to the stability of the embank-
ment wall. The total leaf*, of the embankment
byaboat 7,000 feet, but it as completely divided
by the bridges into three seetiose, each el
whisk will be viewed by itself, sad the line
of Menu will not onlinarily be continued from me section
to the other. The first section is from Westminster to
Hangerford bridge, the mood from iimpeferd bridge to
Waterloo, and the third from Waterloo to Bleekfraus.
bridge. A continuous line of embankment wall would Dot
io itself be productive of much architectural Also* the
preempt landmg-places for steamboats are exceedingly sagly,
and there would be much difficulty connecting the river
wall with the existing bridges, so as to produce an effective
and oousistent dense. Al mash of the bridges there am,
and most be, landisg-plaoea far steamers, and midway be-
tween the bridges there are beadier-pieoes of some deacrip-
Um, which will have to be sualsed. To meet these re-
cinnamon it is proposed to treat oath length of eadisah-
meat from bridge to bridge as • oomplete deign, sad to
mike the aleambeat-plers sod leading-plum prominent
sad Omens es well as motel sad theesemy feature
At Weelminster-bridge the teadway, which rises at as
indindion of 1 in 80 to the level of the bridge, is set back
sew 30 or 40 fed from the face of the mse
sad the iaterveniag moos would be reserved as •
I promenade arid steamboat-p.m, having acne., from the
bridge by a wide end imposing !deg of tees apps
site the Roans of Parliament. This will tenenate itbW
abrapiness the varying styles of anblierstuse at this paid
Wratminster sad Haagerleid held... would be
heaffingotairs for smaller weft, ea ben it is proposed to
kiesiese the beserifid wets pas now situated at the en/
diliwkiagban.-stassi and rested slier • done by Idea
Jena. On either side of Hnagerford bad Waterloo bridoes
would be steamboat landing-pieces,the dumb... for which
world be partly onoceded within moms formed by pro-
, jecturg into the river in front of the general line of ora-
-1 -est mammies panne pare with moulded pedants].
thing &bout SD feet the roadway (is the mannershown
uponthearoompanyieg model), sad hereafter to be enriched
with bas-reliefs sad surmouuted by groups of statuary.
Half.way between Hnaprford and Waterloo bridges it is
peopasdd to mastenet a flight of landing-steps GO feet-wide
projecting into the river end flanked at each end with toss-
aim piers Mies to the level of a few feet shove the road-
way, sad hereafter to be surmounted with colossi dgares
of river deities, or other appropriate groups. It is wo-
wed to form an approach for foot pemeagers from the high
level roadway to the river by a amend light of steps de-
scoodies to the level of the lower or embankamit roadway,
which would add much to the east at this mend feature
as viewed from the river. On either side of this emcee&
• Ilse of shops could be rested en the lead side of the
mobankmeot roadway, the becks of which would form
• retaining wall to the oramaintal eresorat and
above them. Between Weenloo sad Bleck-
=enwilirtiges, mod in treat of Arenclelptreet, •
steamboat pier would be connected, in lien of the present
Emen-strest pier, &dried upon the mar principle as those
'Arming the bridges and shown epos the drawing No. 2.
The embeakment wall itself has been enriched with mould-
Mr of a simple character down to the level of high-water
mark, the continuo= line of moulding being brokity tis
introductioe, at intervals, of msesive blocks of to to
carry ornamental lamps, as shown upon drawing o. 3, and
by ocomional Mesas for peomeneds sesta. It is
in the first inatanoe oranniet the embankment d
sad
fill in behind it to the level of 4 feet above Trinity high-
water mark, and afterwards to arrange for the laying out of
the area reclaimed. 1 promos to divide the work into two
contracts, the Inca Wenninater Watorloo-bridge„
which may be lat about the sad et May or only in Jam
ad the second, from Waterloo to Maddens, bridge, which
may be let before August seat."
The report was rewired end adageed.
After the usual roatioehmisses bed ben diorama of, the
board adjourned.