The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-18 00:00:00

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The Hartley celebrations terminated at daylight
this morning, on the breaking ip of a magnificent ball given
by the Mayor to the airs od the town and neighbourhood•
ia the lecture theatre of the Hartley Institute. Lord sad
Lady Paluerstoe fully blinded to be present at the hall,
but they were prevented by the unexpected arrival of
visitors et Broadlanda. An axprer arrived here late last
night to the Mayor from the Premier, expressing his lord-
ship's sinews regret that he was not able to participate
spin in his woeship's hospitality. Lord Palmerston having
been expected at the ball the Illuminations in the town
were repeated bat night, and wen superior in splendour to
those of the night before. A novelty was introduced in the
shape of an nominated banner, on which was emblazoned
the coat of arms of the Premier. This Bag was formed of
two immense squares of irk united at all the edges except
the lower one. Ape pipe ran up the lag staff, en arm of
which, bored with holes, went inside the two squares of
silk, and this arm, when lit up, cared a laming banner
to appear in the sky throughout the night. The ball was a
brilliant one, a number of volunteer uniforms mingling with
those d the army and navy. The reception room was the
museum of the institute. The Mayor and Mayor=
stood three until midnight receiving guests. His
reship wore daring the ceremony the golden me-
dieval 01UNNISMO of him sannisipel rise. lore idsa
of the rebut hal& which the Premier enjoys may be
formed from the fact that on Wednesday, while his lord-
ship was in an open carriage in the procession, a shower d
rain felt He after this delivered si: 'perches with nada&
ging ssargy, end at 10 /Mask et sight returned to Boom,
without hie great coat, as it weld not be found uxtil after
his departure. One of the most singular incidents of Wed-
nesday was the following :—A number of persons were on
the tower of Holyrbood rum* in the llighetreet, to wit-
tier the procession. On the tower are some stone ball
ornaments, soak weighing about two hundred-weight Hun-
dreds of people were standing in front of the church, which
is an old one. The mortar which fastened the balls must
have decayed, for owing to the premiere of those on the
tower, one of the balls rolled off, and glancing against tire
buttress, fell amidst a group of people, without injuring
any one, though it broke the flag stone of the pavement
on which it alighted.

THE BIRKENHEAD DISTURBANCES.

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LIVERPOOL, leamty.

Fortunately there was no repetition of violence
het night on the part of the Roman catholic mob, who on
Wednesday night created each fearful excitement in Bir-
kenhead. This was °whim donbtkee, to the fact that
Colonel Adams, who was in command of the military, in-
tended to act with very great vigour in the event of the
riot being renewed : the presence also of 200 of the Liver-
pool police force, who ware is readiness in ease
of any outrages being committed, also tended to
overawe the mob, It appears that the statement
relative to the Roman catholic priest instigating
the rioters by s speech on Wednesday is not correct, and
that, though the rev. gentleman did address a large number
of pence', he spoke rather in favour of their oondiuSing
themselves peaceably than otherwise. During yesterday
afternoon a number of Roman catholic clergy west moms
to Birkenhead and visited the houses in the low Irish
quarter of the town. with a view of endeavouring to pre-
vent s further outbreak. As the inductors of the clergy is
very great, the also bad a tendency to allay the excitement.
The magistrates decided that in ewe of a further dis-
turbance the town should be placed under the
protection of Colonel Adams, who, with a detach-
ment of his ore, would have dealt summarily with
the mob by firing into them. As tending to excite the
passions of the rioters, without effeetittr, the slightest good,
the conduct of police and volunteers shouting party cries
was very reprehensible. Whilst in the market-ph**, the
special constables and volunteers sang the National Anthem,
gave three cheers for the Queen, three for Garibaldi, the
magi hates, Mr. Laird, sad Colonel King, their commander.
After this three deep groans were given for the Pope, aad
three still deeper for the Emperor of the French.

A HETERODOX BISHOP.
(From tin English Oltierchmen.)

In our "Notes and Topics" last week we briefly
alluded to a report that a work opal the Pentateuch, by
Bishop Colenso, was about to be published, end that it
would put forth such opinions upon the subject as would
be at variance with orthodox teaching. We expressed •
hops that there was some exaggeration in the rummy
which were in circulation respecting this volume; but
having since seen what protegees to be a quota-
tioe from the introduction to it, we greatly fear
that there min be very little foundation for soy hope
of the kind, and ft seems evident that the
publioation of this work will necessitate eoclesiiotioal pro-
ceedings against Bishop Colette°, unless it be preceded or
accompanied by his formal resignation of his office. Under
ordinary circumstances we should have waited, though very
anxiously, for the pnblicatioe of the volume before Raying
thus much ; but such cites are so rare, and this cats ss of
such evident importance, that we consider it our duty to
take the earliest opportunity of bringing it before our
raiders ; and it behoves those in authority to promptly pie-
pare themselves for such action in the matter as the wise
may admit of. What that action may be we cannot at pre-
sent state, for, as we have long at) pointed out, and more
than once, our Clergy Discipline Acts and Bills have been ea
uniformly and strangely defective in this particular, that
their authors Mak to have doubted,or atall events they have
utterly ignored, the possibility of a bisbop's offending
against the laws ecolesisstical. Why there should not be a
reform of the law with regard to the trial of bishops as well
as of that for the trial of Fiesta and deacons, we never
could understand. In the absence of such • reform, we
should expect to meet with considerable difficulties in bring-
ing any offending bishop to trial, conviction, and sentence,
even though the offence were committed by a bishop in the
United Kingdom • and we fear that the difficulty may be
still greater with ;spud to a colonial bishop.
It is time, however, that we gave the eztrect referred to
from the Bishop of Natiare Introduction. It appears that •
satire —a Zulu—who had bee, reading the divine record of
the deluge, looked up and salted :
"Is all that true ? Do you really believe that all this
happened thus, that all the besets, and birds, and creeping
things upon the earth, large nod small, from hot countries
and cold, came thus by pairs, and entered into the ark with
Noah ? And did Noah gather food fur them all, for the
boots and birds of prey as well as the rest I"
Upon this Bishop Ocitsuso observes :
"I felt that I dared not, as • servant of the God of truth,
mge my brother man to believe that which I do not myself
believe, which I knew to be untrue as a matter-of-fast
historical narrative."
And he arrives at the following conclusion, which con-
tains the essence of his offence, and seems quite sufficient
of ikon to justify and demand proceedings against him :
"Our examination has forced on us the conviction,
season of the utter impossibilities and absurdities contai
in it, that the whole story of the 'Exodus' is • fiction ;
that, coosequeotly, no such 'groups of laws' were ever tail
down in the wildernesses the story describes. And if the
last four books of the Pentateuch must be pronounced to
be fictitious, it will hardly be contended that the 'Book elf
Genesis' can loamy other than in the main fictitious also.* :

MSTROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. —The weekly
mostillff of the board was bold yesterday ; Mr. J. Thwaitse
is the chair. The chief meginew in reply to a question said
he should be prepared to present his report on the subject
of the Thames embankment in *limit a, week, and after
some discern= it was resolved that this report should be
made to • committee of the whole board. A report was
brought up from the main drainage rem i dee, recommending
in consideration of extra services performed by the clerks in
the solicitor's departommt during the late partiameatary
sessioe, that Mr. Hogarth receive a gratuity of M. 10s..
Mr. Taylor 471. 10a. and Mr. Fry 391. 7s. his. It farther
recommended that Mr. Smith, the solicitor. should receive
a sum of Zia. It was urged in apposition that as Mr.
Smith bad a salary of 1,0001. a year he was amply paid for
his services, tad that the other oaken for say extra work
would be sufficiently remunerated by •smaller sem. After
a lug disoussion the proposition war carried by thirteen to
Diu as regarded the clerks, and with only three dissentients
la regard to lir. Smith. A report Ins brought up from the
streets committee, reeommendieg that the applioetioe of
Moon. Timothy and Co. and Mesas. Sparkman and Co.,
for the storage at petroleum and its products at Mellish's
Wind, Millwall,he sot granted. Mr. Collieeee tkaaght It
was very bard epos these persons that the license should
be refused without any instruction having been gives to
them I what way they Gould comply with the ant. At
peewit they were liable to a penalty of 501. • day while
they were without a Soma The recommendation was
edoplea. Bore* miser nation were dieposert of and the
hunt adjwateeti.