The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, lid.

admit it was in the power, bat neither did he
" think it was in the inclination, of hia nails
" friend Earl Rtresut to have given the cha-
" racter of a compact to such • declaration as
" this. In his opinion the nature of the case was
" snob that it defied all idea of a compact He
" confidently stated—holding then the language
" which for fifteen years he had always held in
• that House—that there was no benefit or advan-
" tags to the Dissenters or to the Church of Eng-
" land, by the maintenance on the statute-book of
" such a declaration sa this."
This reference to a pretended compact is in
plain truth altogether idle and irrelevant. The
real questires is whether the existing law is just in
itself, or in any sense necessary to the protection
of the Establishment. If it is not, then to main-
tain it against the feelings and convictions of half
the nation is an act of perfectly gratuitous and
oppressive tyranny. The opponents of its abo-
lition on the Tory benches allowed to the fullest
extent that the law is of no use whatever to the
Church ; but they persisted, nevertheless, in at-
tempting to maintain it. This was done even by
Mr. WALPOLE, who might have been expected to
take a more just, temperate, and sensible view of
so simple a matter. The right honourable
gentleman in this, however, illustrates the
truth of the maxim that evil commu-
nications corrupt good manners. Left to
himself, he would naturally have hesitated to de-
fend a useless remnant of intolerance; but the
leaders of his party having, in their new character
of ecclesiastical champions, determined to resist
any measure of reform, however wise, or just, or
necessary, he is dragged through the mire of ob-
struction in their wake. The position thus
taken by the Tory party on this measure is, as
Iwe have said, peculiarly instructive. They virtually
say, " The measure we oppose is perfectly fair
" and just. It proposes to abolish an enactment
" which is confessedly of no Ilse to the Church, and
" is notoriously felt as a grievance by Dissenters.
" But as Dissenters ask for its abolition, we are
" determined not to grant it. The Church can-
" not afford to deal justly or honestly with Dia-
" senters, and we are resolved in its name to
" act in a persecuting spirit, and defend to the
" uttermost every vestige of existing intolerance
" and political inequality." We confidently
appeal to all fair-minded and intelligent Church-
men against this utterly unworthy and ignoble
species of championship, and ask them to compare
it with the higher and truer ground of defence
taken in the debate by the CHANCELLOR
of the RICHLQUEE :-" It had been said that the
" Church of England was in danger, and that the
" pressure of this declaration was meant to be
" upon Dissenters. If the Church of England
" were in any danger, he believed it was from
" internal dimensions ; but he sincerely trusted
" she might outlive them, for it would be a sad
" day for the nation, Dissenters included, if
" she should cease to exist. But, for his own
" part, he could not find, in the legislation of late
" years, any trace of danger to the Char:A of
" England. He thought they had • security for
" the Church in the seal of its own members,
" proved by sure experience—a security of •
" thoroughly natural and wholesome character,
"because it was produced by the free action of
" free discussion in that Hones."

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COIIIIOM-114aca 4.

QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICES ABOLITION BILL.
Oilier for third reading read, motion made, and
(motion proposed, "That the bill be now mai the third
time"—Amendment proposed, to leave oat the word
" now," and at the end of the question to add the words
" upon this day six months Newderate :)--Quee-
tins pat, " That the word ' sow' stand part of the ques-
tion :"—The house divided : Ayes 175, nos 171.

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ale Court.

WINDSOR OARTLR, 1114scs 4.

The Queen and the Crown Print* an d princess
of Prussia went to London this morning, and honoured
Baron Marochetti, Mr. need, and Mr. Noble, with Tints
at their studios, to see the statues of the Prince] Consort
which are now being executed.
The Crown Prince and Princess went afterwards to Buck-
ingham Palace.
The Prince of Wales, attended by LieutenaoLGeneral
Knollys and Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, went to London.
_ .

The Prince and Prince= Louis of Home drove in the
grounds of the Castle.
The Queen, accompanied by the Crown Prince and Princess
of Prussia, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by
Major•Oeneral Seymour.

The Bight Hon. Sir George Grey left town yesterday
afternoon for Windsor Coeds.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. Sir J. Coleridge gave judgment on an appeal from
New South Wales, " Williams v. Byrnes," that the judg-
ment of the Supreme Court cannot be sustained, that their
lordships would recommend her Majesty to set aside the
decree, and that the parties amend their pleas. A petition
for a prolongation of Norton's patent for "weaving figured
fabrics" was heard. Their lordships refused the applica•
Lion. The lords present were Lord Kingdoms, the Master
of the Rolls, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir E. Ryan, end Sir L. Peel.

Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey and Colonel
F. Seymour, C. 8., have been sent to Brussels by
her Majesty to conduct her Royal Highness the
Princess Alexandra of Denmark to England,
having been selected as the senior members of the
household of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort, and as having attended his
royal highness upon his arrival in England.

LATEST INTIBILLD

POLAND.
SPREAD OF THE INSURRECTION.

The Paris Prase of last evening says :
"It can no longer be doubted that the Polish
movement, which seemed to have been arrested by
the two bloody days of Malagozy, is suddenly re-
organised with vast proportions. All the bands
now appear to conform to a plan concerted intelli-
gently. They appear in all parts of Poland ; they
boldly glide between the exhausted Rue-
Man columns, and converge towards Lithuania,
where an explosion is imminent. Already this
morning the telegraph from Warsaw brings
us the translation of an article in the
Military Journal, which confesses that the in-
surrection is increasing. Nor is this all. We
know that at Warsaw there are two publications,
the bulletins of which are contradictory. The
Thiennik, which is intended for the people, systema-
tically registers bulletins of victory, and incessantly
represents the insurrection as crushed. But, con-
currently with this journal, the Russian go-
vernment causes to be printed clandestinely
a journal exclusively destined for the army.
The following is published in that paper :
' The commandants of troops ought to neglect
nothing, and to abandon no means of suppressing
the insurrection. It ought to be observed that
although we have been successful in all the encoun-
ters with the rebels, this insurrection is by no means
vanquished, and is assuming from day to day larger
proportions.' To these accounts we may add a
significant fact. The greater part of the foreign
journals are confiscated at the gates of Warsaw,
and the Sreutz Zeitung itself is, in all which con-
cerns the news from Poland, subjected to serious
mutilations before it can be distributed."

A letter from Cracow of the let, in the Debata,
stays :

The corps of General Langiewicz, represented by the
Rumania despatches as having been beaten, dispersed, sad
annihilated, holds out against the regular troops, and effects
movements and engages in combats, in which courage sup-
plies the place of numbers. The insurrection is now gene.
ral. When pat down in one point it breaks out in another,
and fresh centres are being established in the governments
of Haliach and of Plonk. The Russians bad con-
centrated all their efforts to crush, in the government of
Radom and in the neighbourhood of Kielce, the rising directed
by Langiewics, and no sooner is that done than fresh com-
batants start up. The adjoining Polish provinces furnish
their contingents. From Wloclawek, on the Vistula, to the
frontier of Galicia, the country is in insurrection. Detach-
ments of insurgents make their appearance and
tight at Eutaw, Kolo, Konin, Csenstochow, in the neigh-
bourhood of Kalish, and on the Kalowitz railway.
Information as to the insurrection in Lithuania, and
on the other bank of the Vistula, reaches this place with
difficulty, and the Cracow telegraph in a general way only
sends to Europe the accounts of military operations which
take place in the country nearest to the Gallician frontier.
There is nothing, however, to throw any doubt on the
extension of the insurrection throughout the whole
country. The following is an incident which deserves
mention :--Senator Petroff was at the residence of M.
Pagodin, his father-in-law, who was in • dying state,
when the place was surrounded by the insurgents.
Langiewicz made M. Petroff prisoner, and wishing
to exchange him for one of his companions who bad fallen
into the hands of the Russians, kept him prisoner with him
for some days. Having received intelligence that his un-
fortunate friend had been shot, and that exchange had be-
come impossible, beset M. Petroff at liberty, and he rejoined
his family at Warsaw. He was afterwards sent for by the
Grand Duke to give him an account of his stay in the incur
gent's camp. Cracow has become, since the affair of
Miechow, • city of desolation. Nearly 2,000 fend-
lies, who have lose all they possessed in the lire and
pillage of that place, and who fled from the ferocity of the
Russians, have sought refuge on the Gallician territory in
the most complete state of destitution. The charity of the
inhabitants, although very active, cannot suffice for so
many calls on it. The Russian officials, who are among the
number of the refugees, state that they never could have
believed in the cruelties which have been exercised, had
they not been eys-witnesses to them. The town of Miechow
is completely burnt to the ground, and Jendruijow is at this
moment burning.

"The Pope," says the Nation, "has replied in
severe terms to the request of Count de Kiaseleff,
the Russian ambassador, that his Holiness should
publish an encyclical letter against the Polish in-
surrection. The representative of the Czar had
neglected nothing which he thought could influ-
ence the mind of the Sovereign Pontiff According
to his account the Polish clergy were imbued
with the most revolutionary principles. The Pope
held firm, and has even, it is said, given orders
for the republication of the protests of Cle-
ment XIII. and Clement XI V. against the partition
of Poland."

(110Thi'll mum/ AM
DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCESS
ALEXANDRA FOR ENGLAND.
BRUSSELS, M•zoi 5, 10.15 A. IL

Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra,
with the Prince and Princess Christian of Den-
mark, and Princes Frederic and William, left at
9.30 this morning for Antwerp, where they will
embark for England.

The English Minister, the Grand Marshal of the
Belgian Court, and other personages of distinction,
accompanied the august party to Antwerp.
. . .

The Prince of Hesse and the Duke of Glucks-
burg left at 10 o'clock this morning, with their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Brabant and the
Count of Flanders, for London, by way of Calais,
accompanied by several high dignitaries of the Bel-
gian court.