The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-12 00:00:00

LONDON,

Wa thought that Hampshire had fairly won pre-
sidiums is the freaks of Panyism. Lout of all,
had we bees asked to name its rival, would it
have occurred to us to suggest the metropolitan
county of Herts. Yet so it is. Wiliam, Hunger-
ford, and nimbi& mast henceforward be named toge-
ther, if, indeed, the last has not attained an undis-
puted title to precedence.
Salem Chapel, Shaba, is illustrious in the annals
of Nonconformity as the preaching place of Joss
BUNYAN, until the time when he lighted upon his
dew. There still flourish some descendants of the
Alan of his Church, which has preserved through-
out many visimitades the faith handed down
from him. In the recesses of the neighbouring forest
were shown, so bag time since, the tree, the hut,
sad the fireside, where he lied, was sheltered, and
even preached to those whom persecution bed ne
power to matter. A noble army of martyrs lies
buried limeade the sod, and in all our island there
can be no more hallowed spot than the ground where
BIIIITAN wee wont to console his flock in their times
of bereaveseest.

But Belem Chapel, Hitch's, was not amemeated.
In its cemetery might officiate, and sadeabtedly did
officiate, those whose spostolical eseesmies was
vouched far by no proof whatever beyond a emus=
resemblanee in spirit, faith, and practice to a com-
mon Master. The only admissible evideuos was
wanting of an unbroken descent through a line of
priests whom no disorders could drive from the bosom
of a maternal Church. The want weighed heavily
upon the mind of Mr. 01,0101 L BRILIATON SHAZPZ,
surgeon, of Hitchia. Bora of parents who
bad become Dissenters on conviction, be had
seen both in the course of nature taken from him,
and had sorrowed km for that they were gathered
to their fathers than that one of them lay within the
Belem barial•gronnd. One of the greatest objects of
his life, be tells us, was to effect her disinterment.
But we shall do him injustice if we express it in any
words but hie own. "If, next to ensuring and carry-
ing out the objectsof my baptismal calling, there was

an object for which, as one of the greatest I
could entertain, my poor life was worth continuance,
that object has now been aooomplished." Were it
not perfectly obvious to us from Mr. SHARPE'S comma-
niestions with the press that he is beyond being
pained by any remarks of oars, we would not go on
to elate the manner of its accomplishment. His
father has died bat lately, and Mr. SHARP/ he/ been
under the necessity of taking order for his burial.
In this matter it appears that his mind had been
long nada tip to a splendid instance of filial disobe-
dience, and of sublime devotion to the Church of his
adoption. His father's wish had been to lie by his
mother's side, at Salem ChapeL To remonstrances
interposed on the ground of poesible difficulty in
finding roots, the old man replied in a manner which
seems to have loft farther objection impossible, that
he " did not ears if he had only a foot of earth over
him." To wishes each as them, which for the credit
of our =mean humanity we hope all fathers would
not need thus to make known to their children, Mr.
Chows BREJLETON Smart opposed simply an
inflexible determination. Under no eircuestances
should his father lie by his moths?. side at Salem
Chapel. Since her death, he had got the old man some-
times to his parish church, and had had him well
lectured by the " Rev. Professor Dux," oa the sinful.

ems of his life and soaverastioa as s Dimeates.
Hs somas to lam thought that this mom of reps-

ration had nndored his father a St recipient, ;ad
through him his mother, of whatever efficacy was
resident ice consecrated mould. " Considering in the
light of Holy Scripture how the husband is the had
of the wife, and that my mother's dissent, if each it
might be called, wee a matter of eiremasstance and
not of doctrine, I .crowed it to be ao violation of
church discipline that not only one bat both permits
sh( uld have a Seal resting-plaos in %Week church."
But how to get them then was sew the question.
He tells us that anticipating difficulty from the
chapel authorities—whom he likens for his argument
to a "solicitor or mine host" claiming so inconve-
nient use on property depodted with him—he made
no application to them for the removal of his
mothers remains. He also avoids the necessity
et a personal collides with the chapel-keepa.
He puts himself in the way of the chapel keeper's
wife, and asks leave to ge into the beryiargroand,
le ere along rem She lets him in, accompanies
him to the family vault, and he then tells her that be
wishes to make arrangements for the batermeat of
his father. Bite acquiesces, " putting," he ism cc bar
own sonstrustioa" upon it that his Jauntiest* could sots
ands his painful eireamstanses, be otherwise than
propw—which we ornately agree with him i• think-
ing a *most dangerous practice." He seeds for a couple
of men, digs up the grave, turn out wpm the bare
grouted the bodies of his stepmother sad of two
children of kis brother (away is Canada), brake
through the brickwork, olhiao his motion body,