The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-13 00:00:00

READY-MADE SERMONS.

A grievance (says the Athenatuni), which has girea
time to • good deal of diseditialselioa, ie the literary earn°
Mr of the groat msjority of our sermon. People fancy
the; meashow or other, the clergy as • body do not in this
Saner gait* keep prom with the times. Some months ego
• umberable archdeacon charged his clergy to bestow more
peias upon their pulpit addresses, to take • wider ranges,
sad istroduce into them • greater diversity of topic. These
recommeadatioss wire shortly afterwaros estoreed by •
bodies article ia • aewapiper. The article gave strong
ezprossioa to the patrol opinion; bet we do not hear that
much good has yet been *Gored, either by the functionary
of the church or by him of tbe press. A correspondent
(l. C ) acids us an anecdote wbien msv, perbepe, throw •
little light upon the stetter. He tells us that, having
es the late Theakagiving &today mot gag bees
annoyed by • nonsense.' meatus la his own perish
ekarth, be sought ca the evening of the same day
for improved spiritual feed is the clunk of the adjoining
Cr:. There, is dee time, to his li,rrer gad amazement,
oh-Alward the seats test Riven our, gad was issademoed to
sit through the *awe ideatiool sermon delivers] over again,
word for word, by soother clergyman. lie was at drat
imbued to be live that thin was mere evilence of the good
sadentandiag bolero's the rector of the can portal and the
Curate or the other—a proof of • kind of intereotainonage
between obese reverend worthies, by ankh one mt of me-
lba'. was made to do duty for two parishes. But, chancing
the followiag morning ti take up one of the clerical news-
papers, his atteo.tion WY attracted by the following
**meat To the Cutesy. Sebastopol. Sermon:
reedy for &today seat, heiag toe day appointed
for offering up prayer and thanksgiving for the capture
et Sobsaiwpol... Curiosity prompted our is mopes.
dot to upend half-a crown is the purchase of one of these
ready sate ecclesiastical articles. On looking at it be food
that it was merely Monsieur Towle some @gain—the very
same identical prosy thing, without religion or patriotism,
that he had twice been watt spto U into hemline to on the day
before. Oor correspondent is eatreasely ind,gaant—but
surely all this is very •staral. Yeller quotes grave anther
city for the 'esteem of • /hint Kan:bell who began to
preach as soon as he was bores Our young lads are sot
gaits so elsve, but they begin to preach as soon es they en
ordained ; ad es it cannot be sapeeted that they should
know much about the business coo pains baldric bees
bestowed on isstrootiag them in it) it is not at all wonderful
that they should occasionally take advantage of the frip-
pery provided for them by some theolegical Moses sad
Cm. Bad as the article provided oo this ocieseius We/ downed
Mbe by our correspondent, it is by no means clear that he
was sot • gainer by the two clergymen having os this *am-
dee treated their congregations with that which eat them
seinothiag.

Lord Braybroolte has erected a mural monument
is the chased of Saffron Walden church, to the memory
of his two gallant sons +befell, one at Inkermann, and the
ether in the cabby *barge at Rataklava. A touchiog in-
scription records that they were of the ages of 24 and 30,
the third and fiPh sou of their parents.
A GRAND BALL is to be given at the Aldershott
Club Rooms es Tuesday Brit, to inaugurate the club.
Some hundreds of invitations hoes been issued, and amongst
Om damn of rank and dlitinction whose presence is sun-
'Yaw, we may mention L'ird Pal mare, Lord Hardispr
mad his Royal H•gbaras the Duke of Cambridge.
BRITISH ITALIAN LlGlON.—Although there are
about 150 commissions available for applicants, there are se
Sower this 6,000 ewadidrtes for appointments. For the
%melt of those pones. who may be desirous of entering
the Legion we may sine that all commissions for Captaias,
Lieutenants, and Resigns, are awarded by a Committee at
Turin, of which Colosel Perry is President ; but the Field
Olken are sleeted by Lord Penman. There is a great
want of good Pays:even.

Tux BALTIC FLEIT. The Bulldog arrived at
Daatzte yesterday, with the iatellgettee that the renboata
bat Morgan on the Btb, under convoy of the Hogue, on
their way to Enslaad. The weather was still atanny. The
Its.. «4,4 tte Chaptal arrived at Toulon, from the Sleek
Bee, se the 10 b.

ODISSA.—News of the doings of the expedition,
Width arrived before Odessa on the 8 b, is uthioesly or-
peeteA Tea thousand Fothch soldiers are cm board the
equadros, sad the general belief is that Kistler' sad Ocsa-
koff ere to be the polite a'tackad.
MORE CoMFOILTS TOK rns CAMEL—However
moth the aistheritio e deserved lesser. for their megloet of
the troops at the opals' of the campaign, they are cow
Arterained to supply everything that lathy be required. At
the peemat time there are two very elegant black hearses
entities at the Tower te be shipped for SebeetepeL—Ussirod
&wrier Osamu.

Am OCTOBER HORSE FAIIL—At this fair there
was a good attesdasee of buyers and notwithetand-
lati the wet day, sad a fair n .ow of stock, which kept up the
meat hints rates at Dumfries. Anything god *as above
401., sad eke beet home were eousideratilr above that
%arr. areern..trong bawd, two. year-olde were es.
peeled at 341. to 401 ; asd from 4.51 to 60i. may he gaoled as
the extreme* for the best ela.s. There were sot essay light
hareems borne, sad the few hones were indifferent
Bet all write dear. Childrea's posies that wad to melt freely
ethos 61. to 71 are sot to be had under 101. Altogether •
sli•market, with prices higher than for many years.
WITBILL FAlL—This great sheep martin took
place to Wednesday. when a fall arenas. rumbas of sheep
was penued, amounting to upwards of 120,0001 The trade
fa lichen and last* was gcod—the former realising shoat
tamer rate-, and the latter fall 11. to 21. per heed dearer.
Bose were a very heavy sale, an 1 may good peas 11.1.
talus Items, mare*, as t ter havin Withers, made kw thew
Priem may be quoted ea folios's : from 35.. to
Say. ewes. 28s. to 40e. ; lambs, 24s to 355. per bead. Asia
always the gem, vase few pkked Its amnestied higher
pekes. Upset the whole it woe • selling lair, with the ex-
ilaptlaa st ewe,.
amprat, PALACIL--- Sarum Day, OCT. 12.-
64.11111011.as1"11...to 2. )74 ; ditto by seams
Corresponding day last ran, 3,980.