The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-31 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OP CAPETOWN AND DE. COLENsO.

We reprint the following letter from Mr Burgon
to the Guardian :

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Air,—The following
I.:tract from a letter jot received
from the Bishop of Oapetown (dated Nov. 11) will not fail
to interest a large number of your readers. I think it right,
on many amounts, to request that you will give it insertion
in your next number, although it is altogether a private
communication. A magi. word of introduotion will suffice.
I had ventured toexpreee an earnest hope to a near kinsman of
the writer that by no act of hie would BishopOrey afford any
pretext for the charge I had heard brought against him, that
Ise was prepared to " separate from the Church of England...
He says in reply—" The thought never entered itto any of
our minds to do so. The charge is simply a device of Dr.
Coleaso's friends to excite prejudices against those whose
duty it has been to remove him from his office. We all in
this land proclaim ourselves one church with our dear
mother church, and believe her to be, if judged
fairly by what she herself says., by the voice of
her formularies, and the voices of her teachers, the
sounders church on earth. But she is einsibliabed by law,
and has choose this position for herself. We are Dot esteb.
lished, and do not choose that :tat is. With all the acci.
dents, therefore, attaching to the church of England so a
state church we have nothing to do. The Judicial COM.
mittee of Privy Commit has beeo made by statute a court of
appeal for her. It has not for us. Dr. Colombo wishes to
make it so, sad invites it to declare that it is. We simply
and declare that we will not receive it as such.
protest
we bound ourselves to, that we abide by. The
oath of the Queen's sovereignty in the Prayer Book ;
the Articles; the hitters patent—these are the terms of
our contract. The letters patent really exclude the l'rivy
Council, and make appeals to lie. if anywhere, to Canter.
bury. Oee thing, I confer, is deeply Bawd in tor mind,
We cannot allow Dr. Coleaso to go back to Natal, and be
the only bishop there, without betraying Our Lord, and far.
felting His preemies and favour. If there has ever been a
heretic, he is am. Will it be any answer forme to givein
the Great Day, ' that the lords of the Privy Council' Is.
dare (if they do declare) ' that I had no jurisdiction, and
that he was no heretic'! Will not the Master say
—I sent you to guard the faith and carry out the
discipline of the chureh, and you swore that you would
do so. You never bound yourself toobey the declaims ct
civil courts ia matters relating to Me. What had you to do
with them! Depart.' . . . . I Were this would
be my deserved sentence ; and therefore I feel that I must,
if my brethren will eat with me, sod I be driven to this es a
lad resource, go up sad aoaescrete • true Bishop mine
cathedral of Natal, though death and ruin to myself were
the resesequeees. And I think it would go far to kill me ;
for amidst these trials I cannot sleep. Bat enough. I
would not have troubled you but for 's expressions.
Ever faithfully yours, " B. CATETOWN."

We (Army and Navy Gazette) understand that
his Royal Highness the Field-Ilaushal Commanding-in-Chief
dose Da consider himself ogled upon to take say steps
with retard to the ow of Lieutenant Burnaby, of the
Blum

Letters from Mexico state that, at the request of
the Emperor Maximilian, Marshal Beasine will prolong his
my for tome time to that country.

A telegraphic despatch from Montpellier states
that the foot& of the Prioorms Coartoriska took Own there
on Thursday morning, in the midst of ao immeass number of
persons of all domes of society. Orations were claimed
over the tomb by Dr. Vaiike sad Y. BeHeikki.

The exact return of the game shot at Compiegne
ea the Soya'lieu presx►ss, from the 20th of September
to the day on which the court party broke up. shows •
gram total at 7,739 per head. That is, 201 roebuck■, I,B=
pheasants, 884 hers, 4,325 rabbits, 451 partridges, sad
47 woodcock•.

Oa St. Habeet's Day Comte de is Ferrier°,
master of the Aro hounds, France, opened the mason by a
grand maw at 4 o'clock in the morning, in the ancient
church, which was brilliantly illuminated for the peculiar
occasion. Twenty whippen•m and his whole hunting es-
tablishment, wearing the livery of his hones, were arranged
down the nave. At the elevation of the Host the men
sounded their horns. The church even at that early hour
was crowded by people, attracted to witness this clarions
revival of an ancient mutest.

The nitt,rods of the Paris Jockey Club are looking
forward with great anxiety to the arrival of Comte d'Oe-
mood, who is exploited io a few days with his magoificeot
peck of boar-hounds. The fint meet wes to bare takes
plow in the forest d'Halatte on New Year's-day; but Y.
llyppolyte Carlos, the keeper of the woods aed footsie
of the deportment (I.oiretl, has grouted the right of Mint-
ing for one fortnight to the master of the bounds, who is
to hoot them himself. He has a splendid pack; the enor-
mous number of wolves and their extensive depredations in-
duced the farmers of the department to petition that some
step might be taken for their destructioe, as hitherto
them animas have appeared to thrive and income rapidly
on the poison, trap tiptop, and bettor* that base bees
organised in the hops of dimietaltiog their umbers.

A violent shock of an earthquake was felt about
8 o'clock in the evening of the 15th inst. in Bavaria. Is
Parteakirchen and Garnaisch, the log houses trembled, and
all their furniture began to stagger ; mirrors sad pictures
at the walls swung to and fro, and the poultry, ticsawdlo
animals, sad cage•birds were roused from their sleep. The
tended population rushed into the streets, many of them
believing the world was coming to an end. Il is conjectured
that this earthquake must be referred to the Game causes
as produced s similar shock in Florence end other pezte d
Italy on the 13th and 14th.

An instance of unusual munificence has just oc-
curred at Hamburg. A Jewish merchant, Herr ash"
has presented the sum of 500,000 marks for the support of
the " Betty-Heise Hospital," which was bat at the st-
pense of his father, and takes its name from his mother.
The Museum of the Therm.. and of the Hotel de
Cluny have just received a complete collection of ancient
earthenware and of other articles collected by as amateur,
who has made a present of them to the goversomat. The
pieces of earthenware, of which there are 60, ass composed
of fountains, flower-pots, and dishes, which wore enanufao.
toted many years moos at Homo, Clermont. Luneville,
Strasbourg, and &max. Some of the piano are remarkable
speediness of French manufacture in the lith and lath
centuries. This collection is really interesting, and does
great credit to the patriotism of the donor.

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Austria and Saxony have declined the propoei-
tie@ made to them of acceding to tbe troaly of Gotten
relative to the neutrality of ambulances in time of war.
This reserve causes considerable surprise to all as parki-
ns, of bumps reforms.

The Milan Gazette publishes a letter from
Mantua ramming that a trading boat going up the Lows
Mind° has jolt been seized brawn it bad two arks of
gunpowder oa board. The captain Rod his men were all
lodged in prison. The dieerery was made by a spy. It is
said that attempts of this kind are very numerous, and are
suceessful in are oases oat of ten.

On Thursday afternoon the magnificent new
steam ram Abdul Anis was succoef ally launched from the
shipbuilding yard of Mmes. Robert Napier and floes,
Gores, amidst a large concourse of spectators. This vowel
is the second of the three Isms which the Mews. Napier
and Sons were appointed to build for the Turkish govern.
meat, sad is in all respect' similar to the Orman ()buy,
which was launched ou the 2nd September last from the
same yard. The dimension.' are—Length over all, 300
feet ; extreme breadth, 56 feet ; depth, moulded, 37 feet ;
tonnage, 0.m., about ; load draught, Dearly 25 fest.
The vowel is plated from stem to mere, projects is ram
style at the prow, and carries 24 guns of heavy calibre,
includingfour 110-pounders.
ST. PALL'' UATIIEDRAL.—The special Sunday
evening services sager the dome of St. Paul'' Cathedral are
to commence to-morrow evening, Jan. 1, and are to coo-
ties, until and will close on Lister &today. The Bishop of
London is announced to preach the sermon to-morrow
evening. Divine service commences at 7 p.m. His lord-
ship will be followed on succeeding Sunday evenings by
limey eminent ggeschers. These services are the revival of
I the aesient Sunday " preachuige" from St. Parirs-crome
which stood is Memoirs of St. Pauleehurelayard, until
those stormy times which immediately preceded the death
of Charles I. The invention of gas has in the 19th century
enabled thane great services to be revived, sod to be
held within the cathedral itself. The dome area, es now
arranged, has seats for 11,5 W persons. The following are
the ;weathers appointed by the Bishop of Landon to preach
in the cathedral on Sunday moraines in the moral' of Jaen.
cry:--Tae. 1, Rev. Henry Veen, 8.13., of Queen's College,
Cambridge, secretary to the Church Missionary Society ;
Jan. 8, Rov. William Gilson Huombry, B. D., of Trinity
College. Cambridge, Vicar of St. Martin'ado-the-Fiebls ;
Jam. 15, Rev. James Augustus Hesse, D.C. L, of St. John's
College. Oxford, Head Master of Merchant Tsylore'l3chool ;
Jae. 22, Rev. William Josiah Duos, D. U., of Qesea's Col-
lege, Oxford. Vicar of Holy Trinity. Bromptee ; Jae. 29,
Rev. Christopher Puke. M.A., of Worcester College, Ox.
ford, Vicar of Ruislipinear Uxbridge.
LITLILARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOIL ma
Easungo Wau.—liooday : Entomological, 7. Tuesday
Asthropological, 4, Anniversary ; Photographic, 8,
Printing with the Salta of Uranium," Mr. Cooper, jna. ;
Royal Institution, 3, " Chemistry of a Coal," juvenile
tures, Professor Prankland. Wednesday : Society of
Literature, 81, " Sculptured Limestoces, with Him.
slyphic Inscrtptioem, from Memphis," Sir C. Nitholese.
Thursday : Royal Institution. 3, " Chemistry at a Cast."
kneads lectures, Profsesor Frankland. Friday : Philo.
logical. 8, " Henisrie Word, • Duspari,' " Mr. Oayley.
Saturday : Royal Institution, 3. " Chemistry of a Coal,"
juvenile lectures, Professor Frankland.