The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-30 00:00:00

DIVISION IN THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.

The following letter ham been published :
Charlwell, Westerham, June 24, 1852.
"My Lord Archbishop,—l ask your Grace's permission
to communicate to you i Mention of resigning my place
in the committee of the National Society. It was at your
Grace's suggestion that I first joined the committee; and it
is only consistent with the deep respect that I bear to you
that I should give you the first intimation of my purpose to
withdraw.
" This purpose has not been hastily formed. For the last
two years—ever sines the exclusion of one member of com-
mittee, endeared to the society by years of faithful service,
and recommended by his abstinence from all church par-
ties, and by the pollen's' and moderation of his views;
and since the addition to the committee of other members,
whose opinions seemed to me decidedly to lean to the
extreme party in the church—l have felt my_ position
within the committee painful and embarrawring. The addi-
tion, at the last annual meeting, of Mbar members,
estimable and respected, but all whose sympathies are I
pre aphend, with the same party, has increased these diffi-
culties.
" My final decision, however, has been fixed by two
recent acts et the committee. On the on. hand I wit-
nessed a memorial, in all the sentiments of which I did
not concur, but which was expressed in temperate and
respectful terms, and whose manifest object was to ex-
tend the inauenee and correct the defects of the Na-
tional Society, which was signed by nearly 3,000 names,
of high mark and various opinions peers, members
of the House of Commons, Secretaries of State, Vice-
Presidents of the Society, eminent and earned mem-
bers of the church ; yet this, when presented to the
committee, was by them coldly received, sharply cen-
sured, and dismissed without the hope or promise of ro-
dress—while, on the other hand, a memorial signed by a
single name (a name which I can never pronounce without
feelings of affectionate regard), the name of Mr. Keble, but
taken as a symbol of a party, and as such accepted by the
I committee—a memorial demanding inquiry into the coo-
-1 duct of the clergy which your grace did not judge to ho rea-
sonable, but for which, at least, no evidence was alleged
was hailed and adopted by the committee and the grave
advice on it, that the bishops should institute an
investigation into the conduct of the clergy. When
I sew this, I felt that the course of the com-
declared—that all hope of improvement
rz was . society was vain, and that, as my position
these wile be no longer useful, it became me to withdraw.
"If I hays delayed announcing this decision, it was
silly because I felt it due to myself to take suck a step
with the utmost calmness, and after time allowed for mature
mffieetion.
" In withdrawing from the committee I must be allowed
tet tender to your grace my grateful thanks for much un-
merited kindness, and to express, I trust without offence, a
hope that the committee may one day be constituted so as
fairly to represent the church, composed, like the episco-
pate, of persons of various shades of opinions, and that the
National Society may thus ripe to a position worthy of its
charter and its name, and be fitted to discharge the duties
which that charter contemplates and enjoins-1 have the
honour to be, my lord archbishop, your grace's most obe-
dient faithful servant, " J. C. Comiviteum.
" His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury."

GLASGOW AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—
Return of traffic for the week ending June 20
3,9031.12c4d.; corresponding week last year, 3,1741.17..11d.
Number of passenger', 22,904.