The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1852.

MR. BRIGHT ON THE IRISH CHURCH
REVENUES.

PROVINCIAL CEMETERIES.- INTENTIONS

OF THE GOVAHNMENT.
The following correspondence has taken place be-
tweet' H. J. Davis, Bag, 31a) or of Newport, and the General
Board of Health :

thaw i. Doily Rosa)
Ma. BRIOHT's Letter un the Irish Church is likely
to occasion much excitement amongst both the de-
fenders and the opponents of that stupendous ini-
quity. So complete is the recognition that the thing
as it stands now is an iniquity, that the letter
writer does not feel it necessary to bring forward ,
any arguments to prove thin, and his opponents do
not dream of denying it. The Irish Church is in the
position of the Rois Faineans of the MEROVINCHAN
race in France, who were universally recognised as
an evil, but who maintained their position simply
because, before an experiment was made, no one
could calculate the consequences of getting rid of
them. This is the prime difficulty which stands
in the way of any reformation of the Irish Church.
Its Inefficiency tor religious purposes has never been
denied, even by its most enthusiastic supporters.
The demoralising effects upon its own clergy are
matters of universal notoriety. If any additional
proof of this was needed, it has becu furnished by
the "Letters from Ireland" lately published in
this paper, from t he pen of a popular and philosophical
writer. In too many instnueeq, the English cler-
gyman preferred to an Irish thing, although ani-
mated at first by tho holiest zeal for the spiritual
welfare of his parishioners, finds that he and they
have no common ground on which they can meet ;
that he must live in perpetual isolation from those about
him; and that the bare proceeds of his living are
all that he bag to fall back upon, as a consolat'on,
amidst the "curses not loud but deep." which are
muttered against him as a spiritual usurper. He is
ashamed of his position; he feels its falsity; he
is crushed with the persuasion of his utter useless-
ness; he knows that ho is a "shnin," and ho sinks
but too often into a state, in which his only refuge
from despair is sensual indulgence. These of our
readcrs who rrused the " Letters from Ireland,"
already alluded to, will remember the fearful corro-
boration of this tact given by our correspondent.
That the Irish Church, therefore, in its present
unreformed and overgrown condition' is an " iniquity "
cannot be denied, and Mr. llama does not trouble
himself to accumulate any proof on tho subject.
He does, however, what is much better, he brings
forward the testimony of two aristocratic Whigs,
Lord JOHN Itrosem. and Lord Gary,—who will nut
be accused, even by the most outrageous Tory, of a
desire to revolutionise the Church—to show that the
Irish Establishment is so great an anomaly that no ono
unbiassed by prejudice can hope to preserve it us it
is. Lord Joitr4, in 1843, expressed an opinion that
the " Roman Catholic Church in Ireland should be
placed on a footing of equality with the Established
Church;" and Lord GREY' in 1843, said, 0 I carry
my views so far as to wish to sec the prelates of the
Roman Catholic Church cake their places in this house
on the episcopal bench." Considering the case us
proved, Mr. lintoor then enunciates the details of
the remedy. lie repudiates the ides of religious
equality advocated by Lords GREY and RUSSELL.
lie ems a practical and glaring inconsistency
in the prospect of Protestant and Catholic
bishops elbowing each other on the "right
reverend bench, guarding the temporal and
spiritual interests of two churches which denounce
each other as heretical—and believes that a scheme
of this sort will find no support in the opinion of the
English public, except from that section with whom
religiun goes for nothing, and churches and priests
are tolerated as machinery in the pay and service of
the government. Mr. Billow than proposes his
own scheme of religious equality, the principle of
which is that no Church shall in Ireland be in con-
nexion with the State. The question then would
round.% what is to bo done with the funds;
and here Mr. BBIGIIIT, as a practical reformer,
is ready with his answer. lie proposes that
a Church Property Commission should be estab-
lished for Ireland, and that this Commission shall
hold in trust all the tithes and other property now
held by the Established Church. This property
produces about 600,0001. per annum, which at 20
years' purchase is worth ten millions sterling. The
Commission is to be empowered and directed to ap-
propriate certain portions of this fund u a free gift
to each of the three Churches in Ireland—to the Pro-
testant Episcopalian, to the Presbyterian, and to the
Roman Catholic Church. From calculations given
yesterday in our columns, Mr. BRIO= infers that a
million of money bestowed on each of these three
Churches would represent with tolerable accuracy
the emelt that each could fairly claim
es its share Is the proposed distribution. The re.
=loin nun millions he would reserve for pur-
poses &idly Irish, and directed to the educational
and maul Inireetion of the people, without reference
to ekes at greet The fund should extend and per-
iled the sdasealseal institutions of the country ; it
would —tablidt and endow free libraries in all the
chief towns of Ireland, and would dispense blessings
in an _channels for the free and equal enjoyment
of the elide population.
Very 11111111 say be said in favour of a scheme of
this kind. &von millions of money, now paid away
for services that are never performed, would be set
free, and be ready for appropriation to pur-
poses of education. A vet mass of 7ofana-
sice,—ooossioned by the perpetual mockery of
' things holy,—would be abolished, an act of great
national justice would be done, and the politiml at=
mosphero would be purified. All these results might
be anticipated, were it possible that such a measure
could come into operation. But an Mr. 13/I.lolyr
expect that it ever will come into operation? Has'
the cleverness, and wo will say the justice, of his plan
so dazzled his vision that he is unable to see its sm-
: practicability P Has he no visions of Protestant,
Episoopalian, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic
combining to denounce a plan which each tany con-
' eider unholy P—the Established Church crying out
against spoliation and desecration ; the Presbyterian
echoing the latter cry at least; the Roman Catholic
disdaining to receive from heretics a mere fraction of
that—the whole of which—he amidst% his own by
human and divine right ?

" To eke General Board of Health.
"Newport, Monmouthshire, Oct. 11, 1852.
" Oentleman,—l take the liberty of calling your attention
to the following. In this town there is but one burial
ground connected with the Church of Hogland, which is
full to overflowing, so much so that the remains of the dead
are often disturbed before they are wholly decomposed. In
Mr. Clarke's report to your Honourable Board, dated 24th
October, 1819, pages 35, 38, te., your attention wee called
to this matter as also to the crowded state of several burial
poundsa attached to dissenting places of worship ; the Local
of Health soon after sought a convenient spot for •
cemetery, arranged with the owner for the purchase, and
applied to you for advice as to the management and re-
gulation thereof, when you informed them that the law
officen of the crown had advised that the Health of
Towns Act did not give local boards sufficient rowers to
purchase and make cemeteries, but you hoped that a bill
would be brought into parliament for the purpose. Lest
session paned away, and no act to meet the difficulty wee
puled, the consequence is that the local beard has not com-
pleted the purchase of the ground. The churchyard, which
in 1849 was so overcrowded that Mr. Clarke reported, 'the
sooner it is closed the better,' is still the only consecrated
ground for bnriol, whilst the population is increasing most
rapidly. In 1831 it was 7,000 ; in 1811, 13,000 ; and iu
1851, nearly 20,000. The locomotive department of the
South Wales Railway is to boo at Newport, which alone will
probably add 1,000 souls to us neat year. And yet, with
all th.s, end the rapid approach of the cholera, we know
not what to do for a burial-Once. The Local Board of
Health Is not only ready, but anxious, to provide one.
Fourteen acres of lend, in a moat eligible place, are offered
for the purpose. The price is agreed upon ; but the board's
hands are tied.

" Is this emergency I apply to you, on behalf of myself
and fellow-townsmen, and beg and entreat of you to bring
in a bOl in the coining section which shall enable beards of
health to purcha.e land from cemeteries partly consecrated
and partly unconsecrated, deal with vested end other rights,
close all burial grounds which are full, and arrange the
terms, fees, dm, connected therewith.
" Trusting that my appeal will meet with a ready re-
sponse from you, I am. &c.,
" 11. J. Darts, Mayor of Newport."

"To H. J. Davis, Esq., Mayor Of Newport.
" Sir,—l am directed by the General Bowl of Health to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th inst.,
pressing upon the board the importance of providing in the
ensuing session a legislative remedy for the evils arising
tram the inability of local boards of health to close noxious
burial place*, and to establish new public cemeteries; and
in reply I am to inform you that the hoard are authorised to
state, that her Msjesty's government entertain a hope of
being able to introduce into parliament during the ap-
proachir.g session a mouure to facilitate tho creation of pro-
vincial cemeteries.—l am, &c.,

C. MACAULAY. SeCtetafT.
. . . .

The General Board of Health, Whitehall,
October 20, 186 L"

PERILS OF A SllROEON.—Yeaterday Mr. Wilkie',
held an inquest at the Duke of Clareuce, Great North-
Street, Edgewaroroad, on Marian Jones, aged 46, who
it was clearly proved committed suicide by swallowing
oxalic avid. The surgeon who attended the deceased and
made the port moment exminination by order of the coroner,
mid that while he was performing his duty with his assistant
is the presence of deceased's sister, the door, which was
locked, was forced open by deceased's husband, who rushed
frantically and swearing into the room. Defoe° they could
be aware of his object the husband pushed witness and his
assistant from the body, when he snatched up a part of the
breast he was dissecting, the collar bone., and a portion of
deceased's entrails, with which he darted down Stairs,
and hsidiag Ikon in his hand commenced haranguing
a sob et or hundred persons collected outside the
beeies, ikelered that his wife was being butchered, and
mad wet them to enter the house with him and avenge
eutengs. After which he flung into the street and
Beat the house portions of the body, which be believed
▪ reeesined uncollected. lie then rushed into the room
where witness and his assistant were, when he attacked
them in a most outrageous manner, tearing the clothes from
their backs. Then seising cue of the dissecting knives, he
drove witness against the wall, and drawing the knife
weft his throat, exclaimed "Now, I'll murder you and
year aseistest, and then I'll cut my own throat." lie was
in the set of putting his threat into execution, when the
people noshed from the street and dragged witness and his
assistant ant of the house, but not before all their
clothes were torn into shreds. Witness then got
the assistance of the police, who secured the husband,
who kept blaspheming, and exclaiming, "I'll murder him
yet.": Witness then attempted to proceed with the
autopsy, but found that hie instruments had been de-
stroyed, and thrown into the water closet. While the
husband was ill-treating Weigand his assistant, the daughter,
aged 16, was on her knees, imprecating the most awful
curses upon them. Witness's hands were frightfully
mangled while he was protecting his throat from being
cut by the husband, and as the knife was covered with do-
oes*Nro blond and flesh, sometime would elapse before
witness could be pronounced out of danger. The jury re-
turned a verdict in accordmiee with the evidence, and the
violent widower was bound over to keep the peace towards
the surgeon, undertaking also to snake good the lose of pro-
perty he had occasioned.
SKELETONS

NEAR KNAREABOROrGR.
—Theignerrymsn employed in the limekiln, behind the house
of Mr.-Pnllin, on Thistle-bill, near Knaresborough, were
recently at work upon a stratum of limestone, about 27 feet
below the mimes et dm MA when they were mach cur-
prised at semiaisrepos a emeiderable accumulation of large
Irerethille• AM% valued with fine clay. On re-
these, the iismosee of the workmen was ia.
sunned when they disarmed the skeletons of at lead sit
et ems hems beige. that had been covered by the
stems, sad whisk errs dee embedded in fine alluvial clay.
The *Mb are of mime dimensimi, and the teeth it
some of
that fom am is whet pseasnistion. shady kJ&
catiag that rmer swami podia is the mho*
of life. Ore pair of Jaws is of a rather hminediee
size; the teeth, which are small, white, and rages. 3111allt
to be the meths of • young adult woman. No Mew of
armour ef may desseiptha were found near the akeisemn
The peat depth at whisk the bones were lying does away
with eh Mee tint the spot where they were found was used
as a pissed fimml burial. Perhaps a guess may be risked
as to the eisseminsees under which they Mee into so ea-
tralediesey a dinstion. Thistle-hill and many a mile
=we' homely included in the wild lams& elKeines-
the resist and refuge of outlaws and ether demo-
rate am whe liammives dwelt is deal and eaves el the
send mud eavedeedly drove the victims et they
violas, eel mien to seek a similar shelter. A
careely imagism of the place where the beam
under emelimatlen were lying shoes that it we. mice •
natural MUMS ill Ihs limestone rock, Moat sever het wide,
aye feet high. r of considerable length; sad oho that
this came senamaleatad with the mime above by to
irregular perpendieelar theare, jest about wide enough to
allow • fell-grewa min to pees. A small spit, ef water
Weddle dews*, side of this amain& mad lases Nadi la the
parer Ilmeekne below. Thom, swpreing mist Its ems was
• Mese ef memealseent, the milamses mould pusses the
thee imparleat mealier; of sesiesisa, air sad water ; and
Ms hyena that it yes re ma tersegthened_ by the
fest Met senses the beers have be
ibuad the skull of •
deg sad the Malmo Mem en. The deg may ham been
used he the pawn elver Meg and tits sham; sad as the
opiates abovomensed is musk he mean to have allowed a
large greadraped to have bliss into the see by accident, it
is reasemble to kdte that he ammo et the ex had been
takes amen plemmeal Ike teed. Hew the imitates perished
use matter of amlealsre, bee, hem the elrematances
ands which heir maim were head it may be supposed
that, Irvin diammeed their Wing place, their retitled.
dallaishast anima* isseasi qte. 'Arra. hadiratitereri
N ese bell ether all Meatus; hesinii
them ern their lehessiees viselets, anmighbeerid Mee completed the
dark tragedy by Wag the Swum with earth. This media-
tore derives asentsasnee hems the fact that most of the
skulls were fend ine.shely peeped close together, as if
the helpless wserhes lid erellhilli to the lent air-hole, sad
so peehlisil Is enmity. Further, it is worthy of notice
that the right upper jaw done of the skulls has been
broken, evideatly by no resent blow, bet in all probability
aft!
by Mim
deeth er es caned either immedialsiy before or shortly
.—Estvda

ASTLITK Pnl Inn:tn.—The tintungsl election of
the Asylum =ldiots, Park HA" and Rem
Hall, Colcheetes, took place yeeistely at tie London
Tavern, the poll=its twelve and de in at three.
The preliminary were melded ever by Sir G.
Cafteou. The wombat spewed esadelates was 192,
the amber of eppilmeN soissleil 16; nutlet • total of
156 patients after the shealien. In the report It sr
the past year, it was eberevel that three yeas had
elapsed since the operate= of Ike =Wet= were
cainseneedi and every win& bad witneesed dwilded
progress. It was stated ea the hot elthiliiss thell ion
Hail, Colchester, had bees =led tsar htheeable
etwastauors; it bad new • of Npoem. slid was
worldni with wised disissey. The NM hood that
is two or these years It would Uwe bees aserished into
matured anistates, and amt Indspeadestly es an asylum
he the her sextant 0311/16111. SONIIIII eddidosal
Milks whit* had loth seemed were thea lose
rated; the pied* et Mel were—suffer, pod
bah% and bade% with blighter as • oseed NNW
game. It was thea oiamok that if the bawd me to
aid at all es thole weed piths. they mil be imp-
elled with bathe sessmodaties. Disithet assessments
were aspired tie the mem see end ems% sew ar
sad me he eieselies sad Mes seememeste maws*.
to be mold est Ilisr the Lamm the meely, tbe
tha mishap, and the esereades The gnat
west sf the day was a aselenal asylum, whirs the idiot
sight lad a borne sad a Med. It wm reverted on the
lot eseuida that a brain had bed been opened
is hem of ilia shiers. Amite the subserip.
dew le It ware me beaked ohms from the
EzZCompany, 910 ilium from the 01919 ration of
and 250 'plane ban the ,purr, • NIA ruble
property, about half as bases tide hen tows, had been
recently purohssel I bet the yamben bed a=anausted
the fund, and the session meld set be till
10,0001. had hem smyesd. A• swami appal eau added
foe desetims Made the bulldog AM.
Le:owlish INSTITVTION.—A 'pedal iseseal meet.
tag of the of this institution was held helms.
fag at the 5 s of the imitation Is 1==oz•:•• and
the 'Mime, ememmes of the eat
=a le be debated. wee esseedisely measeesc
of the seemds. wee to essibe the tepest of the
Need of s, as several Wars& le then
IstragthxzMaw wel midis in
oiss of • the Masi* of these
Mot OM Obi the meal
Emil be solmeml, MI WM • melds pestles of thiskieldg;
(whist' sow, es:lethedare Mime) Mehl be soder
:=LiaTiss aim debseehiy In* the
wed essisdes by remmeadlat
the prophet= PIM= so ding, dtherethsee esomeh.
On the meths thee Oh must be rived and Ns
amendment was mooed le the oases that • of
til2mtrie eleddaltd ts hweedgele tease dieeedvatiet
a as*. Milifissi, end maseurteses
NAMPA OPS, hems, this mesiment was whew& ;
in.les the report was Mosil. The
Renal ; id the yeiselyel spashers were W. W.
Tito, Sih hos. essettem Mr. Game Smith, Mr.
OaarMß I[e. TM, Mc Mese% Ms. Mingo, aid Mr.

SUPERANNUATION or Gcremitirr ENPLoYEN.—
Ms Lords OatenWitham of bee thalosty's Treasury
having recently hod under SOMAlaidon the case of •
tidewater is the Custom dapsthaust with • view to
his superannuation, who had than 41116arged upon four
occasions for having absented Windt been duty with-
out leave, but who, with these was reported
to hays served with dllkrevos , their lord-
' ships, order to mark their opinion of the conduct of
thie sad to warn other aims that the strictest
smi regularity is impacted at them in the ere-
mitism of wiry part of their duty, hove awarded to him
a mai smaller superaanuation allow's°, then would
have Ism granted under ordinary circumstances. And
their lithlthip in the subsequent case of a boatman, who
had oho boa beg than charged during a period of only
thirteen years' North% and whose impaired health was
attributed to Wsmissnp habits, have acquainted the
sesswksioasrs then whl reference to the short period daring
whisk this =lei Nerved, and to the frequent ectio•
thus
full in awarding him any retired &How-
dahs.. The latter ethos: has to consequence been super
smith

LnsinacK AND ENNIS RAILWAT.—WO are glad
to been that toe at the best projects in the WWI ((whist has
lain denont ytt the het six years) is likely Wis
foamed end oingislod under the minas tit car tall=
and universally tespeeted fellow We Mathew Bar-
rington; we am the line from lo Ennis. On
Saturday last a peptides' wee node Wise directors by the
meting poetess d a meet ishusatil den gnawed with
railways* 10 esostruat the line eel week it, ask-
ing the diaMas for only a neon jearliss id the capital,
arl gmeedecint them a dividend hem the day the line is
openedd. We trust that when pestles are wakes to 0111•10
forwar and niake much advantageous Mho that MN et
the shareholders will withdraw from • amen eneli as we
want in this country, hitherto so unfortunate and only now
beginning to raise its head. The shareholders will nest on
the 3rd pros. in this city, to entertain the project—Lime-
rick Ohmic,* .