The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-01 00:00:00

BISHOP OP NATAL.

The following letter has been addressed by
=Coleus° to Bishop Lee, with reference to certain
made at a public meeting by the latter op the
Bishop of Notes week as the Peetciteuch
" To the Right B. the Lord Bishop of Manchester.
Sans:-pless, Keesiogtoo, W., March 21, 1863.
" My Lord,—ln a speech delivered by your lordship at a
sweeties of the Church Mini Society, in Manchester,
us Tuesday, March 17, and published is the Manrheater
Emptier,. tied Time of March 18, you are reported to
have said as follows :

TheTeiifoUnciatioas of our faith, the very bads of
our hopes, the very nearest and dearest of oar consolations,
are taken from us, when one line of that sacred volume, on
which we ham everything, is declared to be unfaithful or
untrustworthy. We have, I trust, not been wanting in our
duty in remonstrating with the party who has thus
offended. I trust it is not thought, become we endeavoured
to use words of temper and discretion, that we were back-
ward in emoting the horror and grief with which we
viewed what had been done. I have no hesitation in saying
that there is no phrase which • Christian or a gentleman
could use that I am cot prepared to use in reprobation of
the spirit which snimatee that work.'
" I ant glad that your lordship has thus distinctly raised
this question, and thrown down a challenge, which I now
take up deliberately in the face of the whole church and
nation. The object of my work is to show that the real
value of the Bible as • teacher of divine truth is not affected
by the unhistorical character of certain narratives, or by
ether errors ia matters of fact which the mamma of criti-
cal, historical, end scientific research may detect from time
to time in other parts of the sacred volume. Bat your
lordship asserts the contrary, if the report of the speech in
question may be trussed ; and the above words might
be substituted for those which I have quoted from Dr.
Bey'', and others to ebowtthat, at the present day, the moat
extremely 001701, vigil!. 00 the subject of Scripture in-
spiration are held in the church, far mom widely
than is commonly imagined, by person who, like your
lordship, are filling high and influential positions. I would
beg, however, to be permitted to ask, assuming that the
above words are oorrecdy reported, whether roar lordship
does really mean to say that the very foundations of our
faith, the very basis of oar hopes, the very nearest and
dearest of our consolations, are taken from na,' when it is
declared that such a statement as that in Lev. xi., 6, viz,
that the have chews the cad'—which is there reprimand
as resting upon the authority of the Almighty Creator Him-
self. ' Jehovah spike unto Moses and Aarou,'—is not •
faithful and trustworthy' account of a very well-known fact*
in natural history, andthat, consequently, the words is quer
Mon could never have been really uttered by the Almighty!
It appears to me, my lord, that the parsons who, in these
days of advancing science, will really be meat responsible
for ' the very foundations of the faith' of many being
shaken, and their finding themselves suddenly deprived, as
they may think, of the 'very nearest sad dearest of their
consolations,' are those who still
intist in teaching that
the authority of the moral and re • .011/ truths contained
in the Bible depends epee each single ' line of that sacred
book' being 'trustworthy' in matters of scientific or his-
torical fact. And it appears to me also to be, more plainly
than ever, the duty of those who desire to maintain • true
reverence for the Scriptures to protest against such erre-
mom and misleading teaching, and, as far as possible, to
counteract have the bomur to be, my lord, your lord-
ship's very faithful servant, "./. W. NATAL."

• " Imams an extract from a **fa by Professor Owen :
' The ban dose sae chew the and; it ben mot the stomach
of a nunizant animal.' "

THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE.

Bracsernx.—The number of unemployed at
Blackburn has Meowed from 13,073 to 13,284. There
are now 11,247 operatives in full work and 3,227 on short
time, the number employed in ordinary times being 27,780.
A huge demonstration of the unemployed in favour of emi-
gration is spoken of no likely to take plaoe ea Good Friday,
and in the s hes to be made occasion will be taken, it is
mid, to emu the conduct of the operatives of Staly-
bridge, Ashton, dm
PRNSTOlt.—Mesere. T. C. Hinokeman and Co.'s
operatives are now working full time instead of three
days pm week ; the mill of Menem. J. A. Leigh, previously
stopped, has commenced working full time ; a portion of
the machinery in the mill of Yr. H. Dawson has been
started full time; and the operatives employed by Mr.
Gardner are working four instead of three days per
week. Steps are being taken to employ the able-bodied
mss ad youths receiving relief from the charitable com-
mittee, in lead levelling, street seweriag, do. The opera-
tives are anxious to be employed, and eves the highest
class of them—the manners and overloookers—have in-
timated to the Relief Committee their walloping to
" perform any labour out of doom which may be thought
compatible with their position." The taps stony, dressers,
and cloth-lookers have expressed themselves to the aims
effect. An applicatiou will be made to the Central Com-
mittee "for a special grant, to enable the Preston Relief
committee to purchase working plant for the employment
of the able-bodied men on their books." At the industrial
and educational schools established by the committee,
there are now upwards of 2,340 in atteodanos ; 1,3% boys
and girls are also being instructed by the committee at
the various schools. The total number of eases on the
books of the committee is at preseut 10,402, including
36,2tal person* ; Message over last week, cases, 114 ; inmost',
121 The managers' and overlookere committee have 222
eases, comprising 1,142 persons, on their books. The
average weekly 41100111111 of these persons. from all sources
(exclusive of the relief they receive) is mid to be only lid.
per bead.

ATROCIOL'R BRUTALITY TO A CHuo. —At the
Liverpool assizes, os Monday, tlitherine M'lloaald wag
charged with brutsUy illtreating a child, three years old,
with intent to murder it. On the night of the 2th Janu-
ary lard the mummer, while under the inibtesos of drink,
dashed the child's head spinet the wall, bed then threw it
upon a sofa and sat upon it. The prisoner was godmother
to the child, and bad bad the ears of it from its birth. The
Jury found the prisoner guilty, but Mr. Beroo Martin de-
ferred sentencing the prisoner until yesterday morning,
when she war seateueed to ten years' penal ser►itude. His
lordship observed that he was so much affected by the hor-
rible nature of this crime that he dared not at the end of
the trial on the previous day trust himself to pronounce the
eadence of the mart.

CRYSTAL. PALAGZ.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—Turs-
DAY, MARCH 3L —Adadsdoes ma payment, 819 ; ditto by
season tickets, I,alB : total, 1,857.
[Ad vertiomnent.]—liol.wern'ea OINTMENT AND
FtißE—ladlsputabla remedies for bad lens, old wounds, sores,
and itieem If used acennileg to directions given with thew
There la no weund, bad lee, nicerous inesi, or had breasts, how-
ever obstinate or long standing, but will yield to their healing
and curative properties. Number, of pinions who have been
Ism hospitals, and limier the mum of enduent
lisflnions, without derivion the slightest benefit, have been
thoroughly cured by Holloway's Ointment and PHIL For elan.
deist swellings, tumours, scurry. and diseases of the skis them
Is no medicine that can be need of so good en els& Infant. in
the worst forms of damse= upon the ceseillos of the
blood thesemadielsso an l