The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-18 00:00:00

PEE COMPANIES ACT, 1862. The Books
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linnstros o, BsorazzAncs.—We (Western
Deily Press, have been requested by the Rural Den to
insert the following letter, addressed to hies by the Bishop :
—" West Mall, Cliftoo, Oct. 13, 1864.—My dear Rend
Dean,-1 buten to acknowledge an important memorial,
signed by yourself and many of the clergy and laity of
Bristol and the neighbourhood, informing me that •
stranger to our diocese, the key. J. L Lyne, has publicly
notified that he hope, to preach met Sunday in some
churches in or sear Bristol. Some of the deputetioe that
presented the memorial to me last eight informed me that
Mr. Lyne is in deacon's orders, and the memorial itself men-
tions that he has been inhibited in the diocese of Norwich.
As those facts appear to be publicly knows, 1 really cannot
believe—espedally after the tenor of my charge on
unauthorised or unapproved assistance—that any one
of my clergy would behave so disrespectfully to
me as to bays offered his pulpit to Mr. I.yne
without previous application to myself. Still, after your
memorial, I feel It my duty at *see to Wens • general
prohibition, a copy of which I endow. I shall be obliged
to you to give it a wide circulation, and shall hope that
every clergyman in my diocese who may see it, or be in.
formed of it, will consider it as addressed to himself.
Though I felt it my clear duty yesterday, in my capacity of
chairman of our Congress, to permit Mr. Lyne, sea mambos
of the (kerma and tickeabolder, to addrees• meeting at
which cottroversial topios are excluded by the ruled, 1 feel
it equally my clear duty, as bishop of the diocese, most dis-
tinctly to prohibit the admission of Mr. Lyn*, as being a
deacon both unapproved bare and inhibited elsewhere, into
any of the pulpits of my diocese. Very sincerely yours,
C. .1. Otonc. and Buieroc. The Rev. Canoe Allen."

The National Coors" Society will commence
rehearsals for the season to-morrow, at Exeter•hall, under
the direction of Mr. C. W. Martin. The members
of the choir comaet of the most experienced amateur
singers in London ao.l suburbs, embracing members of the
clerical. legal, sod medical professions, merchant., members
of the civil service, clerks, schoolmasters, schoolmistresses,
and others, who, with the band, number nearly 700 per-
formers. Each member pays a small annual subscription,
which entitles them to the free use of music and tickets
for the public concerts at a reduced rate. The most emi-
nent ling.rs ars always engaged, and the band combines
all the noteable members of the profession, including a
small number of competent amateurs on stringed instru-
ment'. During the forthcoming season in addition to the
usual oratorio performances it is propoeM to give some min-
collinear coocerte with full bmd and choeus, each concert
to include symphonies, dm., by the peat masters. ln the
prospectus we are informed that We society will not merely
confirm its sphere of action to performances in Exeter-ball,
but, inas.nuch as a euelcient number of members of the
society reside in each postal district to form choirs avenging
100 voices, it is proposed to hold district choral meetiegs
fee the purpose of giving cheep concerts for this working
classes. and thereby promoting a taste for good musk, and
providing for this class of the community a rational and
imsecest amusement, as well as aiding, by public perform.
seem the funds of dispensaries. schools, sad other local
eharittew Ladies and gentlemen wishing to join the choir
Amid make immediate application at the ahem.

Wanes =sawn.)

ITALY.

TURIN, Ocr. 17.

The electoral colleges have re-elected the minis-
ters La Marmon., Lanza, Petitti, and Sella.
I'be electors of Castel-Maggiore have returned the
Marquis Petah as member to parliament.

AUSTRIA.
YUMA, Ocr. 17.
Both bowies of the Reichsrath will be convoked
on the 16th November next.
In the next sitting of the conference the general
wording of the treaty of peace will be discussed.

BAVARIA.

MUNICH, Ocr. 17.

It is asserted that should Herr von der Pfordten
persist in declining the mission to form a new
ministry, Herr Wydenbrugh, Councillor of State,
will be entrusted with the formative of a cabinet.

SWITZERLAND.

GENEVA, Om It_

Yesterday M. Friedrich, the independent candi-
date, was elected a member of the National Council
by 5,800 votes, the number of persons voting being
11,000.

A conflict took place in the evening between the
adverse political parties.

ALGIERS.
ALGIERS, Ocr. 14.
General .Tolivet has defeated Si Lats.' Several
tribes have made their submission.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
URA OcT. 17, 3.30r.m.
The Boone hie been heavy. Reatee oloseet at
65.20, or the same as on Saturday.

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Ocr. IL

K de Bills, a member of the Rigsdig, has de-
manded of the Ministry that they should obtain
the sanction of the Iligsdag to a prosecution for
high treason being instituted against the Dagbled,
on account of an article lately published by that
paper relative to the succession to the throne.

THE SPANISH PROGRESSIST MEETING.
MADRID, Oct 17.

The Neficias of to-day says : "A meeting of
300 Progreaaista has been held under the presidency
of Senor Olozaga, at which a Central Committee
was appointed, including among its members
General Espartero, Senores Oloraga and Medea,
and General Prim."

INDIA AND CHINA.
(By teligaph Isom Sues.)

CALCUTTA, Swe. 27.

Shirting' and mule twist dull. Indigo and cop-
per unchanged. Exchange on London, 2a.
Government securities : Four per Ceuta., ;
Five per Ceuta., 1031 (doubtful) ; Five-and-a-
Half per Cents., 108 k. Freights firm. Diaoount
unchanged. _

CANTON, Barr. 10.

Grey shirtings and water twist higher. Tea Hat.
Total export to date, 152,750,0001b5. Exchange on
London, 48.10111.

SHANGHAI, SEPT. 5.

Grey shirtinp unchanged. Tea : Congou de-
clining. Silk quiet : settlements in fortnight
2,800 bales ; export to date, 9,460 bales. Exchange
on London, 6a. Sid.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-offioe from the Governors of New Zealand, South Aus-
tralis, West Australia, Victoria, the Mauritius, the
Bahamas, mats, Gibraltar, and Canada.
DOWNINO-BIREET, OCTOBER 14.—The Queen has
been pleased to appoint Considine Hesderickess Kortrislit,
Esq., to be Livatemant-Garsruor of the bland of Tobago.—
Gazette.

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ounce, and so on, adding Bd. for every additional quarter of
an mince. This postage may either be prepaid or not, at
the option of the sender. 1;poa each newspaper not ex-
media( 4 minor in weight, a mt. of 3d.; and upon other
printed papers the following rates must be limped :—Not
exceed's(' 4 one., 6d. • above 4 em. and not exceeding ilb.,
la. ; above ;lb. and not exceeding 11b.. 2s. ; each additional
ke., L. —By command of the Postineater-Genaral.—
madam Poet-office, Oct. J. 7.

THE NATIONAL STEAK NAVIGATION
COMPANY'S STEARIN ONTARlO.—letelligeoce wee received
in Liverpool yesterday to the effect that the new steamer
Ontario, which was only launched a few weeks ago from the
shipbuildingiard of Messrs. Samuelson and Co., at New-
cestle-on-Tyne, had gone ashore on the Cross sands, neer
Yarmouth, on Sunday night, and was, when the intelligence
left Yarmouth, in a rather critical position. The Ontario
is a very large iron screw steamer, of 2,802 tons register,
and 3,320 tons burden. When she went on shore she was
on her first outward trip to Alexandria, and was noder the
command of Captain Brooking, and it was intended on her
snivel home from Alexandria to place her on the company's
line of steamers running between Liverpool and New York.
There were five steam top and twenty-five steam colliers
alongside rendering assistance, and it was expected that the
vessel would be got off without much d
THAMES ANOLINO.—The reports assistant
river-keepers of the Thames Angling Preservation Society,
for the week ending October 12, do not embrace any :sr-
cicalae features of interest as regards angling. At Staines,
Fletcher says, "The only fishing we can get isgudgeon and
a few perch, but there are plenty of fish to be nen."
Harris, in his report from Lakham' observes, " A tenths.
man on Friday last took 18 perch, and another polemic
angling for the weak took in thallium, 68 perch and Eyck,
but I never saw the river in a worse state in my life." Both
hem keepers describe the water as being very Irir and
bright from the scarcity of rain, end this is the case in every
part of the river. At Halliford there have been some very
fine perch taken in excellent condition. A punt was sunk
on the 6th io Walton Deep, at the request of some of the
subscribers to the society. Cordery states, "The 6 bermes
are taking a few perch and godson at Hampts.a." At
Monkey, Smith says, " A few jack have bees takes during
the week—the easterly wind has prevented us from trying
any other fishing." In his report from Kingston, lohnson
remarks, " I have found the dace fishing at Tr, Weirton
bad. I have been gudgeon fishing at Kingston two half
days and One whole ooe, the takes being 7,9, and 12 dozen,
with a few parch each time. The water is lower nd finer
than I ever saw it at this time of the rill." EITiOASC says
of Teddiegton, " There has been very little fishing this
week, but some good roach have been taken." At It‘ch-
mood, Howard states there has been no good sport awing
to the strong easterly vied' and the low and clear it. of
the water. The proprietor of a chemical works at Brent-
ford was brought before the Brentford bench on Saturday
last, charged by the Board of Thames Conservancy, for
turning some refuse of a pi:dioceses nature in the river, and
was fitted 51.—West Surrey Times.
MANCITESTILR, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAY (INCLUDING THE SOUTH YORKSHIII RAILWAY
AND RIVER DUN COSPANT.)—Tbs total expenses of this
company's railways, including rents, toll, duty, km, from
July 1 to Oct. 9, 1864, amounted to 108:2801., as against
111,2621. for the corresponding period of 1863. The pro-
portion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this
company from July 1 to Oet. 9, amounted to 11.2751., as
against 10,2951. foe the oorreepoedieg period of 1863; and
the exposes to 5,3931. es sweat 4,5621.
Sorra KENSINGTON Mrseux.—During the week
ending Oct. 15,1864, the visitors have been as fellows:—Oa
Monday, Tuesday, and Satorday, free days, open from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 11,880 ; es Wednesday, Thursday,
end Friday, rdsate: days (admission to the public
open from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.. 1.E.12 ; trial, 13,512. From
the opening el the Ilneenm, 4,884878.

LETTER FROM PROMSOR GOLDWER WEL
- um. Daily News, of this zoominp publishes the follow-
ing letter how Profess* Goldwin Smith] :

TO IHZ IDITOB OP TEM DAILY NEWS.

Sut,—l see our Southern journals are leading
their readers to believe that the struggle for the
restoration of the Union is about to be abandoned
from the exhaustion of the North. The month
which I have just passed in the Northern and West-
ern States has led me to an opposite conclusion.
There is exhaustion, of course, as there is towards
the dose of every long battle-day. At Ltltzen,
towards evening, both armies were at the last
gasp, yet the Swedes were able to make the supreme
effort which gave them victory. The govern-
ment has got more men than Grant called for by
volunteering, and in the districts where volunteer-
ing was slack the draft is going on without re-
sistance.

The Chicago Convention, it is true, was not only
pacific but secessionist. But hVelellan, the
nominee of that convention, kicks over its platform,
and declares repeatedly and emphatically in his
letter of acceptance that the Union must be restored
at all hazards. The only question on which be is
prepared to give way to the South is that of slavery.
The mass of the party who support him are Wax
Democrats ; and they are for war, not in name only but
in deed. They have fought as hard as the Repub-
licans, though shey do not, like the Republicans,
make the abolition of slavery present or prospective
as well as the restoration of the Union a condition
of peace.
The democratic party is out, and not being ac-
customed to be out, it wants very much to be in.
That I believe is, as much as anything else,
the key to the present attempt to oust the Repub-
lican government. if the Conservatives had ousted
the Palmerston government the other day there
would have been no material change in our policy
towards Denmark.

According to the best judgments, however, which
I can gather, M'Clellan, as matters now stand, has
no chance of election. At least, all the enemies of
America in Europe, who are exulting in the pros-
pect of his triumph, bad better adjourn their
exultation till their victory is won. I see they
were a little premature in letting off their fireworks
in honour of the victory of Hood before Atlanta.
That the war is national, not carried on by the
government alone, nobody who has been in the
country a day can doubt. Every sign of popular
participation is around you : soldiers' rests and
soldiers' homes, supported by voluntary contribu-
tions and attended by volunteer nurses ; immense
subscriptions to the Sanitary Commission and
every benevole*t object oonrected with the war.
It is rescarkablirthat, though the subscriptions are
so large, the names of the subscribers are not pub-
lished.

Anxiety is expressed, of course, on all hands as
to the financial prospects of the country. But the
present burden of taxation, including a heavy
income-tax, is, so far as I can see, cheerfully borne,
even by those who must feel it most.

I have not beard a single sentiment of atrocity,
or even of hatred, uttered against the South. But
I have heard on all sides the expression of • resolute
determination to make the South submit to the
law. And this determination I believe rules the
people.
Let the South submit to the law, and there is no
thought but of amnesty and restoration. Nor does
it seem to me irrational to expect that, when the
ambitious leaders of the revolt are out of the way,
the dependents whom they have dragged into the
held will soon settle down again into quiet members
of the Union.
I am confirmed in the belief that this war, as
compared with previous civil wars, is being carried
on with great humanity on the part of the North.
I visited the other day a large cantonment of Con-
federate prisoners at Chicago. These men seemed
to me to be as well treated and as cheerful as
prisoners could be ; and this, be it observed,
at • time when the North is ringing with
the accounts of the cruelties undergone by Northern
prisoners at the hands of the Confederates. The
same visit convinced me that the Confederate cos-
scriptions must have pretty well exhausted the
Southern population, for I saw among the prisoners'
the merest boys.
The growth of popular sentiment on the subject
of negro slavery is manifest. By the law of Illinois
Degrees are still excluded from the State ; but this
law has become • dead letter. I saw negroes at
church with the whites, and I observed that they
stayed for the communion. Illinois farmers tell
me that the negro makes • good day-labourer.
Soldiers—not political generals, but company
officers and privates—tell me that he makes au
excellent soldier. The planter can no longer talk
of the inherent inferionty of a race which proves
itself a match for his own race in the field.

I have seen no signs of diminished prosperity,
except in the empty docks of New fork, which tell
the tale of the Alabama. On the contrary, trade
seems marvellously active, and buildings are rising
on all sides. The commercial prosperity may be
partly artificial, arising out of the expenditure
caused by the war. But the agricultural prosperity
must be real. Illinois has sent, according to the
government returns, 170,000 men—a fifth part of
its labouring population—to the war. Yet the
harvest is greater than in any former year. Ls
gross value is supposed to be four hundred millions
of dollars, no inconsiderable part of the national
debt. The invention of machines, which the dear-
ness of labour has stimulated, has made up for the
logs of labourers. The State Fair the other day was
attended by 20,000 people. The show of implements
was extraordinary, and the highest prices were
given for stook.
I had, from the lips of a Secessionist, a descrip-
tion of the enthusiasm with which these husband-
men of Illinois had rushed to arms when the first
gun was tired against a Federal fortress by the
South. I passed a village which bad sent forth a
hundred of them to conquer at Fort Donuelaon.
Twenty-four fell, and their bodies were carefully
brought back to their village and buried in their
home. These men, of course, were "mercenaries "
and "Irish."

I have been in the States only a month, and per-
haps I am not an unbiassed observer, but my
strong conviction is, that beneath the frothy surface
of party politic (never very august in auy country)
and the shoddy luxury of New York lies • great
nation, meeting the extremity of peril with
courage, self-devotion, passionate attachment
to its country, and unshaken confidence in
its own power. lam no judge of military matters,
but at present it seems as though the insults and
slanders which have been passed on the Americans
from the aristocratic and reactionary press of
Europe were about to be answered by victory.—
I am, GOLD WIN SMITH.
Toronto, Oct. 3.

P.B. Passing into Canada I find Lord Palmer-
ston withdrawing his grand army rather hastily
from the frontier into places of security, rather to
the dismay of the colonists in the Upper Province,
who had begun to hold high language nailer the
protection of his outatreteaed arm. His lordship
is fleeing where no man poreneth. The heirs of the
boundless West have no desire to attack Cana&,
unless they are provoked by Alabamas. I may add
that, so far as I can ascertain, Canada, in this the
fourth year of her supplied peril, has no real