The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-10 00:00:00

TH E tarICEAS, WEIR_ ESIDAN 1-1 V EN , JUNE. 10, 1863.

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relief rested oo the guardians of the oak m, Co the officers of
the parish where the destitution oocurred. The fact of the
workhouse being full on auy particular oecasioa did not re-
lieve the authorities from that responsibility. The com-
plaint which the doble lord bad made of the refusal to re-
ceive a destitute pence into the Marylebone workhouse had
been received by the Poor-law Board, and directions had
bee. given to make inquiriee respecting it.
THE SUBSCRIPTION TO THE THIRTY-NINE
ARTICLES AND THE PRAYER-BOOK.
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Mr. BUXTON moved a resolution that the subscription
required from the clergy to the thirty-nine articles, and to
the Prayer-book, ought to be relaxed. The motion, he
said, was not brought forward in a spirit hostile to the
church of England. The question was whether the Math-
lion of the subscription would injure or benefit the church,
sad he cited the opinions of clergymen in favour of the
change. Not representing any school of the church, his
main object was to relieve the clergy from what many of
them felt to be a grievous burtlen. He had the highest
respect for the Prayer-book, but it contained some things to
which reasonable men might conscientiously be unwilling
to give their unfeigned assent and consent, and even
in the thirty-nine articles there were expressions that had
created great controversy and dissension ; it was only to
the essential fundamental doctrines of the church that a
general assent could be expected, and if subscription were
done away it would be understood that nothing more was
required than a general conformity to those fundamental
doctrines. He discumed the objections which he anticipated
to his resolution, and, denying that the proposed change
could be regarded as revolutionary, be suggested reams*
why it would act as a safe and salutary measure of reform,
which would restore to the church the liberty it enjoyed in '
its most glorious days. He stated the great diminution of
the numbers of graduates at Oxtord and Cambridge who
came up for ordination, and he was assured, he said, that
many persons were debarred from taking orders solely by
the necessity of subscription.
The motion was seconded by Mr. G. DUFF.
Mr. M. MILNE. moved an amendment, limiting
the resolution to the subscription to the Prayer-book. He
did not see, he said, that the taking away subscription to
the articles of the church of England would in any degree
extend the spirit of toleration. The articles were the law
of the church, and taking away subscription to them would,
in a great degree, impair the validity of that law, and
establish an unwritten law—that of public opinion. The
articles admitted of large interpretation by judicial minds
which would not be actuated by • spirit ,of persecution.
His objection did not apply to the other part of the resolu-
tion, to which be gave his support.
SW. GREY said he wished to take the earliest oppor-
tunity of stating the course which the government were
prepared to take upon this important question. They were
of opinion that it would be inexpedient for the home to give
its assent either to the original motion or the amendment.
At the same time it must not be inferred that the govern-
ment considered the law to be in a satisfactory state, and
ought not to be altered, with due regard to the interests of
the church. Mr. Buxton proposed that subscription
"ought to be relaxed; " but neither be nor Mr.
Mikes had specified to what extent the relaxation
ought to be carried. He understood that Mr.
Buxton was of opinion that all subscription should
be abolished. After pointing oat cases where the
existing law imposed, be thought, unnecessary borthens,
and where it would be expedient to simplify it, he re-
marked that the resolution would tend to create uncer-
tainty, sod raise false expectations. change of this kind
should not be made without the most careful inquiry
into the whole subject. He did not say how alterations
were to be made, but a change would be inexpedient, more
especially at the present time, without the fullest inquiry
by men in whom the church had the fullest confidence.
The course the government proposed to take upon the
motion was—if the amendment were not pressed—to
move the previous question. This would imply that they
would not be unwilling to consider the question of sub-
scription so that the securities of the church might not be
weakened.
Mr. mn-vps thereupon withdrew his amendment.
Sir G. GREY then moved the previous question—" that
this question be now put."
Mr. NEWDF.GATE expressed his regret that the govern-
ment had not taken a more decided course on this subject,
for the motion of Mr. Buxton, if it were adopted, would
impose on the laity the utmost latitude of teaching
on the part of the clergy. For what were those subscrip-
tions but the security of the laity that when they went
to church th should bear her doctrines faithfully
pre
ached If, then, a change ware contemplated, let it not
be erred upon rashly,
ly, but with a view to all the difficul-
ties and dangers by which the church was surrounded.
Mr. WALPOLE also complained of the embarrass-
ment in which the house was placed by the come
pursued by the government. He contended that the exist-
ing law with regard to subscription had protected the
people from the errors into which they would otherwise
have fallen, and given them a religion as pure, tolerant, sad
comprehensive as eternal truth itself. Truth and pesos
were within the church of England. Let the house, then,
not imperil the one or disturb the other by adopting the
motion of the member for Maidstone. If, in moving the
previous question, the intention was to negative the
motion, whilst it kept open the question that no many good
men had of late years raised, be thought the house would do
well to give the government time and opportunity to con-
sider deliberately whether they were prepared to make soy
proposition on the subject, and to resolve what that propo-
sition should be.
Mr. Momiume supported the motion, which was opposed
by Sir S. Norrecore, upon the ground of its vague and no-
satiatactory character. By doing away with the test which
the present' subscriptions provided, they would shake the
faith of congregations in the sincerity of their teachers, than
which he could not imagine a greater evil.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed
that these subscriptions had grown up slowly, from the
time of the reformation downwards, through the real neces-
sities of the church ; sod that was a proof of the extreme
gravity of the question, and a reason why, if the house were
compelled to deal with it, they should do so upon principles,
and with an object that was clear and definite. He justified
the course which the government proposed to adopt, for
no measure on the subject ought to originate with par-
liament, but should first pan through an ordeal elsewhere.
Mr. HADFIELD and Mr. BUTLI/LJOENSTONK spoke in
favour of the motion, and Mr. Larior against it.
Mr. HENLEY would have been batter satisfied bad the
motion been met with a direct negative ; for guarded as was
the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer it was appa-
rent from the remarks of the Home Secretary that the
government were of opinion that there ought to be an
alteration.
Mr. H. SEYMOUR reminded the house that these tests
were imposed at a time of great excitement and religious
passion, and said that the present was a period when mode-
rate opinions prevailed, and was therefore peculiarly fitted
for the removal of such tests.

Lord R. CECIL believed that the objections which had
been urged against subscription were really directed against
the articles themselves. If subscriptions were abolished
every penalty that now existed most be removed, the basis
of the church widened, and its doors closed to none, for the
days would have passed when they could no longer exclude
the unitarian and the calvioist ; then nothing would be
left but for each man to preach from the pulpit, not what
the church told him, but precisely what he himself willed.
Mr. DISRAELI could not agree that moving the previous
question was the proper mode in which to encounter the
motion, inasmuch as it gave au implied assent to the pro-
paition that them were grounds for comidering the subs-
ject. He disapproved of the course which bad been pur-
sued of cavilling at a word here and a phrase there in
the terms of subscription ; but it was just as Tameable
and quite as easy to except to the language of the bill of
righte itself. If they would bane a church with a
creed, articles, and formularies, they must also .have
subscriptions, and some symbols of union among
those who were in communion with that church. On the
other band, if they had a church without creed or article.,
then they would have the most dangerous and pernicious
isstitiitiou that ever yet existed in a country. He did not
mean to say that the Prayer-book was perfect ; be believed
it to be divine ; but it was also human. There might be
blots in it, but he could not see, in the present state of
things, that it oontaioed anything to justify the house in
agreeing to the motion. Even if they were of opinion
that the title-deeds of the church required to be revised,
in however modified a manner, it did not appear
to him that such an inquiry should be originated
in either house of parliament. No doubt, whatever
was decided upon must ultimately receive the parliamentary
flat • but that judgment would be pronounced upon the
general merits of the question, and would not enter into
ecclesiastical details and differences of religious opinion. 11
it were mammy that the constitution of the country
should be called into action, it was with the temporal heed
of the church that all measures should emanate, and from
which they should flow. A royal communion, therefore,
was the only natural and proper authority by which any
change io the articles or liturgy of the church could be
brought under the censideratiou of parliament.

Mr. BUXTON accepted the discussion as indieatiog that
the queetioe wu Oat yet tufllcientlyylpe to be dealt with
by the house, and °Dissented to withdrew his motion.
The debate wu closed with • speech from Sir G.
; after which the "previous question" was put
and agreed to without • division.
jfrp.:.ROARD pF ADMIRALTY.

Mr. DALGLISH mowed for a select committee to in-
quire into the cometitation of the Board of Admiralty and
into the different departeneeta under the control of that
board.

The motion vas seconded by Mr. JACIBON and opposed
by Mr. SCOURNELD, who pointed out the inutility of nomi-
nating a committee of the house to conduct such an in-
quiry. It the motion were sgreed to he did not believe it
would lead to soy practical or satiefactory result.
Mr. BENTINCK, though concurring in the objects which
Kr. Dash& had in view, recommended that be should
withdraw his motion, as at that late period of the session
no good could be expected to accrue from inquiry.
Lord C. PAGET, who had been twitted by Mr. Jackson
with his zeal for Admiralty reform when out of offloe, and
his opposition to it whet' in, maid that the subsequent in-
quiries, conducted by a committee of the house and a royal
cconiniseioe, had satisfied him that, although there were de.
foots is the naval administration, they lied been greatly
exaggerated. He was prepared at any time to defend the
acts of the department, which, he contended, had not ne-
glected its duty, bat had carried out to a very peat extent
the recommendations that had been offered by the commis-
Moo and committee before alluded to.
On the motion of Sir H. WILLOUGHBY the debate
was adjourned.

MISAPPROPRIATION BY SERVANT, BILL.
Mr. STANILAND obtained leave to brill in a bill to
amend the l►w io certain met of misappropnation by es:-
nude of the property of their mestere.

THE LISBURN ELECTION.

On the motion of Mr. Counra, the minutes of the
evidence taken before the Lisburn Election Committee woe
ordered to be laid before the home.
SHEEP AND CATTLE (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
SUPPLY.

Mr. STANSFELD hariag Treight up the report on
supply,
Sir J. ELPHINSTONE renewed his objection to any fur-
ther expenditure on the harbour of Alderney, and moved
the adjournment of the debate.
The motion was agreed to.
IRELAND REVENUE BILL.

This bill was read a third time and passed.
The remaining orders were disposed of, and the house
adjourned.

IS WAS originally put to the court that Lieut.-Colonel Cal-
thorpe had, in a direct and distinct manner, beyond all dia-
rute,•impoted to Earl Oardiwn that his lordship bad been
guilty of cowardice and negkiet, of duty, and that be had
deliberately turned his hone round before the batteries and
left the brigade he was in charge of to the mercy of the
enemy. If Lieut.-Colooel talthorpe did not intend to make
that charge, what would have been more simple for him to
do than to have stated that fact, either before or after the
rule had been moved, in so many and distinct words It
was clear from his affidavit that he always did mean, and
understood the words complained of to convey the meaning,
that Earl Cardigan did not enter the battery, and the
learned counsel quoted the language used in
the three editions of the work in proof of that
assertion ; and he further coateacied that Lieut.-Colonel
Calthorpe had not met the charge in a manner to entitle
him to the discharge of the rule. When Earl Cardigan
denounced Lieutenant-Colonel Calthorpe's conduct as un-
worthy of a soldier and a gentleman, be had to complain of
five or atz deliberate attacks upon him—with reference
to the reoonnaisaanoe on the Dobruchcba, where he was
charged with harassing his men sod the horses • the
release of Russian prisoners ; that he was declared by a
medical board unfit for service, ; and that the court-
martial was demanded with regard to the whole of them.
Lieutenant-Colonel Calthorpe now retracted what he
called his equivoraexpression with regard to the medical
report, and by..• partially retracted his attack on the charge
on the Russian ttery. The language of the attack on
the report of the military board was a direct attack on
Earl Cardigan, and was proof of malice and a desire to hold
his lordship up to public ridicule and contempt.
The Lord Chief Justice rid no one could take it as ap-
plying to anything but %heat:ate of Lord Cardigan's health.
The learneelcounselthen proceeded tocritically consider the
statements contained in the various affidavits, and the
changed position of the battery and the light cavalry brigade
after the charge was made, and observed that Earl Cardigan
for the first time became acquainted, by the reading of the
affidavit, that an arrangement had been come to between
Lieut-ColonelCalthorpe and Mr. Murray to cancel the last
edition of the work. The learned counsel's remarks were
based upon the affidavits read in support of the application
of the rule, which were fully published at the time, and are
no doubt fresh in the public recollection.
At the close of the learned counsel's arguments the further
hearing was adjourned.

forgeries with a view to defraud the North Eastern Rail-
way Company of 6001.. worth of sleek.
From the evideoce of Mr. Charles Saddler Chaßoner, a
sharebroker, at Neweastle-oa-Tyne, it spewed that the
prisoner was formerly in his employ as clerk. During that
period witness received instruotmes from lar. James Oliver,
of Kensington, to purchase 000 f. worth of shares in the
North Eastern Railway Berwick stock, which he
did. There were two coupons for 5001. and 1001.
respectively, which were issued on the 27th February.
It wee a knowledge of this transaction which had enabled
the prisoner to commit the offence with which he was
charged. He wrote, in the name of Oliver, to the Secretary
of the North Eastern Railway Company, stating that he had
changed his address from Keosington to 46, Woburn-place,
and that he had io the hurry of removing lost or mislaid the
certificateaof his stock. He wished, accordingly, to know if
be could have duplicates on making • declaration to that
effect before • justice of the peace. In reply be was re-
quested to look again for the missing certificates. He
answered this by stating that he had done so, but without
effect. Investigations were subsequently made, which re-
sulted in the discovery that Mr. Oliver had not changed his
address or lost his stock, or written the letters bearing his
name, but that they were forgeries.
No defence wee offered, and the prisoner was committed
tor trial
SOUTHWARK.

Helen Woo!deity, a decent looking, middle-aged female,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Combs, charged with
being drunk and falling off the platform of the Greenwich
Railway Station, at London-bridge, thereby endangering
her life.
One of the ticket collectors in the employ of the South
Eastern Railway Company said that on the arrival of the 9
o'clock train from Greenwich, on the previous night, and
after the pamengers had all gtt out, he saw the prisoner
leave one of the carriages and stagger about from one side
of the platform to the other, and before he had an oppor-
tunity of reaching her she walked right off the platform, and
fell scram the metals just es a train was about to leave the
other side. He fortunately caught hold of her and pulled
her on the platform just in time to save her life. She was
very much frightened, but perceiving she was much under
the influence of liquor be handed her over to one of their
constables, who took her into custody.
Mr. Combo (to the prisoner)— What have you got to say
in answer to the charge?
Prisoner—All I have to say, sir, I was not drunk.
Mr. Comte—But the constable am you stagger about,
and you fell off the platform. Beside', he swears you were
under the influence of liquor. How came you to fall off the
platform'
Prisoner—Oh, sir, I hardly like to tell you. I wear a
crinoline, and coming up in the train it got disarranged,
and when I got on the platform unfortunately my toe
got entangled in the steel, and I fell off the platform.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Combo—Have you got that crinoline on now'
Prisoner—Yea ; but es soon as I get home I'll take it off,
and never wear it again. (Laughter.)
Mr. Combs—What are you'
Defendant—l am a cook, and had been to Greenwich to
see an old felloweervasf. If you'll let me go this time I'll
never wear a crinoline again, sir. (Renewed laughter.)
Mr. Combe—Well, you may go about your business now,
and I trust for the future you will discontinue crinoline as
well as drinking. You have had a narrow escape with your
life, and ought to be thankful to the officer for saving you.
The prisoner expressed her gratitude, and quickly tripped
out of court holding up her crinoline.