The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1862.

first, there are gentry who will gin beik

or gold ; governesses, children, sermets, and work2'
people give shillings and pence ; rd in an bateasing
number of eases we observe that parties of work-
men and workwomen subscribe a portion of their
weekly wages. All this is excellent, but it is very
desultory. It depends on the accident of some
wideawake and practical person being on the
spot ; whereas this is the process which should
be going on in every perish in the kingdom.
If we may be permitted to offer a hint to the
clergy who are about to devote a day to the
great effort enjoined by their bishops, it would
be this :

There are two classes of minds remaining to be
roused and guided. The one may be found
everywhere, the other has a local habitation.
Everywhere there are gentry, kindhearted, but
indolent in habit and sluggish in imagination.
These require stimulus. They should be pre-
sented with the imagery of Lancashire at this
moment. They profess to be sorry for the suf-
ferers,
and they may have given their bank notes
of 51., 101., or 201. If told of plans for supply-
ing the sewing-schools and for collecting clothing,
they propose to mention the subject to their
acquaintance ; but they are doing nothing. Miss
Courri is a fit text for an exhortation to these
people. Not satisfied with signing cheques to a
large amount, Miss Cocrrs has visited the dis-
tressed districts to see with her own eyes how the
bounty may be best applied. How many would
follow this example if their imaginations were
roused to conceive of the actual case ! There
are hundreds of opulent people childless, or
without domestic engagements; if only twenty
such couples were to go each to some
Lancashire town, and there open a cook-
ing-kitchen, or a sewing-school, or an emi-
gration-office, or a plan for redeeming bedding and
clothes from pawn, what a world of good trey
might do ! If half the idle young ladies and gen-
tlemen were shown how they might work effec-
tively, either at home or on the spot, they would
find themselves new creatures, as some fine gentle-
men of the London Clubs have done since they
became working members of the Society for the
Relief of Distress in London. Let the clergy ask
these people—standing ready for a new object—
what they would do in case of another Great
Plague, or medieval famine, and show them that
the present calamity is really on that vast scale ;
and charity would be evoked of that kind which is
twice blessed—blessed to those who give and those
who take.

The other class inhabits chiefly the agricultural
counties of England. It is a fact that there are
persons there—perhaps it includes the majority
of the inhabitants—wbo have no clear idea what
cotton is, where it comes from, what a dearth of
it means, and what a factory population is like.
In Lancashire, and among those who have for
months been busy in the cause, this is scarcely
credible ; but it is true. If the clergy will but
inquire they will find that it is so. If they will
but have the courage to adapt their appeal to th4s
state of things they will effect more than they
dream of. Let them not fear to descend for once
to "common things." Let them relate the plain
facts of the case, set it before the imagination of
the humblest of their hearers, and they will be
sure to rouse the most enlightened. In urging
this we speak front a conviction and with a serious-
ness which no protestations could express. Let
the clergy receive such hints as these with equal
seriousness—let them look to it for themselves—
let them give free scope to their reason and their
feelings, and the condition of Lancashire will im-
prove from that coming day.
The supreme aim should be to secure a regular
flow of national revenue towards the distressed
districts, distinctly covering the estimated need,
and an administration of that revenue which she"
sustain the industry, the health, and the self-
reapcct of every individual of those millions of
innocent sufferers. It is the great opportunity of
our time. It is the test of the national heart,
judgment, and conscience. It is the crisis which
involves the peace of mind of all the people of
England of the present generation, and the
national place in the history of the world wnich
I will be reed through all time. Those who conceive
the occasion to be anything less than this are
behind their age, and unequal to their position in
the world.

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023011N8. Oar. 27.

On Friday morning, the 24th, the Qaeen took
ham of her illustrious uncle, the King of the BeLiles',
wider whose hospitable roof her Majesty and the Royal
Family had been detained by the violence of the ple until
that day, sad embarked quite quietly, on board the royal
yacht Victoria and Albert at Antwerp, at one o'clock.
The yacht anchored for the night off Flushing, as it was
aot thought advisable to expose her Majesty, in the state of
the sea, to the fatigue of a night pump.
The Victoria and Albert got again under weigh at half-
past nine o'clock upon the 25th. The intention of goingdirect
to Osborne having been abandoned, in consequence of the
weather again threatening to be stormy, the plunge was
made to the river, and the royal yacht anchored at the Nora
at six o'clock.

During the night the gale increased very much in violence,
and it was decided that her ldayeety and the Royal party
should proceed in the Vivid from Greenhithe to Woolwich,
the state of the tide not allowing the Victoria and Albert to
proceed higher up the river.

Her Majesty landed in strict privacy at the Royal Dock-
yard at half-past twelve o'clock, and proceeded, with
the Royal Family and suite, in the royal carriages, which
were in attendance, to the private station of the South
Western Railway.
Her Majesty arrived at Gosport at a Tauter past four
o'clock, and immediately crossed in the Fairy, royal yacht,
to Osborne.

Her Majesty's health has not suffered from the trials
and fatigues of the journey and voyage, but remains much
the same.

The Duke of Newcastle left town yeaterday for his 'eat
Clumber•park, Notts.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands,
the Governors of Labium Malta, Gibraltar, Ceylon, and
Hong Kong. Despatches were sent to the Governors of
the Manritiva and the Australian colonies.

THE MAJORITY OF THE PRINCE OF WALLS.—The
coming of age of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
when he will take legal possession of the first instalment of
his future dominions, being deemed by all west countrymen
a fisting occasion for congratulatory addresses, a deputation
of influential landowners of Cornwall have represented
their views to that effect, to the High Sheriff of the
county, Mr. Thomas S. Carlyon. That gentleman at once
issued a circular to the magistracy, salting an expression of
their opinions, and as the result, has just determined that
a grand county demonstration shall be held, to present to
his Royal Highness, on the 9th of November, en address
suitable to the auspicious event. Great rejoicings are
expected to take place throughout the whole of Cornwall,
the inhabitants of which have always taken a most lively in-
terest in the welfare of their future duke. Much regret is
felt throughout the district that the Prince, by the present
court arrangements, will be precluded from being present ;.
Cornwall to receive loyal congratulations on the occurrence
of this event.

His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden,
travelling in the name of Count Eberetein, has arrived at
the Palace Hotel, Buckingham-gate, accompanied by Baron
Gunneingen, Baron Sternberg, and Mr. Ernest de Bunsen.

The Duke of Newcastle loft town yesterday for
hie seat, Clamber Park, Notts.

His Highness the Prince de Demidoff has arrived
at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Paris.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
and Lady Theodora Grosvenor left Motoombe House,
Dorset., yesterday, for Eaton Hall, Cheshire.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and
Lady Victoria Cecil have taken up their residence at
Burghley House, near Stamford, from Bournemouth.

The health of the Marquis of Breadalbaue has
greatly improved since his departure from London for
Germany.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have left
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Longleate, ner-
Warminster.

The Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Londonderry
has arrived at Holderoeme Houle, Park-hne, from the
north.

Earl Somers has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-
&mare. _ _

The Earl and Countess Delawarr have left town
for Buckhnnt Park, Sussex, for the water. Lord West
remains in town.

The Earl awl Countess Vane are receiving a
'sleet circle at their Plat in Wales.

Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse have arrived
in Perin with the intention of passing • few weeks on the
Continent.

The Lord Bishop of St. David's has left Mauri,s,y's
Hotel for Abergwili Palace, Carmarthen.

Lord Lyndhurst has returned to town, accom-
panied by Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Copley, from
Tunbridge•wells, where the noble and learned lord and
family have passed several weeks. He is in excellent
health, and only slightly infirm, considering his advanced
age.

The anniversary banquet of the officers who were
engaged in the battle of Balaklara took place at the London
Tavern ou Saturday last. The Right Hon. Lord George
Paget presided, supported by the Earl of Cardigan, the
Earl of Lunn, Sat. James Scarlett, &c.

On Friday last the Rev. George Gilbert, M.A.,
was instituted to the vicarage of Claxton, in Norfolk, on
the presentation of Sir Charles Henry John Rich, Bart., of
Nottingham-place, Regent's perk. On the same day the
Rev. Edward Freuer was instituted to the 'image of
Cretfield, in Suffolk, on the presentation of the Rev.
Edmund Holland, of Benhall Lodge, in the same county,
clerk.

In consequence of the vacancy of the metropoli-
tan see of Canterbury the sittings of the Convocation of
the prelates and clergy of that province could not be con-
tinuod in the ordinary manner to the day named in the
royal writ of prorogation, inasmuch as the royal writ is ad-
dented to the archbishop himself. It is usual, upon the
appointment of a new metropolitan, for a royal writ to
issue authorisiog /him to revive the sittings of the Con-
vocation.

The government has interposed to remit a fine
inflicted by the magistrates of Galway. A young man
named Brookes found a number of ruffians shamefully ill-
treating a number of young women belonging to a pro-
testant institution, when returning from bathing. At great
personal risk he saved them from further molestation. The
stipendiary magistrate would have dismissed the case
against the assailants of the women, who were sites wards
sentenced at the assizes by Baron Hughes to six months'
imprisonment. The magistrates, who would have let go
those offenders without any punishment, inflicted a fine on
Mr. Brooke* for protecting the girls, he having been sum-
moned for an assault upon the aggressors. The judge, •
Roman catholic, praised his conduct warmly ; and now the
Lord-Lieutenant has remitted the fine, which the judge bad
not power to do, as the matter did not come before him
on appeal.

The exceedingly bad weather which has prevailed
during the last fortnight has hail a very damaging effect
upon the Irish harvest. Serious apprehensions are enter-
tained in moat parts of the country, for a large quantity of
grain still remains on the field, and much of it him yet to
be cut. Had the fanners exerted themselves more vigour-
cooly the quantity exposed would be inconsiderable, as
most of it was quite ready several weeks ago.
A Calcutta letter of the 22nd ult. says :—" At
present is is striking to observe the way is which cotton
is pouring into Calcutta. The jetties on the Hooglily tied
the trucks on the line are covered with great bags, un.
screwed, and in some cases almost unsows. No care has
been shown in packing it, and little is given by the railway
officials in the transit. The road and the river are often
covered with it ; natives as they pass, and the birds of the
►ir, help themselves to it ; and all because there are no
screws in the interior. Yet so largely have prices risen
in the interior that it can afford to pay the high
rates demanded necessarily by the railway for cot-
ton so packed. Little above 30cwt. of unscrewed cotton
can be stowed away io one waggon, and each waggon costa
from 30 to 3.1 rupees, and at that sum hardly pays. This
rupee a cwt. to transport cotton from Agra and Allababad
to Calcutta is due solely to the want of screws. The river
presents a similar scene. Great boat', which are as safe as
they are uowieldly and uoshapelv, are borne down by the
current oir to Calcutta. This is the result of prices having
at last risen above the level of 18.19, when they reached
their highest point during the past 20 years. Fortunately,
too, the rise took place about sowing time, and the fact
that native capitalists sre eager for entton gives the people,
so often deluded by the fickleness of Manchester, confides°,
in the permissions of the rates."

4

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

GARIBALDI.

A Turin letter contains the following :

Garibaldi is still much the suns. He le said to be
"better," but the improvement is at beet very trifling. On
Wednesday the decisive nomination will be held, in order
to decide whether his leg is to be taken off or not. There
is no doubt that the question is decided beforehand, and
that the amputation will be performed u soon as possible.
What, in fact, can be thought of a wound which, after
fifty days' constant care, is neither curd nor in the way
of cure? If the operation lied been performed at once, we
should now have been free from anxiety, whereas at present
the shook to a constitution weakened by long suffering it
much to be feared.

The consultation will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 29,
and will be attended by Drs. Ripari, Prandina, Denegri,
Zanotti, Bertiani, Gherini, Thomrosal, Albanese, Basile,
Porta, and Rizzoli, besides the French surgeon Nekton,
and the English Professor Partridge.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

tisou ova owir

PARIS, Moir EVINING.

The departure of the court for Compiegne seems
' to be positively fixed for November I—an announce-
ment which must of course be received subject to
the doubt which attends all such matters, owing
to the systematic misstatements made regarding '
them. There are to be five aeries of invitations,
each extending from Saturday to Saturday.
Some Arab chiefs now in Paris are to be among
the guests.
M. de Biamark, who, it has been lately rumoured,
would not come to Paris to present his letters of re-
call personally, has, on the contrary, left Berlin,
and is expected here to-morrow.
The revolution in Greece is the absorbing topic
of the day. The Muniteur's bulletin, whose news
is generally 24 hours behindhand, speaks of the
event in an uncertain tone, from which nothing
can be gathered as to the feeling of the French
government, except that it is taken by surprise.
The Patrie is at the pains to say that it has not yet
been thought necessary to order reinforcements to
Admiral Touchard's fleet in the Greek waters. I
believe the Patrie to be quite wrong in making this
announcement. The Prance and several other
evening papers say that Admiral Rigault de
Genouilly, who only arrived with his fleet at
Toulon two days ago, has been ordered to sail
for Greece immediately. This seems proba-
ble, for France is not likely to allow
England alone to make an imposing demonstra-
tion in the Pinang under existing circumstances.
Admiral de Genouilly's force consists of six ships of
the line, a corvette, and a brig.
Candidates for the throne of Greece, whose
names are mentioned here, are Prince Lenchtsn-
berg (a Russian nominee), Prince Alfred of Eng-
land, and (credat the Pays) the ex-Grand Duke of
Tuscany !
The France is good enough to say that a requi-
' sition, numerously signed, has been got up in
Athens calling upon the lonian Islands to join the
Greeks in their insurrection. I should apprehend
the lonians, with all their disaffection, must appre-
ciate the benefits of a quiet life sufficiently at least
to wait a little to see how things turn up.
The following paragraph from the Siicle is exten-
'lively quoted, probably because it is considered
applicable to other cases than that of Greece :
. _ .

The influence of women is not always beneficial in poli-
tics : King Otho has just had a proof of that fact. after so
many other sovereigns. The Queen of Greece had placed
herself at the head of the reactionary party and attached
her consort to it ; at last the reaction has been swept aside,
and with it the Bavarian throne.

As a mere random French opinion, not entitled
to any more weight than is due to a newspaper
feeler, I quote the following from the Opinion
Nationale :
What will be the attitude of France in the eventualities
which may arise from one day to another in the east! We
can rely upon Russia, Prussia holds out her hand, and Italy
is with us, but will the American question, including that of
Mexioo, permit us to think at present of the solution of the
great eastern question
The Bourse was bad at the opening, and good
at the close ; but the fall of Saturday, attributed to
the false news from Bermuda, has not been re-
covered from. The Greek revolution was considered
a very serious event, although it has produced but
little effect on Consols. The Rente, after declining
to 70fr. 85c.,recovered and left off firm at 71fr. 30c.
for cash, and 71fr. 35c. for account, with a fall of
' sc. in each case. Mobilier rose 13fr. 75c. The
only changes of consequence in railways were a fall
of sfr. in Orleans and Lyons.

THE VOLUNTEER FORCE.

BISHOP COLIINSOW NEW WORN ON TER

PENTATEUCH.

This morning the much-talked-of work of the
Bishop of Natal, entitled "The Pentateuch and Book of
Joshua Critically Examined, Part 1.," was issued from the
publishing house of MOWS. Loco:tan. In a preface of 31;
pages, dated Loudon, October 4, the bishop sets forth
the circumstances under which the book has been written,
and states in a general way the multi at which
he his arrivr I. The translation into the Zulu
language of the books of Genesis and Exodus brought him,
he mays, face to face with questions which caused him some
uneasiness in former days. Be then procured from England
various works which be mentions, chiefly German,
cal-
culated to waist him in examining into the foundations of the
current belief in the historical credibility of the Mosaic
The result io the bishop's mind bas become already knows.
"If my conclusions," he says, "wen only speculations,
if they were only matters of higher or lower probability, I
feel that I should have no right to express them at all is
this way, and thus, it may be, disturb painfully the faith of
many. But the main result of my examination of the
Pentateuch, namely, that the narrative, whatever may he
its value and meaning, cannot be regarded as historically
true, is not, unless I greatly deceive myself, a doubtful
matter of speculation at all ; it is a simple .1110414 m of
facts."

The bishop think" that a very wide spread distrust
exista amongst the intelligent laity of England as to the
soundnese of the ordinary view of Scripture inspiration, and
he instances, as an illustration, the want of
intelligent students from the universities for the
service of the church. " How can it," he says,
" be otherwise, when in an age like the present—which
has been well described as one remarkable for fearlessness,
and, it may be hoped, for sincerity, in the pursuit of
truth,' (Rev. Prob. Cook, 'Aids to Faith,' p. I33)—the
very condition of a young man's entering the ministry of
the church of England is, that he surrender henceforth all
freedom of thought, or, at least, of utterance, upon the
great questions which the age is rife in, and solemnly bind
himself for life to believe unfeignedly in all the canonical
Scriptures ; while he probably knows enough already of
geology, at all events, if not of the results of critical
inquiry, to feel that he cannot honestly profess to believe
in them implicitly.—[This passage I have written, notwith•
standing the relief given to the consciences of many of the
clergy by Dr. Lushington's recent judgment, because. if I
mistake not, the answer in the ordination service is not the
only part of our formularies, that will be generally under.
stood, until explained by judicial authority, to involve
implicit belief in the historical truth of the fade recorded
in the Pentatenchl—The church of England must fall to
the ground by its own internal weakness—by losing its
hold upon the growing intelligence of all classes—under
some remedy be very soon applied to this state of things,
It is a miserable policy, which now prevails, unworthy of
the troth itself, and one which cannot long be maintained,
to keep things quiet.' "
At the 29th page the bishop states that if he feels called
to the work he shall not shrink from the duty of examining
in what way the interpretation of the New Testament is
affected by the unhistorical character of the Pentateuch.
In the concluding paragraphs of the preface the bishop
states that he is not aware of any breach of the law of the
church of England, as declared by the recent judgment is
the Court of Arches, which is involved io this publication.
Should it be otherwise he says, "I must, of course, bear
the consequences of my act." He holds that the founda-
tions of the national church are laid " upon the truth itself
and not upon mere human prescriptions." More than
all others, he believes • bishop is bound, if his
conscience impels him to it, "to do his part to
secure for the Bible its due honour and authority,
and save its devout readers from ascribing to it attribute'
of perfection and infallibility which belong to God only, and
which the Bible never claims for itself."

The bishop expresses a trust that the system of the
church will be reformed, and her boundaries enlarged. He
continues, and concludes the preface as follows :-
4' Should the receptioi of this book,by the more thoughtful
portion of the community, indicate that such a reform is
possible and probable, and will be but a question of time, so
that, being able meanwhile to speak out plainly the truth,
we shall have only to bear with the inconveniences and in.
consistencies which must attend a state of transition, it
would not be necessary for me, or for those who think with
me, to leave the church of England voluntarily, end &ban.
don the work to which we have devoted ourselves for life.
In conchudoo, I commend this subject more specially to the
attention of the laity. TAey are happy enough to be able
to lay aside such questions as theme, if they will, while still
continuing members of the national church. I implore
them to consider the position in which the clergy will be
placed, if the facts brought forward in this book are found
to be substantially true. Let them examine their own
haute solemnly, in the sight of God, on these points. Would
they have the clergy (bound, under pains and penalties, to
profess belief in that which they do not themselves believe
in, to which they would not on any account commit them.
selves? Are they willing that their own sons, who may feel
the divine call to devote themselves to the ministry of
souls, should be entangled in these trammels, so galling to
the conscience, so injurious to their sense of truth and
honesty, so impeding to the freedom and heartiness of their
ministrations? We, indeed, who are already under the
yoke, may have for a time to bear it, however painted it
may be, while we struggle and hope on for deliveranoe.
But what youth of noble mind, with a deep yearning foe
truth, and an ardent desire to tall out the love of (Rd to
man, will consent to put himself voluntarily into such
fetters? It may be possible to represent some d
the arguments in this book as invalid, others as
unimportant. But, if the main result of it be
true, as I believe it will be found to be, it seems to me
impossible that, five years hence, unless hbeity of speech
be granted on these matters, any of the more hopeful sad
intelligent of our young men will be able, with clear eon.
sciences, to enter the ministry of the church of England.
I now commit this first part of my work iuto the hods of
Almighty God, beseeching Him mercifully to acne and
bless it, as a feeble effort to advance the knowledge of His
truth in the world."