The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-13 00:00:00

(Stomped, id. Additional

BELGIIIbL

The indipeadante Belye, speaking of the reception
given to Bing Leopold on the occasion of his open-
ing the Belgian Chambers on the 10th inst., says :
The weal of the day was mapiettiosably the v
sad eathaliemierecepticia:gives Xing Leowelireths:
=teltiret of the Wks. the WOW/ who filled the
by the eine yard, the army, aad the people.
who *waged the sheets through which the mat corky*
paned. New did a people with greater joy sad *Liar
seat pay he debt of gratitude to as baguet chief f aver did
a sovereiga rovelvb from those over whose destlay he pre-
ides awe ISOM sod more assaimove narks el affee
The eselesatione which greeted Leopold L Maids and oat. '
aide the &w: lathe Fakes must have proved to him once
mere that ifige see fa him the father of the weeny.
The chief points of the royal speech, which is
almost exclusively devoted to subjects of purely
Belgian interest, have been elteady made known by
telegram, which obviates the necessity of publish-
ing it in exteimo.

TILE BISHOP OP OXPORD'S TRIENNIAL
nurarroze.

The triennial visfelltion Of the Bishop of Oxford
to the doggy of ItisdisMillsolc plow yesterday 4 this punk
Muck of Ayladmay, amnia having noncom
formed. and the nimbi tit
tle sisegy basing hoso
cwt•
TM right Mr. Flinedellifleidase ed liegasid
of
in whisk Aar gime of lid progreos of Me
church in the ant and
fording% he reviewed al longnarcipsolians
of MI various digassoo Ostostion_
_With ;mod toe"
Church Educed" Musty, kis lordship mind minder are
tendon to the roost minute of ths Conentittoeid PM"
Commit, appearing of that poedon of it Midi hod
to the withhold* grand tot iepin ci training=
until atter thoy hod -Md the ties of schoolsosidis asd
noisirmse for • mina imprengsd his man, Merl
ism. at the appanage Is some mortars of 0:
ha considered a sodded design to break
Is deed!, and wboterst possible, the diodadice
'barmier of church Mashing is the Nadeau!
Strewn' dimes, he mid, oultitlisirossody• tomb=
denials, ad with • view of a anoosodial
those aeon le impleisol mi the the osomity
Mind onion% sod Mend that query effort would bo male
to resist tho tossrtio• of dame in trust deeds which were
inconeishost with that true church teething white
ponds who had entrusted their Mildew" to thou had=
to expert they mad receive at their hands. Hue l
then proceeded to soy than never had been a time whim on
the whole the ebohiolar of the Egigink clergy stood Mem
for devotion to the peeper labongs of the church, for pertly
of Ills and oonvertisessand foe sober earnestness th•
perfarinsoce of their dation And the fruit of this
tea be traced both She amount cif his, work dem
sa4 also in the Panel app of that work
for the sake of the Women- Inisondirse by the
great mace of their follow-mintrams, sad my bo
suss Is the difference of this losiimi• of the 411110.
Wished church and its amides formed by the people
y, to what was formed by them some year ago.
fressiallipporiat in our literature, Is societyaad in parliament.
TM amp awned is do hot smann el parliament, upoe
almost all questioos dhotis, the establisbod church, had
bas remarkable. Moray mum himi worked together for
this good result, end among Mom, it would be unjust set
to name those mom edged for bringiog churchmen into
united actioo, which have so hosourably occupied their
labours. The church lootitutioes nod therein every part
of the country hive provided wade" Wino is
Loodon, through whom they can exert all the meow of
common ratios at the Feet mice si.cor satand life. Nei
only had the numbnof au churdwalisegely iscremod and bd
more frequenteradsti t aiesiopplAigne Moo dame to worship
manifest a more s • iii than bot
tom,'
• to
• higher religiose and moral tom mien to balk of dm
people. Witness ths long-sonsiosill Misses of our manu-
facturing
over
in the sere• miler palominos which
would have &ram IWr famidlows to ado el violence and
• of W law. Witmer ono the contribution
rocetritko from rich and poor to lb foods raised to
supply their wade. Wittier also the &Mica of rare abi-
lity by sem of the plated of our staitimm to the eon-
mood derails of those Worts which wore made to refine
disarm. But Mrs Is nadoubtodly (said his lordship)
mother aide to this pleasing picture an which to look.
There is no doubt at the pressed time Is this ocootry a
great liberty of thought, of word, cad of adieu as well as a
great sonority of perm and property, while at She emus
tins* we enjoy peculiar abundance el toatsrid comforts
which are diffused among all ranks ol society, and which
liss Molded to produce a most remarkable character of
general respectability amongst us. There is also a spirit of
udellactual cultivation, if not of • very high order of great
superficial extent, together with • rapidly advancing growth
of acieer.in the kingdom, menially hi those department.
which mod to subject Ms Garth to mu • dominion and to
increase the means of physical eejoytoent. It is not difeendt
to see the temptation to evil which must accompany
such blessings. The people who yawn for them must
be tempted to overvalue wealth se a means of
securing physical enjoyment. Thiess damns will show
thsruseves in more ways than one. Speaking of firmly life,
they lead to the Monition of strictness Is Mould govern-
med. They operate, too, by making luxury smonal, sad
by facilitating Ur growth of luxury and home on every
side, so long as it is °opened within the bounds of outward
decency. Further, this license will be tempted by ths pre-
valence of liberty to assert itself against all command, earthly
and heavenly ; whits to rapid growth of *rood inquiry
• especelly direct the idioms of its rebellious temper,
first, against the presence of the supernatural i and next,
against the distiocuroness and reality of revelation. Those,
then, being our special damns, the !position is, bow are
they to be met? Many algae of the mil
may well make our beans fail, but we mast re-
double our efforts. Certainly there is a tendency
among us to worship wealth, to make life as fares is pomade
soft and luxurious. CArtnialy the rule of mould authority
was never more lightly amosted. Would to God I meld
stop born but I feu that it is not without too good ground
for their eassetwits that them who &robed qualified to speak
co the subject tell os,tbat the difficulties connected with modal
position have tended to a great degree to di :refit God's
groat orainaoce of holy matrimooy, sad that the pernicious
practice of secret vice is proportionately spreading in the
middle and upper classes of society. That the evil.
it be is lot
maw ev sum Own Is antra la the wen—d •• '—
true, and I greatly tsar that it is—of the increase is our
land of the unnatural wickedness of infanticide. Thera are
abundant proofs also that in tho preseut age there is an
inchoative to doubt ad ova to dopy the promos of any
supernatural Power acting emosg us in the church of
Christ. Our general literature m its whole tone is marked
by this spirit of doubt ad incredulity, and we have rho
writings of men who protege at once to believe
in the Bible and to deny its supernatural cha-
racter—to receive what has been revealed, but to
reject revelation ; whilst a puling superstitioo, which re-
jects the great doctrius of the co.nmuniou of saints, seeks
to commerce with the dead by tappings and movements.
There an be no question among tie u to the mode is
which we ought to deal with the first class of than peculiar
dawn. We meat meet them with the words of truth
and the armour of righteousness, remiuding Shoe who are
seeking after wealth that those who would be rich will fell
into tempted** sooner, and those who are rich sot to trust
• uncertain riches ; exhorting the young to be sober-
minded, &nog youthful lusts, and setting before them the
blessedness of having the love of God fur their patios and
the love of Christ for their riches ; while we must so lies
before them that our lives may witosaa to them the greater
blandness of a heavenly inheritems. With respect to the
second class of error, which relates more immediately to
faith than to practice, arid to the reason rather than to
the morals, it does not at that sight seem so ',lain what is
the worse of our duty, est it most in effect be the
same. We have God's revelation and his law. We are
God's witnesses. and must not yield up any point of conten-
tion ; we must let no illusive promises of intellectual ed-
vancomeut beguile no from the simplicity of the Gospel,
but hold fiat the troth once delivered to the saints. I will
not attempt, oa the present occasion, to go into any minute
detail with respect to those infidel writings to which public
attention has in the last year or two bees directed, be-
mum it iequite evident that it would require me to enter
into minute detail., in order to enable me to deal con-
vincingly with them. Such treatment they ham already
received from able Mods, and we need sot be ashamed
of the perfornances of the defender. of our faith.
The issue is is the band of God. It will be our duty so to
tenh the youth of this country, that they may be in •
position to rebut such attacks um' their faith and hold out
steadfastly. I do not doubt that the storm of infidelity
will pm away, as it lira doge before ; but at the same time
it may he flit we are Miring oo that dreary winter d
unbelief which will usher io the glorious spring-limo. whim
the Son of Man contoth. It may be that wo hear the
echo of the coming footfall of the great Antichrist. God
knows ! But, whatever it be. it equally become,. us to bold
tut for °involves the standard of truth, that we may be
ready to mot soh error as it arises, with the sure reliance
on ilia Holy Word.

Totrrugo MONEY-LW( MUM —A gentleman who
oa Monday =wain entered Somerset-Louse for the first
time as a clerk to the General Begieter•oftice, oo Tuesday
Townie' received the following letter :—" Adelyht—dir,
I beg to date that I advance mouey to anotlemen, sad
mom the same from quarter to quarter, until convenieet he
the borrower to repay the same. AU communicatioas viii
held strictly coolldeotild. I can be men at the above
address between the Lours of 10 and 5, or at my private
residence, the evening, from 7 until 9.—Yours
' obediently, —."

[TWOPENCE