The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-30 00:00:00

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Ws lairs that band•bills and placards are being•
exhibited iv semi localities frequented by the less
respectable classes of the metropolis which have the
appearance of an attempt to convert last Sunday's ,
demonstration in Hyde Park intG a permanent agi-
tation. Some of these bills exhort the populace to
assemble at Lord ROBERT GROBVENOWB door on
Sunday next, to follow him to church and from
'church, and wherever he may go in the course of
the day. We are confident that the good settee of
tlea respectable artisans and tradesmen who were
present in Hyde Park will see at once the immense
difference between the step now urged upon
them and their last Sunday's expression of
their sentiments. The presence of a cla-
Inorous crowd at a church door would disturb
the worshippers, and be an insult to the feelings
of every well regulated mind. A clamorous crowd
following one man—accompanied probably by ladies
—would be apt to degenerate into a riotous melh.
The act would be in itself wrong, and the
results might be such as would make our brave
and honest workmen blush. It is easy to see whence
the advice against which we are warning our artisans
proceeds. In many squalid lanes and courts of London
there lurk a professional crime class, whose pursuits
are favoured by any disturbance. There are also
still among us some rabid politicians as foolish as
the CursElre. Those classes are ever ready to
form temporary alliances, and to goad on the
honest and industrious working men to demon-
strations which have a tendency to make troubled
waters in which they can Bah. We cannot too
earnestly exhort respectable working men to
beware of such counsellors. Even the repetition of
Let Sunday's expression of public feeling in Hyde-
' park would be impolitic. The members of the
aristocracy who frequent that place on Sundays
are not iu general those who busy themselves prag-
matically with Sunday legislation. A perseverance
in such demonstrations as we allude to may frighten
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the wealthy and noble frequenters of Hyde-parli into
deserting it on Sunday.. This is exactly what the
acetic Sabbatarians wish. They calculate that their
ben gloomy-minded equals in rank will thus be led to
cooperate with them out of spite. One such demon-
stration as we have had in Hyde-park was well enough
to let the exclusives of society know how the many
feel ; but a repetition of that display would have the
appearance of a menace, and would be to play
the game of those who, by their dictatorial
dogmatism, have provoked it. We feel confident
that these considerations will weigh with the
don we are addressing, and prevail upob them
to abstain from a course of action upon which
sinister counsellors seek to urge them forward. We
have heard talk of calling out the police; we, for our
part, have more faith in the good sense and good
holing of the working classes, when addressed in
dacerity and friendship, on such occasions.
While on this subject we may advert to a letter
which Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR has addressed to
IMO of our contemporaries. His lordship labour.
hard to show that his Bill can have little or no
effect, and that it will press mainly on the rich. We
deprecate officious and vexatious meddling with the
actions of the rich quite as much as when it is di-
rected against the poor. Besides, has Lord ROBERT
any right to provoke commotion. for the sake
of doing next to nothing? As to the pettiness and
paltriness of his Bill most people will agree with him;
but it is part of a system. It might have been
passed over with silent contempt, had it not
been an additional chapter of the huge code
of unnecessary legislation that is being ob-
truded upon us from so many quarters. Last
Sunday's protest was levelled against the whole class
of measures to which his Bill belongs. It aimed at
the repeal of vexatious Acts of Parliament already in
existence, quite u much as at the frustration of that
Rost insignificant measure which he is now trying to
get added to the number. Lord ROBERT affirms that
his Bill is approved of by a large section of the work-
ing classes. He is deceived. There are doubtless
among our working men disciples of his own un-
lmfortable faith ; but they are made to appear more

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numerous than they are by the unacrupulone tactics
of a permanent paid agency.

The King of the Belgians will leave Brussels on
Monday morning for England. His Majesty will
sleep at Ostend, and embark the following morning
for Dover. The Count of Flanders and Princess
Charlotte will, we believe, scoompany their august
parent in this visit to oar Queen. The stay of the
Ro_yal visitors is expected to extend over a fortnight.
HONOURED RESIGNATION Or Ma. JUSTICE MAULE.
—lt has been rumoured in legal circles this morning,
that this learned Judge has resigned his seat on the
bench.

REPORTED RETIREMENT OF ADMIRAL. BERKELEY.
-It is rumoured in professional circles that Rear-
Admiral Berkeley, C,8., is about to vacate kis seat at
the Admiralty Board.—United Service Gazette (this

THE NEw GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.—
Charles John first Viscount Canning, the new Governor of
Ind* is the second son of the Right Hon. George Canning,
by the third daughter of Major General John Scott, of Bal-
comic, Fifeshite. He was born at Gloucester Ledge,
Brampton, in 1812, and he married in 1836 the eldest daugh-
ter and co-heiress of the first Lord Stuart de Rothsay. The
new Governor-General was educated at Christ Church, Os-
ford, and in 1833 he took a first-class in classics and second '
class in mathematics. He filled the aloe of Under• Secr-
etary of State from 1841 to 1846. In the latter year he was
appointed to the Chief Commisaionership of Woods and
Forests. He was one of the public men to whom the Earl
of Derby applied when engaged in forming his first Cabi-
net, but declined the connexion, and preserved his fidelity
to the Pulite party. He was appointed to the Postmaster-
Generalship in 1863, with a salary of 2,6001.
THE ArroaNsv-Gstraast. v. ST. CROBB Hos-
rirsl.—We hear that the Lords Justices, in conjunction
with two of the common law judges,will sit on Monday
next to hear the appeal of the Rev. H. Holloway against
the injunction awarded against him by the Muter of the
Rolls, for exercising his office of churchwarden within the
church of the hospital. He insists it is not way the parish
church of St. Faith, but that the mutenhip is en ecclesias-
tical benefice, and, according to Sir Wynne's opinion,
and others of eminence, with a cure of souls over which the
Court of Chancery has no jurisdiction.
PliWo have reason to believe that Lient..General
James Ferguson, for some time put in command of ,the
troops at Malta, will succeed Sir Robert Gardiner as Go-
vernor end Commander-in• Chief of Gibraltar. Mr. H. J.
R. Gaskein, of the War-office, has been appointed private
secretary to Lord Pennine*, I. succession to the Earl of
Gifford, who has resigned that office.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SHROBONB.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the college at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 29th inst.:—
Messrs. Thomas George Brook, Caxton, Cambridge ; Geo.
Matthew James, Jersey ; Charles Plank, Crescent-row,
Canonbu •• Oliver Lemon, Tontine-terrain, Kentish-
' lowa Unthank Wallace, Hackney-road ; Wm.
Henry Marina, Colombo, Ceylon ; Samuel Howell army ;
John Browa Ron, Higb-street, Shadwell ; Joseph Thomas
Mitchell, Clapham-road ,• William Legge, Fakenham, Nor-
folk ; Aluandu Franklin Roche, Army ; and Frederick
Haines Hammond, Southampton.

THE Nsw DIVINITY PROMISOR AT CAMBRIDGE.—
Yesterday the election of a successor to the late ROT. Mr.
Blunt took place in the Senate House, Cambridge. The
usual forms having been gone through, the votes were
taken, and on a scrutiny there were found to be—for
Selwyn, 43; for Browne, 43; for Bose, 17. The casting
vote thus remained in the bands of the Vice-Chancellor
(Dr. Guest, Muter of Cain. Cellep), and le exercised it in
favour of Mr. Selwyn, who wee then declared, pro forma,
elected. Dr. Whewell, Master of Trinity, misented
him-
self Just after the casting vote had been gn to vote for
Mr. Browne, and was informed that he was too late.
Given earlier his vote would have otherwise decided the
sleetion. Mr. Selwyn went oat as sixth wrangler in 1828,
and in the same year was first chancellor's medallist, hav-
ing in 1827 carried off the prize (Browne's medal) for the
best Greek ode. Mr. Selwyn was presented to the living
of Melbourn, Cambridge, in the year 1848, by the Dean
and Chapter of Bly, and resigned the seas about two years
ego.
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