The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-06 00:00:00

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pelts character cd the advocacy A St. Jai:nt.'s-
WI, no one certainly would have inferred that
the schools A Tiurstpierpoint were such as• the
Bishop of Rochester buds them to be, while the
proceedings at Orford show how easy it is for au-
thority to trample down and triumph over incon-
venient facts. The following ie the correspondence
referred to :

Danbury Palace, Chelmsford, Jan. Zt.
My dear Mr. Vios-Climmellor,—Much time lass elapsed
shies I bed the immour of meeting you in the theatre at
G&W, sad of taking part in the prociesdings over which
crleiasiied es boil( of St. Nicholas' College. In the
may repensentritions, printed and otherwise, have
seesbed me has friends, and I have been led to make
eztundee Inquiries from the authorities of Humtpierpoint
sad hem others. This proceeding has created in me the
dreeeset distrust of the principles by 16 hid% the institu-
Mem a edmiehtered, sod the practices which are meow ,
nod er emesived at in them. To my mind it is obvious
that ditimakies of food rasa fast4'og are more than borne ,
with, that something like partioatar cenfession is directly
seessmeed, and that practices most incongruous with the
isesitieg of a reformed church are allowed in connexion
whit burials. Other things are told me, but it is needling
for nos to notice them. Under such circumstances the part
which I was led to take la your University is easily open to
misrepresentation, and has been greatly misunderstood sad
I am desirous to_ put myself right with the public sad any
friends. But before Ido so, let me ask whether you aro
still satisfied in respect of them institutions, or whether you
have seen reason to alter the clear convictions in regard is
them which I then heard you express. It would be oath.
factory to loam whether. if I snake my present feelings es
the subject known, I nay add, in your own words, if you
please, that you generally concur in them—Believe me,
deer Mr. ViceeChancellor, yours very sincerely.
J. C. Roamer's.
ice-Chancellor, Oxford.
Pembroke College, Oxford, Jan. 25.
My dear Lori,—l have to seknowledge, with thanks, the
receipt of your lordship's letter of the Bird inst. Like your
lordship, I have, throe the meeting in the theatre on behalf
of the 'estheticss to be connected with St. Nicholas, Show
halm, had to bear and to read much respecting the charges
brought aphid the existing school. in the aneepums band. ,
hi which I reed to the meeting ; and I mug net shrink
hem openly avowing, that I 011111104 sow consider the cisme
is question to be " mere myths," an they ware thee, both
Is private and in public, asserted to be. " °marring; is
your lordship's views " generally,* I must now waspeed,
and shall feel obliged. though with regret, wholly
_te with-
draw my support of the exoellent scheme of Mr. Woodard,
unless, after a free and searching iequiry, it am be made
evident that our distrust is without fthedation.—l am, my
dear lord, your lordship's faithful
Fiume Japes.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Rochester.

To the Rey. the

*.ae.

OPENING

PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

The fourth session of the sixth parliament of
Queen Victoria was opened today by Royal Commission.
At a council held at Osborne on Tuesday, at which Earl
Granville, Viscount Palmerston, and Earl Russell were
present, the Royal Speech was submitted to her Majesty
and approved. The knowledge of the fact that parliament
would be deprived of the prance, of her gracious
Majesty this day divested the ceremony itself of all its
interest ; but there was quite as much anxiety as usual to
learn the content, of the Speech.
The session to-day ie inaugurated but one day later in the
year than the last ; but in 1460 parliamenteemmenced on the
24th of January ; the cause of the early meeting in that case
' being the treaty of commerce with France. Had the usual
pageantry attended this opening, there can be no doubt
that the attendance of spectators would have been immense.
A more delightful spring day has perhaps never been seep in
February ; it has been just the day for as outdoor specta-
cle, of which so large a portion of a royal inauguration con-
. . .

From whet we have said above, it must be obvious that
Or spectators who bad seats in the House of Lords this
afternoon were there purely to hear the words of the Speech.
Mae ceremony was, in fact, of so formal a character, that
there is little to describe. The Speech itself wee as fol-
lows :

MI Loans AND GERMAIN,
We are commanded by her Majesty to assure
you that her Majesty is persuaded that you will
deeply participate iu the affliction by which her
Majesty has been overwhelmed by the calamitous,
untimely, and irreparable loss of her beloved Con-
sort, who has been her comfort and support.
It has been, however, soothing to her Majesty,
while suffering most acutely under tlds awful dis-
pensation of Providence, to receive from all classes
of her subjects the most cordial assurances of their
sympathy with her sorrow, as well as of their ap-
prsciathm of the noble character of him tbe great-
ness of whose loss to her Majesty and to the nation
is so justly and so universally felt and lamented.
We are commanded by her Majesty to assure
you that she recurs with confidence to your assist-

woe and advice.
Her Majesty's relations with all the European
Powers continue to be friendly and satisfactory ;
and her Majesty trusts there is no reon to ap-
prehend any disturbance of the peace of Europe.
A question of great importance, and ,ich might
have led to very serious consequences, ar between
her Majesty and the Government of fie Visited
States of North America, owing to the Om* and
forcible removal of four passengers from in board a
British mail-packet by the commander of a ship of
war of the United States ; but that question has
been satisfactorily settled by the restoration of the
passengers to British protection, and by the dis-
avowal by the United States' Government of the
act of violence committed by their naval officer.

The friendly relations between her Majesty and
the President of the United States have therefore
remained unimpaired.
Her Majesty warmly appreciates the loyalty and
patriotic spirit which have been manifested on this
occasion by her North American subjects.
The wrongs committed by various parties and by
intensive governments in Mexico upon foreigners
resident within the Meidean territory, and for which
no satisfactory redress could be obtained, have led
to the conclusion of a Convention between her
Majesty, the Emperor of the French, and the Queen
of Spain, .for the purpose of regulating a combined
operation on the coast of Mexico, with a view to
obtain that redress which has hitherto been with-
held. _ . .

That Convention, and papers relating to that
subject, will be laid before you.
The improvement which has taken place in the
relations between her Majesty's government and
that of the Emperor of China, and the good faith
with which the Chinese government have continued
to fulfil the engagements of the treaty of Tien-taiu,
have enabled her Majesty to withdraw her troops
front the city of Canton, and to reduce the amount
of her force on the coast and in the seas of China.
Her Majesty, always anxious to exert her
influence for the preservation of peace, has con-
cluded a Convention with the Sultan of Morocco,
by means of which the Sultan has been
enabled to raise the amount necessary for
the fulfilment of certain treaty engagements
which be had contracted towards Spain,
and thus to avoid the risk of a renewal of hoetilities
with that power. That Convention, and papers
connected with it, will be laid before you.

ORNTLZMIS OF SIR 1101791 01 Commorra,
Her Majesty commands us to inform you that she
has directed the estimates for the ensuing year to be
laid before you. They have been framed with a
dne regard to prudent economy and to the efficiency
of the public service.
MT LORDS AND GENTLZIM,
Her Majesty commands us to inform you that
measures for the improvement of the law will be
laid before you, and among them will be a bill for
rendering the title to laud more simple, and its
transfer more easy.
Other measures of public usefulness relating to
Great Britain and to Ireland will be submitted for
your consideration.
Her Majesty regrets that in some parts of the
United Kingdom, and in certain branches of in-
dustry, temporary causes have produced consider-
a'bltOpresaure and privation ; but her Majesty has
reason to believe that the general condition of the
country is sound and satisfactory.
Her Majesty confidently commends the general
interests of the nation to your wisdom and your
care ; and abe fervently prays that the blessing of
Almighty God may attend your deliberations, and
may guide them to the promotion of the welfare
and happiness of her people.
_ _

. . .
me Lords Commuszoners were the Lord Chancellor, the
Duke of Argyll, Earl St. Germans, Visoonnt Sydney, and
Lord Marley of Alderley.

Tel Roues or Corr ore.--Some additional facilities have
bees made for the admiuion of strangers into the galleries
el the house. A large green shade overtop. the
gpeekd• chair. It appears that the tight honour-
able gentleman'. eyes are affected by the glare of light
from the ceiling, sad be is obliged to resod to this unsightly
mode of protection. Already a large number of members
have placed notices on the ballot list for tarns to being
them on. They embrace, as usual, all sorts of
subjecta,—America, the Windham esse, church rates, the
ballot, the National Gallery, Italy, the state of the army
and navy, the revised eode of ideation, the diplomatic
service, can muftis anis. At use o'clock members began
j to assemble in the house, and ensgratulated each other
en their return to their old hum* but of course so
business was dose, beyond the &violinist» of the Spesber
appurieg in his gold robes of arses, sad taking the
elude to await a " massy from the Leeds." At a quarter
before 4 o'clock the right hon. essitione will resume his
j seat.

THE HARTLEY COLLIERY CATASTROPHE.
NEWCASTLE, WILIMISDAY.
The inquest was resumed this afternoon. The
following snninnuy of the proceedings is from a special
edition of the Daily Chronicle:
John Sharp, engineer at Hartley Pit, gave evidence as to
the weight upon the beam at the time it was working,
the Amin pressure, and other points connected with the '
reacialaery.
W. K. Horsley, engine builder, stated that in his opinion
the beam would carry five times as much weight as wee
upon it at the time it gave way. He differed from Mr.
Hoskin as to the wedging sad keying of the gudgeon being
too tight. It was not tight wedged. The gudgeon some-
times heated a little, but never to that extent as to cause
expansion. He attributed the breaking of the beam to the
breaking of the spears in the first instance.
Mr. J. Humble, re-examined, said that the Hartley
Collieries were working towards the Mill Pit, with which
communication would have been effected in &boat six
months, and there would then have been virtually a wooed
shaft, and means of escape from the pit.
Mr. Coulson, recalled, gave several statements respecting
the comparative cost of sinking *hate in different localities,
and with reference to remarks that had been made respect.
ins the practicability of taking off the bucket door of the
pampa, in order to have reached the sufferers in the mine,
he showed the utter impossibility, both by reason of the
strength of the door and the mass of debris against it, and
also on account of the gas, that would have killed any man
who entered the primps.
Adjourned until one p.m. to-morrow.

(non 0911 OWN OOKIIMPONDINT.)
The village of New Hartley—the inquest is held a mile
from it—has • singularly deserted appearance. The few
men that were spared by the catastrophe lave left the plane
to seek work elsewhere ; and none but women and children
are left. I only saw one solitary old man about the row se
I passed through the village yesterday. lam informed that
the 407 women and children left destitute will not ultimately
represent the full extent of those that have to be provided
for out of the munificent fund contributed for their relief
by the country—u fully fifty poor widows will have to
endure the pangs of childbirth. The subscriptions are coming
moat liberally from all parts of the country. Amongst
thee, that arrived yesterday was a further instalment of
1,000/. from Liverpool ; 200 L from the Old and New Corn
Exchange, Lemke ; Years. Rothschild, 1001. ; the
Bank of England, 1001. ; FAH Glasgow, 1001., lie.