The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-05 00:00:00

CRICIiIiT.

THB UNITED ALL ENGLAND ELEVEN AGAINST
Burrs OF THE OXIORD lINIVERSITY.—Th:vinatch, com-
menced at Lord's on Monday, torminate.l yesterday in
favour of the University by 6 wickots.
first innings, 120; second . 1011. Orford, first in-
nings, 151 ; second innings, 76.
ST. JOHN'S-WOOD CLUB V. (.)..RENADIER GUARDS.--.
Ttis match commenced yesteeosy at Lords. At the close
of the day the score stood sa kaolin :—Guards, first innings,
146. second Inning% 1205.. St. JOIal'i•1100111, 1104 iwsgb
191.

SINICING OF ♦ VESSEL AT SEA.—PENZANCE, JUL.?
2.—Tha Weds. of Groningen, Potjewyd, from Nowcortle to
&rills, with coal and brick. sank 12 mills S.W. ant by 8. of
this plans this afternoon. Craw picked up by hG Majesty's
same anther, Beare, sad leaded hen.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY b.

Tux two Houma of Convocation have ormeurred
In an Address to the Crows, in which it is main-
tained that the oonstitaloa of that body may be
changed by the simple proem of Convocation's
framing, and the Crown aessating to, a anon to
that effect. The Address, as it palmed the Upper
Hoes% contained an averment that the members,
"oft consulting very high legal authorities," had been
assured that their view was *Goodin law. This pas-
sage was straok out in the Lower House, the mem-
bers of which koew very welt that they had not
cosealted counsel on the subject; sad it now ap-
pears t►at the Upper House had not consulted
mussel either. For this extraordinary revelation
respecting the tactic of the Bishops of LON-
DON and OXFORD the reputed authors of the
Address—we are indebted to the Dean of
In a letter addressed by the Dien to Lord PAL-
MAS/TON, and published by RIDGWAY, we find the
following statement :

I. In my place in Couvocetion I took the liberty to
doubt whether the Upper Howe had placed may ems
bekre opened, or sought the opinions of the Sou-

crron-Ostriaat. and Dr. Parra:mom I took the
further liberty of stating my snapicion that the words
of the Address were altogether a misrepresentation
of the facts of the case, or rather an allegation of that
which was not true. Upon information I have since
Teerived, I now venture to affirm distinctly that
neither the Committee of the Upper House nor the
Upper Hoses itself did consult any legal authority
whatever ; that they drew up no caris and received no
opinion addressed to them in the matter. I have
been further informed that the circumstance, of the
sale are these: that a certain body of persons, call-
ing themselves The Society for the Revival of Con-
vocation; drew up a case, on which they took the
opinion of the fioucrroa-Clinew. and Dr. Pilau-
sons; that this Society communicated the cue and
answer to a relate on the Committee of the Upper
Hoses; that this prelate, in his turn, communicated
it to the Committee ; and that it was upon such
extremely narrow grenade the Upper Home
ventured to affirm, in an address to her Mawr,
that ' they had consulted very high legal authorities,
and that they had been &yam informed, so and so.' "
Now, there can be no doubt that the Lower
House of Convocation, although it struck out
of the Address the words affirming that they
had consulted counsel, was mainly induced to
acquiesce in the Address by that affirmation.
How fit the Upper House was deceived, or partici-
pated in the dimwit practised by the prelate whom
the Dean alludes to, does not appear. But common
sense tells us that the opinion of counsel would be
materially influenced by the light in which the came
submitted to them placed the question. The opinion
elicited from Sir R. Barash. and Dr. PHILLIMORE
was not based upon a statement of the case sanc-
tioned by Convocation, but upon representations

made by a private, anauthoilsod, irresponsible
society. The prelate■ who have persuaded
Convocation to adopt and act upon an opinion
thus irregularly obtained have enabled the
pragmatical individuals who constitute the society
in question to dictate to the Church; and
they have done this, at least in so hr

as the Lower House is concerned, by en same.
tics that his no foundation in truth. In such
strategy there is smuredly more of the wisdom of
the serpent than of the pilelessness of the dove.
_ _ _

But the conduct et the Boucrros•QEAESAL must
not be allowed to pass without animadversion. In
hie capacity of law adviser to the Crown he could
not but know that, if any steps were taken to urge
the Crown to act upon the opinion in question, he
would be called upon to give his diktat advice.
He acted therefore in utter disregard and
violation of his duty to his So►ereign, in
giving an opinion upon an ex pares case sub-
mitted to him by a private association. Whether
he was tempted to this breech of duty by a large fee,
or by secret sympathy with the views of those who
took counsel with him is a matter d no consequence.

In either case he has betrayed the trait reposed in
him by the Clown : he has acted unoonstitutionally.
The Dean of Iburrot, in that high-minded and
uncompromising spirit which beseems a true friend
tithe Church, warns Lord PALMEIBTON not to yield
to this insidious attempt on the part of a faction in
Convocation to dictate to the Crown. " I shall pre-
sume," he says, " to express my opinion that the
yam desultory, vacillating, futile conduct of its
business by Convocation—the crude haste of its des
liberations, the strange opinions therein pro-
pounded on Church government and the authority
of the clergy, are daily injuring the cause of the
Eetabliehed Church, and that your lordship could
confer no greater kindness on the clergy themselves
—and, through them, on the Church—than by ad-
vising the Crown to follow the wise precedents of the
early part of the eighteenth century, and to prevent
Convocation from entering on any deliberation what-
ever."

It is to be hoped that Lord PALMERSTON may
lend a willing ear to such judicious advice. But
in the meantime, it behoves all friends of constitu-
tional liberty, in or out of Parliament, to be on the
alert. The game of the clerical agitators, whose du-
plicity has been unveiled by the Dean of ligurroL,
evidently is to flatter the Crown by affecting a desire
to warm and extend the exercise of its prerogative
and at the same time to make the Crown a mere
instrument in their own hands. It is carious that
this movement should coincide so closely in point
of time with Lord Pewmusx's proposal to ingratiate
the Crown with the army, by conferring a donation
upon it without consulting Parliament. It almost
looks as if there were a conspiracy among the dig.
niteries of the Church and the aristocratic dispensers
of army patronage to emancipate the Crown from the
constitutional check of the people's repreeentatives
in Parliament, in order to subject it to the control
of a eleriecomilitary oligarchy. We have been told
of late that a strong and powerful Government is im-
possible la cousgusace of the changes that have bees
Mb in the senstitadon of the How of Oommone.
Is a remedy kw this alleged evil sought by vesting
the ezerehisof the Orown'a pearogative Van oligarchy
of priests sad soldiers?

Tira individuals 'barged at Mariborough-strest
bawds« with riotous prowainp in Hyde-park,
and ireprisceed hawses they wen !Amble to pay the
Ansa leaked cm theta, hare been set at liberty. This
has bsen idea by a saluseipties to pay their Anse
ram s sabot se as posse limp al odor is

the City. We are given to understate% dirt the'pri.
ecirwre—t wady in number—had been an set to bard,
labour, though that formed ao peek of theft sonnies.
Were it not for the neftiotobility of 0111
source whence we derive this informed^
it would be difficult to credit anything
so monstrous. This bet, however, ought to have the
effect of directing public Indignation to the :Wit
quarter, from which it appears to be in dangle of
being diverted. It is in all came more advisable to
aim at the directing head than at subordinate in-
fitments. Besides, then is this to be said in be-
half of the policemen aesseed--and we fear not alto-
gether without cause—of having acted, in some in.
stances, with undue violence and want of temper—
that each is not the habitual character of the
force. In all great crowds there are many
who, for reasons of their own, lint a grudge
against the police, which they are glad el
any opportunity to give vent to. We are not seeking
to extenuate brutal violence on the part of any ia-
dividual policeman; but the main fault rests with
than who unnecessarily =pod the fosse to a sal li•
sion with the ill-disposed,likaly tepooska mtreacle
by which the innocent were certain to be the gradist
sufferers. For putting the prisoners to hard khan,
although that formed no part of their neatens, the
policemen cannot be hold responsible. Neither was it
the fault of the polio@ that so many men were incav
ousted without trial, ease for one and some
for two days. For the unwise provocation to
riot in the first place, and for the illegal severity
with which all the noosed were treated in the se-
cond, the Hone SzcarrnY appears to have been
alone responsible. The only personal inquiry worth
instituting is what degree of culpability attaches to
Sir 0101.011 Gm in these lamentable proceedings.
And even this inquiry is of very minor consequence
when compared with an investigation into the ex-
pediency of allowing the entire control of the
Metropolitan Police to remain in the hands
of the Central Governmeef. The City Police
is at least as efficient for all legitimate
purposes as that of the other metropolitan dis-
tricts, and is less liable to be onverted into a political
engine. Some strange sentiments have been ex-
pressed in the course of the discussions that have
arisen out of the disturbances in Hyde-park. Mr.
CMJCSON maintained, at Bow-street, that "an
assembly of persons from 50,000 to 100,000 is aloes
calculated to produce terror to the public;" and the
ableet organ of the advocates of Sunday legislation
in the press averred, yesterday, that the parties
charged at Bowatrest had been guilty of something
bordering upon high treason. We had occasion, some
timeago,w ith reference to the practices of the notorious
Finn, to warn the public to be on their guard, km
a detective force should be brought to approximate
more closely than is consistent with the liberties of
England to the ohmmeter of the police of the de-1
gib slates on the Continent. Similar apprehen-
sion inn nemasarily excited when we hear lawyers
angler( by Ministers throwing cat insinuations
egalart all nnemsms gorier amoidies ; and when
Ossesrmitive pedalo ink to talk so glibly about
high treason. We reersamod this subject to
the grave consideration of the Administrative Re-
dman

Mx Court.

The Dike of Cambridge visited the Queen yester-
day at Beskibiltas Palms.

The OessiesTe de Nastily, the Doke and Dualisms de No-
team, the Prime and Primus de Joinville, the Doke and
Daises d'Anstam aced the Primer de Salerno elated the
King of the Refidame cat Beekingbant Pekes.
Tie King MOM issompanied by the Princess
°WOW and the de paid visits yesterday
etownees to Om Dedham of Clioncester, the Duchess of
Kam. the Doren= et dainietige, add the Duke of Cam-
tafteg ir= ragman reddens's.
Royal, the Princess Alia*, and the Primus
Char Mile of Belgium took a carriage drive in the forenoon.
TM Omen and Prime Albert, the Kieg of the Belgians,
the Primes. al,the Priam& Charlotte of Belgian', and
the Count do with the Ron. Lacy Kerr and the
lady in Wadi' to the Princess Charlotte, drove out in
miEset Mukne-and-fam is the afternoon. Lord Alfred
and Wesel Simone attended ea horseback.
Queen bad a Dinner Party in the evening. The
demon binged the King of the Belgians, the Count
de Yhmine, the Dube. of Kent, the Duke of Caiti-
Mffs Dasher of Sutherland, the Belgian Mink
. Van Is Weyer, the Marquis Of Lansdowne,Via-
taunt and Vieemintess Palmenton. Lad Anna Mule
Dawson, 8e.... de Bpsth, the Right lion. Bit Charles
and Lady Mari Wood, Colonel B. Equalises, Colonel de
Menke**, Oaptain Burnell, Sir Robert Carswell, and the
Gentleman in Waiting as the Doke of Cambridge.
The Band of the Royal Horse Guards attended in the
Palace, and played during dinner.

Lard John Russell gave a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers
last evening at his residence, Pembroke-lodge, Richmond-
park.
A Deputation of the Hall Dock Company, consisting of
Mr. John Tall, deputy-chairman, Mr. Was. Collinsoc, and
Mr. Stephen West, director; Mr. Charles Frost, solici-
tor, and Mr. W. H. Haffam, 'scullery, had an interview
with Lord Stanley of Alderley yesterday at the Board of
Trade.
The Commissioner for the Reduction of the National
Debt held a quarterly meeting yesterday at the official resi-
dence of the Chiliadicr of the Exchequer in Downing-street.
Present—The Chancellor of the Ennsquer, the Governor of
the Bank of England, sad the Deputy Governor. Sir Alex-
ander Spearman, Secretary and Comptroller General to the
Commissioners, attended.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-oliee yesterday to
the Governors of the Australian Colonise. Despatches
were received from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

VISIT OP THE KINO OF THE BELGIANS TO THE
CRYSTAL PARRS'. (TR is DAY.) —This morning his Majesty
the King of the Belgians, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, and his Royal Highness
the Count de Pleaders, attended by Major-General the
Hoe. Charles Grey, Colonel Beystotar, and other members
of the suits, left Bukinghent Palms at tan o'clock in two of
her Majesty's open landaus and four, for Bydenhans, to in-
spect the Crystal Paled. The illustrious party proceeded
use roses over Vanzhall-bridge.

The paragraph which has appeared in nom of the
aewspepers, to the sant that her Melody the Qom is
about to peseta the Crimes medal to the wounded and
invalbi 'Mien at Chatham, is entiraly without foundation.

Ws bastes to soatradist this most, as It is oalmdatad to
suits expostations and oonasquest disappointment in theme
brays non, whom feeling all an mist maims to ((malty.

Tboinarrlago of the Hoc. Edward Stuart *alloy,
eldest sea of Lord Wbanteliffe and Lady Suez Lamella,
daughter of the Earl sad Coastal of Basswood, was so-
lemnised yesterday morning, at at. George's Church,

The midge of Lady Catherine Howard, pitapat
daughter of the Rail sad Countess of Whitlow, end the
Hs. Arthur !etre, second eon of Lord sad Lady Pare,
took place yesterday, at the Raman Catholic Chapel,
sathester-square, the ceremony being per
by Cardinal Wheaten.
The Comities (Piama) Waldegrave had a concert,
164 Right, st her Isthmian in Caitas•gardens. A very bril-
Haat maimay honoured her ladyship with their presence.
The artistes included Madame Bade, Madams Mho, and
Gergosi. °Animal, Clabbatta, sad Bellew.
The Lord Mayor boa fixed Monday next for the pre-
gestalt°. of the Royal flociaty's rewards to those who have
rescued life from Are dark* the last twelve 'maths.

- -
The Bath Caroni* rater& the death in that city
of the Hanoi. of Mafiosi. Rio lordship had in early life
sits lauds active earths is the nary, sad had attained to
the soak of admiral, bat kw the Jut Misty yam la has lived
raked in Bath. Rh lordship kw left no brae, sad the
Mespaisate will beanie sabot, bat the Batas? laehicala
will demand to a Ottani relative. .

The Meads of the excelled institooll at West-
sinister, kaolin se the lambs Rehmeatery. will be ear
pilot Oa leers that the amadttee, with the Ball o:
boy es &dm" have hood a eirealer, to tablet tIOT as
segue that " they have kit It to be their pistil bat alq.
avowable duty to dlimia Charlie Nest, the late N-
asser sad C:lnollKediall Beenatary. lid JAL .Lanett, the
we aid, is did, Gneiss', from etl esaaeolia whit the
Saba illeibemalwr,",