The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-25 00:00:00

To guard the Church from foal or wreck;

and appearing as the author of a book which has
had a considerable and deserved circulation, the
title of which is " Papers on Preaching."
Unfortunately, however, for himself, Mr.
DAVIES IntertllLini a partiality for a pursuit which
was followed by several rather distinguished chr
racters in Old Testament history. Like Aim., he is
a keeper of sheep ; and like Cain, also, he is a tiller
of the ground. Like A art, as will be seen, he is
struck dumb into silence by the hand of a brother;
and, like C•nr, he is a vagabond, if not on the earth,
at least in the diocese of Rochester. Dr. WIGILAM,
without any notice, without any previous inter-
view with a man whom he himself acknowledges
to be a friend and the son of a frkmd, writes him
a letter which he gets on a Sunday morning, in-
hibiting him thenceforth from officiating in the dio-
cese. And the Bishop does this, raying he had been
informed that Mr. Dania officiated as a clergyman
by assisting the clergy when absent fro a thei-
cures ; and that it appeared to be generally known
and much remarked on that he was engaged in the
management of land, bolding a farm himself, and
" of necessity associating with farmers and markets
" (sic) far more than is usual in the case of clergy-
" men, or than is proper for them." Bat surely,
when &Bishop is thinking of suspendinga clergyman
sine die, he is bound in kindness to remonstrate

clergyman "makes two blades of grass grow
"where one grew before"—he issuspended for ever.
A rural dean—tiro rural deans--sneak to the
Bishop with a trumpery charge, which, so
far as it was correct, imputed conduct
which could not be blamed ; and an Arch-
deacon, Surrogate, Sinecure Rector of Shor-
well, Isle of Wight, Vicar of Burnham, and Rector
of Chelmsford, sees no disgrace in presiding at a
meeting of rural;cleans, who—having amongst their
number the spies themselves—are to adjudicate
on a brother clergyman without seeing him face
to face, or confronting him with his accusers, or
giving him the slightest opportunity of defence.
It was " not the mannerof the Romans to deliver
" any man to die, before that he which is accused
" have the accusers face to face, and have leave to
" answer for himself concerning the crime laid against
" him." But it is the manner of the Bishop of Ro-
miasma, of the Archdeacon of Canimarosm, and of
the veiled officials who joyfully perform • part
which has been thought • disgraceful one in all
ages, to condemn to clerical extinction • man
against whose moral character not a breath has
been uttered, a man whose orthodoxy has never
been doubted—a man whose amiability of diaposi-
ti

_ion, whose elegant scholarship, and whose pulpit
attainments deserved, though they have not
secured, better and faker treatment at the hands
of men who profess to be preachers of a gospel of
justice and mercy.

We are glad to be in a position to inform our
readers that negotiations for a Commercial Treaty
between England and Italy are progressing most
favourably, and that ere long the preliminaries may
be announced as settled. In the meantime it
is satisfactory to know that the conditions of the
Treaty will embrace all the points agreed upon in
the convention between the King of ITALY and the
Emperor of the FRENCH. The Anglo-Italian Con•
vention will also embrace several articles not in-
cluded in the French Treaty, but which relate to
more special matters of profitable exchange between
the territories of Great Britain and the Italian
Peninsula. The conclusion of this Treaty will, we
trust, not only prove advantageous to the commerce
of both countries ; but it will also tend to increase
the intercourse which has helped to liberalise
the institutions, as well as to develop the re-
sources of the new Italian state. Italy has long been
proverbially rich in corn, wine, and oil, the three
great articles of agricultural produce. She has
woods, too, and minerals, especially in the fertile
islands of Sicily and Sardinia, and in the moun-
tains of Calabria, which have never yet been fully
developed. Italy has made great progress with
her railways, so necessary to her internal commu-
nications, since the union of the North and South.
She only now wants an equal freedom of action
in relation to her foreign commerce to become once
more the garden of Europe and the centre of Eu-

ropean trade. The leading statesmen—following
the example of the late Count Csvons--eee the
necessity of commercial liberality, no less than of
national independence, and they are adopting the
surest method to attract the trades and capitalists
of Europe to their shores.

Cbe Court,

BALMORAL, MAT 22.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
and attended by the Duchess of Athol., drove out yesterday.
Printer Helena, attended by lady A. Bruce, went out

bier 23.
The Queen, accompanied by Primate Helena, drove eat
yesterday sfternoon.
Pelona Louise and Prince Alfred went ont riding.

The Duke of Cambridge paid a visit to the Prince!. Lours
of Heaeeom Saturday monies at Marlborough-bonse, and
took leave of her Royal Highness and Prince Louis.
The Prince and Primes. Louis with the Prisons Victoria
of Hesse left Marlborongh-hone at 20 minutes plat 12

o'clock on Saturday on their return to the Continent:
Their Royal Highnesses were attended by Baroness von
Schenck, Baroness von Granny, Captain Wasterweller, and
Mr. Becker.

The Prince aid Prisms of Wales, attended by the
Conntem of Maeelesfiedd and Major Teesdale, aocompanied
the Priam and Primer Louis to the Bricklayers' Arms
sestina, and travelled with them by a special railway train
to Gravesend, where the Royal party went on board the
Victoria sod Albert, Royal steam yacht, commanded by the
Priam d Limier& The Prince and Princess of Wales,
after partakieg of a &falser with the Prince aid Princess
Louie, landed at bait-pest 3 o'clock, when the Royal yacht
departed for Belgium. The Prince and Princess of Wales
returned by a special train to the Bricklayers' Arms station.
Is the evening. the Prince and Prince's of Wales, attended
by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale,
honoured the pert ormance at the Royal Italian Opera,Covent-
pram, with their presence.
Yesterday morning the Prince and Princess of Wales and
the Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's. The communion service was
read by the sub-dean, the Rev. T. If elmore, and the Rev.
J. An trobna The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr.
Jell from the gospel of St. John, chap. 16, velum 6 and 7.
The anthem wee, " Come, Holy Ghost," (rittwood). Mr.
Cooper presided at the organ. Their royal highneeees were
attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Major
Teesdale.

before he strikes, to tell it to the erring brother
before he tells it to the Church, and, still more,
not to take the hearsay accusation of an official
without giving the culprit an opportunity of ex-
planation. Mr; DAVITS replied by sayir7 that he
had told the Bishop himself of his irtention of
retiring to a farm, and of still giving his neigh-
bours occasional help, and that on another occasion
when the Bishop had asked him what he
was doing he had said that he was taking
occasional duty, so that the Bishop's employ-
ment of spies was needless as well as mean.
Mr. Davrzs further stated that he had refused all
offers of regular weekly duty, and had only offi-
ciated in cases of illness or sudden absence. He
says, in continuation, "My grain and cattle, when
"sold in market, are sold by • commission agent,
" because I dislike that part of the work. I often
" ride into Chelmsford on market days, and I
" have the friendship of many of the leading
" agriculturists of Essex ; but my tastes have
"never led me into any low company, because I
" was bora a gentleman before I was made a
"clergyman." And, last of all, Mr. DAMS asks
the name of his accuser.

The Marquis of Norenanby, the Earl of St. Germans, end
Viseoant Sydney were present at the service.

The Prince aMI Priicese of Wales visited the Dunham
of Cambridge et her residence at Kew in the afternoon.

We regret to say that the only result of this
appal/ was to elicit, in language more eipshod than
before, the fact that there were two spies instead
of one, "officers of the diocese whose duties

" (long since organized) require them to report to
" the Bishop on anything which seems to be ir-
" regular among their neighbouring parishes."
The Rural Dean in whose district Mr. DAYIES lives
denies being one of them, but it is pretty well
known who they must be. Representations have
since been made to the Bishop, both by the clew
and laity of the neighbourhood, pointing out the
hardship of the case ; but the only redress he
offers is to submit the case to the Rural Deans,
who, with Archdeacon MILIMAT, rant include in
their very limited number the two spies from
whom the information was first derived. This
generous proposition Mr. Devise very naturally
declined ; or, in the words of the Archdeacon, he
proposed " that the matter should rest where it
" now stands, rather than be submitted to such a
" meetieg ;" but from the letter we have just
quoted we find that even this scanty and niggard
proposal " would not have been thought of "
but for the representations of lay and clerical
neighbours.
"A man's foes shall be they of his own house-
" hold." This prophecy is not less true of churches
than individuals, and most of all those of the
Church of England. What can tend more strongly
to disgust honest men with the hierarchy than
conduct of this kind 1 A clergyman robe a savings
bank—he is suspended for two years. Another

Lord Dalrymple, Lord Darwin, and Sir W. Dunbar,
M.P., bad an interview with the President of the Board of
Trade on Saturday, on the subject of Portpatrick Harbour.
Viscount Palmerston has issued invitations for a grand
dinner party on Saturday, the 6th Jane, in celebration of
the Queen's Birthday.
A deputation from the guardians of the pariah of Quake-
well bad an interview on Saturday with the Right Hon. H.
P. Villiers, at the dike of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall.
Viscount Palmerston left town on Saturday for &mast-
hall, Herta.

Earl Russell left town on Saturday for his residence in
Richmond-park.
The Chaanellor of the Exchequer and Jinx Gladdens left
London on Saturday, on a visit to Lord Taunton, at his
stet, Overstowey, Bridgwater.
Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-
dike to the Governors of the settlements on the west meat
of Moira and Oansels.

On Saturday the Prince of Wales wee elected
patron of the Norfolk Aviculture! Society, a communica-
tion having been received intimating hie royal highness's
ement. The Prince is expected down at Sandringham
spin early in September, for the 'bootie( swam, which
promisee this year to be a highly favourable on., ea the
mildness of the spring has encouraged the rearing of both
partridges and pheausts.
The Queen has, it is said, signified her intention
to bestow upon Earl Grey the Garter, vacant by the death
of Esti Ginning.

His Excellency the Hanoverian Woister is about
it) Ilan the post he Imo so keg filled at the court at St.
James, ea cove fora period of soma =oaths. Dorian
the absence of Count Kielzasnaegge, IL /Rome, DOW Hano-
verian &are d'aflairee at the cosset of Barony, will act as
share Cadman& is this country.
Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner on Satur-
day evening, at her residence is Ratos-place, his Royal
Higitaase the Comte d• Paris, the Earl and Countess of
Chesterfield, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Battey, Vis-
count sad Viscountess Limon, Viscount and Viscountess
Castleman, Lord and Lady Crooners% Viscount Chelsea,
Lord and Lady Chelinaford, Coicoel the Hon. Janes Mao.
&mid. the lion. Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Holford. JLP., and
Mn. Raiford, and Mr. Lae Pox. Her ladyship after.
wards " neened."

TIIE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1863.

Forrest has captured Colonel Straight's Federal
cavalry, numbering 1,800, at Rome, Georgia.
Colonel Straight was making a destructive raid
through Alabama and Georgia.
General Bragg's infantry still confront General
Rosencranz at Murfreesboro'. Upon the Bth Ro-
sencranz issued an order that the season for active
operations had arrived.
The death of General Van Dorn is officially re-
ported to Richmond. He was shot during a private
altercation.

The Federal General Beaufort has made a raid
along the Alleghany ridge of Western Virginia,
destroying the atippliee intended for the Confede-
rates in the south-west.

_
Heavy Federal reinforcements have been sent
into Western Virginia, and the Confederates are
reported to be moving from the line of the Western
Virginia railroads towards the south-west moun-
tains. The Confederate movement appears to
have been made principally to capture horses,
drugs, and stores.
During Mr. Vallandigham's trial at Cincinnati
he protested against the legality of the military
commission. He also demanded that Fernando
Wood should be compelled to produce before the
court the letter he received from Richmond relat-
ing to the terms offered for the return of the
Southern senators to Congress, and President Lin-
coln's letter declining to entertain the proposition.
Mr. Vallandigham declared himself a constitu-
tional unionist. After the trial, the court sub-
mitted its decision to General Burnside, but the
purport of the decision has not yet been made
public.
An attempt was made to procure Mr. Vallandig-
ham's release by habeas corpus. Military were
sent to Cincinnati, fears of an outbreak being en-
tertained.

The New York Democratic Association has held
a special meeting denouncing Vallandigham's
arrest. The New York Herald thinks the arrest
a gross wrong to individual rights.
The Congressional Committee of the Confede-
rate Congress has leaned a report •declaring that
the Federal war is a war against the public and
private property of both sexes and all classes of
society, against what has ever been deemed sacred,
inoffensive, and exempt from hostility by all
civilised nations. Its full purpose is to subjugate
the bodies and souls of the people, or to exasperate
and exterminate them.

In the MAO of the prize vessel Springbok the
judge of the New York District Court has decided
that where a vessel is suspected of carrying con-
traband goods, even if she tad not attempted to
run the blockade, her cargo may be examined to
determine whether it is contraband or not.
NEW YORK, MAY 12, EVENING.

It is reported that General Haßeck will take the
field in person, and superintend General Hooker's
operations in the approaching campaign.