The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-09 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The only news brought by the German papers is
that the return to the old ltitt steno. more and more
certain. The JAI, 11, after declaring that the re-esta-
blishment of the Net will 1a• a calamity for all Ger-
many, 011111/11111CCM that in a Cabinet Council it has been
proposed that the ltrt :Alen Conferen MS shall be imme-
diately closed, and its deliberations transferred to
the Diet at Frankfort. Couriers between 1, ienna
and the kingdoms have been lately rem ,rkably fre-
quent. The Austrian answer to Prussia's last note
is expected to arrive shortly. It is expected to con-
tain u paragraph claiming a higher position in the
Ruud fur llataria than she has hitherto occupied.

ATl.Eant-BY EI.V7IIOI‘.—AYI.EIBURY, APRIL S.—
The two candidates are pursuing their canvass with great
activity. Mr. Bethell, Lessenpanied by Mr. Calvert and
several other gentlemen, has been visiting the out diatricts.
Mr. Ferranti ha. been visiting Stoke Mandeville, Hamp-
den, Missenden, and other pl Wei in the rune vicinity lo-
des . Yesterday he engaged in suicessing over Baron
Itotlischild's estate at Arlon Clinton. As the period of the
' nomination apprixiches the excitement appears to inerea.se,
and each Party 'peeks with confidence of winless.
N.l r ioNAL 1) • Etor.—The Lords Commissioner',
of her 71laitsty's Treasury having certified t.. the Commis-
sioners fur the Br duction of the National I). ht, in pursuance
of the act 10th tieorge IV., r. 27, 0. e. 1, that the actual
surplus svenu, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
nod Island, becomil the actual expenditure thereof for the
year ended the .sth day of January, Mil, amounted to the
sum of 2,475,5001. 3a. M., the Cummirsemers fur the It,
durtion of the National Debt hereby give notice that the
FUR) of 6,11,701/. 1110. 'Jil. Owing one-fourth part of the raid
surplus of 2:178,8061. 3s. :kW will be applied, under the
provisions of tlu, said act, b..twcen the 7th day of April,
MIL and the sth day of Jule, Issl, to the following ',ors
applied to the purchase of stock,
011,701 f, 9r1.; add interest receivable on account of
donations and hisinests, to be upplic dto the purchase of
stock. 20.00. IM. .id.; total, 6r6,500/. Ss. G.
Sews tre rv. Contmller.4leneral. National Debt-office.

April 2, 1961.—Losidors Ga:otte.
THE (lut:EN's f'ett.hld;f", BIRMINftIfAM.—At the
monthly nteetio,. of the council, held on Tuesday loot, it
was anti..unttd that the 11ev. Samuel Wilson arneford
hail paid over to Mr. Chancellor Law, the 11ev. Vaughan
Thomas, mid William Sands Cox, F.R.S., iit trust, the mo-
an-went sum of 1:1001., in addition to his former noble gift
of 3,000 t, towards the, rulow ment of the professorihip of
Pastoral Theeolo!_ev, such app o'uttuent to be vested in the
Senators of the Arts department. A donation of Vs/. war
also recorded boot the Right lion. Lord Leigh, trntt.triltt
the completion ut the new buildings. At the Kline board,
Dr. James Johnstone, the Senior l'hysi,ian of the General
Hospital, was appointed Joint Professor of Medicine, and
Dr. Samuel Wright, Physician. of the Queen's llospital,
Joint Professor of 3lateria Medico and Therapeutics, in
the medical department of the college.
()MSlPit'tc SERVANTS' PROVIDENT SOCIETT.—Lost
nielit a crowded meeting of the members and friends of this
institution was held at Exeter Ball, Lord Robert Grosvenor
in the chair. After a few observations from his lordship on
the objects of the meeting, the secretary read the report,
which stated that the society was formed by Mr. Sculley,
by whose perseverance, although it had only been estab-
li;hed two years, the funds amounted to 900/. There were
several noblemen and gentlemen contributors to the funds,
as well as omnibus. proprietors, and it had so far increased
in public estimation that Prince Albert, through his Secret
tars. Colonel Phipps. had only last Monday week forwarded
to Mr. Sculley a auntie on Meson. ('ousts for 261. in aid a
the society. At the conclusion of the report his lordship
said he had ou being requested to preside considered the
matter, anti from inquiries made, hail come to the
determination to consent, believing that no other
class of men bad been so much maligned, were so
hardly work, ii, and were better worthy of support.
There were no less than 3,000 omnibuses running, employing
above 11,000 men, and sir C'harle. Wood, who no doubt
would be • subscriber to the funds of the society, in his
budget, stated that there was paid to the revenue as hack-
ney carriage duty for the number of omnibuses he had
named, no less a sum than 400,000/. Besides this, wages
were to be paid, vehicles and horses bought and fed,
groomed, anti shod, together with numberless incidental
ezpenser, which nit less a sum than 2,000.000/. a year, paid
by the public fur omnibus travelling, could meet. lle
highly approved of the society, which he should hence-
forward himself support, and endeavour to make his friends
do likewise. Mr. Owen, Mr. Joseph Payne, anti several
other 'tenth men having addressed the meeting. and urge d
the notice of the society upon the public, the Rev. lir.
Amalie moved the adoption of the report, which was carried
unanimously, and several resolutions in furtherance of the
objects in new of the "Metropolitan Omnibus Servants'
Benefit Society" were passel; thanks were voted to the
noble chairman, who having acknowledged the compli-
ment, the meeting separated.

.'.6l:lettn; FROM LONDON-BitiDGE.—Yesterdny an
inquest was taken by Mr. W. Payne, at the Horselydown
Tavern, St. John's, Southwark, on the body of Mr. Charles
Mayo, aged 19, uho destroyed himself in the following
manner: The deceased resid, d with his father in Bedford-
place, Hotherhithe, and hail formed a strong attachment to a
oattinttkla,dnyplii..vinc f.ftatt..Hettlitehrthmithaen,dbst it seems
had t si/iimmeawnoordsh.
desiring that their correspondence should cease. This had
n ;treat effect on his mind, and, on the morning of Thurs-
day, the 20th of Marsh, he left a letter for the lady with
her servant, in which he said that " She is all the world to
me—it is too heavy for my brain to bear, and she would
only now see the wreck." He was then in a very depressed
state of mind, and about three on the same afternoon the
mate of the Citizen D steamer saw a body falling from the
parapet of London-bridge, and the hat falling off, it was at
once identified as the deceased's. His body was not found,
however, till Monday last, when it was discovered floating
down by Horselydown. He had a gold watch in his pocket
and a locket round his neck, which had been presented to
him by the lady. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."

Yesterday the adjourned special meeting of the
shartholders in this company was held at the Swan, at
Wol‘,7ll.tmpton, Mr. 0. Gone, 31.1' ,in the chair. There
wa= .ezain a very large att,ndouee of shareholders.
1.1-• -eratineers reported that on the motion for an ad-
jourmient thorc were—for the propwition, voter of per ono
pre. nt, 611; !work., 4,389: total, 6,4)34. Against th-.. ad-
journment, vows of peroons present, 1,356; proxies, 7,218;
total, K.C,ot. Majority against the directors (for the second
time), 2;44.
The question then stood upon Mr. Roltinson's amend-
ment, addin7 the words proposed to Mr. Scott's original
rewlution. I 'pon this,
Mr. BAINES, of Birmingham, proposed another amend-
ment, to the effect that the agreement with the London and
North Wcotem •hould be carried out after advice had been
obtaima as to it. legality.
Angry per ottal altercations, as upon the previous day,
ensnesL

CITAIRMA:4I decided that he cud not put the
original resolution when an amendment was submitted;
why reupon
Mr. W. J. BEALE inured an amendment embodying all
the pint-, end alastr4 in the exact words of the original re-
solution. _

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The bjoet was sten through—a rote upon the substantive
object of the meetinr--and
Mr. lIOJ.LANI) then moved, as an amendment, the
all'ourrnent until the 6th of May.
fr'his led, as a matter of course, to the appointirelit of
scrutineers, and at four o'clock these gentlemen appeared in
the room, and timbered that, in emtsequenee of differences as
to uncles of proceeding, they a °edit not in all probability
conehol, their lals.urs lk f ore Wednesday or Thursday.
MI patties express. el their detcriiiiiintion to await the '
; but, at the time this pared was di -patched, the
scrutineers were main before the shareholders, announcing
tb..;. the re was no probability of their diclaring the result of
the poll.
it was scorn o'clock at night ; the meeting was inn state
of the wild, st uproar, and loudiy protested against any
adjust, amtut.

BRISTOL AN!) Ex I:TEG RATLWAT.—A special
manial meeting of flhareboldtrs in this undertaking was
h. Id v. .tenlay at the White Lion Hotel, Broad-greet, J.
W. E-1., chairman of the company, Presiding, for
tla• purr.... of taking into consideration the propos,d Itape
of the Exeter aad Crediton Railway. The secretary haling
read the advertisement convening the meeting, the chair-
man, after KAU, prefatory remarks, said, he was not una-
ware that opinions had been expressed that branch lines
were near pro Table, and that it might be questionable
wi other at war expedient to encumber the trunk line with
more brandies. Ile was net aware that the directors bad
ever admitted that the branches were not productive; he
knew it had been so thought by the public, but it
would in:quire a very minute examination of the
traffic of the line indeed to e...able env one to
arrive at such a eonebuitm. The Clevedon branch he
hoped would yield profit to the company.; he al.o anticipated
benefit from the colon branch. The disadvantage, which
laboured to the Clevedon and Tiverton branches would not
be found in the Exeter and Creditor). Mr. Ilowsher'n only
objk eCan to the It 11,e was the chime which required them
to riot it up in the event of the completion of the Taw
Vale Railway within two ruts. The Chairman said it
should be a great object with the Bristol and Exeter Com-
pany to encourage the early completion of the Tuw Val,
tine. Mr. Seccombe (one of the auditors of the company)
bar, testimony to the large amount of traffic which d
hetwtan latter and Crediton. Mr. Clark, one of the soli-
eituas company, having read the draft of the propoaal
lease, the particulars of which have already been published,
the Chairman pn.posed a thrinal resolution adopting it,
which Wai weanimoudy curried.

THE FALKIRK ButGns.—The liberals of Falkirk
are bestirring themselves with a view to a general election
taking plate ut nu very distant day. On Wednesday even-
ing a meeting, caned by the Provost, was hell in Bank-
suce•t-hall there, at which it was resulted, Mr the successful
carrying out of liberal principles, that a committee should
lie appointed to correspond with the eleeters of the other
burgos ; that every mean, be taken, in the event of an-
other election taking pl:we, to prevent the di.graureful
,eettes s'aidi have been connected with former ones. The
meeting also passed :a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Loch for
hi, indvpi ndvnt struggle, pledging theno,hes to support
hint should In again come fora ard.—Ciskr/m,ino Mercury.
SI.,I'LNSION Or A CLERCYM iN OF TIIL
CHUM( u.—Much excitement has been caused in
Gravesend in cnsequene" of the sus, tension fur six months
of the Itev. Mr. Blew, minister of the church of St. John,
by the Bishop of Rochester. The report in the district is
that the bishop was originally applied to on the subject by
Mr. Duval, churchwarden of the church of the Most lloly
'trinity, and subsequent:l, a correspondencA took place be-
tween Lonl Ashley, Mr. naval, and the bishop. It appears
that the &welt ut St. John was originally erected by sub-
scription and let out ut different times to different clergy-
men, And that Mr. Blew ultimately became the pmpcittor
by purchase. The roc. gentleman .had succeeded in bring-
ia or a large congregation to the church. had formed a school,
choristers, 6::e. The gruvamen of his :offence is the having
~tilocrilmt an address to Dr. Wiseman. got up by certain
elcrgymen of the high church party, in which those whose
names arc :attach,. d regret the manner in which he has been
received in Eng'.and; address him as " your Eminence,"
express relyaet fur his person and office as a "bishop of the
church of ;" and state that the "clamour of the many"
his ca, " is not to he regarded as the unequivocal voko
of religion and of the church of England."
SlA*EssloNs.----The Rev. Henry E. Manning (late
Archdeacon of Chichester) and Mr. JAWS R. How, MCI,
were received into the Human Catholic church on Sunday
last.

fur. Pores Aumr.—The pontifical government
has just punished a general statistical statement of the
Homan catholic clergy, from which it appears that of
fievany cardinals' chairs which compose the sacred college
Veers. are three vacant, all of the order of deacons, which
now consists of only eleven, instcal of fourteen. 'll.e order
of bishops and that of priests is complete, the fleet having
fifty and the last sis. fhe dean of the cardinal priests is
the Archbishop of Bologna. Oppizuni, the youngest, is the
l'rinc, Archbishop of Breslau de Diepenbruk. Elesen car-
dinals have not yet received the hat, and are consequently
still untitled. The number of arehltishops in Europe is
101- of whom 16 in Italy, 1. in France, 13 in Germany, It
in Spain, 4 is Hungary and Dalmatia, 4 in Ireland, 4
in 'lackey, 3 in Portugal, 3 in Russia, 1 in Greece,
1 in Belgium, 1 in England, and 1 in the lonian Islands.
These 101 archbishops have 609 suffragan bishops, viz.,
407 in Europe and 202 on the coast of Africa, in the French
colonies, and various Spanish and Portuguese islands.
Beside, these there are 78 others immediately subordinate
to the Holy See, Tit. 6. in Italy, 4 in Germany, 4in Switz-
erland, 2 in Spain (time of Leon and Oviedo), 1 in Volhinia
(Ilussia), lin Malta, and 1 in;Bulgaria (Turkey). The
vicars apostolic and the prefects apostolic, who are mostly
under the direction of the congregation of the propaganda,
are 47, of whom 38 are in countries not professing ehristian-
itv. In America there arc 19 archbishops with 90 14uf•
fiagans. In Octanes 2 archbishops, 11 bishops, and 9 vicars
apotolic. There are 23 patriarchs, of whom only 2 are in
Europe, those of Lisbon and Venice. The total number of
bishoprics is Ss9. As to the archbishop, and bishops in
partiims, their number is 461, so that in the whole there are
1,360 titled episcopal catholic'.