The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-24 00:00:00

(By Eketrie Telegraph.)

ANTWERP, SEPT: 23.—Five per Cent. Metalliques,
781; Five per Cent. Ardoins, 141. Three per Cent.
Inland, 311,. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
100. Exchange on London, 23.23.

VIENNA SEPT. 22.—Five per Cents., Metalhqucs,
9:1! ; Excllange on London, 11.30 ; on Paris, 1111;
Agio on Gold, 244; ditto Silver, 181.
VIES NA, SErr.23.—Five per Cent. Metallicres,93l.
Exchange on London, 11.32. Ditto on Parts 111!.

BERLIN, SEPT. 22.—Voluntary Loan, 103; ltu4-
sian Four-and-a-Half per Cent., 100: ; National
Debt, MI. Exchange on London, —; Hamburg,
—; Petersburg, —.
IlEnttx, SEPT. 23.—Voluntary Loan, 103. Na-
tional Debt, 88/. Exchange on London, 6.22 ; on
Hamburg, 1301; on Sk Petersburg, Mi.

_ _ •
HAMBURG, SEPT. 22.—Three per Cents. In-
terior, 321. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
FRANKFORT, SEPT. 22.—Five per Cent. Metal-
, iques, 781. Three per Cent. Interior, 34 7-16. Ex-
change on London, 119 ; on Vienna,loo:.

FRANKFORT, SEPT. 23.—Fiveper Cent.Metalliques,
i 8;. Exchange on London, 119.

RESIGNATION AND SECESSION OF THE
CHANCELLOR OF THE DIOCESE OF BATH
AND WELLS.

(Prom the "'eaters Plying Post of yesterday.)

It is with deep regret we learn that the lion. and
Rev. William Towry Taw, the chancellor of the diocese of
Bath and Wells, has resigned his living and the chancellor-
ship, and has seceded to the church of Rome. The step
which he has taken was sudden and unexpected, and no
small amount of temporary inconvenience has arisen from
the consequent suspension of the functions of the sur-
rogates, who are unable to grant any marriage licenses
to parties desirous of being married until the new chan-
cellor shall have been appointed. This secession is
another painful illustration of the tendency of Trac•
tarianism towards popery, and of the mischievous
effects which it is calculated to produce by lead-
ing weak-minded but well-intentioned persons astray
from the paths of scriptural doctrine and truth unto
the very jaws of popery. We hope this circum-
stance will tend to open the eyes of many within this diocese
who have been fascinated by Puseyism, to see the true
character of that semi-popish system. Tractarianism is a
sort of inclined plane down which men may glide imper-
ceptibly into all the errors of Rome. And it is astonishing
how quickly persons may arrive at the bottom of the incline
when once they begin to go. At first their progress may
be slow—imperceptible to themselves and scarcely perm pti-
ble to those around them—but, as they proceed, their speed
is gradually accelerated, until they rush down with an
impetus which nothing can resist, and which plunges them
to the very bottom of the gulph of popish superstition,
mummery, and idolatry. Even Mr. Newman him-
self, when he first started the " Tracts for the
Times" had probably little idea of 'going the lengths he has
subsequently gone—(,that is, supposing he was not a Jesuit
in disguise from the beginning, and the whole agitation
an organised scheme hatched in the bosom of the Propa-
ganda at home)—but now he has drained the dregs of the
cup of superstition; and we fearlessly assert that there is
not to be found in the whole church of Itume a more credu-
lous disciple than he. His capacity for the reception
of miracles and relics is enormous, his credulity
boundless, his faith in them fathomless. To him
nothing comes amiss—from the winking virgin of
Rimini to the Holy Coat of Troves, or the lying
wonders of Rose Tamisier —he greedily swallows
them all at a gulp. Who can recognise in the
Superior of the °Morison the subtle and distinguished
sophist of the Anglican school at Oxford ? lie is
transformed, and he knows it not; he has fallen a
victim to his own sophistry, and stands a living monument
of folly and perversion—a beacon of warning to the church
and to the world. We sincerely hope that the defection of
so distinguished a functionary as the chancellor of the
diocese may have the effect of opening the eyes of the
Bishop of Bath and Wells to the dangerous tendency of
those tractarian principles which he is more than suspected
of secretly encouraging. With such an example before him
the bishop can ne longer continuo to wink at the eccentric
doings of his examining chaplain, the Rev. 0. A. Denison.
In these days of trial and difficulty, when the church is im-
perilled by the attacks of toes without, and the deep de-
signs of traitors within, every person placed in the awful
and responsible position of a bishop should faithfully dis-
charge his duty, without br tog influenced by feelings of
private friendship.

WANT OF LaßouftEns.—ln consequence of the ex-
tremely fine weather which we have had for the last fort-
night or three weeks the harvest, particularly the oat crop,
has come in all at once, save in the hilly or mountainous
parts of the counties of Cavan, MonagWm, Tyrone, and
Fermanagh, and even there it is rapidly approaching to
maturity ; so much so, that a sufficient number of hands
cannot be procured "for love or money" to reap it. The
wages of labourers have risen from Is. to 2s. per day this
week, and even at that price they cannot be procured, which
has induced several gentlemen farmers to employ mowers
to cut down the crops with scythes.--ilfsatts Herald.