The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-10 00:00:00

Three travellers had !tin waylaid, near 1)c Bruin's
roart, by it party of Jlotittitot banditti. Mr. H.
Outing. killed. Mr. severely wounded,
most hrtunately mar...ged to creep away aria!).
served, aud reach a place ,afety : the third, Mr.
Trolhp. got off maim t. party of in?unt,d rangers,
bad followed the trail of the miscreants and disco-
vered their place of a nacreous. hut finding them
atronz:y Fa.tol. had seiit ler re-inforet ments before
attacking, and hoped to nuder a good account of
them.
Aitigl!er pate of teas c'kr-. proceeding front Gra-
ham: Town Vert Ilart. had a very narrow escape,
after leaving I.ccuw FOUtt in.—and this road, which
had ben einetidered open. appeared to be again in-
fested with Kaffir in:nitwit...

EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL SCIIOOL
SOCIETY.
mom the AI Aily Sees.)

We have already referred to the struggle in the
National School Society, which will conic to an issue
at the anniversary meeting ou the 4th of June next.
Hut as the question it involves is by far the most
practical application which has as yet been given to
the Tractarian theory of what the Church of Eng-
land is, and what its privileges ought to consist in—
as the point in difference really is, what constitutes
the Church and what arc its rights—we propose, as
briefly as possible. to state the case of the two con-
tending parties, that, at least, timely warning may
:be given to those whose supineness, indifference, or
mismtelligence,has, in past years, allowed this in•
stitution to become the medium of carrying out
designs hateful to the public of England, and utterly
!opposed to all their traditions of constitutional prac-
bees and to all their habits of ecclesiastical freedom.
In distributing the parliamentary grants en-
trusted to their care, the Committee of Privy Coun-
cil on Education have laid down two great princi-
ples ; Ist that the schools assisted shall be inspected
by offit-ers of their own religious denomination, in
order that the State may have some guarantee
against any improper application of the aid it has
furnished ; 2ndly, that the lay subscribers to these
schools shall participate in their management, so far
at least as secular education is concerned ; and it is
out of the latter of these two rules that the present
Idiscussion arises.
That principle is with the committee a fun-
damental one, rigidly and strictly applied to
schools of all religious denominations. It has
been over and over again stated ; but never
perhaps so forcibly and plainly as in the
latest correspondence to which it gave rise---viz.,
that between the Committee of Privy Council and
the Itonian catholic school committer, for therein we
find Mr. LANI.OALE, the stout ussertor of the exclu-
sive edueational power of the 'Loutish episcopacy, in-
formed on the Ist of June, 1419 :
It is not comistent with the principle, on which the Com-
mittee of the Privy Council on Education have invariably
administered the parlimarntary grant, to allow the spiritual
authorities blrolute control over the schools aided from that
fund ; and, in settling the terms of a formal instrument,
r very power is to be considered absolute which, by the letter
of the deed, is capable of becoming W. • • • It would
not be consistent with their lonlships' slew of the civil in-
terests of education, fur the maintenance of which they ire
responsible- to parliament, to provide for the absolute
su-
pnnucy of the spiritual power.
The Committee of Privy Council has not,
fore, given either to Human catholic. or to ditsenters
a freedom, which it has denied to the Church; though
of the parliamentary grants nine-tenths of their
amount have gone to the establishment. Let us see,
thou, of what it is, in the application of this principle
of not "providing for the absolute supremacy of the
spiritual power' in education assisted by the state,
! that the tracturians complain.
It is, our readers kuow, principally through the
National Society that church schools have remind
state assistance. Now the National Society, being
incorporated by royal charter, with the QUEEN fur
patron, and the archbishops and bishops for president
and vice-presidents, and once every two years pro-
' muted by a Qt LEN'S Letter, to a certain extent
I actually represents the church, is popularly accounted
I to represent it more completely than it really dues,
and, whether it represents or misrepresents the esta-
blishment, cannot be destroyed by those who dissent
from the principles it is founded on, but must remain
an instrument for if nut wielded for good.
Fur the last dim- or four years the society has
been the chief field of Mr. G. A. DEmmix's charac-
teristic agitation. By constant clamouring during,
the year, bythe most unscrupulous statements every,
where and at all times, by raising that most senseless
apprehensions, and by the bold assertion of the most
trims principles, the notorious Vicar of East
Boot
has lava able to muster his own partimuM
in the Central School ut its annual meet-1
hip in great lone; has succeeded in gaining
a large majority on those occasions; has supplied the,
1 v44%11161.'14 whieh unnuallv occur in the committee of
• tnannzement with men imbued, like himself, with a
• 'tarnish antipathy to all lay iiiterference in educa-
tion ; and has carried resolutions to the effect that
the proceedings of the Committee of Privy Council
'• are to the education of the pour in the
principles of the established church:' And this
, opinion, or rather judgment, bus gone forth to the
world us the voice of the National Society and of
the ('lurch. This is the return Houle, apparently, by
the Church for the half million sterling grunted by
• the Committee of Privy Council to church schools is
I eleven years!
Ingratitude, such as this, is bad enough; but ia-
gratitude is only the lesser part of the vice of this
censure of the state, whose money it has so freely
taken, by the National Society. Fur, to support the
opinion so expressed, Mr. DENISON has, on these
COIIIVIIded that the clergy are the
Church ; that the education of the pour is vested
solely in the Church. and. consequently, in the clergy;
that the management clauses of the Privy Council an
the deeds of selosds aided by state grants, 17 giving
the laity a part in the work of education, are an un-
• justifiable interference with the rights of the clm
Of, as he calls them, the Church; and that to
these clauses compulsory is an act of tyranny 17 the
state over the Church. Ile has likewise denounced
the system of inspection, of pupil teachers, aug-
. nwntation of masters salaries, and grants of books,
as so mane means of making the schoolmaster
more cart-fur of cultivating the goodwill of the Com-
' mitten of l'rivy Council than of the clergyman, and,
therefore, hostile to the church; in all of which ar-
gument the tracturiun theory of the church is ob-
viously and impudently pushed to its fullest extent;
and, in adopting a resolution lefunded on such views,
the National Society lois, of course, endorsed the
traetarion theory.
'fo Mr. Dr.NtsoN's arguments, his opponents on
these oceusions have, in vain, replied that the- Commit-

The wte.t intelligenet fr.m Cape Town bring.;
news publi+hed as follows by the Urnhqns's Town
J 01.171.71, of the 29th of 31anli.
- -

" Despatches reached town yesterday, from head-
omarten. (King William . Town), and also fmm Fort
From the francs place the date is up to the
20. th March, giving the details of some very tine and
surereiful movements by the troops under the im-
mediate command of Sir Harry Smith. His Excel-
lency's mode of fighting the *Kaffir. is rather of a
novel nature, for instead of moving along the
road and keeping tlw level country, he takes pos-
session of the heights—the strongholds of the enemy
—forces them into the opt n ground, and seatteni and
drives them like a flock of -beep. His Excellency
having swept the Tax ndodo range, halted after
nightfall at Fort White. The next day, by a series of
mastent movements, he swept over the rugged country
about i.'ort Wiltshire, and reached the Odu Rock
with sone VP) head of tattle. At Mount Coke and
at Fort Murray, considerable alarm was felt —a wir
boil) of Inetiit• Kuffirs Luting shown themselves in
the vicinity tit these places and Veto having expressed
wane doubt, as to his men being able to keep open
the road, as hi retufore. 1. tweeu head-quarters and
the punt of Ea.' lanalim. a point of the highest mo-
mem tu future opecatiens in the Kaffir country. Im-
mediate steps were to be taken to keep, if pstsible,
this part of the country dear. The band of Her-
man...as, the dispersion of ma hieh was reported by the
furies snail, has been puriully reformed, and it wan
nuppred that it would be completely rcoastructed,
and uguin cause much untioyanee and bloodshed."
llu only political rc. nt iinuired to be noticed is
the departure of Sir Andrles Storkenstran fur Loa-
dom. too his relleague of the colonial deputati.m.
Mr. Fairistim. A e1...W.41 meeting of the inha-
bitant. of Cape Town and the vicinity astwinhled at
the Town !lull on Satindive. the 22nd ult., when
Sir Ambit, reteived from the secretary to the muni-
cipifitv immense. Int.l.lLll. to the Queen and par-
liam. et from various ports of the (*loom, and after
nesting, in reply to an address from the ibairman, a
shill which ems enthasiastically cheered. was ac.
companied by a large con. ours.. to the jetty, mull
Gout thence Wag attended by a number of butts to
the Maid stone. in which vessel he embarks 1, and
sailed oe the following day.
tfi' oecurremis. 4111111 SW importame then an• very
few eliich respire to be mentieneil. The Gunny.,
with Pi female emigrants on bounl, writ out by the
philanthropic association reently formed in London
at faro. arrived on the Loth ult. The reports
whidl prevailed of misio•ntlact on bitard during the
voyage led to the appointun ist of a govermin nt
comt-
nessioa, whch nude si laivate Met-dig:o'nm. and
will, it is understood. transmit the minutes home to
the o•••• 'rim.' lath r will, it is expected. he
thus inducts' to make hen r arrangements for the
maim il!tendence of the emigrants during the pas,ige,
if sinj more should i.e sent out.
Mei. of War at the Cape—Castor. Commodore.
Wvvid ; Hermes, steamer. Com. K J. Fishhourne
H.M.S. Herald. Capt. Kellett, Cll., Nailed from
Sinita's Bar, Mardi Ls,. for St. llekna, Aseension,
mod England.

The first exhibition of works of fine art which has
over lus-11 held its the colony clued 1.111 22nd uh.
ll camprimrd about too WM It% mussily Eunquun, but
a consideruble nunde•r 1.3 artists re,ident at the
(pr. In the mix weels, iluring which the s xhibi-
tion remained open, it was visited by about :Limn
r•nrn:.. As a first yaps ranent, of a novel character,
Ass coussidered highly siteee,scul„
Ti..- lighthouse tat tape Iteurife, Aigun Ray. has
been e'unpleted, and i, he lighted up thi. night
(Apiil I). It is shunts d :n lat. 31 th-g. 1 win. S.,
long. 411:. -In min. 7 ,ce. and is no feet above
au•an water-bowl. It is a white molving light, and
is ol►ened from minute to minute.

Just heron• the departure of the Ilellevont from
Sierra h.nn, the NCH? by Ilk,
pm+ clew to treat with the chiefs of the Nunez and
INamo ri+ers had sot-meth-II in their negotiation+
with the chiefs of NUM./. but thOSC haig., had
sot yet accepted the prop.sitions of the cmtnni+-
Nioner+. The hueett.fitt result of this col 1111 l unieation
laid:4.ly to be attended w:tl, l cut ad% outage to that,
British merchant+ who trade un that part unite
roost.

.%4.1 Icir:11 1144111tElt1' Vl' Tilt I
At the 4 lielmstited rivillity Coml. on Thursday. an instil.'
it nt t..nnwl Johu Itakt.r. who was dtrerih,,l A. a .hip and
liver .urveyor. Ira* hy Mr. Sanrouol, for John
attwooil. Fest- the formir member foe the lairouith, anti
lit. I.miki-iiipportivi. Tin. clanplaint no. that the insul-
i
vent lids indebted to Mr .Ittivissl for law riot, to a con- I
Milershile amount in an nit, which was brought in the
Misdient•s name a..rainst that t:t iitleman to reeover penal-
rig . for allelic.' brila•re at It,rwieh election in 11117. A
emits, via. siren for Sly .%itivissl, anti the insolvent wed'
lion 111 prison for the ...sits Ilse point nto that the ins
ett hail incurred the del t ahi it he kid n.. !Mall% of
pit meld, anti hail allowed h.- name to be u.”l shin he
was si Men. 1011141.. It %tail that Mr. .ttirri•Xl was
lIii.1111.• to attend. Ilse judei• Mr.tiunldmi considered that
a d 'at 113.1 1.4,11 inerniperle conte.ictill, and had Mr. Att
W 1I in. u abbe to attlial hr vitetd.l have remanded the in-
salient tot a Fund I .•rind As the ease +toad, it was u easel
fm tie diwretiiinary fur the in.ulti.ut'a eunsluct in
tli ae'iou to rei,irer ;setriltito. ',nil he thi.refiire adjudged
hint to an imprisonment ut tuouth. from the TiNting
gosh r

, I teeof PriryCouncil has nutdeeveryconctusion required
IF %A; iN E IN THE lIII.III.ANIK—The directors of tile! by the National Society save one, showing thereby
Fotrioto snit Industrial Stality of Scotland have issucilth:
!Ws desire to conciliates and co-olicrute, and that the
riro.7'..iiiii'l i th"e! ',tn.:weld. Ad'es'lliZliel:b?"Lnirietre or: demand refused, involved,to repeat the words already
tlii Is.: ito in Intit. was supported Inn.. that period until , twits...quoted, " the absolute supremacy of the, piritual
& Ptisoils r last upon ratans .1 tow or one and a-half pounds power:. For the National Society requirtd, that, in
of Meal is,r day. in return for their whole labour upon roads all cases of dispute between the school committee
awl s,imlar work sine,• the exhaustion of the Highland Re-
bel Fund, mint thew • n.l p.rsons, living in re ~,,, le High-' and the incumbent, the bishop of the diocese .should
had at., Islam districts. hare been in absolute Wall, of the be thesite o arbiter. This the Committer of Privy
hi ....aro-. of hie. and are now reillleell to the nesessity of l'outicil conceded on all questions eimnected with tr.
lbs.zsoof a villwivtence--is dying from starvation, where llamas teaching; but, on matters purely secular,'
A_ y issus. the Men. of tranvit—or are tempted to the ruled that the appe.il should be to a court composed'
sumnicuif hat order to sustain hi
add thatou " o
Int ironer instanees estates .er:. inTtbyl of the Inspector of Schools and a beneficed clergy-
loud. oe tnisiteev, anal in others, not only would the man
of they diocese. aided by a justice of the peace,
rental he inadequate to maintain the destitute and laity
selected by the two; thus reserving to the
a1.:.-', di. 3 por. but ill sou,iiva.iiii.oi the proprietor. bate some power in the management of church
advameel very latlte +um, it, the susteitan.s.• of the people m.liwole.
la v.m.l the whole illemill• 41. Isis id from their estate* Mace ; Mr..l).ENt4AiN's opponents in the society further
tem Entiarstsm its. been extensively resorted to, and
sat still ailed a useful outlet, but it is nos generally ed. s argued that the management clauses, if not compul-
anted that, the• most practicable means of administering sory. would be nugatory ; and that the system of
teb.r. and of grappling sal the destitution, which other- pupil teaching. inspection, ~:c., adopted by the coati-
Iris. i. likely to be la-
plans in the Highlands. is by ear- cil. is highly beneficial in its practical operation, and
Tying out the plans of fund industry deviloixd and'alto. 14010.411 y
approved of by all who really under- meted by the Koval Patriotic and Industrial Six•iety. and
greatly in beneficial operation in several districts. The bland it.
able holi. 4 though di-glean: pour. not twine entitled to pa. I Such is the question, and such are, in brief, the
lochial relief in Scotland. the first and most imperative ob. ' arguments. which have thrice conic before the annual
Jill .11w "w•la• • of iii., • *hid, dm' 'lir" i°t• Will leek meetings of the society, and been resolved in accord-
to eft tif provOled with the requisite fund.. They further „..,,,,, with
. . a views. Mr. 1/xxis-os. That these views,
Mete thst. jallieilaillit an etbeient but ergo sally conduchd ''''"
Mucutive, with gratuitous orx•nisations in the Hebrides even though affirmed by large majorities at those
eel other Highland districts, the society i. militias to ad- meetings. are r.ot, however, the views of the National
lalla,tur pre% ut aid. leadesig to perinainnt amt liurrtianu, Society, still less of the clergy, and still less of the .1
by . arrying out its great primer of . helping the poor to Cliurvit compared of clergy and laity conjointly, has
help themselves' They w . therefore, a•
rrg4"6 at last been established by the result of Inquiries pro.l
sucessitou. mortices in possemion of land, endeavour to
scented during the last twelve months, with equal'
peotur,. (or such as will engage to follow a better
Elston of husbandry, the cancelling of arrears of zeal and judgment, by the Her. EDW.tRD GIRDLE.
.a lent., at. adequate tenure, and they will advance .mall loans quyir., Vicar of Denne, in the diocese of Manchester;
to Is 1..4 a. was,* fin tin cultivation and improvement of i which results are given in a condensed form', their croft.; 01,1 will also extend similar encouragement to in a paper at assent largely and usefully
fishermen. and organise, for the benefits of the juvenile :
......,_,
popolatimi. model school farms, for which land has tarn cleeu""eu, and already inserted in the Deity
Sraaasady offend to the scanty by several proprietors. News. And, what is even more important, Mr. Gut-
A.. regards the miew.h.its ribs( of those able bodied, but Dt.xsroxx's exertions have produced a very general
destitute, persons, who neither croft, nor employ- . movement to repress Mr. DENISON'S principles in the
'meat' the 'iwktY win' ir:l77"emPP°ll4ll take certain qu'ul- !eoeis tv , for members of the National Society have
lei, •of waste lead ow lc .to be ',rated as industrial i'. : '
JIA 8., • . partienwety with a view ea the raising tee grsr.l pledged themselves to come up from all jputs of the
ervi..• tussizeums, gas, or heap, sad by reefing dairy pro., country to the meeting on the 4th of June, and re-
duce and . reader the sew waste land add labour of , cord their votes against them ; and multitudes who
6, 4,41t.b itigithind diairicu . tats, that say contribuFrodoctly la Posgb6.
The directors i were not member. have become so, or intend bedirectorsstion: with which in' g such, for this purpose, by sending their guineas
airy may he entrusted will be applied, with all ids
economy end elleiesey, towards the immediate relief, to 6,, Linrninnn-tlelalh
wed, at the rune time, the permanent amelioration. of the At that meeting Mr. Dx.ntsoN will endeavour to
Smashing but lojal and Rosetta' population of various till the tire vacancies in the committee of the society
districts of the Islands and West Irtedaads. As dual with his own partisans, and to repeat the resolutions
Lad has remained uncultivated ever since 1.,16 for went °. de
seed to crop it, contributions of good garb of amatory of the proceeduigs ' of council. On the
11,3""L "D' I co':hiller hand. an attempt will be made to supply the
heart. garden and other weds, will be ,hardifuli. .frei•red
at die society.. Depwee, 43, paeb....."..u.„e. Leede‘,.... vacancies with men of moderate principles, and to

• corn offer an example of erimin l tiegli;isK,, which is a re-
; poach to the religion which they profess turd the country
• in which they live.
At Wigan the same negligence was oli‘erved. 139 chil-
dren under 5 years of age died; and 25 were left destitute
of medical advice. In Burnley 179 persons died; the cause.
of death was not certifi.4 in 40 instances, and 31 had no
medical attendant. Small-pox, scarlatina, measles, typhus,
or influenza were prevalent in Manche.ter, Preston, Ash-
ton, and Oldhmu. The same zymotie diseases prevailed in
many districts of Yorkshire. The mortality was above the
average in Bradford, Leeds, and Sheffield.
I In the Northern Division we observe the loss of 27 lives
lb). what it has too long been the practice to call vaguely an
accident. The explosions in mines arc now tolerably well
. understood, and with proper care and good arrangements
I could rarely or ever happen. flooring-cough and bronchitis
(apparently influenza) have raised the mortality in New-
castle-upon-Tyne: Bedlington and Moryeth have suffered
from scarlatina and typhus: more than od persons suffered
at one time from the latter disease in the lower part of
Bedlii.gton town.
The mortality in Wales was generally below the average.
Scarlatina and measles prevailed in Newport, Cardiff,
Nerthyr-Tydfil, and raised the mortality. Scarlatina also
prevailed in the didrietsof Pembrokeshire. IS persons died
of small-pox in Holyhead, Anglesey ; only 2 had been vac-
cinated.

ONE WORD OF GRATITUDE.
GREECE AND THE lONIAN ISLANDS IN TIIE
GREAT EXHIBITION.

70 TO! EDITOR OP 7118 DAILT NEWS.
the thousand acclamations that, on
the glorious Ist of May, rang applause in the ears of tho
illustrious Prince, to the spirited impulse of whose philoso-
phically enthusiastic mind the energies of a hundred na-
tions have responded in the Exhibition of the world's In-
dustry; amidst the unanimous prais, of an idea as grand in
its conception as practically great and wonderful in its exe-
cution—let one voice, loud as its gratitude, yet sweet and
clear as its poetry, be heard—that of my mother country—
°recce.
We appear for the first time—we of the Greek race—for
the first time for centuries, in a congress of nations—and
doubly joyful is it that our first manifestat• of revived
nationality should take place at these grand Olympic games
of industry and skill.
Like the young heir of an old family restored after an
almost obsolete lapse of time to the honours of 1114 lineage,
Greece steps modestly tiorward gst nations whose In-
dustry is of many hundred years' growth, and whose ener-
gies have accuntulated upon years of development. Her re-
rived honours, her new age but of 20 years' growth, she
brings to the world's show only her natural produce, her mar-
bles, her minerals cannot yet tell the tale of her
nascent industry, her nascent marine • she cannot bring
into the building her ships or her Mild sailors, ready to du
the bidding of the world's commerce ; she can but say, in
the expressive motto with which, in the spirit of her old
poetry, her division alone is illustrated, as if—as of old—
Greece alone could give voice to heart-spoken spirit of sill
the human race, and claimed her ancieut privilege, even at
the young world's meeting :
HAPSEIN XPH . . TAX ATPION MET' AMEINON.
ZHAOI AE TE ['MONA CEITIIN

LIZ A•ENON ZHETAONr. ArAOH Li EMI Hag

SPOTOI2I4
For your fair readers' sake I subjoin a translation of
these lines, which, I observe, occasioned them much in-
quiry on the day of the opening. In the first line (which is
from Theocritus), Greece, speaking to her own children,
encourages them not to be daunted by their own manifest
inferiority in the present competitiim, but to look forward to
time, which will render the result of their efforts equally
ai'inirable and prosperous. " Take courage !" she ex-
claims; "soon will there come for us a better morning."
Then, in allusion to the spirited enterpriso of the In-
dustry of all Nations, she delivers a sentiment whose truth
and beauty will be recognised by all the supporters of this
festival of peace: " When neighbour t ululates neighbour
in the development of mutual resources, this indeed is a
contest worthy of man." Meanin; thereby, in using these
words of Ilesiodus, that if men must engage in emulation
and strife, let them show their excellence and MIIK dimity in
what may udvance the happiness of all. A motto indeed
worthy to be written iu letters of gold over the entrances of
the Crystal Palace.
Of the lonian portion of this Great Exhiltition,j would
that I could say more than that, as it has been got up, as
your dramatists would say, "at the shortest possible
notice," and without the authority or assistance of my
countrymen, or even their knowledge (constituent upon
the total neglect of their interests by their Lord Iligh
Commissioner, Sir Henry 0. Ward), depending too ns it
does solely upon the generous contributions of such noble-
men and gentlemen as have served her Majesty iu the Is,
lands, and who, with their families, have with very amiable
fooling forwarded, at my solicitation, such articles of lonian
manufacture as wero in their possession, that the lonian
name might not be left out of the catalogue of
nations, contributing (according to the wish un-
luckily too late expressed by the executive c 0,,,..
mittee) taking, I my, all these circumstances into
consideration, I may only express the hope that it may
j not be regarded as what the lonians could have shown under
more favourable circumstances ; but that, looking at the
disadvantage of Si: 11. Ward's discouragement, and his de-
termination to banish the I .Man Islands from the Exhibi-
tion of the World's industry, the few specimens I have
been able to bring forward on their part may serve to re-
mind the English visitors, when gazing on the small lonian
counter, iu all the consciousness of their own capital,
skill, and knowledge—may remind them, I say, that
although nothing came direct and purposely from tho
Wands to be displayed in the Great Exhibition, still, that
counter will serve to carry out the feeling described in the
lines of your poet, as written on the tomb of his young hero;
Snne noble nein, iwiguyt from,. ,beamss,,,
May yot con enure trial we might have been."
I have the honour to be, your obedient, humble servant,
AN lONIAN.
Erechtheum Club, St. James's-square, May 3.

PROTEST OF MANCHE-BTM CIII:IICHWARDENS
AGAINT PLCUALITIEs.--On retiring from an office they
have held for the last two years, the churchwardens of Man-
chester feel it to he a duty w hick they owe, nut merely to
themselves but to the parishiouers at large, to reconl their
entire concurrence in, and approval of, the protest of their
predecessors, Messrs. Brooks, Masson, and Crutteuden,
against the retention, by the Bev. It. Parkins...it, of the
presidency and incumbency of St. Bees, with the eniolu-
ntents arising from his prefenuent as out. of the ca no of
Manchester; and their deep regret that the loud and general
expression of public opiuioo, un the part of the clergy and
laity, in favour of the sentiments enunciated in that protest,
have had nu effect upon the apparent determination of
the reverend gentleman to retain both those preferments.
The churchwardens cannot but regard, with still deeper
regret, the annquakeenteut that the example of the Bev. It.
Parkinson, although thus condemned, is about to be followed
by two of the remaining three clergymen holding canouries
in the cathedral of this parish; the Bev. C. 1). Wray has
' accepted the valuable rectory of South Ituucton, in the
county of Norfolk; and the Bev. it. C. Clifton leis expressed
his iutentiun to retire from Manchester to the living he holds
in the county of Oxford (the duties of which have hitherto
been discharged by a curate) ; so that this parish, with its
vast and rapidly increasing population, its spiritual destitu-
tion, its need of every means wWell can be devised of im-
planting moral and religious principles in the minds of the
people, and attaching them more closely to our protestant
iustitutions, is to be almost entirely deprived of the per-
, bona! services of three clergymen holding high preferment
in the church, and deriving large entolininuts from the
revenues of the wish, whose position neeessarily invests
' them with commanding influence forgoud or evil, according
as their tuitions and line of conduct are in accordance or
at variance with the obligations of their sacred office.
Although Mr. Parkinson might have accepted Ft. Bees
under au impression that the act of 1810 released hint troll
his duties 144 one of the rectors of this parish, and placed the
dean and canons of Manchester its the twine position as most
other chapters in the kingdom, inutile and convincing proof
has since been given, that whatever duties attached to the
office of warden and fellows are still due from the dean and
canons ; and that the cure of souls of the parishioners was at
the foundation vested in the College of Christ, its Mauthes-
ter, is now placed beyond unreasonable doubt,and is admitted
by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Manchester,
and the eminent counsel, Br. Addams and Mr. Badcleley.
But apart from the requirements of the law, and the foun-
dation charter of Charles the First, it might have been
expected that the claims of such a emmuunity as this, espe-
cially in times like the present, would have been felt by
clergymen of the Church of England, and could not have
been so lightly discarded. Believing, therefore, that the
course pursued by Mr. Wray, Mr. Parkinson, and Mr.
Clifton, is in direct violation ut the spirit, if nut of the actual
law, of the church, as it indisputably is of both the spirit
and letter of the foundation charter; that it betokens a
lamentable indifference to the spiritual wants of the parish ;
that it diverts the ecclesiastical property " from the course
its original bestuwer intended it to take ;" that it must prove
a fruitful source of danger and scandal to the church,
damping the hopes and paralysing the efforts of her mem-
bers—the churchwardens conceive tle,y would be guilty of
a dereliction of their duty were they to retire from office
without entering upon the books of the parish an expression
of opinion as to the injurious consequences which must in-
evitably result from, and a formal protest against, such a
course of procedure :—Resolved— that a copy of this me-
morandum be forwarded to the dean and canons, the
Bishop of Manchester, and to the Archbishops of Canter-
bury and York.—Mariehester Guardian.
Tun Burma MUSEUM. —The total number of
visitors at the British Museum last week was 53,912—vic,
31,110 on Monday, 3,649 on Tuesday, 9,873 on Wednesday,
2,471 on Thursday, and 6,770 on Friday. The gallery con-
taining the sculptured antiquities from Nineveh was the
chief object of attraction. The Museum will be open to-
day, but it will be closed during the remainder of the week,
for the purpose of having the whole of the interior thoroughly
cleaned. The trustees have issued a notice that it will
will be again re-opened on Monday, May 5, when also, for
the first time, the public will be admitted into the library.
The Assyrian gallery, which is now encumbered with scaf-
folding, will then have the whole removed. The days of
admission will be on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from
10 o'clock a.m., to 7 o'clock p.m. The public should be
cautioned, particularly visitors from the country and
, foreigners, that children under eight years of age are not
admitted. From ignorance of this order it frequently hap-
pens that parties are pat to much alcoaveuieace.