The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-19 00:00:00

nud, Ashbrde.la.Zouch ; J. W. Bagleton, Wardley-enm-
Belton ; A. Hind, South Tluingstone ; H. J. Knight, Pot.
terspary : W. H. Pengclley, Blisworth ; C. V. Spencer,
St. Peter's, Northampton with Upton ; J. H. Scott, St.
Margaret's, Leicester

ET THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER.
DEACONS.—E. Greenhow, St. Bees, Cumberland, to
Bacup ; E. Chadwick, St. John's, Cambridge, to St.
George's, Hulme; T. C. Airey, Trinity, Dublin, to Peel;
T. Morley, Trinity, Dublin, to St. Paul's, Bury ; B. F.
Westeott, Cambridge.
Paturra.—H. P. Cheashyre, St. Peter's, Cambridge ; H.
Inman, St. Bees, cumherland ; T. Outhwaite, Corpus
Christi, Cambridge ; W. J. Payne, Corpus Christi, Cam-
bridge; F. C. Leeson, Catherine Hall, Cambridge; W.
Shipman, Catherine Hall, Cambridge; H. Thomn,, St.
Bees, Cumberland; J. W. Town, St. Bees, Cumberland.

BY THE BISHOP OP ST. DAVID'S.

DIACONS.-11. B. Bevan, Merton, Oxford; J. E.
Cheese; T. Williams, St. David's, Lampeter; B. Morgan,
St. David's Lampeter ; F. T. Batchelor, Wadham, Oxford ;
R. J. Lloyd, Exeter, Oxford; D. Craig, St. John's, Cam-
bridge.
Pziasts.—J. Field; J. Wilson, Emmanuel, Cam-
' bridge ; D. Vaughan, St. David's, Lampeter ; J. Jones,
St. David's, Lampeter; T. Thomas, St. David's, Lampeter;
L. E. M. Barnwell, St. David's, Lampeter; E. Jones, St.
David's, Lampeter; W. Williams, Worcester, Oxford.
The following gentlemen were duly licensed to curacies
in the diocese .-11. 13. Bevan, BA., to Hay A. C., Bre-
eonshire; Thomas Williams, to Kilkennin A. C., Cardigan-
shire ; Evan Morgan, to Lim& Gonemayn A. C., Car-
diganshire ; F. J. Batchelor, BA., to Cheriton C., Gla-
morganshire; R. J. Lloyd, 8.A., to the A. C. of Lampeter
Pont-Stephen, Cardiganshire ; D. Craig, to Rhaycdor A. C.,
Radnorshire ; D. Vaughan, to Glascombe C., with the eha-
pelries of Colva and Rulen ann., Radnorshire ; E. L. M.
Barnwell, to Builth C., Brecon; W. Williams, 8.A., to
Maesmynis C., with Llanynis C., Breconshire.

PREFEIMENTS.

Rev. J. C. Carwithen (Rector of Challacombe, Devon),
to Shirwell Deanery Rural, diocese Exeter.
Rev. William Haywanl Cox, B.D. (Rector of St. Martin,
Oxford), to the Archdcaconry of Salop, diocese Hereford ;
value 2001. ; patron, Bishop of Hereford.
Rev. E. Day, BA., to Chbelhurst Curacy, Kent.
Rev. Theophilus Jones, M.A., to Bideford Curacy,
Devon.

VACANT.

Iping Rectory, cum Chithurst, Sussex, by resignation of
H. D. Clarice; patron, Col. Wyndham.

THE ST. ALBANS BRIBERY COMM/SSION BILL (a
amended in committee) was issued this morning. It con-
sists of 14 clauses, and, after appointing Messrs. F. W.

Slade, W. Forsyth, and T. Phinti

of In-

quiry for the purposes of this Act," and providing the
measures needful for the powers and working of the com-
mission, enacts that the commissioners shall proceed to St.
Albans, and " shall front time to time hold meetings for
the purposes of the said inquiry," within, or within 10 miles
of the borough, adjourning " from one place to another,"
as they may see tit. Clause V. enacts that, having " for
such a period retrospectively as they shall think proper"
inquired into the manner in which elections for the borough
have been conducted, " and in particular the last election,"
sad whether any bribery has been committed at such elec-
tions; and if so, " whether such bribery washy way of gift,
or the promise of the gift, of any sum of money or other
valuable consideration," "before, during, or after" the
election, "by way of head-money, or in compliance with
any usage or custom " in the borough, " or how otherwise"
"as a reward for giving, or having refrained from giving"
votes at such election, they shall from time to time report
the evidence taken by them; "and especially the said com-
missioners shall report with respect to each election the
names of all persons whom they shall find to have been
gstilty of bribery at such election, and as well those who
shall have given bribes for the purchase, or for the purpose
of purchasing, the votes of others, as those wko shall have
themselves received money or any other valuable considera-
tion for having given or having refrained from giving, or
for the purpose of inducing them to give or toyetrain from
giving their votes at such election, and also the names of all
persons whom they shall find to have given to others or to
have received themselves payments by way of head money,
or as a rev and for giving or refraining to give their votes at
such election, and all other things whereby, in the opinion
of the said commissioners, the truth may be better known
touching tlw premises." These reports are (as enacted by
Clause 6) to be laid before parliament (if it be sitting)
within a month after they are made. Clause 7 gives power
to summon before them and to send for such persons and
papers as they may see fit, and enacts that all persons so
summoned "shall attend the said commissioners, and shall
answer all such questions, and shall produce all such books,
papers, deeds, and writings as shall be required of thews,
and which shall be in their custody or under their control,
according to: the tenor of the summons. l'rovided always
that no statement made by any person in answer to
any question put by the said commissioners shall,
except in case of indictments for perjury committed in
such answers, be admissible in evidence in any pro-
ceeding, civil or criminal." Clause 8 provides that persons
implicated in bribery, who may be examined and shall
make a faithful discovery, shall be exempt from all punish-
ments or criminal prosecutions, " to which ho or she may
have been or may become liable or subject at the suit of her
Majesty, or any other person, for anything done by such
person or persons in respect of such bribery ; and no
person shall be excused from answering any question put to
him by the said commissioners on the ground of any privi-
lege, nor on the ground that the answer to such question
will tend to criminate such person." Clause 9 enacts that
" witnesses examined are not to be indemnified unless they
shall have a certificate from the commissioners." Clauses
10-12 give power to the " commissioners to examine on
oath ;" and provide penalties " for non-attendance or refus-
ing to give evidence, and for false swearing." Clause 13 re-
lates to the expenses of the inquiry ; and clause 14, the last,
enacts " That no action shall be brought against the said
commissioners, or any other persons, for anything done in
the execution of this act, unless such action shall be brought
within six months after the doing of such thing, nor unless
one month's notice of the cause be given to the party against
whom such action is brought."

ST. MARY'S, ISLINGTON, PAROCHIAL REFORM
RMIOCIATION.—The first annual festival of the above asso-
ciation took place on Tuesday, at Highbury Tavern, E.
Haslewood, Esq., of Tuffnell Park, in the chair. Upwards
of 200 gentlemen sat down to dinner. After the usual
loyal toasts had been drunk, the Chairman proposed " Sue
ems to the Islington Parochial Reform Association." He
remarked that although the Reform Association had not
been entirely successful, they had succeeded in convincing
these who are in power that reform was required, and they,
like sensible men, had put their shoulders to the wheel to
carry out the reforms suggested by the association. There
were yet great things to do, and the trustees would stand in
need of support. The New River and Railway Company
have to be assessed, and if not supported by the reformers
of Islington, they must fall. It was a fact that the New
River Company, extending over three miles of the parish,
was assessed at only 721. per annum. Within the last four
or five years it had been proposed to raise the
assessment to 1,7001. It was his (the Chairman's)
opinion that it ought to be raised to 17,0001. The
New River had lately endeavoured to compromise
the assessment at 5,0001. ; he for one would not stand it,
for it was dishonest. He was rated at the rent he paid,
and thought that no exception ought to be made in favour
of rich and monopolising companies. Ho recommended
the Reform Association to resist to the last ; for, had it
not been for the exertions of the association it would be
impossible to say to what extent the rates would have been
raised. It was most gratifying to see that, although they
had not carried men, they had succeeded in carrying mea-
sures. The Imperial Gas Company's assessment had
been raised within the last year from 5001. to 1,5001.
Mr. Elt, in responding to the toast, said that the Reform
Association were quite satisfied in carrying their measures.
He hoped soon to see the day when Islington will
follow the example of other neighbouring parishes in
carrying out the principles of reform so much re-
quired. He did hope that the new word introduced by a
learned gentleman at a meeting of the Sanitary Association
—yestriluration—would be adopted, but adopted with its
real meaning—local self-government and management of
the affairs of the district by a majority of ratepayers of the
district. This was a true and genuine meaning of the new
word. In this lay the germ of national liberties. If the
people bad the right of local self-government they might
bid defiance to any arbitrary power, however oppressive.
He (Mr. Elt) concluded by eulogising the conduct of the
emaciation, and congratulated the parish on the gigantic re-
sults of the association during its short existence—only one
year.
SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OP THE GOSPEL.—
Yesterday the 150th anniversary festival of this society was
celebrated in St. Paul's Cathedral. At three o'clock the
clergy, in their robes, assembled in the nave of the cathe-
dral, where they were received by the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, the president of the society, and a procession was
formed, which included in its ranks the Bishops of London,
St. Asaph, and Winchester, Dean Milman, Archdeacon
Hale, the Rev. Canon Dale, the Master of the Temple,
Dr. Jelf, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and several aldermen.
The choirs of her Maieety's Chapel Royal, St. Paul's,
Westminster Abbey, and St. George's Chapel, Windsor,
twisted. The pieces selected for the occasion were " Can-
tate Domino" (Hayes), "Deus Miscreatur " (Hayes),
anthem t Farrant), and two anthems by Handel. The ser-
mon was preached by the Bi,hop of St. Asaph, who took
his text from the 2nd chapter of Daniel, 35th verse, "Then
was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold
broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the
summer threshing Soon; and the wind carried them
away, that no place was found for them; and the stone
that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled
the whole earth." At the close of the ceremony, which
was attended bye very large congregation, the Archbishop
of Canterbury and the other church dignitaries left the
cathedral in procession, and a collection was made at the
doors.

iELEORAPHINO IN SWEDEN, NORWAY, AND DEN-
YLIIII.—An American gentleman (Mr. Win. Robinson)
has obtained the privilege for fifty years of crectinivand
managing lines of magnetic telegraph in the united ' -
doms of Sweden and Norway. A company has been form
including some heavy. capitalists of this city and Stockholm,
and the work of erecting the line is to be at once commenced.
There is reason to expect that a similar privilege will be ob-
tained from the government of Denmark, and in all it is
expected that some 3,000 miles of telegraph communication
wiU be conferred on the Scandinavian peninsula by Yankee
enterprise.—Neto York Dibuno.