The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1848.

of the three, it will be observed, sympa-
thise with the Baines school; they all appear
to recognise the fundamental principle that the state
which punishes is bound to educate the criminal, bat
this education, so far as the state is to supply it, they
would have to be wholly secular, leaving the office of
teacher open to all sects, and allowing the religious
portion of tuition to be provided by parents and
clergymen. The parochial teachers, as a body, was'
opposed oto ccdo to the privy council minutes, only
one presbytery of the church having made a move-
meat in its favour, and that movement only in rela-
tion to some of the schools within its bounds. The
free church party will work the scheme, but it is evi-
dent that they have all along had doubts and mia-1
giving', and nothing but the incipiency of their echo-
biotic plans would have caused them to commit them-1
selves so far to it as they have done. Then beyond
the free church the other dissenters are opponents in
tato. The differential usages of England and
Scotland are such that the fag end of a
scheme concocted for the former will not suit
the other. Ten or twenty years ago the
minutes might have done, but now they fall upon
a divided country, whose sores require something',
more than time. It will not do to lie upon oars under
the impression that Scotland is an educated nation.'
Of 4,069 criminals in 1846, 903 could neither read nor
write, and 2,424 could do both imperfectly. If
300,000 are assumed as the number who ought to
attend school in Scotland, not one-fourth of that
number will be found in the parochial schools. As
to funds, inquiry must be made into the unappropri-
ated teinds. According to the religious instruction
report of 1837, there are 436 parishes in which the
teinds are not applied to churches or schools, but for
which they are still chargeable. The total amount
•
of these is 153,928/. 9s. 11d., the crown holding
15,7411. 12s. 5d., of which 5,5.591. 7s. 9d. is only ap-
plied to national objects, the balance of
10,1821. 4s. Bd. being leased to private parties, who
account very perfunctorily far the trust.

CONIC/MONS ET THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF AROYLL.—
Earl Compton, Hon. A. H. MacDonald Moreton, N. Mel-
calm, Esq., S. I. Popham, Esq., A. Campbell, of Auchia-
darrach, En., A. J. Lamont, Efq., A. Campbell, of .Monzie,
Esq., M. Maclaine, Esq. D. Mac Neil, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenants.
BURNING A WILL.-At the High Court of Justiciary, on
Monday, John Rattray, Coralbenk, Perthshire, his wife,
James Pringle, Oraymount, his wife, and Misses E. and J.
Duffus, residing at Erichtbank, were charged with con-
spiring to obtain and destroy the will of William Hutchison,
writer in Forfar, uncle of the females at the bar, who exe-
cuted • trust-disposition and settlement on the 2n.1 of
October, 1847, whereby he, inter alia, appointed certain
trustees therein named to pay, after his decease, to
his said nieces, annuities varying from 2001. to 2501.
each, and in case of any of their decease, to dis-
poni) or pay the fee of the residue of his whole
heritable and moveable estate to the lawful children
of the said nieces, in the proportions and under the
limitation specified in the deed of settlement; and the
said William Hutchison having died on the oth October,
1847, without having revoked said deed, the parties at the
bar did, on the 16th October, obtain possession of it, and did
all or each of them destroy said deed, by burning. the same,
with intent to injure or defraud the other parties interested.
The accused parties, who had been on bail, having taken
their seats, they each pleaded guilty.—After a few obeerra-
tions from Lord Moncrieff and Lord Medwyn, the Lord
Justice-Clerk pasted sentence of three months' imprison-
ment on each of the accused.

Bishop of Exeter refuses to institute to the living of Bramp-
ford Spoke, on the presentation of the crown (and whom be
has harassed by an examination of several days, one day ens-
tinning it eleven hours and a half ), is a clergyman of 37
years' standing in the ministry, and graduated with high
honours at Cambridge. He obtained all the prises in
his college whilst an under-graduate. Iu 1808 he gained
the University medal for ' The Monisian Divinity
Essay,' before he had taken his degrees ; and •
divinity prize in his college soon after. In 1809 he
was the third wrangler, and divided the Smith's prize
(the highest mathematical honour the University has to
bestow on her alumni) with the senior wrangler, the pre-
sent Judge Alderson. He was immediately selected by the
late Mr. Wilberforce and the Dean of Carlisle as tutor to a
distinguished nobleman. In 1810 he was elected fellow of
Queens' College, and he retained that preferment 17 yearn.
In 1820 he was offered the senior tutorship, but declined it,
being engaged in ministerial work. He was the only com-
petitor with Professor Sedgwick for the geological chair.
His literary, scientific, and theological attainments induced
the late Lord Chaneedor Lyndhurst to give hint the valu-
able living of St. Just, is Cornwall, worth more than 5001.
• year; but the situation in some respects not being con-
genial, Mr. Gorham gladly accepted, on the presentation of
the Crown, the living of Brampford Speke, although the in-
come is nearly 300/. per annum leas. Mr. Gorham has always
been respected by. and on the most friendly terms with, the
four bishops in whose dioceses he hes at different times
had ministerial duty. And this is the man whom the Bishop
of Exeter scruples to admit on the presentation of the Crown
to the vicarage of Brampford Spoke. When the presenta-
tion was tendered to the bishop he said nothing about exa-
mination, allowed Mr. Gorham to return into Cornwall,
pack up his furniture, and make all necessary arrangements
for the removal of his family, and when institution was de-
manded it was refused, until the bishop had examined Mr.
Gorham. Mr. Gorham went to Exeter for the purpose of
being examined, but the bishop declined doing so until after
his return from London, and appointed Mr. Gorham to
wait on him at Bishopetowe. The bishop kept Mr.
Gorham waiting a whole month at Torquay for his
threatened examination, whilst he was lingering in
London,' and endeavouring to check the Queen and her
ministers in another diocese, neglecting this urgent
business in his own. The bishop first tried to poison the
ear of the Lord Chancellor, by inscribing on Mr. Gorham's
testimonials an insinuation of his doctrine not being pure;
but Lord Cottenham was too honourable • man to listen to
such aspersions, and presented the living to Mr. Gorham,
notwithstanding the bishop's remonstrance. Now the real
offence committed by Mr. Gorham was, that he successfully
opposed the bishop's attempt to prevent his appointing •
curate who did not hold the bishop's favourite dogma of
baptismal regeneration, and Mr. Gorham, then in corre-
spondence with the bishop, declared, in respectful but
firm language, he would oppose tractarian error in
every form and by every means in his power.
The bishop denounced this independent presbyter,
who dared to uphold the doctrines of the reforma-
tion, as a man of broken vows, and seised on the
earliest opportunity of reprisal, by summoning Mr. Gorham
to Bishopstowe for examination, which, under protest, Mr.
Gorham submitted to. and replied at great length to seventy-
eight questions, on the above subject of baptismal regenera-
tion. The bishop was little aware of the firm Christian
spirit, and the intellectual superiority of the man whom he
had forged into conflict with him, and on the third day of
the examination the bishop intimated that if Mr. Gorham
would not publishtbe correspondence the examination should
tirminate favourably. But Mr. Gorham felt that the interests
of the church were too deeply involved in this proceeding to
think of his own welfare primarily, and, nothing daunted b
the bishop, he declined making such a stipulation, ana
the examination was continued with increased acri-
mony, until Mr. Gorham's physical strength failed,
and he was obliged to suspend examination at Bishop.
stowe, although it was continued in Torquay ; for the bishop
sent him eight questions of enormous length, and " Cardall's
Conferences" to read, and give his opinion in writing. On
Friday, the 7th, Mr. Gorham again applied for institution,
which was refused until further examination had taken
place, and Mr. Gorham was summoned to Bishopstowe
on Monday, the 10th, and peremptorily ordered to reply
categorically to the questions that might be proposed.
Having already been detained three months from his parish
and family on this business, and being convinced the bishop
did not mean to institute, but to harass him still farther,
Mr. Gorham departed to London on Monday, the 10th, to
seek legal redress, and the whole correspondence and exami-
nation will soon be before the public."
_BOMEILUTSHIRIK.

THE DUNDEL 117171tDElt.io seventh day's ex-
amination of the prisoners Benjamin end James Hazen, on a
charge of murdering their uncle, Mr. Walsingham Hazel!,
took place yesterday at the Angel Inn, Ashton. Thomas
Capell was again subjected to a very lengthened examina-
tion in reference to various points of his former testimony.
lie described the ladder in the stable as being about 9 or 10
feet long, and made of two pieces of quarter, with strips of
wood nailed across it. It was a moveable ladder, and was
sometimes used to carry hay into the loft without bringing
it through the stable. Witness thought it possible that a
person might on the Monday have gone into or out of either
the well barton or the cow barton without his seeing them,
as he was engaged in thrashing ; but he did not think it
likely. About five minutes after he saw his master pass the
barn-door witness heard conversation in the direction of the
stable or colts' house door. He thought at the time, and
still thought, that the conversation was between his master
and the Hazel's. It might have been about five minutes
before his master paused down that the sprisnnere were
standing talking by the colts'-house door. It was not an
unusual thing for the two prisoners to be about for the whole
evening, or day together. Benjamin was a visitor at the
farm, but James usually tended the horses, milked, sad
worked about the farm. The deceased had not passed the
barn more than two minutes or a minute and a half before
witness heard the wuvereation by the colts'-house. In
about half an hour after that Vowles (the other workman)
left the barn, and witness left in about ten minutes or a
Quarter of an hour, and went to folder the cattle. While
in the barn witness saw the prisoners go backwards and for-
wards to the tartan before they called him to go foddering.
Saw James pass with a milking-pail. Had no thought but
that they were about their usual work. Should think that
if his master had passed out of the barton either
he or Vowles must have seen him. When wit-
ness left the barn he left the barley which he
had been thrashing during the afternoon on the floor,
where it might have been trampled on. There are holes in
the wall of the barn in which witness used to put his dinner
and tools. Remembered seeing some leggings there. Saw
them the Saturday before deceased was missed. Saw them
also on the morning of his disappemance, and on the Wed-
nesday following. The witness was then examined as to his
assisting to clean the stable on the Tuesday and Wednesday
mornings, and repeated substantially his former testimony.
In addition he stated, that when he got there on Tuesday
morning Benjamin was throwing up the strew from the
horse's bed under the manger. The bludgeon found by
Hall in the milieu was cut by witness from the log pile,
and was used to prop up carts while the wheels were being
greased. The last time he saw it before Hall produced it
was 8 or 9 days before the Monday,when it was propping up a
cart between the colts'-house door and the well. The wit-
ness S. Vowles was recalled and cross-examined at consider-
able length ; but the greater part of his testimony has been
already anticipated. He stated, in addition, that the pig
killed on the farm, to which one of the prisoners had referred
as accounting for the blood on his clothes, was killed in the
well barton by Capell. They never killed pigs, or sheep,
or anything in the stable. The pig was killed on the Thurs-
day week before. If he had not been sent to Mr. Ballad's
on Monday evening he should have assisted in cleaning the
stable.—The examination was proceeding when our parcel
was despatched, at four o'clock.