The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-22 00:00:00

OUTGOING NAILS.

The meld ria Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt,
Ceylon, li.dis, Hung-Kong, at., will be sada up on it.
paving of October 24.
The mails for Briti‘b North America and the United
States will be steal up co the eveniug of Oct. 26
The pry nand. f r Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be
sad. op ..n Oct 27.
The Wirit India Mails, including Berands, Romans,
Nastau, Mina eras, New Orleans, and Menlo-, and excluding
thine for Madan, St. dun-de-Niraragna, New Granada,
Chili, and Peru, will be made up on Nov. 2.
The wails for Marini. the Etrazi4, and Buenos Ayree,
teil be Emile up en Nov. 6.
The mails fur o.braltar, Malta, Greeor, the lonian Islands,
Apr, Ceylo., Inds, and China, out Soutiumptow, will
be wade up on the morning of Nov. 20.

NIGH WATIN AT LONDON 11.1D01.
TIN T4l—Mond(. IDA Ma /Amara. $11.49m.
To-resa,t—Nemag, Um. ...... Bltelassa. •\.Lim.

LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22.
Tue project of an Aggregate Exhibition of the In-
duet, ial Prodoctie ns of all Nations meets with uni-
versal rayon,. It is obviously a right tl in; to attempt;
obviously a grand thing to do. But like many
obviously desirable sod admirable things, it is not
easy of practical cccomplishment. The plieioules in
praise of the design come easy enough to such as are
accustomed to treat all propositions having for their
aim the true amelioration of society, an passing topics
of talk. The magnitude and variety et the elements that
require to be combioed, ordered, and disciplined befor
the great purpose cau be attained, naturally furnish
materials fer tutermin dole dilation on the conflicting
probobili lei and posibilites of success or f,imre.
For our parts, we are little gives to this way of deal-
ing with questions that affect the future interest and
present honeur of the couittiy. If we believe a
scheme to he a mere delta on, we deem it a duty to
say s t pWuly; if, on the other hand, we deem tt a
sound, w're, aced realisable project, we Ike to give it
a hearth cheer and a helping hand.
Inst.ad of solemnly trilling, therefore, with the
generalities of the saoject, let us ask what are the pm-
cse objects to be attained by the holding of what has
been aptly called by a weekly contemporary " a Cheat
Semple Mart"? And by what means may the inhe-
rent difficulties be overcome that stand in the way of
its comprehensive and complete success ?
If compirison be the first step toward eompetitiam
and competition the surest pith to improvement, it
most pure the best and most naive:really useful ends
to cab's the local inventor, whose field of view is
necessarily circumscribed, to become acquainted at a
lessee not only with all that has been done by others
im h's own branch of practical mience' bet
likewise with all those co-relative and subsidiary
aids to discovery which remote and unknown corium-
rnries have rendered available. From the simplest
improvement in the cheapest textile fabric to the
subtlest adaptation of mechanic force to the
perfecting of the most costly implement or
the most exquisite object of art—the future
progress of the industrial world depends in
• mat dmree upon the multiplication of the means
of example and suggestion. Pnnting and steam have
doubtless done much to place within the mutual reach
of inventive men the results of each others daily
labours and nightly thoughts. But who that has ever
been at beat devoted to the study of mechanism or
the arts of form, does, not know the new wealth
of ideas that is acquired amid the choice works of
fellowntinds, ranged in all the glory of their new-
ness, perfection, and diversity
The first aim of the oontempleed exposition must
cocounsseegqwetly be the greatest possible variety both if
eo•tribetors aad contributions. We think far less
of its possible ex'ent than of its compassable diversity.
Its miss will not, in our estimation, be the test of its
success, but its quality, its comprehensiveness, its
universality. We don't went a monster meeting of
manufacturers and artists, but a full and complete re-
presentation of the industry of the world. Every
Active and intelligent people can do something better
or different from their neighbours. We want to see this,
to examine is, to compare it with the substitute,orcoun-
terpart made elsewhere : to understand in what we are
ourselves inferior co our more ingenious brethren, and
enable them at the same time to imitate and rival, if
they can, what we are able to do more perfectly.
To afford an opportunity fur such an unfettered and
impartial interratomial comparison is one of the
noblest finite of the adoption of free trade. If the
philosophy of competition be worth anything, it im-
plies, not that our indefatigeble island should be-
come the mill, or the loom, or the stithy, of
the world, but that in the progress of the arts sod
maoufectureis of all surrounding nations we should
find our adventure, and they in ours. If they cease
to make m nge for sale to us, they will cease
to have the only po-sible mesas of baying our wares.
We can hare no interest but in their p.ogrees ; only
let to all jedge and see distinctly what each has the
knack of doing bee, and not waste oar time in our
ighbour's forge or farm.
We are dispoeed to think that the most effec'ual
mode of inductig the greatest possible diversity of
competition at the proposed ,ihibitioe, will be the
earonl and timely dissemination throughout the
world, of the views and aims with which it is under-
taken. Much stress has been, we observe, laid on the
public assurance being given, that several prises of
value will be awarded for the best articles exhibited.
We do not mean to my aught disparaging of this
auxiliary attraction; but we are bound in frankness
to confess, that we place comparatively little Arms on
Ws portion of the scheme. It may do something in
aid ;we hope it may. But let us not deceive mar-
selves. The constitution of a suitable and acceptable
tribunal to judge, will of neoessity be encompsosed
with difficulties. Award ae they may, there will be
diappointmentsand jealousies. At beet the adjudication
will give satiefection to a small minority of the
worthiest and most meritorious competitors; and
the main reliance mast be placed on the sounder am-
bition of numbers to win cosmopolitan fame and
world-wide custom, than upon say tantalising hope
that among an unnumbered crowd of competitors so
many premiums must be distributed.
Entertaining these views we regard with satis-
faction the resolve which has beta taken to give
ample time before-hand for pomace in every part
of the eivilieed world to become acquainsed with the
purpose and the plan. The total absence of tie
nipr impatience of projectors, which this implies, is
no more than we should expect from the SWOP
whence the design has emanated. It is one is every
way worthy of the Prince-Consort whom name is
alike sesocheed with the encoursvement of native
art, and wi,h that freedom from all ideas of exclusive-
sem that befits his constitutional position, whether as
regards the internal or the external policy
of the empire. To participate in its ser-
rations without mingliag in personal partialiues
Of rivalries, and to render the country eminent ser-
vices in those things aloes which all classes and par-
ties recognise as national,—this is indeed to fulfil
hostourably and wortnily the expeetatioas which were
early formed of the illustrious nonage whole ad-
vent amongst us ten years ego every body hailed
with pleasure, and none have regretted since.

Anions eonsmonly pronounces that her Majesty's
ministers have appointed to the Deanery of St. Paul's
Cathedral, in the room of the Bisho&LfaLIANDA7P,
the H us atn OT. HARRY HART Mi, of West-
minster and Rector of St. Margaret's.
At the first blush this appointment might be con-
sidered a proper one. It has been recently laid dawn
by those who have Outdid the subject of Cathedral
doptere, that deaneries sad prebendal stalls ought to
be the retiring pensions of labourers in the vineyard
of the CI ureti—that they should be used to afford
an "ohUns rum dirsitnt•• to these who have borne
the heat and trillion of the day—taut they should be
a means of affording a "learned leisure" to the
more distinguished writers of our age and nation.
whether upon purely scriptural and scelsaisstical
topic., or on the various branches of the more »oondit
sciences. By some straining of interpretation this
aPlmiatsmat might be regarded as amain withta
Una mown, and consequently night be spoke& d
without retrettenaioa.
Bat the rnarry of fit. Pad's, es it occurs to as,
cupt to bean exception to ands which may be very
properly applied to ether Cathedral preferments.
At the present epoch in the Church. it is die-
emit to conceive es apooistesent more important
thin the Deanery of 11-. Pears. The whole system of
St Para's Cathedral requires change. It has long
been a blot and a byewotd, iarrad of an example to

the Chinch. It was especially needful that a practi-
cal, able, earnest, and energetic man, a sound
Churchman, and a firm reformer, should
have been appoin'ed to recd. over the delibera-
tions of the Chapter ot that Cathedral. This
was St ed'ul in the highest degree as re garded the Ca-
thedral its If; it seas, perhaps, still more needful as
regarded the parishes in which the Chapter testicle'
an influence. 'fk• largest parochial charges of the
metrop lie are in the gilt of this Chapter. Cripple-
get., aid St. Panerar, worth nearly 2 0001. a
year each, are usuely options taken by th- Canons.
Edmonton, Chiswick, Tottenham, Barnes. the large
palish of St. Luke, 0:d-street, are all is the
gift of the Dean and Chapter, and are all
livings of the first importance, and of proportionate
value. The parish of Shadirell is in the patio rice of
the Dean personall, whilst tie important parish
ot Shoredi.ch is in the gift if the Archdeacon. But
besides his cathedral duties and patrocage the Dean
of St. Pattie has important duties in connexion with
the secular arrangements of the church. He is ex
efeeio a member of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sion : he is es coffiein a member of the com-
mittee of the National Society and of a variety
of other public bodies. In the City of London
the Dean of St. Paul's occupies the first rack am 'eget
Churchmen. His influence for good or for eel is
felt far beyond the precincts of his oen Cathedral.
Tne lets Dean, occupied with the drat es of a distioct
and important diocese, to which the deanery was
only, as it were, an appendage for the purposes of
emolument, neither exercised nor car. d about this in-
fluence. But it nosy be a widely different thing
should that t.uly humble-minded man be succeeded
by a proud and pompous Churchman. We may have
an insperitens in imperio —a new diocese within the
diocese of London itself.
Luckier at the duties, the privileges, and
rrerrgatives of this appointment, we do net hesi-
tate to say that we view with some alarm the
threatoned appointment of a high churchman
and a tory to the Deanery of St. P,urs. It is an
appointment tie coeseqrences of which no ote can
foresee. We fear it is throwing back for another
quarter of a century every reasonable prospect of
improvement in the management of the Cathedral.
The Chspter, as at present composed, is believed to be
equally divided in metters seriously affecting the
management of St. Paul's. It is not difficult to foresee
into which scale Mr. Mutate will th-ow the weight
of his influence. It hes only been within the last
three years that anything has been done to improve
Westminster Abbey. Everybody will remember the
outcry which was made against the Charer of that
Cathedral and the resistance they for a long time
offered to everything like measures of improvement.
It was not till the Bishop of OIPOID Came amongst
them that they could be brought to consent to take
any steps for setting their house in order.
Mr. MILMAN is we of the four oldest Canons
of Westminster, and he rever was regard-a
as one of its reformers. Then as regards parochial
duties. What is the state of the parish of St.
Margaret's? Why, it is well known that
Mr. MILMAXII curates were of the extreme
Peseyite school; that he promoted to his district
Church, situated in one of the most wretched parts of
London, a clergyman who carries out the genu-
flexions and altar bowing., the candle worship, and
chanting', and intoning., to an extent unknown in
any other district Church in the Metropolis.
Trois has gone on despite exposure, despite
the bishop, sad under the authority of the Rev. Mr.
MILMON.
And this is the appointment of a "liberal" admi-
nistration!