The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

SEPARATION OF CIICItCII AND STATE.

Last night a soiple introductory to the winter
operations of the Anti-State Church Association war; held at
the London Tavern. There was a large coinpony assembl, d
on the occasion. The choir was taken at half past 6 u'elork
by Was. EuwaieDS, Ewl., the treasurer of the a.suciation.
On the platform were, W. A. Ashurst, Esq. ; Wm. Ed-
wards, Esq. ; Rev. George Bose ; Edw. Earl. ; Rev.
Alex. Good ; Edw. Swaine, Esq.; Wm. Cardillo, E.g.; J
M. Webb, Esq.; Rev. E. S. I'ryee, of Gravesend; W.
Everest, Kal., of Rochester • Jno. Kingsley, Esq.;
vidsun' E-q., of Gravesend ;'Rev. J. Dewey ; Josh. Barrett,
Esq.; Dr. Oxley; Rev. W. Stallebrase ; J. Carvell Wil-
liams E-q.; J. F. Boutems, Esq., of Kernel Hempstead;
and 1. Betsey, Eat., of Rochester.
The ell AIRMAN, in opening the business of the evening
said that the society in commencing its operations for the
present winter, bad entered upon the eighth year of its
existence. (Hear, hear.) They had peeved their apprentice.
ship, and hail no reason to lie dissatisfied with the result.
(Hear, hear.) The number of their friends and supporters
had greatly incr. used throughout the country,and they had
obtained a satisfactory addition to their funile. (Hear)
During Br past year a considerable amount had been raise,'
for conference expen.ea, and also for the formation of a
fund to he applied to the meeting of the charges incidental
to the publication of a series ut literary works calculated
to promote the objects of the association. They had great
difficulties to contend with, but on the whole they had au,
raw-on to be disaati-fied with their present position. They
had every reason to be thankful to u number of their friends
who hart p. nernusly come forward with .ontributions is aid
of the publication fund. They had received 1,200/. for
that fund, but they still wanted a further mint to rake the
amount to 2,0 sd., in order that the work might be satisfae-
tardy carried out. Ile trusted that they would use their
best endeavours for this purpose. (Hear, heir.)
The SECRETARY then read the report, from which it
appeared that the association were about to send emissaries
immediately into various pats of the country for the propa-
gation of their ebutrines. They had received during the past
year about 1,2501. for the publication fund—that wan
to say, the publication of a &erica of literary works eat•
eULlteli to disseminate their views of ecclesiastical policy.
But they felt it extremely desirable that the contributions
for that purpose should be raised before the end of the year
to a suns of 2,000/. The executive committee believed that
the present WAS a most favourable period fur the propaga-
tion of !heir doctrines, becowee the people of this country
had of late become peculiarly &love to the evils and abuses
of a connexion between church and state, in consequence
of certain revelations, which showed that the canker of
worldliness had amid,' fatal inroad,' upon the established
church. . . .

Most of the gentlemen above named having spoken in
advocacy of the views Of the aoeciation,
The Itev. ALEXANDER Goon peopoded, and the lie.. Mr,
eItOCIL seconded, a vote of thanks to the chairman, which
terminated the pruceediugs.

THE CUBAN EXPEDITION.—The New York cor-
respondent of a mornint paper, writing on the 4th inst.,
says:_' Within the last few days the v.il has been with- ,
drawn from the eyes of all those who had magnified this j
lawless foray into a revolutionary invasion; and the parti-
eipaturs in it, who had ken extolled at worthy emulators
of La Fayette and his companions in arms, are now shown
up to the world as mere trachea in bloodshed, who had
hired themselves out at a certain price to forward a stu-
peadous :Acme of plunder and robbery. The wages (de-
pendent of course on the success of the enterprise) were
payable in bonds for large nominal turns, and were issued,
according to their rank, to all cancer...ed. The following is
a cony of one of these promises to !my :—s2,ooo.—No. —. •
lie it known to ail men, that I, General Nat ciso Lopez, •
Chief of the' Patriotic Junta for the promotion of the pa- I
litical interests of Cuba,' established in the United States of
North America, and the contemplated head of Provisional
Government and commauder-in-chief of the revolutionary
moven nt about now to be undertaken through my agency
and permissive authority for the liberation of the people of
Cuba from the tyranny and oppression to which they are
now subject by tne rower of Spain, and to be prosecuted
by me till superseded by a superior executive officer, or such
form of government and authotity as the people by their
free will and choice shall prescribe, do, by there present.,
to eublerve the cause and object aforesaid, make and execute
this obligation, on behalf of the people of Cuba, by what-
ever desLnatiun of nationality or form of body politic they
shall hereafter assume, to wit—l do, by these presents, for
and on behalf of the said people oiCuba, and their auc-
MUM its government for ever, and for value received pro-
mise to pay to —, or bearer, in equal annual instalments
at one, two, three, tour, and five years, the ELM of
a 2,000. with 6 per cent. interest from date, payable mate-
ably on each annual instalment, until both principal and
interest be fully paid and discharged. And I, the said
General Narcissi Lopez, in virtue of the authority and for
the promotion of the object aforesaid, do by these presents
pledge to the said —, or bearer, the public lands and
public property of Cuba, of whatever kinds, and the fiscal
resources of the people and government of Cuba, from
whatever source to be derived ; and do further pledge
the good faith of the people and government of Cuba,
in perpetuity, for the faithful and complete slisehmge
of this obligation. In testimony whereof I, the said
l General Nareiso Lopez, do hereto Mhz my signature and
I seal of the said Provisional Government, which is further
witnessed by Ambrosio Ju-c Gonzales and Jose Maria
Sanchez Ysuaga, members of said Patriotic Junta, and the
Hon. Colesworth Pinckney Smith, Judge of Supreme
d Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi. This done and
I executed in the city of New Orleans and State of Louisiana,
I one of the United States of North Ameriee, on this 30th
Iday of Apri!, A.D. MO.—Neaten° LOPEZ, J. Saxes=
YZEACIA, A. J. lioNzaLza, C. P. SMITII.-52,000?
From this it will be seen that no revolution existed in the
! island, but that one was' shout to be undertaken ; that the
lateens of paying for it were to be raised out of the public
Property and fiscal resources of the people and government
or Cuba; and that a hien judicial functionary of the State
l of Mississippi placed himse:f officially by the side of L.PINE
as a party to the infamous bond."
ST. HELEN'S AND SOUTHPORT.—It is intended to,
• apply in the ensuing session of parliament for an act to:
t authorise the cons.ruetion of a line from the it. II lee's
s Railway at St. Helen's to Southport. 't he line is to form a
t junction with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at
t 'Lanford, and with the East Lancashire Railway at Orme-
• kirk. The 'comb of the proposed line it 19 miles, and the
estimated met 24),0001.

SPORTING.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.
MONDAY.
HANDICAP PLATE of OW., for 3-yr-olds and upwards.
Cambridgeshire Course.
. .

Mr. Gre;ite's Ram Saw 1 yrs, .t slb (Flntesa) I
Mr. Delaneresiiuy ihioneries, 3 yrs, 74 ...... (I. Vann/ 2
Mr. J. LS. Morris's Vgthan, Stu. Sot lOtb (F. hotter) 3
Betting: 1 to 1 agit Humphrey, 3 to 1 each ogst Vatican,
Retail, and Guy Mannering, 6to 1 each agat Prestige nod
No Chance, and Bto 1 ugst Barcelona. Humphrey took
up the running immediately after starting, and with No
Chance, Retail, Barcelona, St. Fabian, and Guy Manner-
.kg in waiting. carried it on at a moderate pace till half
' way between the Duke's stand and home ; ha was then
joined by Barcelona and Guy Mannering, and Vatican
joining half a distance front twine, the four went on singled
out, Borzelona obtaining the advantage in the last stride
and winning be a neck, Vatican a good third, and Hum-
phrey an indifferent iourth. Ron in 2 min. 9 sec.
SWEEPSTAKE:3 of 10 .ore. each; fur 3-yr-idds, ist 61b;
four, fist 4th ; five, flat 811); six and aged, SA MU; winner
to be sold fur 69 sot.. if demanded, it:. DAL
Lord Cllrori.'s $ gorily, aged (Robinson) I
217. It. Sid,bines be I by Mans oat of raingyra, 3 yrs
(Isatuau)
warilow's Lady Bilging, 3to (Marlow ) 3
Betting: 13 to 8 agat Palmyra filly, and 3 to 1 agst Lady
Ilibiva. A very fine race lot the last 50 yards beta Sa-
gacity and Palmyra filly, terminating in favour of Sagacity
Uy u head. Bun in 1 loin. 47 we. '
Sweteriem: Es of 10 vivo. each; for 3-yr-olds, Tot 91b;
four, Sat ilo; five, Bst 12th; six and aged, gat; winter to
be sold for 2:811., dec. Ab.ll.
lora W. *wastes Vanguao, 4 yrs
Mr. Podey'e P.ltiettu, s yrs (4bar.too) 2
Mr. mm liontat of lAr)nEr, 1 yrs .. 'rem 3
Betting : Even on Vanguard, 6 to 4 agat Paquetta. Won
by three lengths. The Knight of tiwynne beaten off. ltuu
int 1_ min. ;9 s.c.

MAUI!, B.t 71b each, 100 h ft. T. Y. C..—Capt. Low-
ther's Tumbler received 2 suss. forfeit from Doke of Bed-
ford's Sophistry, by lon.
31A-ruti, 100 b ft. T. Y. C.

Mr. W. E. I.stsssis Sophistry, by iists;s. 74 111 b,
iliatnan) 1
7lb (Itobisson) 2
Betting :11to S on Sophistry. Won by a lemth. 1 min.
15 so:.

wrnrsrAir EA of 10 sore. each r.r 2.yr-olds ; colts Bst 71h,
fillies Set 516; winner to be sold for _•dll , if demanded,
tte. First half of Ah.Nl.

Loin baby c by Irtnl Dirdca:cbcx out of MceJnee,
(F. lainer) 1
Mr. a!ephenaron's Itavetuaitis trlAtet..n, 2
Mr. 20111.. a Ul °Doi it ( VI 3
Mr. It. grtn'a titagc4,,
Mr. Kites cb t It) reuil Luehinva out of Maile,n'a .atnt
( Kula, nu. r wood) 2
Bet:ing: Even on Itavensvrinit, soil 3 to 1 agit :genitive
colt. '1 he lot ran in close company to the dip, where Ma-
venrwino nod the Menniee cult went in trout, the latter,
who waited into the curdy, winning very cleverly by a
length. Diamond a bad third. ltuu in .34 secs.
ST %KEA of 30 sore. each, 20 It, for 2-yr-01d.4;
cults but 71b, fillies 8,4 51b; winner. extra. Criterion
euur:e.

Duke ol Itichmororr ited Iliad, het 10x) (ii.clutUng Oh extra)
(4e.d..cuak) 1
Ezete,'• Arolduee. Oat . ......... . . ,its 2
Notya.t ut the 'hire, Set 716 Dus) 3
lord f.ieter's rrue:welt, S. ;10
37r liourea toorice
('lt ••••• it'. Wrier) 5

tier J. 11.412. e. 11110*Th, M 4 ;lb ..-
11. N0r...4 6
Netting: to 4 ngnt Dauiel O'Rourke (t), 7to 4 apt Red
Rind, to 1 apt Stockwell, and 111 to I apt any other.
Red Rind made all the running, owl won, with nothing to

~are, by a length ; the Ai,igUt of the Shire a hail tan',
:old Dania O'l.nuke was bratms off. Rai. in 1 win.

tiwr.ersTAKts of 10 lovr. cub • for 3-pr-olds, ist 71h;
four, tht alb; five and upwards, th islb ; the winner to lie
mold for 3:iti revs., if remanded, Le. Criterion Course.
Air. Coll C•'s I unotio a, 13r. .
Lore I. 6 (it boo so) 2

orotornr, 6 )ror ..... %
Duke of Bolt s Norpont 6 in.....„.........«..`Y. 1...0 kr, 3
1.0 l Esetrr's Inane. 1 )rs ...... rot 4
Mr. Itoorer.ep Pulehrrroona, (ll,ittln) J
llcttiug: 2 to 1 agst Newport, 7 to 2 apt Longinus, and
4to 1 agst Turtle. Woo by u length. Newport u bad
third.

great number of arrivals have taken place in the course
of the Isst 21 hours; all the lodgings are taken, the stables
are full, out the weather tine. Everything, in short, leads
its to anticipate u very full fleeting and a plethora of
sport. Since our lust parcel was forwarded the tenoning
/101,1, hare come in : Hernandez, Enor, Falcon, Congratu.
Wien (late the flying Dutchwoman), Cyclopz, Young Allioi-
dura, Clincher, Aphrodite, llilberry, Caloric, Dram, and
Muulitain Deer. The Nigger reared up yesterday on the
esereise ground and fell backward, but was out this
morning.
BETIING VP TO 6 O'CLOCK.
[tiy. I-3retrie Teter. ph.]
CAMISIUDOESIIIKE MTAhIS.
3 to l apt greba to 1 apt Ariohto
to 1 Nominator 21 t 1 1 The Nigger
11 to 1 Maintain Deer 23 to 1 31unito1O
13 to I Crime Myosin J. to 1 Itoiou
13 to 1 Curl 30 to 1
10 to 1 Camotreek Ithto I Clo ha
lu tu 1 Dustin t) 50 ti 1 Tout lie.

IRELAND.

DtIILIV 0CT.27.

The accession of Mr. Frederick Peel to the Russell
ministry is regarded with feelings of no slight satis-
faction by the Roman catholic partv here. The
appointment is looked upon as one foreshadowing
earning events; and Mr. Peel's acceptance of office
under the cabinet which carried the Ecclesiastical
Titles Act is very naturally considered to be an
assurance that that act will not be enforced with any
great degree of seventy.
The vacancy created in Kinsale by the transfer of
Mr. Haws to a new office is already given away by
the general rumour to Mr. Lucas, of the nblet.
The Cork Reporter thus refers to the circum-
stances under which the new session of the Queen's
Colleges has been opened :
We have been much gratified by finding that the en-
trances at the Examination at QULCII'S College, just now
closed, being the first for the present session, have fully
1110411 die unabated progreei of public opinion in hivour of
that most useful institution. There have been added to
the rolls of the College for the new class, no less than
thirty-eight students, of whom twenty are Roman catho-
lies, and, us we understand, including the sons of some of
the must distingished and important Roman catholic fami-
lies in this province. Equally gratifying; is the fact, which,
we believe, is indubitable, that, notwithstanding the pecu-
liar influences most strennouslv exerted in certain quarters,
to detach from the College the-nu:Rau catholic students pre-
viously entered, such has been the confidence felt by the
public in the system of education pursued in it. that not
a single instance has occurred or a student having been
withdrawn uu religious grounds. We are most happy to
report also 6.1. Galway College, the wonderfully successful
entrance, this month, of twenty.cight students.
The following memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant,
adopted at a meeting of the county of Limerick
magistrates, presided over by Nlr. W. Monsen, M.P.,
uftinds n very gratifying testimony of the improved
state of the country :
We, the magistrates of the county Limerick, assembled
at Quarter Sessions, certify to your Excellency our opinion
that the extra police placed on the county, under the 6th
William IV., e. 23, should be removes'. The extra police
force was placed on the county at a time when agrarian
outrages prevailed to a considerable extent. During the
last two or three years crime has considerably diminished,
and now we have the testimony both of the judge of assize,
the assistant barrister, and the local magistracy, that there
never was a period in which there were fewer crimes com-
mitted in the county, and the crimes that do take place are
of a character comparatively insignificant. Cnut'r these
circumstances we pray your Excellency to order the prayer
of this memorial to be carried into effect with as little delay
as possible. . . . .

The memorial was signed by the assistant barris-
ter and all the magistrates present.
Dr. John M•Donnell, brother to the Hight. lion.
Alexander Nl'Doimell, will be the chief medical com-
missioner under the new Charities Aet. The in-
spectors will be appointed in a few days. The sys-
tem of the dispensaries will be altered, new districts
will be formed, and several of the existing dispensa-
ries abolished.

A tribute is collecting in America for Father Ma-
thew, whose pecuniary embarrassments are consider-
able. The 304)!. a-year pension which he receives
from the British government is appropriated to his
•:editors.

The limerick Chronicle says : "From January 3
to (ktoher 10, 1831, 42 vessels entered from foreign
ports to Tralee with cargoes of grain. During the
same period lust year the foreign entries were only
20. In IH3O only 300 emigrants left Trace fur
America; 2,217 in the present year cleared out fur
the other side of the Atlantic. The Waterford and
Kilkenny Railway Company have gut possession of
18 miles of the line between Jerpuint station and
Runkit, which is within a mile and a half of Water-
ford.

The following is from the weekly commercial re-
port of the Freeman :
'the improvement visible last week has nut been main-
tained this, Less business has been done, priess are barely
supported, and there is no desire to speculate tither in pro•
duce or shares. The corn market remains much as last
week. There is not much doing in shares, and railways
an• rather depressed. Thu customs denies of the week are
16,200,,, of which 7,600/, nte on tea, 2,0041. on raw and
1,0001. on refined sugar, 1,0001. on wine, 7001. on spirits,
and 2,6410/. on tobacco. The receipts fur the corresponding
week of Iri•io were 18,000!., showing a decrease of 1,500/.

BRITISH HUSBANDRY.

AGRICULTURAL CIIENIISTRY ; TURNIP CUL-
TURE; HALLOWS.
(Continued fiVlll the Elbrala ut Oct. 9.)

And this property is totally different from the
power of porous substances to absorb ammoniaeal and
other gases; and if it were the sante power, it would not
account for the decomposition by the soil of the dif-
ferent kinds of amntonia, and for the power they arc
found to possess of combining with other alkaline
bases, such as potash, magnesia, &e., which have no
gaseous character. Nor is this power capillary at-
traction. There are old and recorded experiments,
I showing that salt water can be deprived of its salt-
ness by filtration through sand, but that seems
to be fundamentally different from a chemical
power, being due to the surface attraction of the
sand for the salt which becomes condensed upon the
sand. This power of sand to arrest and separate
spline substances in solution is limited in extent, and
differs from the chemical power of soils, as it is
i exerted on the whole salt, whilst that of the soil has
relation only to the alkaline or earthy base. Dr.
Angus Smith has found sand, also by its surface at-
traction for air, to be an oxidating agent, and that
the filtration through such a medium is the most
perfect way of exposing a solution to the influence
of oxygen. This explains the rapidity with which
manure disappears from a sand• soil, but the power
brought into action in loamy soils is of an opposite
kind. This is due to the clay which is antagonistic
to the oxidating power of sand, combining with or-
ganic matters, and retarding rather than hastening
their destruction. Pottery clay of the " plastic
clay " formation, dug at Farnham from a depth of
20 feet front the surface, and a small portion of this
taken from the centre of a mass, and which therefore
could not have absorbed ammonia front the air,
was found when heated to give off abundance of
ammonia. This clay might either have absorbed
ammonia from water at a remote geological period
before its deposition in its present place; or in the
course of ages, water penetrating an almost imper-
vious stratum, must have carried down some portion
of ammonia ; but neither hypothesis is deemed pro-
bable, and it is assumed that the ammonia found in
the clay was derived from organic bodies decaying in
the very water front which the clay was deposited.
This forms a striking instance of its power of absorp-
tion and retention of ammonia in despite of water, to
the action of which it must have been at that time
long exposed.
Our limits do not permit any attempt to describe
any of the experiments in detail, but we go at once
to the practical conclusions to be deduced from them.
In one series of experimeut, that the absorption by
the soil of the greater part, in most eases the whole,
of the ingredients of manure of the most value, ex-
tends to a weight of sewage-water more than
equal to the weight of the soil. ihtts, if every por-
tion of the soil of an acre of laud could have been