The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-06 00:00:00

Lions showed him that the D.an and Chapter were
botad to maintain at the school twenty boys gra-
tuitously. From this, one of their sworn obligations.,
they escaped by small money papal Mei, fixed we the
cost of maintenance in the reign of HENRY VIII.
Dr. WHISTON, giving them cred.t for a doefre to in-
crease the prosperity of the echo l, pointed out the
obligation 0 the Dean awl Charter, and sought
for Its fulfilment. They (pebbled at first,
sad thin declined. The Dr. was not, however,
s man to let the matter drop; be had put his
ghoul re' to the wheel, and on be went. He appealed
from ti e Dean and Chapter to their Visitor,the Bishop
of Itueuzsrza, who, by his oath (t which he also
bad at p sled in the Howse of Lords), is bound to cm-
rect cupi'uler errors, and to see that capitular statutes
are fu.filled. From the bishop he teceieed no en-
couragement and very scanty courtesy. That prelate
evidently wished to let the subject sleep ; he delayed
aasweeing Dr. WHISTON'S letters fir months; he then
sought to avoid interfere:lce by a la se re'erence to
the Ecclesiastical Cinemiesioa, next by the convenient
and lucky illatn of hie Chancellor, snd lastly by a
desire to talk matters over quietly with the Dean.
Fortlfied, however, with the 1• gal opinion of Sir JOHN
ROHILLT, In favour of his clans to have twenty boys
maintained at lichee' by the Dean and Chapter,
that the bishop was the proper authority to enforce
abet. insintensece, Dr. Wnterox pressed his diocesan
for a deciston. Atter some elibteen months' delay he
got now; but in its stead a reference to the Com t of
Charcery. There, if he choose, sad the prelate, he
may being the Dean and Chapter to bolt.
This was, of course, an obvious breach of episcopal
duty. Fur it is 'lied) to get ril of the necessity of
such litigation that the v'sitorial power of bishcps
over their sleepiers exists; and when the Bishop of
RoCHisTitli boa fur his liw adviser so aosompliahel a
la ayer as Dr. Lesstoorox, he canoot shelter him-
self under the plea of inability to decide upon questions
of law.
Before adopting the course to which he was re-
ferred by de thshop of ROCHESTER, 1)r. WHISTON
published a pamphlet, in which he stated the face of
the eve; and enforced on the chapter the duty of
fulelline is this respect their statutes by a reference
to that 'oath to which they themselves bad appealed
on wother occasion; and be frankly expressed the
d'aestisf.ction he felt at his di.,c.sen'e cora-
dent in the matter. The pamphlet was,
however, anything but ictemperate in it.
langroge; and it was so overlaid with ezcleeisitiesl
le ar.,iteg as to forb!A ar y extensive circulation. Its
cb err was to increase the utility of capitular gram-
mar schools generally, and that of Rochester tope-
cially; and ibis object wee sustained by an amount of
research and of curious information such as ii early
to be met with in ephemeral publications. It shows
that 1)r. WHISTON had bet ught great learning and
gr.at labour, as well as great zeal, t 3 the task he
imposed on himself. And so irresistibly was the
claim on the Dean and Chapter if ROCHESTER which
he had art up in behalf of the Grammar School made
cut, het we castes' we had little doubt that he would
have been successful without the necessity of any
resort to the Court of Coancery.
And how have the Dean and Chapter answered
thi. p 'caplet ? They have nut been shamed by its
proofs into the performance of their scorn duty.
They have not attempted to dispute its facts, to con-
trovert its reworieg, or to ovechrow its COr elusions.
And yet they could not let the pamphlet go without
some reply. And whet have they done—how have
they replied oit ? Why, the Dean aid Ch tree of
Rochester have actually dismissed Dr. Wniseine, a
pions clergyman, a learned scholar, a most competent
teacher, tram the mastership of the Grammar School,
with as little compunction, with as little grace, with
as little consideration for his feelings, as if he bad
been their shoe-black! They do nut—Lo thanks to
them fir the abstinence—impesch his abilities, his
competency, his horeety, his fidelity; neverthe!e-s,
they dismiss him because his lareuace, his facts, his
determination'', were unpleasant to them. And it is
apainst this oppressive, tidiest, and ecendatuus dis-
missal, eat the citizens of It. cheater, in public meet
log, protestel on 'Tuesday. Well they might ; for here
is a clergyman degraded, insulted, and in-
jured, because he vindicated their rights; be-
causs he endeevoured to provoke his reve-
rend patrons to act op to their oaths; became
he was di-satisfied with episcopal neglect. Had he
chosen, like bispredeceseor, to c naive at the cspitular
misapplication of fonds to which the grammar school
was entitled, he would in time have reached the
digoity and secured the profit of capitular living.
But preferring duty to seiliwerce, he is dismis-ed
from his effi.e becaus3 he atticked the capitular
pocket..
The outrage is, however, happily too gnat an one
to be quietly submitted to. The conduct of the I
and Chapter has roused the indigestion of all clas•es
in and about Rochester; and a subscription has been
entered into to protect Dr. WIIISTOS, and to bring
the dean and chapter be fore the Court of Chancery.
That the law gives the I)een a' d Chapter ne power
to di-alias, e'er pt for statutable (Aeneas or for income
pet" ncy, the Master of Rochester Grammar School
sppcers to be perfectly incredibl They might just
as sell claim to dismiss their presentees of benefices
whenever their manners or sermons was displeasing
to them. So it is to to hoped our Rochester friend+
will first direct their attention to the illegality of
Dr. WlllB7oll'B dismissal; and when that is esta-
blished, then w 11 be the time to assert the rights of
the Grammar School to its just share of the Capitular

pri perty.
Tee Dean and Chapter of Rochester must first
be taught decency and then hw.
But what are we to think of the bishon, whose
neglect of duty has ene.:nraged the Dean b n
Ct apter to this outrage? Why, that his cordite' in
this mstter is of a piece with the fact+ e-tabli-hed
before a committee of the Ikuss of C. mini ne, teat he
wuted the property of the see, firstly rn the pur-
chase of the new pulses, and secondly in the sale of
the old palace.

COMMUNICATION FROM THE AUSTRIAN
GOVERNMENT AS TO ADVANCE OF AUSTRIAN
TROOPS INTO TUSCANY.

VIENNA, Arau. 29, 1849,
M. le Comte,—The government of the emperor kW
sent to Mental Count Radetrky orders to advance troops as
well into Tuscany as into the Legations. In deciding upon
this Ist mars we have only responded to the demand which
has bees addressed to us to this effect on the part of the
Grand Disk* of Tammy, as well as on the part of the Holy
Father, the latter having at the same time applied
for the armed intervention of France, 8p in, sad Naples.
The object if our ilit•Matiolll is no other them the re-ests•
bliatment of the legitimate geveraaents and of Inal order.
Whenever this object shall have becu at aimed, and, thaeks
to lb. go.operatien of the sans portion of the population, it
will be se, we hope, shortly, oar treope will retire. As re-
• the fatervention in the state of the church, we could
have "Dished to have bees allowed to welt until the decisions
of the Conference of Outs, while placing In relief the agree-
ment ,listing between the seven whose support the Holy
Father has eerelsZiwia, had given to their endeavours
washisation aad
France bevies deidol lithe meatiest to Cieita Vecchia
to set in edemas at the devieleme of the conference, we do
sot the lees her that the **et at which her isolated efforts
aim will prove to be the mew as that wbi^h the four powers
had Wassailed apes to GSM by common action.
For oar part we only wish to comply with the wishes of
the Holy Father, Westiesl with those of the civilised world,
by co-operating within the hake of oar means, to resters to
the chief of the universal cherub his liberty and iadepesd-
enee, which catholic population cannot with indifference see
destroyed to the advantage of as anarchStical party. France,
if we aunties it well, cos have se other object ; I, there-
fore, willingly believe that the satiates of the two power,,
while they may appear to be dictated by different im-
putes, will not bring sheet any conflict between them;
bake. the contrary, will laal to results equally conducive to
the wall.htlag of the people of Central Italy, and to the cease
of !naval order.
I beg you, M. le Comte, to allow the principal secretary of
state to read this despacch.—Accept
(Signed) SCHWARZENBERG.

HOLLAND.—Ttiz HAGUE, JULY 3.—The total
bomber of persons who bays been attacked with
Asiatic cholera since May last wu 4,348; of whom
2,334 died, 1,881 recovered, and 134 are now under
treatment.

EXCURSION TRAINS TO IRELAND.—The Midland
coma.' goeold .aye that the excursions set oa toot by the
London and North Western Railway Company to Inland
and the Lakes of Killarney have, awn their commencement
on the 22nd inst., bees well ratronitod, and as they extend,
on every Tuesday, and Friday, to the 30th September next, it
is expected that at the ptriod of the Queen's visit to Ire-
lend the opponunity thus alluded of visiting on a gunk
end economical *cola the sister kingdom, will become ex
timely popular. In addition to the fecaitiwe afforded's.,
the through wash, It has just been determined to give all
tourists use privilege of staying a whole day on the Quieter
and linlyhead Rainey, to view the vast worki is connec-
tion with the Britannia Tubular Bar.