The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-25 00:00:00

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ON TJUDGMENT PRIVY COUNCIL
The following letter appears in the Churchrriss
--" Sir,—Firleads and foss seem le be signed about the
important.. of this last decides al the Privy Ono& It
must base effaces far other, probably, than its sinks authors
were aware of. It looks, at first SOL as if it were pro.
clueing chaos ; yet, to us, who believe that' the Spirit of
Goal smooth upon the face of the wild • 'stets,' it le
but the them over which God ems ' Let there
be light, and there wee light.' The *gloat
dissolves all bpi jurisdiction which was supposed
to exist in the African church ; but only to make ea
opioiog for divine order. It la no loos tens that it is die
°peered that the Queen bad no power to give the temporal
powers which the former 1401 advisees c 4 the mown thought
she could. It is the crown deeidier against itself. It ie thought
°osiers of ours which of the two sets of lawyers was right.
The present advisers of her Majesty have limited
her powers ; and we may thank God for the
limitation, and pardon gladly the gratuitous Insolence
of the Erutianism of the preamble, for the results
which, with no goodwill of Smithies, must result from
it. The church of Booth Akio' then is free ; and this
freedom is far better than a temporal jurisdiction created
by the State. It is the temporal jurisdiction which is
the weakness of the church. Had the decision against
Dr. Williams and Mr. Wilson in the Court of Arches
involved GeV spiritual ooneequesces it would not have
bete made legal for clergymen to deny bell or the
inspiration of God's word. The South African Church
will have to organise itself. as the Scotch Church, and
the Church in the United States had to do before them.
And as the Church in the United States rose from the
duet in which it bad been trampled, and flourished, se
it did not when under the miragese of the State, so by
God's help, will the African. We cannot doubt that the
bishops there (I do not, of emus., speak of Dr. Coleoso),
will abide under the oath which they have takes without
troubliog themselves to aossider whether the Bishop of
Capetown was mad. Metropolitan legally, according to
bunion law. He was Metropolitan de facto, so such they
took their oaths to him ; Capetown s marked out naturally
as the motropolitiml see ; sad such it will dashiki's remain.
The orgenisatioe of the South Atrium church rhea
oomplete. Had the bishops been ps we were told by the
Judicial Committee) creatures of [human) law,' they
would have expired with the law. Bat dace. as we timer,
the Episcopate has • Divine right, sod in a Divine institu-
tion, the withdrawing of bums props_will only show that
it endures through a Divine strength lodged in it. English
Mariehamn will have doubtless, aciatides to help to support
the South African day; but what seems to be defeat, in
God's hands turns to Mary,. The church of England is
freed from all oonsplisity with Dr. ()amino, over
wi
milker directly nor ilidinctly, hes it any jurisdideosra
the African church is Med.—Toms faithfully,
," E. B. Pray."

DESTRUCTION OF THEEJL-(TH SHEFFIIS DAELT.D THEATRE
BT FL)

SEEEFEILD, SATURDAY Somme.

The Surrey Theatre was burnt down at half-peat
2 o'clock tale morning. A Knoll Ire bad been discovered is
Barden-street half so hour previously, sad the goyim had
been called out. 'The firemen of the Royal Fire Insurances
°employ's brigade were in the sot of backing their engine
into the Motion, whim a height light woe observed In the
direction of Weather. How keg the tbarkehad been homing
it le impossible to say, but when discovered the flames were
blazing through the roof, illuminating 'lithe neighbourhood.
The fire spread with frightful rapidity, threstealog to destroy
**entire ensue formed by Weetbm, Spriogatrest, Hier&
lane, and Workboomeroft. The flames had spread hum
the rear towards tha trotted the **hag, destrothe
least hope that say esesideeable poetise ei it could bred.
At the time I write, it is impala* to mate* whether

any lives bare been lost.
'rho entire building is destroyed ; the wills are hanging
over, threatening to fell. All the people have been got oat
of the summed's' houses.
The premises are ineered hi the Royal Oates.
Immediately on the fire being disoovered the Royal
amities were quickly on the spot, bat the times had
obtained each a bold of the building that it was quite
tespasibie to do anything to arrest their program Tits
tre•brigade, therefore, directed their amines to throw
harasses colonise of water on the adjoiniug property, is
the hops of preventing the WWI spreadieg beyond the
walls of the theatre.

THE PAIBUBS OP ATBANKTWOODS AND SPOONER'S

Yesterday (Friday) afternoon, says the Birming-
ham Daily Poet. **solicitors engaged la the mailegerosst
of the estate Sled a preliminary NM of auditors sod
statement of amounts. No fewer than 194
folios wows
oesupied with the list of creditors, and *wept than
there are few, if any &inmate .mosaics
3,5C01.. the an
rgof the names appearing for sums varying from
.°:ko 7001. It is difficult to form se accurate estimate
of the number of creditors, bot probably they will not be
mode6,ooo,The following Is the statement of amounts

filed :
CrtdU.ors fully accrued £68,686 311
Creditors on current sosoonto L27?,145 9 5
creation as inure* deposit ao-
°manta 708,812 11 8
Add estimated interest fees nth
Deornaber, 1164. to 1011 t March. 8,600 0 0
L 715,312 13 8
Creditors bolding Dotes who U. prreent