The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-14 00:00:00

tweaty years. There is not eves the poor worthless
apology of time-lioneored parochial divisions to be
set up for the purpose of covering • continctaceof the
existing inequality. For the rectory of Sunderland,
with its miserable stuveling endownient,is,we are in
formed, a modern creation—an set of parliament
perish of only a century old; and it was carved out of
this very rectory of Bishop %smooth, from the
superfluous wealth of which we now urge the
proper parochial division of the town. Had then
so alteration been made in 1719, the town of Sunder-
land would at present hays ecclesiastically been much
better t fr than it now is: for on Bishop Wearmouth
the ecclesiastical burthen of two-thirds of the town
would have fallen. The measure, therefore, that we
advocate, is much more akin to the ancient condition
of the borough than that said to be in the Bishop's
contemplation.
Bathe proposal to confine the ecclesiastical improve-
ment to the division of the rectory of Bishop Weer-
mouth, instead of the parochial re-partition of
the whole town, is indefensible on this ground
alone—vie., that already the rectory of Bishop 'Wear-
mouth is, for practical purposes, subdivided. There
are, at present, no fewer than four chapelries, or paro-
chial districts in the rectory; one competently en-
idowed, two others fair iucumbenciee, and one very
'slenderly provided for, on the characteristic ground
that it is in lay patronage! Further subdivision is
not, therefore, required in this over endowed rectory.
It is the other parts of the town that so imperatively
call for re-partition and better endowment.
The local press of Durham in the Bishop's interest
exhibits symptoms that au episcopal appeal wilt be
made to the inhabitants of the rectory of Sunderland
proper to augment the endowment of the church
therein. Any such application, unless preceded by
the removal of the existing ecclesiastical inequalities
of the whole town, will be positively indecent. What!—
ask people to subscribe for church purF•oses. in one part
of the town, when they have been deprived of the
advantages of church property originally left for the
benefit of three-fourths of the town; and when the
church has the means already of fully performing its
duties in the whole town! The very notion is
an outrage on common sense. It could only
have emanated from a Churchman, and a bad Church-
man, too.
Nor can we, in the face of such a proposition, forget
that Bishop Wearmoutb, the richlt•endowed parish,
is the West end of the town of Sunderland • and
that within its bounds reside the wealth and gen-
tility of the borough; while in Sunderland proper
and Monk Wearmouth live the poverty and squalor of
the town, taxed by local rates almost beyond the
bounds of endurance ; and having scarcely the means'
of existence, much more fends to subscribe to Church
extension.
And to divert the attention of the local public from
the real question before them,they are liberally treated
to a leresiade on the tithes the church lost in the
parish of Monk Wearmouth (which, as our readers
know, is a part of the borough of Sunderland), at the
time of the reformation. Lost !—why the church in
Sunderland has enough, and to spare ; it needs no res-
titution of the lost tithes of Monk Wearmouth, to
enable it to effectually serve Sunderland ; all that it re-
quires is a right comprehension of his duties by the
Bishop of Dnaimi.
But what are the tithes lost by the church in Dur-
ham at the reformation in comparison with the Waste
perpetrated by the clergy in Durham since the refor-
mation ?
On this latter suNjent, however, public opinion in
Durham is beginning to be rowed; and in the Gates-
head Observer of last week (a journal which has
always been alive to its importance) we read a strong
reclamation against these malpractices and the ex-
pression of a firm determination to assist in restrain-
ing these misappropriations. The abuse is, indeed,
so flagrant, and the amount of ecclesiastical waste so
enormous, that the question needs but to be fairly
brought before parliament to secure the property the
Durham clergy have still left, to the church they
have been so long, and now are, plundering.

ANOTHER, added to the many instances of military
tyranny, perpetrated by the Earl of CARDIOAN, is de-
nounced even by the tort'. journals. They are indig-
nant at the colonel's treating his captain, the eon of
an earl, with most outrageous violence for the slight-
ed cause, and evidently with the intention of pro-
voking his inferior officer to some act by which he
might get turned out of the army. We have always
understooi the British army to be • school for gentle.
men; but ruled by such office!' as Lot dCARDIGAN, the
British army is a nrafession to which no gentleman
can demean himself. The conduct and language of
the colonel to the captain is that of a master to his I
valet. A brutal master he must be who could so
conduct himself to a menial, and a mean-spirited
valet must he be, that would submit to it. But the
Horse-Givards decides that British officers are to be
treated in a way that servants would be justified in
resisting.
It is not, however, the military question which mast
affects as, but the parliamentary one. This poor
captain, who has been treated first like a school boy
and then like a menial, and made to march oat
of a town behind his regiment, deprived et
his arms, offering the public spectacle of die-
' grace, is • member of parliament, one of the
representatives of the people, nay, the represen-
tative of that proud comiti•nency, a °meaty. And
we have not the last doubt that the great emu said
secret of Colonel the Earl of CARDIGAN'S
was, that be took pleasure in degrading,
mali-
tying and buffeting the county member. Every calf
was a slap in the face to that constituenc7—every
kick made impression on the mat of honour of the
Ratlandehhe squires and freeholders.
The people of England or of Rutlandshire have,
perhaps, little to do with the matter. The aristocracy
undertake to represent them, and dictate the choice
which they must blindly make. The farmers of Rut-
lendshirs were told to elect a lieutenant of hussars as
theitkette enlighten parliament on their agricultural
Interests, and the farmers obeyed. But surely when
the farmers were so obsequious as to name the
subaltern of a noble family, who had devoted himself
to the proisenion of the sword, and who
perposed swain parliamentary functions as
mere good. electors ought to be re-
in the ane of thew repressatatve. If they
do consent to abet boy to be their county member,
this boy ought at least to be sacred from the igno-
miny of the pedagogue's rod or the drillongeant's
cane. MOW perseen, pretested from the mauling
of hada!, ought also to be spared the insolence of
cobwebs
In memos resew, and for the country's dignity,
the position of member of the House of Commons
and subaltern otiose in a regiment ought to be
incompatible. We maintain a large fore% and
we are told that it must be large, in
order to garrison oar colonise and rear oaken
and soldiers in the practise of their
.prollsesles.
Of what use, then, are them prioilet regiments, the
end of whose military expense°, is 'tad to Windsor
and Hounalow—and whose duties are sought that, dour-

lag chi eir wen months, their officers can attend pa.rlia-
onentery recut-- all day and the house all night,
eeft fie the army estimates, which furnish fends
be the& own aiaasmes ? The hardship of this cam-
paigning is nodenit great ; for, although they face no
lantterteret encounter and put up with inso-
lence : they neat no enemy in the field, they
still most use the be et the colonel's tongue from
the head of the seee-table. They stand not to be
shot at, but to be snubbed—the hardship of which,
for a gentleman, is greater. And hence, no doubt,
their claim to half-pay and retiring pensions. For
the life of us, we cannot conceive how gentlemen can
bear all this from one another, or how the nation can
bear this from its gentlemen.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY, It ♦ N.

The columns of the joiinsal;OrtiiiiUOitiiOgere
principally filled with accounts of the flee of the con-
stitution of yesterday, the details of which I sent you
in my despatches of last evening.
The permanent committee of the departmental
moderate press, elected by the Congress of Tours,
having, u we have already announced, met in Paris,
has determined that it will recommend to the mem-
bers of Congress and its friends of the departTental
press the candidateship of Prince Louis Napoleon.
The National of this morning, under the head of
" Note eommuniquee" states that a great number of
representatives belonging to different fractions of the
Assembly met yesterday evening at the palace of the
iusemliy, and resolved unanimously that they would,
with • firm determination :o consolidate the esta-