The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-27 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL

SUEZ, JULY 26.
The steamship Bombay, from Bombay, July 9,
arriv.d late at 1 p.m. to-day.

THE AGITATION IN PRUSSIA.

It is stated that the events which have recently
taken place in Cologne have caused considerable
agitation throughout Northern Germany. One
proof of this was seen in the working men's meet-
ing held at Berlin on Sunday for the purpose of
insisting on the right of public meeting. Another
proof is to be found in the fact that
the three hostile political parties in CO-
lUglle, including the Mtramontanes, have,
according to the Berlin National Gazette, come
to an understanding with the view of acting
together in defence of the position taken up by the
liberals. It is believed that in other places the
S:11:12C course will be adopted. The government, on
the other hand, is determined, it is said, to put
i down with a strong hand all such demonstrations
as those which were to have taken place in Cologne.
The Indlpe,danee Beige refers in the following
terms to this subject :—" The events at Cologne
have caused a pain:al impression throughout Prus-
aia. The numerous workmen's societies have in
their tarn been excited by the elastic sense in which
the law upon associations is interpreted by the
I government. If the doctrines applied in this mat-
, ter at Cologne prevail over the text of the laws, no
meeting, no association whatever' would any longer
be secure against governmental interference ; all
the guarantees of legality and stability, so tweet-
sary in order that operatives' societies should ex-
, tend heir beneficial influence among the lower
classes, would be threatened with destruction.
' Rivalries and differences of opinion are disappear-
ing, therefore, before the common danger, and
people are rallying round the precious right con-
tained in the Prussian constitution of the liberty
of meeting and association."

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.. SOHTRAXPTO2I,
JULY 26.—Tbe North German Lloyd's stesmsehip America,
frost New York, arrived off Cow.. at 10.30 a.m. to-day.
She 'wisp 88 passenger, for Havre, sad 367 for Bremen ;
54 bags of maga, and 29.500 do's. in specie.. She left New
, York on the 15th July, .t 3 p.m., and darts( her pump
snafu .the following ships :—July 16, at 7.10 a.m. in
I 40 deg. 35 mis. latitude, and 70 deg. 7 minlorcit:tde,
Bremen stammer Hansa, westward bound ; July 16, at
10.30 LTC, in 40 dog. 37 min. latitude. awl a dig. ig
! onseitude, Bianca ship COIUMIntI, weetwerd bound.
Eloarrna FOR D181491E1 or TRH Hinz's' 67,
liasaanwe-wrassr, OATEIim SH-BQUER/1. —Us usage of
patient' reLieved during the past week was.l3B.

THE WB.SLEYAN CONPHABIVCE.

Tlie active business of this Conference now sitting ;
at Birmingham may be said to have commenced yesterday.
At the meeting of the General Chapel Committee, co 1,
Tuesday, Dr. Owner. the President, in the chair, the fol-
lowing was read in reference to the Building Department :
" 237 cues of erection have been sanctioned duce the last
Conference, vii..:-95 chapels, at an estimated cost of
118,090/. ; 22 school-houses. at • cost of 17.7204
75 enlargements and alterations, 30,443/. ; 26 organs,
at a cost of 3,613/. ; 39 modifications of cases pre-
viously sanctioned, involving an additional outlay of
14,243/. These amounts make • total of 184,1091. Of
the new chapels twenty-four are to be free from debt in
twelve months train the time of opening. No debt is to
remain on the schoolhouses sanctioned during the year
with one exmptioo. The total debt sanctioned on altera-
tions and enlargements is 5,2741., and all is to be paid off
within specified periods. No additional debt is incurred
by the introduction of organs. The total amount of tem-
porary debt on all the cans sanctioned during the year is
29,4741., being over 16 per neat, of the (satire met. This
per centage cootrasto favourably with former years. Of
this temporary debt, 21,3754 is on new chapels alone,
being over 18 per cent. on the entire outlay. From these
circuits the estimated income is 4,5101., nearly 3/ per
cent on the outlay, and over 18 per cent on the remaining
debt. The total amount of aid promised by grants io 47
cane b :—Grants, 1,745/. ; and lobos, to be repaid in a
definite term of years without iaterest, 1,9251. It appears
that since the establialunent of this food trouts in aid have
been given to 114 ones, &emanating to 4,0584 is greets, and
in loans to 5,5251. It is urged that the building-aid fund be
raised to 10,0091., as already more money has been promised
than the fund somata to. —2. Salsa ::0 trust properties
have been sold, 22 chapels, 8 •houses, or plots of ground.
Of the onions 20 Lave been replaced by new
chopls. —3. Erections completed: 223 cones have been
completed ; increase, 4. 142 have been completed &mord.
log to rule, 47 haeo not fulfilled the conditions, and 34 are
irregular, not bating been sanctioned. Thn entire mot of
all these CAM, regular and irregular, has been 206,32'31.
Increase, 72:2151., heiog a larger smou:rt than in any
former year by :18,8131. The temporary debt on all these
erections is 45,512'.. being over 22 per cent. on the entire
outlay. The grants in aid to trustees, which have been
paid, amount to 3,5601., viz, 460/. from General
Chapel Committee, 3.301. from Watering-places Chapel
Fund. and 2.750/. from the Metropolitan-Chapel Build-
ing Fond. Deducting these emotion, and the temporary
debt from tire total outlay, the result shows that no less
than 157,257/. have been raised by the contributions of
the Methodist people for chapel-building put poses, assisted
in many cases by the membara of other denomintiori,
who have thus shown a cathciliclty of sentiment and
action which the Crunexion gratefully appreciates." As
to " surplus income," it was stated that " tram three trusts
and local efforts 12,124/. 41. 31. has been paid off dorm;
the year. Also 1,434 chapels now contribute 12,542/.
Ids. thiL in Inwood of the General Circuit Funds. It thus
appeals that 37,4221. of debt iris been paid off during the
past year; and since 1854 no less than 546,853!. of debt has
been liquidated. The total ascertained outlay io the
building and relief departments dining the year is 243 751!.;
and of We amount 193,045!. has been actually paid by the
Connexion." On the motion of Dr. Hannah, the following
resolution was passed:—" That this meeting rejoices to
hear thatsanction brie been given to the erection or en-
largement of a great number of chapels and school-rooms,
and the acquisition of other trust property, during the year,
upon Condttious which afford ;mod reason to hope that these
undertakings will Mlle no embarrassment to trustees or to
the Coonexion." It was further resolved, "That, in the
opinion of this meeting, the time hos turned when some
portion of the annual income of the chapel food should be
applied to the enlargement of the erections loan fund, and
should thus be permanently used, under the direction of the
committee, to relieving the charge which would otherwise be
occasion-il by the temporary debt allowed to remain on new
amnia."
At the general meeting of the Home Minion and Contin-
gent Fund • report was read, of which the following
is an abstract :—" Since 1859, fifteen Home Misdon stations
having answered their purpose in raising congregations and
churches, have been satisfactorily merged into circuit ar-
raugeniente. This result is to be desired and expected as
following successful labour; and it is encooragiog that
several other stations will, this year, be similarly incor-
porated. In many of the cases now referred to ministers'
houses bare been provided ; and in addition to this accom-
modation to families, the Horne Mission Committee
sustain this year no lees • number than thirty-two
married ministers ; having also aided by grouts, since
187,8, in furnishiog fifty unnistsrs' houses. The coming
year will show an &drams In all these particulars.
Theme missions have encouraged or originated the build-
Mg of chapels, or have expedited it. Lest year it was re-
ported that 34 chapels had been so built, costinr 43.0001.,
and accommodating 14,500 persons. That number is now
increased to 41, costing 57,3631., and providing 13,040
sittings. Eighteen chapels are sew beirg built, to bold
9,890 persons, and coating 48,7231., some of them being large
and hateloome buildings. Four chapels are be iag enlarged at
• cost of 3,000'. The increase of members in circutts to
which home missionary ministers have been appointed is
highly gratifying. That inc,eass from 1858 to 1864 was 6,4(13;
this year the increase is 1,389, making a total of 7,352.
The annual 11110011/0 of the food has steadily increased. At
the conference is 1861, it was about 8,010/. more than in
the year 1858. This is a pleasant contrast to the state
of our affairs, when this committee not having any dis-
Sect ive aggrearve action, but straggling to conserve exist-
ing circuits, was 15,0001. in debt.. The present improved
income, however, is by no moans commensurate with the
claims made upon the methodists. nor with their ability to
meet those claims ; nor can our share of efforts to evangelise
the nation be undertaken or mantained unless the fund
shall receive a Inge annual augmentation." In a subse-
quent part of this report it was stated that, " during nine
months, from September Ist, 1864, to June Ist, 1865,
53,402 domiciliary visits have been paid, marry of them to
the sick and dying. These give at average of 742 for each
minister, and there is evidence that these visits have beta
painstaking and effective."
The election of the President takes place on Thursday.

CONVOCATION OF THE PROVINCE OF CILIUM-
BURI.—The Archdeacon of London has cited kis clergy to
inset on Wednesday pert, to elect two proctors whose
usmes shall be submitted to the Bishop of London, to
serve in the Lower Home of Coammation for the metro-
politan diocese. The Rev. Michael Gibbs, MA., WWII of
Christchurch, Seesaw-etre* and prebendary of St. Paul's
Cathedral, who bee been proctor since the death of Dr.
fd•Caul, will be put in 'muskmelon, and the names of
several gentlemen are mentioned as Use second which it
will be the duty of the archde•conry to return. The Arch-
&woo of Middlesex bee also oited his clergy to amenable to
elect two proctors for that division of the metropolitan
diocese. From the four gentlemen elected by the two arch.
deaconries the Bishop of hoodoo will select two to re-
present the clergy of the diocese in the Lower House of
Convocation.
ROYAL COLLIDE OF SUROZONS OF ENCLAND.—The
following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary exami-
nations for the diploma, were admitted members of the
College at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 26th
heat., viz. :—Messrs. Samuel Lialey Heald, Brighouse,
mar Nermaatoe William Unworn Goodman Hicks, Tod-
dingths, sear Dunstable; Bensjamin Cowing, Lowestoft •
Robert Henry Kinsey, Canterbury ; George Coops;
Sanders. Moulton, near Northampton ; Mamas Beck,
Isleworth, Middlesex ; Henry Robert Glover Rust,
Weatheridield, DOSS Braintree; Richard Kinnear, Wesece-
. super-Mar• ; Frederick Adolphus Hill, Wookev Sower-
mashies ; Richard James Andrews, Wiebeeoli, Cainbridge-
shire ; William Rutherford, Edinburgh; John TDOIC3S
Morgna,lAberysterith; (Bement Palmer. aaddisook Norfolk ;
Charles Lyddoo Exeter ; Henry Winked Brampton. Kest;
Arthur Richardson, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire; Robert
Elphiestope, Streatham, Survey ; John Albers Griodrod,
Rochdale ; Nathaniel Thomas John Heyday, Bovey
Tracey ; Henry Dense, Sandwich, Kent ; and Henry John
Branson, Sydosywtreet, Brampton.
LANCHAZI COMPANY.—The third ordinary
general meeting of the shareholders was bald yesterday at
the hotel, Laoghsco-place, Regent-street; the Earl of
Shrewsbury in the chair. Mr. Grant, the secretary, read
the report, which congratulated the shareholders on the
commencement of the business of the company toiler the
most favourable auspices. The hotel was opened upon the
12th of Jane last, and the busioess since the open-
ing had been of the most satisfactory character,
taking into cossideratices the unfinished state of a portion
of the buildieg. The capital account had reached the
&MOOD, of 268,4461. The chairman, in moms' tiro adoption
of the report, said the amount of beanies' done daring the
44 days the hotel had been opened had far exceeded the
anticipations of the directors, cad this, too, stases's° when
London bad been comparatively denuded of that class of
society to which they looked for support; but this night in
some measure be accounted for from the fact that the hotel
was a residential one, and on that they Odell, relied for
gnomes. The report was adopted. The retiring directors,
Sir James Carmithael and Captain Denoy, were then re-
elected, as were Mews. Galsworthy sad Wallikee as au-
ditors. A vote of thanks to the chairman sad directors
concluded the meeting.
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIZTT OF GALT BRITAIN.—

The followinga;;lieletes palmed the major etarnhaw ion as
the 19th ballast as pharmaceutical elimaists:—Chaidas R.
Amore, Hastings; George Frederick &adios. Leedom;
Henry J. Stough. Windsor • Frieda C. Clayton, Leeds;
Samuel O. Cox, Lelasster ; Oliver R. Dawson, Southamp-
ton ; Frannie W. Fitt, Bszklag ; William H. Harris, Read.
lng ; Arthur W. Hitcheick, Osfotd ; Frank Oldfield,
Dover ; Josiah Oliver, Tunbridge • Martin H. Parte,
Bridgwatim ; Wiest L. Steveues7o, Lemke ; Francs
Swift, Spalding ; Alfred Titular, Legge ; Joha A. Thomas,
Harrogate; Jame& Walnut, Kauntius ; William Wh74411,
bap=