The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-03 00:00:00

VACANCIES.

Barnardilton Rectory, Sulfulk, diocese of Ely ; value
191/. % • patrons, the representatives of the late rector, the
Rev. . Ellis, deceased.
Walton Rectory, Bucks, diocese of Oxford ; value, 2321.
and residence ; patrons, the repreeentatives of late rector,
the Rev. V. Ellis, deceased, and the Lord Chancellor.
NVool•tone Rectory, county and diocese of Gloucester ;
value, 1931. and residence ; patron, Earl of Coventry ;
Rev. A. Luders, deceased.

Lectureship of St. Martin Carfax, Oxford—city lecture-
ship patrons, tho Corporation of Oxford ; Rey. W. /tab,
resigned

UNITED SERVICE INnTlTCTlON.—Yesterday the
first lecture of the season was given in the hall of this insti-
tution. The lecturer was Major Adams, and the paper read
was On the guns and projectiles employed in the British
service." The hall was crowded with members and their
friends, the gallery being filled with non-commissioned
officers of the line and of the artillery ; and the fixture,
which was entirely of a technical character, was listened to
throughout with evident attention and interest. Major
Adams, to that practical knowledge which his position
attests, adds great lucidity of style, and clearness of arrange-
ment, and communicates his information in a manner to
render it attractive even to non-professional persons.
His essay on this occasion was a masterly review of the his-
tory of, and the latest improvements in, gunnery, which he
illustrated by references to models and drawings.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CI.XXVI
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5. S initary Movement —reutrill Potion.
6. Lir.. nt Cal% in. I r. ke.
7. Lord iternini-mucier.
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LONDON, THURsDAY, .4 Tit IL 3.

LORD STANLEY has been delivered of his long-
expected speech; and a less imposing, less expressive
manifestation has seldom been given to the world.
For sonic weeks the note of preparation has re-
801111dell in the Carlton. The "great conservative
Fatly" was about to do what it had done just tea
years ago--give a dinner to its chief by way of in-
augurating Is!forehand his assumption of power.
The same plate was secured for the scene. The same
rank and tile were expected to be in readiness fur
the occasion. The sante principles, or at least pro-
fessions, were set forth us those win's:, coming tri-
umph was to be by anticipation mlebruted. The
same sineerity of desire to turn out the Whigs was
manifested. (Inc thing only seemed wanting or
doubtful, namely, whether there was a leader as well
worth giving such a dinner to ?
Lord STANLEY, like all copyists, does not reali,e
the expectations of his followers. In his own indivi-
dual character few men are his equals. As chief of
guerilla squadron -as second in command to under-
take a flunk movement under the dimities of a cool
and steady genendissinto—as daring chnutpion of
some t'orlorn cause, where no mistake can is.s.ibly
entail any serious consequences to his usual allies—
Lout STANLEY stands utmost unrivalled. But to
form, to guide, to moderate yet withal to stimulate
the confidence of a great pun% is quite another thing.
And this is precisely what the head of the protve-
tionist lilOlColllcittS is CIIIitICIIOV 111011 tali tied to
Ile has neither the restraint over himself that would
enable hint to restrain others, nor that elo,r-sighted
faith in his own political creed that can stone win
and fix the intellectual reliance of his followers in
, him.

The assemblage, yestertlay, in Merchant Tailors'
hull, and the oration delivered by the noble guest
to his political hosts, sufficiently attest the tenth of
these remarks. Ten years ago, the same Lull was
filled by upwards of three hundred member, of the
House of Commons. Yesterday, there were but two-
thirds of thut number. On the former remarkable
ocetwion the guest was Sir Itoustui l'Ettt.. then in
the zenith of his fame as a sweet sstal leader and de-
bater, who had by slow but steady steps conducted
his party from the hack of the political desert
into which they had been driven by the
Reform Bill to the confines or the promised
land. The enthusiasm of that renterksble day was

the spontaneous and selrsustaincd confidence of one-
half the House of Commons, and of a vast majority
of the House of Lords, that the ohjert of their splen-
did compliment knew what they wished him to do
and how it could best be done. Nlisgivitut.; or his
adherence to the protCssions he had matey to than
there were none: neither are there now. But coati-
denee in his capacity, his resourves, his experience,
and his caution, there prevailed to an almo-t mire-
eedented degree. Does any human being believe that
similar sentiments are entertained towards hit

brava! and abortive imitator? The reserve of tone
which was recognised as one of the characteristics .ft
PEEL, and which simply had the effect of raising
still higher the ertdulous hopes of his'adhemnts, tills
the followers of Lord Sit.NLEY with doubts and dis-
may. PEEL was always mysteriumt as to what he
would do when called in ; that was his way, and
people said " how signitieunt " when he let tall the
most guarded expression. At the same phrase from
his frank and fearless suecessor, they only feel in-
clined to mutter " how ia-significant r y un-
derstood—or ut all events they fancied they under-
stood -Sir RottEter's elaborate poising of conflieting
interests and balancing of opposite eonsiderat ions ;
but having been subsequently taught to regard these
arts as part of the MIMS prcistred fiar their un-
doing as monopolists of the supply of food, it is
certainly not strange that they should fecl satlty
perplexed at hearing hint who taught them to wolf
at PEEL and to scorn everything like paltering with
the great principle of protection, come out with thu
very same sort of thing, only far less adroitly ar-
ranged and far less persuasively uttered.
Instead of leading them, or eves piending that,
he would speedily lead theta, to the assault, Lord S r t N-
LEI get about expatiating, in his after-dinner sisech,
upon the difficulties of tory government at all times
in a country like this, and upon the impossibility of
even attempting to displace their rivals until they
were ready to dissolve parliament. What does this
Mean ? Simply that inasmuch as protection dies
not count above two-fifths of the present House of
Commons as its votaries, and as the next dis-
solution has been solemnly declared by Lord
STANLEY to be, its last chance, his lad-
ship strongly recommends his impatient friends
not to be precipitate, lest Imply they throw
it away. After the finances fur the pre-
sent year are arranged, and the estimates all
passed, and the ordinary work of the session con-
cluded—why then, indeed, if the two houses shall
cont' •to sit, Lord STANLEY might not he abso-
lutely averse to fight a pitched battle for office more
antiquo. But as to anything immediate, not wand
escapes his lips that even Mr. Citioutik: FRE9I:I:IEK
Yoga, sanguine man though he is, could affect to
construe into encouragement.
If onmiudecd, the reins were surrendered to hint,
Lord STANLEY has no hesitation in saying that his
policy would be one—not of restored protection in
the farmers sense of the word—but of a earefid eon-
sideratiott of the general interest, with A
view to the promotion of the peranment
weal of the industrious class of all avoca-
tions : and that is all. Why there is not
an empiric that ever published a panacea for the
public ills—there is not u red-tape-ist that evil- jobb, d
through life under all administrations-them is not
a shuifier or a demagogue, an intriguer or a ftction-
ist—that could he named, who might not say all Lord
STANLEY bus said, with 'waist consistency and with-
out the slightest sense of rendering himself thereby
accountable.

A QUIETING address from the two archbishops,
and from twenty-two out of twenty-six bishops of
the Church of England was yesterday issued. It is
addressed, of course, to the clergy of the dioceses
only of the prelates whose signatures it bears. So
that, on a gnat emergency, the clergy of four aces
are excluded front the advice tenderea by a great
majority of the episcopal bench, and will receive
other counsels. Those dioceses arc Exeter, Bath and
Wells, Hereford, and Manchester. And, as they aro
presided over by prelates very different in principles,
in pulley, in practices, and in habits of Christian
courtesy and charity ; KO opposite, indeed, as to de-
stroy any notion of a common bond uniting Bishops
PUILLPOTTS and BACOT, with Bishops liturfot:s and
Liz, in their dissent front this address; it is reason-
able Wilder that even in the prelacy itself, there aro
two, and those two antagonistic, classes of objections
to the spirit, the tone, the temper, or the recommen-
dations of the manifesto.

In this great crisis of our church's history, them
are then insuperable differences of opinion amongst
its bishops. When unity, peace, and concord were,
above all things needful in its episcopacy, there arc,
on the contrary, fundamental varieties of thought,
convictions, and persuasions; when popery has com-
mitted a flagrant aggression on the:prelatical preteu-
sinus and rights of the church of Englund, not even
the dangers of its assaults can produce uuanimi,y,
so deeply seated is our episcopal discord; when a
mighty conflict of principles is tearing the church to
pieces, the instinct of self preservation cannot beget
common action about forma and ceremonies amongst

our. bishops. How idle then to expect peace in a: to all men," without, however, the Apostle's motive, I
church, Where there is not accord in its episcopacy! i" that some maybe saved ;" aiming only at keeping
The address signed by a majority of the prelates is a ricketty old church going, which Cdr. Geminates..
too patently, uliviouelv, plainly. a compromise. It himself sees cannot go on much longer, unless its foun-
Inters no deep convictions, proclaims no great truths, dation be relaid, and its portals be widened. By ap-
disclums no plain duties, advises in no tone of author proaching the Itoman communion, say the tracta-
Tay, and can command no real deep heartfelt respect rians ; by a new reformation, reply all true-hearted
or reverence. It is vague, unmeaning, deprecatory, protestants ;by keeping thimp quiet, simpers Epis-
t.
imploring, beset Thing, entreating. wheedling. It copacy ! lime and events show who is right
illusorily resolves the questions that plague the
church into matters of ceremonies and funns and
practices; and vet does not definitively, posi-
tively, certainly settle even them. It treats of
e observances" without stating what they are,
suggests canons for their regulation without
attempting to infuse authority into them; it
gives encouragement to those ecclesiastical preten-
sions on which excessive ritualism is founded, and
yet endeavours to controvert *he legitimate dedne-;
t b,n from such premise,; it adds to rather than dis-
pels the doubts that torment the clergy. lowers the
tone of duty Ow ecclesiastics. and refers all difficulties
to the decision of the bishops of the dioceses in
which they exist ; though their united synodical
wisdom has been able to settle nothing, or to decide
nothing. What a prospect for convocation!
If verbal hmnility.argumentative suavity,and com-
promising sweetness; if meekness, mildness, and
weakne could compose the peace of the church, the
nddn.s overflows with them. Years ago, when
l'usevism, ritualism, and nibrirism were nascent
novelties. : dre the world knew what was
behind them ; it was supposed that
carder, and de (dry, and wdenmity only were
aimed at ; when. in short. it was thought that taste
was at the bottom of the changes which the Bishop
of !amuse: then patmniscd, pinch an address as
this might have been tiwely and useful, and lulling.
But not now. The bishop, have- ullowed us to know
that gnat principles ate et stake; that the contro-
versy is not one uhout finins, but substance, is not
merely a dispute on ndirical obseivances, but on
endesmstieal pntensicais; is not an offensive argu-
ment about hoes and crosses, and choral services,
but a lire and death struggle us to the nature of a
priesthood, the chenarter or the chureb, the power of
the imentments, in fact, uhout the whole scheme of
revelation mid salvation. Such a matter is not to be
arranged by good advice about white surplices and
black gowns, about candles lit or unlit on the
communion table, about chunnting or singing, or
such other trifles in theme yes given in however
sweet n tone or however affectionate a temper. The
spirit or ;emery has gut into the Church of England;
and it is not to be; victimised thence by episcopal
rn-
tre•aties to the clergy to be cautious and inoffensive ;
it is not to he expelled by prelatical implorations of
sobriety and muelesty. An episcopacy which stood
at the demo politely inviting and bowing it in, can-
not allure it out by fine words and soft saying.,.
The objections then to this address are, that it
evades all the principles at issue, and dues not decide
on what it cartels to disemee the practices that have
proved so offensive. It preaches charity und caution
and prudence; hut in how narrow a circle' The ut-
most success that ran attend its recommendatinns
is. to make the Church of England hypocritical
in its services; and more sectarian than ever
in its dixtrines and ;wadies's. Never since the reit).
lution of Minn has there ht en so strong a desire on
the putt of orthodox pnaestants to live on term, of
unity and affection: to recognise each other its Will-
ISIS of that true church math; up of all good men; to
join in resisting a COMM al I'M-ray, and, without
laying aside their distinctive differenees, to treat one
another as brethren. as at present. But all this is
overlooked by the episcopacy : they ignore ullianem,
wed aim at conquests; they insidiously give their
otanctioic to pretensions that at once repel the ad-
vallll,4 of nonconformists; refer to the Reformation
as a it were a nwn; sessonlary incident in the history
of this country; Mime to pronounce the word pro-
testant, hut insist on rep attng the signitie ant terms
" the ancient naludic church," that being one of the
most oftiosive fiumular of the papistical party in the
English establishment.
About till this there is a blindness and a folly that
are most deplorable. Were the episcopate of the
chinch of England true in these days to pro-
testuntisui. if our lashons would only stand by those
great principles, the light of private judgment and
the ministerial character or ectiesiasties, w heel wcie
established at the Reformation -if they would but
turn aside hum the ailment-tots, the frippery. and
the mental debasement of isteerdotalism —lf they
would mimeo* to place the churdi or England on the
founduti ~,, or utility, instead of carrying her aloft
in the clinels of authority—they might lw the most
powerful and influential body in the kingdom. But
thie is Lk ruin CX,ll4.l4atiOn ; and we huve ourselves
to blame that it is so. We have corrupted epis-
copacy with wealth. and pomp. mid power; we
have given to it political privileges, social distinc-
tion, immense patronage, sphodid residences, and
lordly onvesuni; we lime clothed it in purple and
fine; linen; soul we must take the consequences. What
wonder if men thus suddenly elevated, thus inordi-
nately endweed with authority, and poser and
tie-hem; having an army or clergy at their back, re-
sponsive to their smallest wish, and living in a
muddy that alusat adorns their Ake—What sal,
prise. if men. so misused by their fellow-creatures,
bdieee in apsitolical sueeession, in episcopal autho-
rity as id' divine (origin. have doubts of salvation out
of the pale or their own there-h. regurd dissent as
schism. and schism as sill !at wonder that they
are sectarian in their objerts. exclusive in their
habits ; narrow, bigoted. and intolerant in their
thoughts! What wonder that they look with dislike
on vonnitary ninuonfiamism, and with favour on the
principle of authority as OM 6,411 in popery ? We
can't hail deify men. and flu n expect them to walk
the earth ne ordinary mortals.
Ecclesiastical refornt is iiiscparable from religious
minty and protestant NVeulth corrupted the
Homo& church ; and Wealth has corrupted the Eng-
lish church. Tlx system of church " pilees " reduees
a dirgy to a profeesion. instead of being—what
gion demands—a emotion. It Was but the other day
we to lin a contemporury journal the following ad-
ve ioement :
A 'alit itik provincial advonaon and nett presentation to
a .inevure rvetory to void. 1i1t...0w '25'11.: age of
pn tut
int umlwad 7t. rarer is nn , her. h, no ottebr, rem duty. nu
p.ttisr pvtolat:ol,, no jar Ater!. For further cortimilus
amity to M,sara. Beal, Lind age nu, 11l H.
The Kile of a spiritual olice is under any dream-
armee, an outrage un ; but, where would its
sale be itcommendiel the grounds that '• th,re is
rims shot-A.lOO ylehe, 11.0 sinhe, oo pauper prthltnoo, no
ju.ur's mete in an establishment of which the
primate had 15,000/. a year. with two palates, and
its ordivary pedal's from 1,2001. to 5,000'. a year
each, with letronitil nmidences ? Such a secoulal
to this in no fraud: fur the parish in question is Soch
I kinds in the dbxese of the tractarian Bishop Beearr ;
llw nullifier of parishioners is 11 ; church there is
none, duty none, paupers none, service none. visita-
tion mine. All that the incumbent has to do is, iu
the name and on behalf or the Christian religion, to
take 2171. annually : fur that privilege, after the ,
death of the incumbent aged 7-I, the patron now asks
the modest sum of 1.1001.: and. as regularly us the
ninecurist in posseseion bennues old and infirm, this
benefice is sold. This, me repeat. could only occur in
a dituelt wlene epee-opal rulers were themselves cor-
rupted by wealth.
A reform in church tempwalities is, then. the best
temporal detente for potestantbon; fur then an
union with dissenters in the common CIIINC will bo
posaible; and at last even the- Murniv Humid con-
ferees. in an article model ate and tenmerate in spirit,
And :RIM ilabk in object, that it has "greater hope
fur the church when we look to the large noncon-
formist body, than when we turn our senainy to the
establishment." So have all reflective churchmen;
and that reeling will be strengthened by this present
exhibition of episcopal weakness.
It is in vain that protestautism or religious liberty
turns to the prelacy of the church for support and
assistance. At lsst our bishops attempt only to tide
over difficulties and to quiet apprehensions. Enough
fur them and for the-ins, if they can pass their own
episcopate pleasantly—if the church lust their time.
The future is left to arrange its own affairs; to meet'
its own fate. All parties ill the church are in turns
conciliated; none satisfied. The laity is perplexed
now by this episcopal freak, then by that ; untel,with
Pii.e're it begins to inquire - What is Truth?" And
now, at lust, we have au address which, aiming chiefly
at allaying the fears of the evangelicals, ends by ex-
citing hope* in the tnictitriaus that if they will
be quiet for the present hereafter, the bishops
themselves will head their rebellion in favour of
" the frue spiritualfrecdum qt. Ow church." Thus go
on our English bishops, like PAUL being "all things

FRANCE.

PARIS, WarixesTAT Evrmao.
Thin afternoon a conference took place in one of
the committee-rooms of the Assembly between M.
Thicrs, General Belleau, and in general that section
of the Assembly under the lead of M. niers,
which is most hostile to Louis Napoleon.
The object of this conference was thoroughly to
sift the reasons why the negotiations with M. Gallon
Burrot to form a definitive cabinet had failed, and
in fact to sit in judgment upon the latest proceed-
ings of the Elysee. It was the general
opinion at this parliamentary meeting that
I no serious attempt had been made by the President
to conic to any definitive understanding with M.
Barret, and that the whole negotiation had been o
mere "sham," to bring back MM. Baxoche and
Fould. After they had been sitting for some
time a message was sent by M. Thicrs to
Odilon Ilarrot, requesting hint to make his amvar-
ante before the meeting, and explain the reasons why
his mission to form a cabinet had failed. M. Barrot
at once repaired to the room, but I have not yet
learned the result of his communications.
The Constifittiontie/ states that there is not a word
of truth in the report that the failure to form a
cabinet lias resulted from the inacceptalde conditions
proposed by the President, nor will it. on the other
hund accuse M. Barret ; but the difficulties have been
created by the recent schism of the majority.
The future cabinet's mission is to reconstruct a
majority out of several parties, nod to find
nine men consenting to sit at the same council
board who command the confidence of various shades
of the Assembly is no ease mutter. Nevertheless
the " urgency of a solution" is such tied secondary
differences ought to vanish before the pressing need
of a goveniment prepared to settle the great ques-
tion. The 04140060mnd winds up with saying that
the negotiations which have been renewed will no
doubt have a more prompt and happy issue.
M. Bombe is now the person charged with the
tusk of forming a cabinet ; and he is said to have
made yesterday and tteday great efforts to bring
übout u union between the legitimists and the club
of the Rue des Pyramidcs. M. Benoist crAsy,
the legitimist rice-president of the Assembly, is
mentioned a. the probable Minister of Commerce in
the cabinet new in the process of formation. Other
names are in circulation, but it would be premature
to give any list. Meunwhile, the greatest irritation
prevails in the parliamentary party at the alleged
obstinacy and arrogance of the President. in thrust-
ing back upon the Assembly a Pould-liaroche
ministry, which they have already branded by a
vote of censure.
The Assembly continued to-day to debate the
amendment to the sugar bill presented by M. Beau-
mont (de la Somme). The first part of the amendment
was adopted ; the second was referred to the com-
mittee, and then the sitting broke up. M. Thipin is
preparing to retire to his country house in the Nievre.l
The bureaux were renewed to-day. Eugene Sue
wax appointed president of the 11th.
The committee on the bill relative to the conces-
sion of the service of the Mediterranean picket boats
assembled yesterday. A report from the sub-cone
mittee was read, recommending the maintenance of
the existing service with the addition of a new line.
for communication once a month, between Constanti-
nople and Alexandria, by the coasts of Syria. Some
members proposed to unite to the Malta line the two
services of Alexandria and Constantinople ; but the
committee rejected the proposition. • Little
opposition was made to the project for uniting
Constantinople and Alexandria. The question
was raised whether it would not be advisable to
make the line to Italy a separate thing, and to eon-
cede the other lines to different companies; hut the
committee decided it in the negative, on the ground
that if the more profitable ports of the service were
taken from the contractors they would require larger
subventions. Some members dwelt on the danger of
creating a monopoly in favour of one company. The
majority of the committee, however, declared itself
favourable, under present circumstances, to that
arrangement. It is supposed that it will come to a
formal decision on the whole matter ut its next

sitting.
The rowiehttionnel gives the following details of
the tire at Lyons :
The fire broke out between eight and nine o'clock in the
eveniog of the 3lltli, on the fourth floor of the house at the
corner of the Port 'it. Clair, in which are the bureaus of
the rr,•irer-gener..d of the Paris and It von- Itailway and the •e
of NI. Etienne Gautier. Fort.° hours hopes wen• eon wained
of le•ing stile to confine the fire to the floor in which it first
broke out; wham, was placed on the solidity of the build-
, ing to save nut Indy the floors above, lint also those below
it, but suddenly the HMO{ furred their way through the
stories above, and, a hunting beam falling. went
through the lower ones, and communicated the fire to those
also. In a few minutes the whole building was one mass of
lames. The wind, fortunately, blew from the north, and
the sparks Hen towards the river, otherwise the whole of the
bosses on the Quai St. ('lair would have hero in danger.
The house now destroyed was one of the finest and best
isonstrueted in I.yons ; all the staiwica s Wee of stone. From
the idea that was at first entertained, that it would have been
easy to have confined the tire to the fourth flour, the minis
and the other important documents of the office were not
removed The portefeuille alum, as being more portable,
was saved.
In the night of Saturday last, as the mail cart
which runs from lledons to Urdu's was on its way,
the driver found the road obstructed lee a carriage ;
all the driver's cries for it to get out of the way
were unavailing. and he was at length compelled to
alight and use the cause, when, to his surprise, he
found the carriage was one which he had seen leave
&dons three hours before, driven by a Spanish
servant, and conveying a young man of Eygun to
Oleron. The veltiae Witt empty. Feeling assured
that some accident had occurred, he went to a pub-
lic-house near and procured assistance, and by the
light ut• some torches they found a pool of blood
near the carriage. and in a dit.h by the road side
the bode of the young man, with his head almost
severed from his body. The Spanish servant had
disappeared. The police immediately went in search
of hum, and arrested him near the frontier. On being
brought before the authorities at Across, he confessed
that the young man had met his death from his
hands, but that he had killed him in his own defence.
The wounds ott the body, and the fact that the Spa-
niard had not a scratch, rendered this account impro-
bable, swine was in consequence sent to prison. In
his pocket was found some of the property of the
deceased.
The funds were stationary. The news that the
committee of the settlement of the debt had ratified
tho last clauses of the bill of the Spanish go-
vernment chceked the downward tendency of Spanish
scr•urities.
A great number of the inhabitants, shipowners,
merchants, mid manufacturers of Rouen have ad-
dressed a petition to the Assembly demanding a re-
duction of the duty upon English coal. which pays
sfr. 50c. the thousand kilogrammes ; while Belgian
only pays lfr. 6.5 e.: and Prussia, lfr. Vic. This
differential duty raises the price of English coal 40
per cent. fur the inhabitants of Rouen.