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

THE CASE OP ME. HOWES.

It will be remembered that the Rev. H. T. Howes,
curate of Bracknell, recently brought an action for libel
against a neighbouring tanner, in which each contradic-
tory evidence was given that the jury, without giving •
verdict, ware discharged. It appears that the scandal to
which this action gave ties has not subsided ; and the
reverend gentleman will now vacate his curacy, aciordiog
to the following correspondence published in the Guardian :
"All &iota' Clergy-house, July 8, 1865.
"Mar Lord Bishop,—Under a deep sense of my owe re-
spcneibility in relation to the church, and to the cure of
souls entrusted to MO at Bracknell, I now address your
lordship. My strong conviction and daterminatim has noon
that I should cootinue io my work there, and live down
the scandal ; but the peace of the parish, the state
of my health, and the future usefulness of my ministry
being considered, 1 have, after very anxious consideration
with my friends, decided to place myself in your lordship's
bootie, believing that you will direct me aright in the
course that I ought to take. Your lordship isbeady know*
after what deep and mreful deliberation I felt obliged to
go before • public tribunal to prove upon oath, in the
sight of all men, that the scandal which had fallen moon
me vim wholly untrue, and I still maintain it to be so.
After the trial your lordship suggested • ocreamillion, but
on farther reflection you considered it would be last not
to grant me one. I therefore now entirely place 'Nylon in
your lordship's hands, as already stated, and am willies to
abide by any derision that our lordship may came to in
to the matter.Tßelieve me your lendable' faithful ser-
vant, " EST TAILOR Howaa."

"July 13.
"My dear Mr. Howe,—l would net vainly bath kept
you a single day in suspense, but I ally yesterday, received
your letter, desiring my judgment, and saying that you
would submit; to it ; and yesterday was so entirely fillagl with
diocesan work that I could not write. I have deeply con-
sidered your cue, and I have conenitul with two of my
brethren on the bench upon it. I feel the deepest
sympathy with you. I believe you to be wholly inno-
cent of all' that is laid to your charge. I have
not the faintest shadow of a doubt of your entire
innocence; but I tbiuk that you have incautiously laid
yourself open to the gravest anspieioci. I believe that
good and honest men amongst your flock believe von to
be guilty. Nor do I pee any mode, after the falters of
your action, in which it i possible for you to establish your
innocence. I ant therefore convinced that you could not
possibly carry on your ministry at Braoknell with any rea-
sonable hope of sitcoms, whilst lam confident that. your
return there would at one cause scenes of tumult and even
violence, which would aggravate fearfully the existing
scandal, subject you and your ministry to insult of every
kind, and dishonour in you, and it, the apostolic Commis-
sion which you bear. I therefore unlnsai'ationly advise you
at once to resign that charge. I give the advice with great
paie, because I see teat your resignation may be taken as a
confe•sioo of guilt, which it iu uo way is ; hot the troth is,
that your moue is on every side surrounded with difficulties,
end I believe that the fewest attach to theignation. Ido
not believe you ev,r could is that place live down the
existing suspicions. I believe that in a new sobers your
real purity of life would be at oboe appreciated, end that
these foul aluminium, when not exasperated by • new
conflict, would in time die wholly out. The Bishop of
London, to whom I hove communicated the whole ease, is
willing at once to receive you into his diocese, and my ad-
vice is that you at once establish yourself there. My own
conviction of the correctness of this course is not • little
strengthened by my finding that one of your closest friends
agrees with me concerning it.
I can only add. tiny God comfort and support you
under this exceedingly heavy sorrow.—l am, ever yours,
S. Oxoi."

ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLESTRAIION....3I2..IIOd Mrs.
German Reed hays annonuc Al the urrisinatioo of their
season on the 11th proximo, when A Peculiar Palltll,l and
Mr. Parry's new song will be withdraws. On the 14th, the
Monday following, soother season of Opera di Camera will
commence with two novelties : An operetta called The
Widows Bewitched, by Miss Virginia Gabriel, will precede
an adaptauon of an opera by Offenbach. The popularity
of Offenbach is now greet in this country. and report
speaks of the forthcoming wit* as one of the happiest
productions of his rrelltle pen. The libretto under
the tit'c of Ching Chow Hi, or a Piece of China, is
by Mr. William Brough, wh, nes amusingly depicted the
terrors of • Scotcbrivin, mysteriously raised to ferment&
power in the flowery land, and who, haring to Laos a dorm
of rebellion which his 'gnomes of the native language
hes raised, wishes himself back in his own country
again. While the old favourites of last and former seasons
hove been retaioed, Mr. Iked has secured the services of
Miss Augusta Thompson and Mr. Warboy. The oompaiiy
will consist, in addition to these names, of Miss Henderson'
Miss Pitt, sod M 214114 Whdlia, Wilkinson, and Shaw.
THE QUEEN'S COLLEoE, ilutHlNuttAM.—At a
meeting of the council and the committees of council of the
arts and theolozicd departments held on Monday last ; the
Earl of Lichfield, the principal, in the chair— the Mayor.
the Venerable she Archdeacon of Coventry, she Hoe. and
Rev. the Rector of St. Phillips, the Dean of the Faculty,
the Sosior Physician of the Queen's Hospital, Messrs. J.
Suckling, Isaac Trow, Professors Clay, Chsmberlsis, John-
son, and Suckling being present—the Rev. T. E. Espin,
formerly Follow and Tutor of Lincoln Coilege, Oxon, and
Vicar of Hadleigh, was unanimously elected Resident
Warden. It was resolved to remove the theological depart-
meat from the t;reeoent to within the college walls, and to
Five increased facilities to junior resident medical students
to enable them to prepare themselves, wider the direction
of the resident medical tutor, for the arts examination vow
required by all the examining boards. At the same meeting
the principal submitted a financial scheme under which the
college may be made self-supporting ; his lordship-4 plan
was cordially approved. The appointment of Professor of
Medicine has been declared 'amok

Tug HONEY Haw= ow TM Bososes. —The
first gathering of the haw harvest—that obtathea from
white clover sad summer wild flowers—:a now being, made,
and is yielding the most satisfactory results. The de&
dency of wtite clever during the preceding summer, and
the rattier unfavourable rioters of the last heather season,
made it a matter of considerable ditlicalty with, some
bee•lreepers to carry their stock safely through the
winter, bat the hive that lived over to the spring of
the year have thriven sitenishiegly well, from the
remarkably fine weather experienced during the spring
and summer of the present. year. Owing else to
the propitious influence of tits weather, the. hives
have been singularly prolific. Virkin swarms, pperidly
rare, have !wee pretty eommoo, and in two lostanoes along
the Borders we base heard of five fine large swarms that
have issued from one hive—one belongiog to Ur. Taylor,
Soutbdean. near Jedburgb, and the uther to blre.
Maxwellheogb, near Kolar. The abundance of white clover
ibis year has 'Ambled beiakeepere to secure a plentiful
supply of flower honey, aid should the neither turn out
well this season, the retures will be such as to make the
year oe the whole a highly successful use to beeteepen,
and ceethessate this handsomely for she rather poor re.
suites of the last few years.—Scotsman.

MANSLArGUTER BY Ft1:1017S DRlVlNG.—Yester-
day, Yt. W. J. Payne. coroner, cosoluded an inquiry rela-
tive to the death of Thome. Nicholls, who was ran over
awl killed by a Hassan cab. It appeared that some time
since the deceased was returning with a party of friends
from a temperance lecture in laliegtoo, when upon croesiog
Spaeoer-street, Goewelbroad, • Hansom cab driven by
James Flack, and containing Mr. Myth, a licensed vic-
tualler, came along at a furious rate, and ran over
He was carried to the hospital, where he died from the in-
juries he received. Mr. iii)tb, of 63, Pitfield-street,
Hoehn, stated that the cab wss going at the moderate rate of
five miles an hour, sad that the accident arose through
the fault of the deceased ; but a number of witnesses do-
posed that the vehicle was going at the rate of 12 miles an
hoer. The driver, Flack, had been recently fined 3th. for
furious driving. The comer having summed up, the jury
returned a verdict of "Manslaughter serer dllOlllll Flack."
FATAL COLLIZRY ACCIDENT.-30 Tuesday even-
ing as accident occurred at the Whalley Pit, Wigan. The
shaft is about 214 yards deep, and, up to the presser time,
it has been the practise to tried the coal in baskets. Tne
proprietors, however, dogmatic :id to adopt the more modern
method of winding by hoer, pinned in • ttres tiered cage.
and to make the pit shaft 'liftable for this coodtterieg rods
had to be pot flows, and roared as tartar daturas to the
shaft sides by stays, Two men, Henry Fairhant. aged
35. bricklayer, and Peter Woodcock. 33, labourer, ware es-
gaged is this work, being suspended in the abaft ma •
reffoid attached to • capstan =drops. They were about
eight yards from the bottom of the pit when they became
aware that something was wrong with the brickwork above
them, sad fearing that the aides at the pit were falling,
sigealled to be wooed tip. The =a at the top Mebane of
the capsize heard the noel, and also became aware tram
the mole that wrasethieg was Wlirw and be immediately
went to the capers to wind up. Before, however be could
giro more than three or four turns, the falling bricks from
the pit skies, alighting on the ei:affold, proved too much
for the rope, wince broke, sad the scaffold sad the two un-
fortunate men fell to the bottom. Some boon alarmed
before their bodies were recoveroi, sad life was then gut*
extinct.
A FAIR Paola.—Recently a Chinaman brought
from the flowery land a wife accompanied by her maid.
servant—two very fair specimens of the reload-eyed,
sinall.footed feminine burettes of that weary. The maid-
servant baying base purchased in Chios,. the Chinese
husband thought, ow the arrival of the two ladies, that he
night fairly so well es justly put bee op to audio*, sod
if ear information i truthful, he realised 1201 lor what
be bad paid only about 101. in Chita. The happy pur-
chaser, tie receiviag delivery of his propesty, waded the
marriage rites of the Chinese jawbone, to We bpi rights,
sod took bore his newly-bought bride. We hear that the
lucky speculator and other of his come ryes** tared having
further eseeigmests. —Bead* (41satitlisi rtiturrirer,

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