The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1846.

the Martinis of Londonderry's house, under which a drain
runs. Ihe pioneers, however, are to be provided with
trams, should they be found necessary ; but the precautions
fur guarding against any stoppage or accident are so ample
as to leave little room for apprehensions on that snore. On
the arrival of the car at the arch, the Life Guards will form
a circle, within which the remaining portion of the
procession will be received; but it is not anticipated
that the attempt at rei•ing the statue will be
made immediately on its arrival ; that probably will
be proceeded with on the following day. The procession
starts trom Paddington at ilk o'clock, and should no unfore-
seen delay, from accident or otherwise, take place, it is
expected that the ceremony will be concluded by 12 o'clock
at the dates. The Cnief Commlsioner of the • Police has
issued iuetructions to the different sections of that farce to
furnish a quota of 111C71 for the purpose of preserving order
amongst the crowds that may very naturally be expected to
be collected to witnes the procession.
VicromA PARE.—The operations for planting have
been actively recommenced, and it is anticipated mat the
whole will be completed before the termination of the coming
spring. In its present state, the park retains all its attrac-
tions with the East-enders, encl the average of vi-itors has
for many Sundays past execoled ten thousand. The gates
at the entrance in Boner's Fields having been placed up,
all pereone are excluded at night, except those passing through
on business or residents, a night park keeper being stationed
for the purpose. Building is gJing on very actively and ex-
tensively in the neighbourhood.
ANOTHER RISE IN TIIE PRICE OF BREAD.--Yes-
terd..y the bakers increased the price of their bread in several
pare of the metropolis. The price of the 41b. loaf was in-
creased to ciehtpence halfpc nay.
131:1tGLARY IN OXFORD-STREET.—Between half-
past eight and half-past eleven o'clock on Sunday morning
• some thief or thieves, by mans of a picklock key, entered
the shop of Mr. Millard, optician, No. 3:15, Oxford-street,
and stole property to the value of •.bove 200/. The adjoin-
ing heusa at the corner of Argyll-street. is a coach booking
office, which was open ut the time, and yet the burglars
were not observed. Mr. Millard lett the premises shortly
before eight o'clock, to eo to his house at Islington, and was
at church when he reel iced information of his loss. Two
trays of silver and solid gold spectacle frames were emptied
of their conten:s. On the silver epectablee is the maker's
name, " Punts a," by the Hall-mark " J. M."
DielCEsTe.— DE tTII FROM FALLING INTO THE
WATEL—At the Lord Hill, Wharf end-rout, Paddington,
by Mr. Mills, deputy coroner, on the body of William Loder,
agerlis4, carpenter, of Nightingale-grove, found
drowned in the Grand Junetiaa Canal, l'adgton. It
is supposed that the deceased fell in wale in a state of intoxi-
cation, ant as he was passing under White's-bridge, which
was described by witnesses as a dangerous place to even a
sober man. The jury returned a scrawl of—" Found
drowned in the Grand Junction Canal, near White's-bridge,"
and attached to their verdict —" That the place is exceed-
ingly dangerous, and it would be advisable for the Canal
Company to devise such precautionary means as would pre-
vant accidents there in future."

A FATAL AFFRAY took place at liarefleld, within
fine miles of Uxbridge, on Saturday morning, between two
men name James Carpeoter and Wiliam Norman. They
were canal boatmen, and on their boats arriving at the
llarefie:d luck of the Grand Junction Canal, Carpenter was
rent forward to get the gates opened, which he did not pe.-
form to the satisfaitiou of the uth:r, whi complained of h s
neglect. Words custard, and words led to blows. The) then,
accompanied by the lock-keeper and U- orge Norman,
the captain of the boat, brother of William Norman, went
into a fhld to fight it out. After hitting at each other a
quurtcr of an hour, William Norman sank down, and com-
plained he was dying. Benre medical aid could be procured
he expired. ilis bro Vier, who had b. ea as assistant at the
fight, and Carpenter were both apprehend:el, and examined
yes:erday, at 1.. abridge. Jordan, the luck-keeper, not being
present, the others were remanded. Norman was ROM-
quently permitted to go at large, on bail, to conduct his barge
to its deaination.

THE MOON, LORD Rome, AND IRISH DISTREgs.
—A
correiposadent to the longing Herald auagotta that
a map of the appearance of the 111 ,on from Led Rosse's
tele,cope, sold at the price of one shilling, w, ted produce a
v..ry large sum of anom yin a short time. This suut he pro-
a.o.es to apply to the lroh relief fund.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CIIISEL.—A Greenock print
declarvx, concerning a certain Perth sculptor, that he "has
spoken in Aix works, to the univer,al sympathies of a nation
—no: a touch of his chisel but has subsequently touched a
heart." _ _ -

THE "TIMES" AND "DAILY NEWS." Sir, I
have observed with considerable interest the controversy
between you and your contemporary, and as 1 have,
in common with many of my ueighhours, a personal in-
terest in the controversy, I tun inducl 1 to trouble you
with a few observations. The Times, and his Sancho
Parma, the " Cato" of Cornhill, talk about the practicability
of publishing adaily paper at twopence-halfpenny. Now with
aU deference to such high authorities, I think that is a ques-
tion which may safely be left to the op: ration of time. Is
these days of progresion, it is not safe to predict that certain
things cannot be lane. Experienve has disproved the final-
ties of army philosophers, and this should induce caution on
the part of contemporary oracles. Napoleon laughed at
steam-boats, and Scott at gas; and alth..ugh I am far from
saying that such noted examples should be quoted as reason•
for universal credulity, I have no hesitation in averring that
in a matter or mercantile capability (for into this it resolves
itself), the only test is experiment. "It can't he &me,"
says the Times. .‘ It is doing," says the copy of the Daly
News on my breakfast-table this morning. " But it cannot
continue to be done," adds the Times litre the ground is
changed, and so changed, that I cannot take the ipie dirit of
the Times as a conclusive settlement of the point, and prefer
waiting on Time, the great arbiter of all. Meanwhile, there
is imother question about which there can be no doubt, viz.,
the desirn'ileness of having a daily newspaper at one-half of
the old price. In my own case I could not, i•efore the ap-
pearance of the Daily News, afford to take in a daily paper,
and I know many of my friends who are in the same posi-
tion; and therefore it is manliest, our interest to give the
plan a fair trial. If it succeeds, we are the gainers; if it
fails, then farewell to our daily paper. Under the 01l
r,yinie, the u' must that my frii ads and I could accomplish
was a thrice-a-week paper ; and here the difference contrasts
strongly :
Gfaspor Coetrier, or Ediabarjli Courant, three times a
weth
3.

Noes, six times a week
Thus, for • mere trifle above my old thr ce-a-week
expenditure, I have been enabled to command a daily
paper. I have gut accustomed to a daily paper, and
I can assure you that I shall feel very awkward without it,
should the prAlietion of the Tins-s unfortunately turn out
cornet. I have consulted several professional men, and
they all concur in soyiug that, properly advertssed and cir-
culated, it is write p iseible to produce and continue a daily
paper at your price. The success then, not only of the
experiment, but the permanency of the paper, depends
entirely on the public. That they teish it, there can be no
doubt; and the only thing else requisite tc commend success
is that the public nil it. Let every reader of your paper he
duly apprised that the 'access of the undertaking depends
on his continuance personally and his aequisiti in of other
readers, and I will hazard weirdship with the Times.—
Yours, A &corm/cc—Glasgow, Sept. 25, 1846.
Tile DAILY NEWS.—Sir : You have made one little
mistake in your calculation ; you say you produce a news-
paper at half-price. Now, I aft .m, the Daiiy News at 21d.
is less than half price of the other papers fur the penny
stamp must be deducted first, the remainder being the actual
price; this makes the Times 44., and the Daily News only
lid., so that you ought to raise your price to Id, to make the
thing right. —Cot:Kett. [Our correspondent is thanked for
his suggestion, but we have no such intention.]
POST-OFFICE DELIVERIES. Sir : You mention
in your paper of yesterday. that a series of post-office im-
provements will shortly be adopted, so that letters and papers
to and from the North of England, Ireland, &c., will be
accelerated. Now this is all very good; but is nothing to be
done fur us poor unfortunates who reside within aaund of
Bow bells ? A London morning *paper can be obtained in
Brirliton, Birmingham, and I believe Bristol, long before I
could get your paper, although residing within four miles of
the General Psat-ottice. Your. paper arrives here daily at
twelve at noon by the hands of the postman. Can you do
nothing towards obtaining a delivery of letters and papers
within the bids of mortality by nine o'clock, enabling my-
self
and thousands similarly circumstanced to get a glimpse
of the "Daily" or any other " News " before commencing
the business of the day. By so doing you wou'.d confer an
obligatim upon the public, and the resalt would doubtless
be profitable to your concern, by enabling very many to
indulge in • luxury from which at present they are debarred.
ure, &e., 8., Stoke Newington.
THE CHELMSFORD DINNER—Sir: Permit me to '
call your attention to that part of your report of the dinner
to Lerd George Bentinck, in this town yesterday, wherein
vou speak of the " value of competition,l' and say that the
*dinner was " arranged, prepared, and served by the rival
establishments of the Saracen's Head and Black Boy inns."
I had the sole management and arrangement of the dinner,
my much respected " compcti•or " having had nothing
whatever to do with It.—lt. SILVESTER, Saracen's Head
Hotel, Chelmsford.
LORD HAWARDEN'S ESTATE.—Sir,—Your, paper of
the 15th inst., just come to hand, contains the fol-
lowing
statement " There have been more outrages
(says our correspondent), on his lordship's estate,
in Tipperary, than in half the country besides." As
resident magistrate of this district, in which Lord ,
Ilawarden's estate is situate, I feel it to be but my duty '
to state, that sir.ce I have had the honour of holding her
Majesty's commission in this county, and of discharging the
duties of resident magistrate, there is no part of my district
so orderly and peaceable as that comprising Lard Hawarden's
property; I can speak for the last two years and upwards,
and assert that there have not been any serious outrages on '
his lordship's estate. The usual petty offences that come
before the petty sessions (similar to those in the other parts
of the district) occur in this locality ; but, speaking gene-
rally, the tenantry arc quiet, industrious and respectable.
Constant employment and good wages given by his lordship ;
the uniform attention of his agent, who discharges the
duties of his office and that of a magistrate with ability and
kindness ' • tend to produce this state of things. And now
that his lordship's other avocations permit his return to
reside at his scat, the beet results may he anticipated.
Already I am aware that his Lordship, at a considerable
sacrifice (in order to promote the employment of the people)
has arranged with the directors of the line of railway from
Dublin to Cork, so that the works will immediately be pro-
ceeded with. As it is not true " that there has been more
outrages on his lordship's estates in Tipperary than in half
the country" besides, I hope you will do me the justice (as
having charge of the district) to insert this letter in your
respectable and widely-circulated paper, as, from what I
know of noble-minded Eoglishmen, they would never be a
party knowingly to give circulation to that which was not
founded on fact. I have seta the Dundrum labour-book,

and find 133 labourers in constant employment, indepen-
den'. of those on yearly salaries. As to his lordship's
rents I know nethiug ; but one thing aPF'arb plain to com-
mon sense, that if the landlords of Ire knd (sr England
either; do not get their rents, they cannot pay Vat it labourer,
and dependents, or engagements.—Citant.ss Ile r, Ita..sident
Magistrate, Tipperry.
ETON COLLEGE, SEPT. 28.—The result of the sixth
examination fur his Royal Ili.;linese Prince Albert's annual
prize of 501., pre-ented to the college for the promotion of
the study of muster° languages, was announced by the Rey.
Dr. Hawtrey, this day, at noan, in the chambers tit' the head
=stir. examination,Tlie which commenced on Monday
last, embraced thn French, Gerinan, and Italian languages,
in each of which first and second prizes were awarded to the
succes4ulcompetitors. In the French class (M. Taryee's) there
were 12 candi late., the examination being conducted by M.
Raymond de Vericour, of the University of France, and
late pridessor at the Royal Athenirum in Paris. The first
prize was award," to Bynz, ma., and the second to Foster.
Boileau and Barton, ma., wore " bracketed" as equal in
point of merit. The compnsitions in prose and verse
(especially some verses on the dying gladiator) by the
prizemint, Byng, were peculiarly remarkable for their
purity and ele4anca. The whole of the candidates
were highly complimented for their excellent style of
pronunciation. In the Gerrna t Clans (Mr. Schuneir-
tedes) the examination was conducted by Dr. Berney.,
German profs....sur at King's College, London ; there bran
eleven competitors. The first prize was awarded to Parker,
and the second to liartan, ma. Stratton, Wheatley and
Byng, ma., were repotted as having highly distinguishes'
theruwlves. lit Sistuor Piceiliani'a -Italian class% the first
prize was awarded to Boileau, and the second to Bradshaw,
K.S. There were only eight competitors for the prizes in
Italian. The examinations in the French and German lan-
guages were considered to be particularly creditable on the
part of the youthful candidates.
TUE VACANT BISIMPILIC.—On Thursday last the
Bishop of Bangor commenced the triennia: visitation of his
dicrese at the Cathedral, Bangor, upsn which occasion nearly
the whole of the clergy of the deaneries of Arfon and
Arllechwed wi re ass-tuuled. The recent demise of the
Bishop of St. Asaph, and consequent breaking out anew of
the Bangor :and St. Asaph controversy, with the general
incertitude respecting the surviving bishop's present
views. as to whether he would or would nut take upon
him the duties of the unit n 1 sees, combined to invest
the charge about to be de:iyered with more than ordinary
inter, st. ills Lirdship, it appears, will be no party t the
union of the sees. In the course of his charge to the clergy
he said:

I began my last address with stating to you that the question of
the future union of this and the neighbouring diocese, which tad
attraated much attention, awl excited considerable interest, was then ,
iu suspension. That question is still tructtlel. I need not report to
you what took place in two toniier wiasions of parliaineut. nor remind
you of the circumstances uaat.r woieh our hopes were theatrics:l-att..;
but during tire lust ssoion a bill for math ing her Majesty to mite t
provision for preventing the union of them sees passed the House of t
Commons. 'lucre it woe dropped for the pressit, the noble lord at
the bead of her Majesty's government hiving tin lertaLen to give the "
ounition his full consicieratioti during the prirogut Ott of parliament. '
friends of oar cause In the Home of Commons appear to tank '
upon this arrangement as favourable to our wishes, and though
I am by no means wet mine in my hate at tenets., and
should be sorry to linsaval you into expectations which
might end in doappointnient, I will not despiir of those anti-
dilations being realised. To the noble lord who lox had the charge
on this measure, and has curried it ou during a writs of years with so
much ability, zeal, and perseverance, we owe a ale op debt of platitude.
*Midis" as his oven °Minim of the question has always been, he would
not have talon it up nor pernevg..ol in tolling the attention of the
fluter of I. trds to it, in debater of diwititragemeut and defeat, if he
had not know n that he was adtpting and olvicating the feelings and
opinions of a great majority of his countrymen. Whatever may he
the issue of hi+ exertimo, I hare a.n doubt that you will have your
cause in his Winds with lull and unsliritiking conlidence. When
the W.:strt of the Cimmissioners of liticksi ottical was laid on
table of ths two Houses in and the brit far carrying it into
effect was in preparation and in terries, my right rev. ana lamented
friend 'whom It bath pie.ised (hal to call to himself; and mysett wire
convinced by the tune and temper of the 'louse of Lords. when sundry
provisions of tit it till were incilleutally brought under discussion., that
any attempt at that time to oppose the part of the measure which
affected our own dioceses would he fruitless. We therefore quitted
London before the bill was sent up to the House of Lords, where it
passed, andsoon afterwards resolved the royal assent and became 'tart
of the law of the hind late in that sesisivm. that my view of the wisdom
and expedien .y of the provision ot the aft trio always bleu the same.
Some as you may retuonitir that I stated to yua toy opinions oil the
sub,ect in the year when I met you for the tint tune altar the
passing of that oat. You will, iterhaps, excuse use if tqude a few
benUltero from the earn which I then delivered to you :
'I cannot, I e totem, eiscover any IMO I reasats for the sup.
pression of ancient we, in order to make room for the erection of
new bishoprics. The proportion nhieh the bench of Inshore
now betas to the whole peerage is so small that the addition
of one or two indtviduals to their nutober could alird nojust ground
of jealousy or suspicion. The union of this mut the adjoining see,
tilebiLive hart a separate existence for so many centuries, het n ttii•
rally omioloited great dioatesfaction in this part of the principality.
1 feel much dislike to a ,leenie which sae- nits-. to a supposed expedi-
ency the independenee mid honour of these very :mood Oct'..
it must be acknowledged that it is a scheme at v inanee with the
pendia. of the ancient Catholic Church, which dee"..all it nottar of
wisdom and Hnind policy to inerraw rather than to diminish the num.
her of its bishoprics.' The bishop neat drew the attentiou serf the
clergy to '.tn Act for regulating the Cathedral Chun-hes of Wales,'
and which received the royal listens in August, lath, by which it is
provided that the chwher i,f lkingur shall eonsiot of a dean anal four
canons residentiary, two of whom :.re to be the Archdeacons of Itatague
and Iferioneth, with incomes of 3101. u year, payable Ind of the funds
derived from the mingle, revenues of other chnoters, and vested in the
Welesiaontal Commissioners. These endowments haat:been retorted
in the course of tha deb des in poll:intent as tortuitig ml adspote
compensation for the Woof a bishop. To tin. opinion I cannot aossle,
nor do I think taut you will be iiisposol to ack.nowlslge its cogency.
It must be admitted that this arrangement is a great iniproVraient to
the scheme contained in the report at' the commiseihncrs. It is, how-
ever, a loon which we neither sought tug desired, whilst the nume-
rous petitions praying fur the preservation of the saes are prof of the
interest you tate m this question. But in the pnwnt state of the
coniiiii3Oonero• funds molly yeses moat probubly bettor
thore provisions of the Cathedral Act eau be curried into
extrution. Owing to Herne,-fens with which you are
probably well nu primed, the clauses relating to this and
the neighbouring dioees-e are antic nut of the bill fur carrying
into effect the ftmrth report of the Wylesiastietil Commissionervi
with an understanding that this omission woo to he supplied hy a
sutoequent measure iu the course au the next session. In
however of the ptlitival clinages which unitarrol rte utter, and tot,
sequently of other circumstances, that 111411Alre was not tarried till
late in the session of I mil. In the menntimeutir dimes. was deprived
of any participation in the funds art the disposal of the commission.
or., and almost before we had time to look about to thew fonds were
eihausted, and nu fresh grants have barn to tde for the last two years.
Two bent-byes only in public putronuge within the dittos., have lawn
augnieutol out of these funds, told at oilv case of private patronage a
grant 1,4- boot mule hr meet a benefaction. Of the benefins, how-
ever, in politic patronage, tin-re are, I belkse, wily one use twin ill :midi.
bon to those alrisuly augmented which could hlive necived gnu*.
according to the smile laid down by the rolluilkOionels. But something
might have been done loth,• way of revering Is notation-, had private
patrons or other literal individuals balm tlisptool to count forward for
the augmentation of beneflet sor the vioction of parsonnfo-houses. It
is didic At to say whether the emu:a...stoners will be aloe t,o
this only plessiiite part of their Ilitittiono, especially as the funds that
will gradually accrue to them are engaged for the payment of the
interest of, and the eventual repuyment of the loan hominid under
the authority of the wet, wainy calksl sir Robert Peel's Art for waling
tatter provision for the spiritual care of pontiloas perishes."
The °tiler topics touched on were education' in connexion
with training school, for wasters and mistresses; two bills of
importance to the clergy produced last sr SSiOn —one for the
amendment of th_ law tor the correcti,n of clerks, the other

fur making better provision for the sustentation of parsonage
houses und amending the law of depredations ; the seces-
sions to Rome, of which the bishop spoke with some severity,
winding up with an earnest appeai to the assembled clergy
to stand in the gap and endeavour to reclaim the people.