The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-25 00:00:00

EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1851.

evidence of the gratuitousneaa and insolence of the
aggression, the only novelty in the dreary dis-
quiaitios, and also the only point, in our opinion,
which it does conclusively establish. We allude .
to the precedents to which the writer refers !
is proof of his monstrous assertion that the
insulting clauses of the Letters Apostolic of 1850, I
whereby the laws and usages of the Anglican church
I and all existing churches and pious places in this
country are repealed, are merely technical, and very
like what are termed "common forms" in Mr. Bow-
TER'S own peculiar science of conveyancing. Our
feeders will smile, yet perhaps not be astonished, to
learn that in the only two papal bulls cited by Mr.
BOWYER for this purpose, no trace of the offensive
paoseges in question is to be found.
But the lamentable insincerity of this "argument,"
as the writer terms it, is more strikingly displayed
in its omissions. It will scarcely be believed that, I
having determined to commit a new inconstancy and
to break once more his TO ir of silence, and to make one '
final reply to his adversaries, the CARDINAL should
have instructed his advocate to confine himself entirely
to those of the protestant party, and to ignore even
the existence of his catholic malcontents. Far
from attempting to shake off the heavy load and
weight of the detected misrepresentations of his
" Appeal." or even to explain away some portion
of the charges brought against him by Roman ca-
tholic accusers, and fortified by the evideace of Roman
catholic petitions to Rome, and papal documents in
answer, not a vestige of those petitions or documents
is to be found in Mr. BOWYER'S professed compilation
of " Roman documents relating to the new hierarchy"
—and not even an allusion to the subject appears in
his pages. Artifices each as these are most probably
not unfitted for Italian controversy, but they are
really unusual and unpardonable amongst these Recut'.
tonatel to English honesty and frankness.

We publish the following plan, which stems to us
to solve, for the first time, the difficult problem 01
combining with a national poor rate the state degree
of personal interest in the guardians as now exist, to
control and enhdue the local expenditure. The authnr
of this plan is Mr. Garwood, of Wells, Norfolk. We
have not yet had time to examine its details with
attention, or to prononnuo with any decision on its
merits, but we shall take an early opportncity of
giving to it our farther consideration.

SKETCH OF A PLAN FOR ABOLISHING THE
LAWS OF PAROCHIAL SETTLEMENT, AND
FOR PROVIDING FOR THE RELIEF OF THE
1 POOH IN ENGLAND BY A GENERAL RATE.

It is premised that, for the illustration of the fol.
lowing plan, its provisions shall be considered as com-
mencing their operation in January, 18.52.
1. That the law of parochial settlement be abo-
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2. That the poor be relieved in the union in which
they shall be.
3. That the ordering and relieving of the poor in a
union continue to be the care of the guardians of that
union, under the direction and control of the Poor
Law Board, as now.
4. That the relit fof the poor be provided by a
general rate.
5. That yearly, in January, the Poor Lsw Board
shall order a general poor rate of so much in the
pound as in the judgment of the board will raise the
sum necessary for the relief of the poor in England
for the whole current year, upon all the lands, tene-
ments, and hereditament' in England included in
Schedule B of the Income Tax Act, according to the
assessment made thereof by the Commissioners of
Income Tax. _ _ _ . _ _

6. That such order be published in the London
Gazette, and issued to the guardians of each union,
who shall thereupon make an order on the overseers
of each parish fur pay mut of the proportionate
amount of the general rate,—subject, in every rate
after 1852, to the increase or diminution hereafter
provided.
7. That the cost of relieving the poor in each
union during the year ending 31st December, 181,
or the average annual cost of such relief during any
longer period, if such longer period shall be deemed
more equitable,— shall be the standard of the annual
cost of the poor of that union, and shall remain the
standard until varied u hereafter mentioned.

8. That in the year 1853, and in every succeeding
year, the sum to be collected in each union shall be as
much per cent., more or less, than the general rate,
as the cost of the relief of the poor in the previous
year exceeded or fell short of the standard.
9. That the census of the population be taken every
seventh or fifth year; and that the standard of each
union, fixed as aforesaid, shall be proportionally varied
whenever the population of the union shall have in-
creased or diminished beyond or below a certain ratio
of the census of 1851.

ACCIDENT TO THE AMERICAN MAIL
STEAMER ATLANTIC.

In conarquerce of the accident to the Atlantic, the
'orrice, of me British and North American Royal
Mail steam ship Cambria have been put into requisi-
tion, in order to forward on to New York the goods
and passengers of the disabled vessel. On the 4th
of February the Cambria is to leave Queenstown.
As no steamer will leave Liverpool for America
before to-morrow week, the intelligence of the safety
of the Atlantic, and all those on board, will not reach
New York until a month after her expected arrival,
when probably all hopes as to her safety will have
disappeared.
We were favoured, by one of the passengers, with
a cliy of the following resolutions :

Off Cork, Jan. 22, 1&51.
At a meeting of the pamengen on beard the U. 8. mail
stigma nfic, James 8. Wodeworth, Beg., of New York,
being called to the chair, and J. H. Pottenger, of Maryland,
aprnnted aecretery ; enry Benjamin, of New York; G
B. Reece, of Pa.; and Lawrence, of Mau, were ap.
punted a committee to draft resolution, expreuire of the
sense of the meeting in view of the circumstances which

have compelled the ;easel to return.
Resolved,—Tbat we feel it due to Captain James West to
acknowledge our gratitude to him for his unwearied care and
devotion to his duty under circumstances of great responsi-
bility (he having been deprived, in a great measure, of the
valuable and efficient services of his first officer, Mr. Shu-
feldt, by temporary illness), in taking the ship into port, as
well as foe the great attention and courtesy with which be
laboured to promote the heppiness and comfort of those
under his charge.
Resolved,—That we feel it likewise doe to the pro.
ptietors of the ship to bear testimony to the great strength
and power with which she contended for blue days against
an almost uninterrupted westerly gale of great severity, as
well as to the admiruble conduct of the vessel under sails,
when auddeuly deprived of her mirive power, by the break-
ing of the main shaft, having then mede I,hoo miles on her
western voyage.
Reg lved,—That it was the unanimous request of the pas
sengers that the ship should seek an easterly port, as it
was found, after a trial of five days, that, encumbered as she
was wiih disabled machinery, she could not contend against
the westerly winds which then prevailed.
Resolved,—That it is also due to Mr. Rogers, the chief
engineer, and hie intelligent corps of assistants, that we
should bear testimony to the ability and fidelity with
which they discharged their erduous duties, as well previous
to the accident as in their subsequent efforts to repair the
machinery. _ _ _ _ -

These resolutions are signed by the whole of the
passengers.