The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-31 00:00:00

OPPOILIZIOA TO d C6ORCE•R4TI AT CROYDON.

An excited vestry meeting wee held at the Town-
hall, Croydon, yesterday, at which the antf-charch-,fie
party made a strenuous opposition to the immieftioa of a new
rate. The accounts were presented, sad on etanaination
were found to contain such items as autism at viaimtime,
ohttrehwerdens' dinners, &c. Mr. H. S. Skeels moved that
these same be disallowed from the mounts, but the vicar,
who was In the chair, ?Owed to put the amendment to the
soseting. The mover disputing the legality of the chair-
man's deolaan. and the chairman abiding by his role, Mr.
Barrett moved—. That the vestry adjourn to this day
three weeks in order that the vicar may see if he is
right in his law." This amen/went also the vicar
refused to receive, whereupon Mr. Barrett entand a written
protest sgsinst any further proceeding until his amendment
wu put. Mr. C..l3irdseye next moved that the accounts do
not pus, and upon defeat of the motion demanded a poll of
the parish. The churchwardens then proceeded with the
estimates for the current year. Mr. Stoats moved their re-
duction by the item for vaitation ripeness, which the char-
m= again refused to pot to the vestry. Mr. Lindley* moved
several other amendments, all of which were received in the
same way. Mr. B. Abbott next moved that the estimates be
reduced by all the sums which were not for legal end num
seri purposes, reading, at the same time, the Bat of itelPil
which had received the sanction of the law. Tho
vicar refused to receive this amendment also. Mr.
Benoit thereupon moved, prefacing his motion by
an exposition of the reasons wby &sesames and
other+ Mose to pay church ratio, that no rate be
granted, bet his motion met with the same reception as the
others. Another protest was than beaded is, sad the show
of hands for and strains' the rate wee taken, when the este
we. declared to be carried. Mr. Sheets demanded • poll' of
the garish on this question. An unusual prootediag then
took place. On the proposition of a vole of thanks to the
chair, Ile. Barrett, Ins few ohms-Ulm, 111 whisk be depo-
sited the yarthility of the eharesaa end the illegalley of the
vials promaiwoh. staled that he could net holdup hie hand
Is favour of this motion. It waa, however, carded. The po
loss the sesousis red*** nets was at ones imense, sod will
• antis= ntrouelact aeday and Thursday, the result to be
[ declared by the vicar on Friday. The dissenters, it is Mated,
[ will not vote at the poll, they having been advised that the
whole of the proceedinps, as well sa the proposed rats, ere
• grossly illegal.

ESALTH OF LONDON.

(From the

's Report.)

The health of London is now in an average state.
The deaths in the week ending on Saturday, August 27,
amounted to 1.217, where.. the corrected avenge deaths in
the corresponding weeks of ten previous years were 1,120, if
the two weeks of 1849 and 1854 are excluded, when cholera
was epideuic,:and %Wand 2,039 penone died.
474 persons died of speak diseases, including 22 of small-
pox, 12 of mules, 78 of scarlatina, 13 of diphtheria, and 6
of croup, 16 of whooping. comb, 46 of typhus, 2150[
diarrhoa, and 10 of cholera. Of the death. from diarrhcen
174 occurred under 2 peen of age. Six children under two
years of age, three of the age of 2 and under LS ; and one
men, of ST years of age, died of "debility after choleroid
disrihrea" in the Dreadnought Hospital ship. He was a
ship's cook.
The diarrhoea is most prevalent In the east districts (60
deaths), and in the south districts (69 deaths). The deaths
from this disease in the metropolis in six weeks have pro-
greuively fallen from 415 to 382, 312, 296, 240, and 215.
253 pumas died of constitutional disuses, including 31 by
cancer, 148 by consumption.
Of 307 deaths by local dismiss', 100 attacked the narrow'
system, 71 the breathing organs, and 64 the digestive
°MAIM
23 persons died by ',midterm or negligence, namely, 7 by
mechanical injures, 3 by burns, 1 by poison, 10 by drowning,
and 4 by vilfoution. 3 deaths are referred to murder or
mandsughter, and 5 to suicide.
Last week the births of 840 boys end 870 girls, in all 1,710
children were registered in London. In the ten correspond-
ing weallsof the yews 1849-68 the avenge camber was 1,523.

SUNDAY BANDS IN THE PARKS.—Theee bands
which, it is worth noticing, have performed for eleven Sun-
day. without interruption from ram, are about to be given up
till next year in consequence of the shortening of the days,
Next Sunday they will play from four o'clock in the afternoon
rill seven, end will thus conclude their four. h season which
his Wee •very_soomehd
CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANT.—It appears that the
mace of 87,6701. of the Six per Cent. Perpetual Preference
Stock now remains to he subscribed to complete the autho-
rind amount of 260,0001. It has been determined to make
up this amount at once and close the eabscription. By elites
7of the Crystal Palace AM, 1866, this stork has absolute
priority of claim over every other deecriptiou of stock or
shares in the company. As this stork is crested the the pur-
pose of paying off debentures and other existing obligations,
sauna of woicn have not yet matured, the directors are stable
to off-r subscribers the facility of paying their entecriptions
by instalment., where this may be preferred.
NEW CEMETERY FOR LIVERPOOL.—At a vestry
meeting held in Liverpool yesterday routs vacancies in the
local burial lsold were tilled up, end a report submitted and
adopted recommending the purchase of between 97 and 98
acne of lead in the Walton district (to the northeast of
Lieu Fool), for the purpose of a cemetery. The cost of the
land will be 61,000/additional sum of 25,0001. wee
authorised to be expended in enciceing, draining, leying out,
and planting the ground, in constructing the mammary
chapels, loiges, Se., and in defraying other expenses
incident to the completion of the cemetery.
RECOVERY or Is SCESECE.—In the ease of " Coyne
v. the Liverpool and London Insurance Company," which
occupied the attention of the judge of the Liverpool County
Court fur two days last week, hie honour has given judgment
in favour of the plaintiff for 431. 19s. 3,11., the amount
chimed. The defendants objected to honour the claim on
two grounds First. that the plaintiff, if indeed he had not
originated the fire himself, had certainly not taken the proper
measures to mimes it; and secondly, that hehedeleggerated
the amount of the damage. Evidence was tendered on both
these pointa, but his honour was of opinion that it by no
means austained the charges.
TELEGRAPH TO THE ISLE OF MAN.—Our readers
are aware that a company Ina some months ago formed in
the Isle of Men for the purpose of securing telegraphic com-
munication with England, and the capital necoesery to the
enterprise sow, we believe, mainly subscribed
ta tha based.
The able was successfully laid on Friday last. It wee con-
striated by Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and Co., and roe euredt
36
miles tn length ; but it wwasonly found neoresary to pay ou
23i mils,. -The steamer Resolute, having the able
board,
end wrounpanied by the steamer Mona's Queen. which car-
ried a large party of excursionists, left .Point Ayr„at the
extreme north of the Wand, between II and 12 o'ckck and
reached St. Bees Head, on the coast of Cumberland, et ltalf-
pat 6 p.m. After being landed the wire wee test ed, and the
insulation found to be very good. The paying out of the
cable was superintended by Mr. F. C. Webb. and the op.-
, Tattoos at St. Bees were under the direction of Mr. 0. O.
Newman, engineer of the Electric Telegrsph,:.:prna.:_t
, Manchester. The lime
I Piny emplaced in ooenexion with them of the Electric and
lntereational Telegraph Company, and conaequently are in
j communication with England. Scotland. end the Continent.
) There are to stations on the eland—namely, at Ramsay
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31.

WE should be sorry to let a single irritating word
escape us on a subject so critical and momentous as
the international relations of Prance and England.
In a country where a public writer has his own con.
science for a tribunal, and the common sense of his
readers for a censorship, the responsibilities of the
press are not less acutely, though lees uncomfortably,
felt, than in u country where public opinion is pre-
scribed for by a bureau of State doctors, who feel its
pulse with admonitory nicety, let blood when symp-
toms of fever appear, sometimes even amputate •
limb or two for the relief of the system ; and by a
constant administration of precautionary medica-
ments, arrest the disorders attendant upon easy
living and rude health. There are obvious
advantages to a government in regulating
the movements of the public mind like a clock,
making it go a little fester or a little slower, and
winding it up every eight days or so with a wrench
that tells of the crispness of the spring and
the slight vigour of the " works." But the
advantages axe not without inconveniences; the
" works" will get out of order, and when you have
made yourself responsible for the perfect regularity of
• mechanism so complicated and so easily deranged,
you are apt to cause unnecessary offence by striking
fourteen instead of twelve, by • sudden stoppage of
the minute-hand when all the world are taking
out their watches to eat them by your face, by going
too slow for idlers, or too fast for men of business.
In abort, dull Englishmen as we are, we prefer a
Government that neither doctors nor regulates
opinion, because we know that wherever opinion
is most free, it is most responsible and most
safe. Among our neighbours we have for some time
been constrained to look to all sorts of semi-official
indicators for information which on our own sidecar
the water we should naturally seek in what we call
the ordinary channels of intelligence." Jost now
we are particularly anxious to know on what terms
we are with our old Allies of the Queen and
the Congress. Heavy thonder•dreps have fallen
intermittently daring the dog days from the sul-
phurous pen of M. GRANDER DE CASSAGNAC, who, we
cannot forget, not only sits astride two journals, like
a Colossus, but signs himself " Deputy to the Corps
Legislatif.“ fhe organ of the ultra •Catholic party
which is protected at Rome and caressed in Paris:
summons all the Furies of • holy war to the standards
of the Climb, and denounces them here-
Beal islands to the religious wrath of the Zooms.
But we are reminded that the Nominee alone is the
organ of the Government ; the rest is mare sound
and fury, signifying nothing. Presently the session
of the Councils-General swine. Then provincial
partiaments are presided over by eminent men, selec-
ted by the Government as the depositaries of its confi-
dence and the partaken of its purposes. Here again
let usbeware of aboard analogies. County sessions,
is an F.oglsh sense, do not precisely imply the
place or the people best fitted to discuss questions of
Imperial policy; they are supposed to be concerned
with bugloss., of • mon local though not lees useful
character; but over the water the distribution of
parts is reversed. The Corps Legislatif transacts
local business, and the " County Sessions " converse
as Imperial affairs. When we say "converse,"
perhaps we employ too strong an expression;
they are addressed as Imperial affairs by their
President for the time being, who may be
a •ictorious general estarnieg from the wars,
or a dawdler of the press, or, es in M. Di
MORNI'S case, the President of the Corps Legislatif
himself. \{-hen M. Di MOILNY rises to address the
Council-General of the Pay-de-Dorno in the cha-
racter of its President, he is listened to by
his colleagues, and by Europe, as something
more than a country gentleman of our homely
type inspired by the Muse of mangold-wursel.
He is almost the alter ego of the EMPEIOII. The
earliest and meet intimate of the adherents of the
throne, his audience may be sure that every word
he utters bears a double weight of meaning and as.
thority. Accordingly, when M. ere MOHNT taker
for his text the English alliance, we are at liberty to
suppose that he speaks, to ase a French idiom, as
one " inspired." M. DE MORNT comes out as a
warm, though disinterested, friend to the English
alliance. \Vs say "comes out,' because since his
embassy to St. Petersburg, and indeed before
that oeleasioo, he was not generally regarded
as one of the warmest advocates of a
good understanding with England. Must we
accept the reproof which the tone of M. DE MORNT'S
amiable candour suggests? Am we really the cap-
tions, quarrelsome, exacting, and sulky friends with
whom it is so difficult for the most simple-
natured and true-hearted of human beings
to get on without Ices of dignity and self.
respect Are our Leeds and Commons, our
public men and our newspapers, so inexplicably
suspicious and unjost as M. De Moitn describes?
Really it is important to consider from whom this
accusation proceeds. We know the rank, position,
and influence of the speaker; but how does he ar-
range contemporary hi.tory for the magnates of the
Puy do UOnse ? M. DE MOINE begins by se-
cribing English armaments to newspaper articles
and Parliamentary speeches, and the latter to the
dissatisfaction of England at the manifest desire of
the Euretti,it to avoid • European conflagration
He goes on to assert that there are no means in
Francs of preventing a newspaper from publishiog
what it likes, and that in fact the French press is
just as reepossible for what it writes as the English,
and oo more. By the light of this singular inter-
pretation of facts we are enabled to judge
Moart's appeal against the prejudices and
perilous of public opinion is this country. For the
rear, we are perfectly ready to appreciate the fairness
and frankness with which he singles out the prevail-
ing causes of alarm and doubt which hays undoubt-
edly existed of late, whilst to the general terms in
which he discusses and disposes of them we are as
far as possible from objecting. "Nobody," says
M. DE MOINT, with reasonable emphasis, "can aid.
"mate so well as myself the loyal faith of the
" EMPEROR ;" and we fully accept the worsen;
but we must be permitted to whisper very gently
into the ear of the Preeident of the Corps Legislatif
that nu cue knows better than those t wo distinguished

persons the advantages of silence, secrecy, and
soddenness in grand political operations ; and perhaps
it le beam people in England have been disposed
to pay a compliment to political at the expense of
weal qualifications that t►ey hesitate to attribute
to the same persons and the same policy the head
that plots and the hand that strikes on a sudden
with the heart of the injured philanthropist.
alive to every honest impulse, and the 'mil
of an apostle of peace awake to every generous
emotion.

At say rate, we heartily echo M. DE MORNS'S
etirriag appeal to the good feeling and good sense
et the two great nation, of the West. By all
mesas let ~future rivalry (if rivalry there must
be) be a rivalry of industrial and commercial enter-
prise. We have had enough of glory long ago, and
enough of conquest. We know no battle by land
or sea in which France had not her full share of
honour. Surely France may be content to fight the
future battles of civilisation (if battles there must
be) side by side with the honourable foes of old time,
and the comrades in arms of ►ater and happier
years. We believe that in spite of evil omens, the
intellect, the enterprise, the best feelings, and the
dearest interests of France respond to the intellect,
the enterprise, the best feelings, and the
dearest interests of England, and that both
cry Peace. But there is one thing needful to make
the desire of all good people on either side of the
water a reasonable certainty, and that kb—Liberty.
With an equal, we do not say a similar, liberty en-
joyed by oar neighbours and by ourselves, every
cloud that intercepts a better future would clear
away before the light, and every mist of prejudice
and passion be dispersed.