The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-19 00:00:00

TEE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER l9, 1858.

large tower, and what might now be hoped
and attempted ; and that these speakers were in-
sulted, Neon or less openly, by the general
body of their hearers, as well as by the realms Mr.
Mows. When they leaked what maid be done
when the highest judicial authorities had decided
that ;Church-rates are a personal tax, imposed at
the pleasure of a majority in vestry, and what ooald
be loped when repeated decisions of the House of
01=seeas bad pronounced against the tax, they
wee" scolded for " lowering the flag of the Church"
is Shrewsbury, and the neighbours who had invited
them to come and speak their opinions were, we
Oar another, " grieved to hear utterance given to
°each sentiments as had been heard that morning."
Yet the nearest approach to the radicalism of dissent
We a suggestion that. out of consideration for the
Dissenters, a method of redemption of Church-rates
night be rendered permissive. No Dissenter
PIS pressat to give warning—no Churchman
eanlbasni to remind the debaters—that the
Diallers will not accept any scheme which
provides for Church-rata being paid under
seas new name or form. The idea of yield-
ing the old mode of laying a rate in vestry was too
mach for the meeting—keenly sensible as they ex-
=themselves of the annoyance of encountering
tees " in that place where peace and concord
• slope should dwell, but which was made the scene
•et discordant noises and discreditable confusion."
To meet these Dissenters or " lower the flog of the
" Church" is the dreadful alternative of the day ;
end no choice between the two was arrived at
St. Chad's Vestry. The Dissenters we= declared
to carry their consciences in their breeches' pockets;
to defraud the Church and State, deliberately and
audaciously ; and to be that sort of people who
" hardly know what their religion is for six months
O together," but who " run the round of all the
" chapels, and then come to church at last"—
which, if true, shows Shrewsbury to be a pleat
of more activity than is commonly supposed.
But, after all, be the Dissenters what they
may, there they are—both in Shrewsbury and else-
where; they have resolved not to pay Church-rates;
they have ascertained legal methods of avoiding the
payment; and a very large and increasing number
of sound Churchmen, including clergymen, are
uniting with them to get the support of the churches
put on a better footing. These being the undeniable
faets of the use, the Shrewsbury speakers vented
their grief in lamentation and reproach about the
apathy of their neighbours, and of good people is
general, which had allowed matters to come to inch
a peas. On that ground all could join, foe the
stabbed advocates of a practical arrangement were
as sorry as those who would not hear of change foe
the majorities in the Commons, and the difficulties
anticipated in the Lords; but, unfortunately,
lamentation and reproach will not bring the
Dissenters under the yoke again, nor recall
the declarations of Churchmen who desire
peace in their parishes, and the cheerful and digni-
fied support of their churches through voluntary ow-
-1 nagements, or a recognition of the principles of
Christian liberty. It is true they do not conceive,
like the Rev. Dr. NIHILL, of Shrewsbury, that so-
nny is preserved from universal thievery by the
°lurch alone, which ought therefore to be sup-
ported by Dissenters who value their property. Bat
the morality of their parishes may turn out to be not
the worse, but the better, for the absence of an-
sonely quarrel among Christian sectaries. All these
onsiderations, however, are es commonplace as Pro-
testantism itself is to the British public. The whole
Shrewsbury case is worth notice only as showing the
degree of darkness in which some persons and some
thine are living who send up petitions to Parlia-
ment about the subjects of the day. The end of
the discussion in St. Chad's vestry was, that
a sonsaittee of clergymen and laymen was
appsiated, for the purpose of framing pe-
ados', and agitating and consulting, at
bane and abroad, with a view to support the
Church and its friends, especially in regard to
Church-rates. This is all very well—much better
than sitting still in ignorance, or doing much talk
and no work. But it is to be hoped that somebody
will keep an eye on the Shrewsbury petition, if the
Church leaders there arrive at getting one framed.
Seeing what their diversity of notions and
irritability of temper is now, when they
have everything to learn, we shall be curious
to see what concurrence they arrive at by the time

the session opens ; and how they will reconcile their
declared principles and will with ministerial inten-
tions in regard to Church•rates. The Dissenters of
Shrewsbury, too, have received a virtual challenge
from their clerical neighbours to prove their rights
and powers ; and it is to be supposed that they will
not allow these wonderful spokesmen of the vestry
to represent all Shrewsbury. If they are not visible
in their own streets, they will probably make them-
selves heard in Parliament.

THE LA7II LIEUTENANT B. Ir. DANFERB.

Lieutenant R. W. Danvers, who was so unhap-
pily killed by the accidental discharge of a musket after the
taking of Namtow, bee an additional claim to connnentors-

don in these columns es the writer of certain letters which,
ender the title of the " Leaguer of Lockmw," were perused
some months ego with vivid intemet by the readers of the
lorproso.

Mr. Danvers sabered the Bengal Army in 1834, as an en-
sign of the 70th Bengal Native lofantry. When his roe-
nest wan dies:mod at Barrackpore, he volunteered as inter-
peter of this 6th Familiars, than about to march up the
iseautry to the wont scenes of the mutiny. In this ospaolty
he joined Havelock's column In the relief of L•ckaow; and
(se the kitten have shown) shared all the peril, of this
opentien and of the subtenant siege After seeing the gal-
lent regbassit to which be was attached undergo an almost
serapisle change of officers from it* losses in action. he
IMPIIMIIk while serving under Bir James Outrun at the
Alsmingh, what turned out to be • serious wound, which
/sally sent him down to Calcutta for his cure. Slowly re-
covering from his crippled state (and avoiding the appeal for
sick leave, whirl-, under such Mrcutostiutcas, no Lucknow
sembatent would have made in vain), be anabnaly sought
to return to the glorious Campaign ha had unwillingly let.
But his regiment havtag Nailed for China, he was obliged to
join It then. In that service he met his death. The morn-
ing after the capture of a fort at Namtow, he formed ore of
a group of officers talking together, when suddenly the re-
port of • gun was heard, and Mr. Danvers, shot through the
body by a musket bullet which traversed the liver end heart,
became insensible, and died as he wu being coon) ed to the
boats.

So died, at the warty age of 26. an °Slow for whom those beet
gualfded to judge predicted eminence In his profession, and
whose iterllng goodness fi eves a greater loss to the service.
It will be long before those who knew him forget the culd-
rated intellect, the true and tender heart, and the deep
(though unobtrusive) piety of this brave yowl, soldier. The
enantry and the friends of such men may well feel that the
time qualities which embitter soften their Ices ; and that
England can afford to be thankful for her very dead.

MESSRS. ELKIWOTON AND CO Nsw Pricings.,

tx LiviitrooL.—Yews. Elkingtort sad Co., the well-
known electroplate, kc., Man awl a revs, yesterday opened
their magnificent new premises M Charch-sheer, Liverpool.
The principal show-room is 100 feet la length by 40 wide,
and 31 feet 10 inches in height. It contains about 60,000/.
or 70,0001. worth of property in gold, silver, and ela•tro
paled articles. The premises, which are perhaps the meet
splendid ever erected in Liverpool by • single firm, are four
stories in neigh', sni form a most important addition to the
architectural features of the town.

gtic €ourt.

Her Majesty's journey tram Edinburgh will be
;sawed as follows :—The Qum, Prince Consort, Primes
and Primroses, end royal Mite, will leave Edinburgh at
ILO a.m. on Wednesday, aretvhsg at Dunbar 8.68, Berwkk
(North-Eastern Railway) 9.46, Blinn 10.38, Newcastle
11.27, Darlington 12.34, York (on the Great Northern line)
1.46 p.m., Doncaster 3.11, Newark 4.10, where her Majesty
will be received by the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of
Leicester, and other dignitaries. Here her Majesty will
remain, while the engine is replenished with water and fuel,
some ten minute.. Thence proceeding on It. course, the royal
than will arrive at Peterborough at 6.9; it will next stop
at Biggleewede, 358 miles from Edinburgh, at 8.10,
when the engine and carriage will be again huipeond ;no
stoppage will afterwards take plane until the train arrives et
King's-cross at 7.20. Up to this point the train will bounder
the management of Mr. Seymour Clarke and the directors of
the Great Northern Railway. The secretary of the North
London Railway, Mr. H. Chubb, will here take charge of
the train with the directors of this section of the journey.
Passing the Camden goods statioe,Hilburn, Willesden, Acton,
Hew, it will arrive at Kew junction at 7.49, where the train
on the South Western system will be under the &realms
of Mr. Archibald Scott, the traffic manager, Mr.
Beattie, the locomotive superintendent, on the engine,
and the directors of the South-Western Railway, passing
thence the various intermediate stations, and arriving at
Windsor at 8.16; the journey being thus performed In
twelve hour*. On arriving at Windsor, her Majesty will be
received by Colonel Seymour, Equerry to the Queen, the
Mayor and Magistrates of Windsor, Mr. Madigan, the dis-
trict superintendent and station-master at Windsor. A
guard of honour, under the command of Colonel Wynward,
°randier Guards, will receive her Majesty at the exit porch
of the station, where the royal carriages will be in attend-
' anoe to convey theroyal party to the Coatis. On Tuesday
(this day) the junior branches of the royal family will arrive
at the Castle from Osborne.

PEOROGATTON OF PAELLUIENT.--(THIS DAlf.)—
Parßamat was this afternoon further prorogued by Royal
Commission until Thursday, the 18th of Nov. nest, the
significant words, " then to meet for the despatch of divers
argent and important affairs," not being included in the
communion. The proceeding weal a mere matter of form.

Yesterday her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Lai, excoriated by their Renee Hielineage' the Prince
sad Primus Leiniagee, drove out la the °Telt Park,
Wisdom. Her Royal Highness is in the enjoyment of
excellent health.

Hie Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Conners Bereetorff have bet town on a visit to the Karl end
Countess of Derby.

The Marchioness of Waterford has left Claridge'.
Hotol for Canasta:ion', helium:l.

Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond are receiving
company at their seat, Cadlands, near Southampton. Amongst
the oceapeay last week were Admiral Sir George Seymour
in-Chid at Portsmouth) and Lady Seymour,
CLumaidity Camoys, Mr. and Lady Rose Lovell, Mrs
Lane Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, the Mimes Seymour,
Captain H. Seymour, Colonel Powell, &o.

The Right Hon. Sir W. G. Hayter, Bart., M.P.,
and Lady Hayter have left South-bUI Park, for Paris.
Mr. James Garth Marshall and the Hon. Mrs.
Marshall and Miss Marshall have left the Clar sad= for
Paris.

On Friday evening her Ornce the Duchess of
Northumberland was present at the Richmond Theatre, on
the ooession of the benefit of Mrs. W. Sidney.

In Newcastle, Lady Don has been performing in
the Daughter of gAe Befingegst, giving the liataplan song
with great effect. In the play-bills, however, the celebrated
sir is called the Rattle-pen song!

A meeting of members and friends of the Man-
chester Mechanics' Inientate was held last evening in the
lecture-ball of the institution, for the purpose of the
distribution, by the Earl of Carlisle, of the certificatee of
merit awarded by the council of the Society of Arta to
those students in the dame of the institution who distin-
guished themselves at the recent examination by the society.
There was a good attendance. Mr. Oliver Heywood, the
preilden., took the chair; and there were upon the platform
the Earl of Carlisle, Pile Mackie, Esq., mayor of Men-
cheater (whose gnat his lordship is) ; William Harvey, Esq.,
mayor of Salford ; Aldermen Sir Elkanah Armitage and Sir
lomat Watts; ?desire. William Fairbairn, C.E., F.R.S. •
Richard Roberta, C.E. ; R. Barnes, W. R. Wood, Thome
Barley, William Ross, Leonard limper (factory inspector
of the district), Harry Rawson, Joseph Heron (town clerk) ;
the Revs. Canon Richton, William Osaka, P. Nicholson,
T. W. Marriott, Professor Hewitt, and Professor Hall, and
most of the directors of the institution.

We (Preston Guardian) are sorry to learn, from a
letter remised from Mr. C. P. Grantsll, M.P., that he has
been labouring for some time under impaired health. He
says:—" I have been prevented visiting Preston this sum-
mer by a severe and stubborn attack of influenza. I have had
it above four months."

Lord Dunfermline had a private audience of the
King of the Belgians at the Palace of Brame' on Sunday.
The Emperor Napoleon is expected to leave for
Compiegne on the 24th.

4. Adolphe Heichenheim, a wealthy Jewish
merchant, at Berlin, being deelrous to testify the estimation
in whirl the character and attainments of Alexander von
Humboldt are held by him, made, on the occealot of that
eminent man's 89th birthday, a donation of 5,000 tinders to
the society cstatdiehad for the purpose of affording aid to poor
students of the Jewish persuasion, the oondition being
attached to it that the sum so placed at their disposal should
be administered as the " Humboldt fund." This, of course,
has been readily agreed to, and a graceful acknowledgment
from the venerable savant hie landed a gratifying return to
the liberal donor.

Mr. F. G. Lee, of Dane's-inn Chambers, Strand,
complains that at the meeting in St. James's Hall, yester-
day, he wee prevented by the chairman from proposing the
following amendment:—•' That this meeting, taking into
oonskteration the feet that confession is obviously amaodoesd
by the Book of Common Prayer, refuses to condemn those
clargrosn of the established church who only carry out its
plain directions by the practice of it."

MR. ALBERT SMITH AT HONG KONO.—HO:ret
Homo, Avot:er 22.—" Hue we see all safe and sound,
among them at lest, surmunded by junks and pigtails, end
noble ladies and gentlemen. I have bought the enclosed
picture, from a splendid merchant who has come off to the
aide of the ship on three planks, by the aid of a broometkk.
We left Singapore on the 23rd ult. I was immensely
delighted with it; it is quite a Chinese plus. The shed
shops are such rich places, they sell the mod wooderftd
things in them—toys sad gods serl lantegui& sad kins uo-
parties and quo, crockery. The filth demist in tie eating-
house* far surpasses that cooked at that old trotters; at
Orme. It consists for the most part of rats, bats, snails,
bad eggs. and hideous fish, dried in the most frightful atti-
tudes. Some of the nretstwaiwirs carry their wok/hops
about with than on long poles, with the kitchen at one end
led the oak 41-esanger at the other. Thee. are celebrated
for a soup made, 1 should think, from large caterpillars,
boiled in a thin gravy with onion*. The barbers also carry
their shops about, end they shave, cut beards, and syringe
can right in tits middle of the strut. A Chimes
merchant asked me to dinner. I went,' of course, and after
dinner we started for the theatre. They played a Chinees
opera with about fifty performers; there were lots of devils
in the piece, with tumbling sod fighting In every scene.
They only had one aerialist end two gongs in the orebeetes,
but when then weea situation in the piece one fellow knocked
two hollow canes together to show the indium they wore to
applaud. The merchant lives in first-rate style and bu a
wonderful ..anion. All the fruit trees are very small; then
were pines like cabbage', and • quantity of a large creeper
willed 'monkey caps,' because down the stalk them ars
reinter Filchers and tops filled with water, from whiohJacko
refreshes niroself in the woods. There were also among his
live stock Cashmere goats, porcupines, kangaroos, Pekin
pig., and Brahmin bull., and in the jangle
across the valley tigers and all sorts of novelties.
I slept on shore that night, or rather I went to
bed, bat I could not sleep, as I 11141101 the noise of the
screw arid the creaking of the timbers• and the bed was too
steady. The lest night before we got to Hong Kong we had
an entertainment ' on board, and I was stare manatee.
We made • first-rats room of mile and Nu, and the whole
sff,lr went off capitally. There are no hotels at Hong Kong,
but a very nice club with bed-rootaa. I wee proposed sad
elected as soon as I arrived, so that Is very jolly. To-day
they hold a Chinese Ms in honour of their dead reLdirins.
They keep firing crackers all day in the streets and burn
thus Meg puddles. I don't think they care much about
their religion ; they go into the temples to get 0001, or sit
down, or go to sleep. The children ere frightened at the
g4th, they ars an hideous ; they roar with terror when they
are placed in front of them. The people walk about with
their hats on, and whistle and smoke, and do what they like •
the torrettants selling gilt paper and putties e't round thi
ridei. and mistimes they beat a prig to attract caroming.
Nothing that I can writs now an give you the least ides of
this wonderful place; I on every hour how very hichful
Cooks'e descriptions were."

It is now arranged that the opening of the Cham-
bers on the 20th instant will be performed by the
Prince of Prussia in penes. The deliberations of
the two homes of parliament, united in one by the
terms of the oonstitution,will be conducted by Prince
Rehenlohe, the President of the Upper Howe. .It
is generally understood that the business will be
confined to the question of the Regency, and will
merely consist in passing a vote rem:lip:using the
creation of the Regency as being in strict accord-
ance with the contents of the Charter, but that if
any other business is considered necessary to be
transacted, it will be done in separate sittings of the
two houses respectively.
The negotiations being carried on with Austria
relative to a joint energetic conduct in the affair of
the Duchies, are nearly brought to a conclusion, and
there is every chanoc of their being successful. It ispro-
posed to give Denmark one chance more in the shape
of an ultimatissimum, and then to march in an
army of 50,000 men—half Prussians and half AMP.
trians—to occupy the Duchies and administer their
revenues till Denmark oomes to reason. What will
England and France, and, above all, Russia, say to
this I'