The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-18 00:00:00

THE COLONIAL BISHOPS.

Commenting upon the sermons which are being preached
in a City church by various bishops on behalf of the
missions with which they are beet acquainted, the Times
remarks that the encouragement offered us by the result'

is rather one of hope than achievement. Archdeacon
Hunter, who has been working for more than
twenty-one years in the Hudson's Bay Territory,
does not encourage us much when he tells us
that he was engaged for ten years in translating the Book
of Common Prayer into the language of the Indian tribes.
We are not surprised that the task should have occupied
him all that time; but we cannot but think the time
might have been better employed. A North American
aboriginal, one would think, must feel about as much at
home in the Prayer-book as in a dress suit at the opera.
The Bishop of Labuan is right in attributing great import-
ance to material MUM in breaking down Oriental
prejudice. The first hold obtained by Christianity in
uncivilised nations was gained by means very different
from any we are prepared to adopt in the present day ; but
it is possible that science and commerce may be silently
exercising the same forcible pressure in these days as great
emperors and the temporal sword at the commencement of
the Middle Ages. The silent growth of the recta of a great
tree will sometimes rend a rock as effectually as the more
violent operation of gunpowder.

The Herald cannot doubt that the discuadon in the
synod on the second day will turn mainly on the Colenso
case, and it look, for some authoritative declaration to the
effect that Dr. Colenso is no longer regarded by the con-
ference as in union with the English church, and inviting
churchmen not to recognise him as such.

ICH TOPICS.

The Times finds in the blue book which has been pub-
lished on the statistics of the United Kingdom the colours
for a glowing picture of the progress of English power and
wealth. The sum of national happiness has been increased
beyond measure. Riches have been multiplied, and they
have also been more evenly distributed. But amid this
wonderful progress there is one reason for discouragement.
While everything has been growing, military armaments
have been growing also; and the root of this evil the
Times believes to be not with us, but with the Cwsarism
of the Continent, and especially of its foremost nation and
our nearest neighbour.
The Daily News, referring to the approaching marriage
of the King of Greece with • Russian princess, observes
that one of the most marked characteristics of the inhae
bitants of this petty kingdom is their fanaticism on all
religious subjects. Severe fasts of many weeks duration are
kept, and nearly half the year is consumed in idle feast-
days. The only laws which the modem Greek in his
present state of civilisation could be brought to fear
and obey must be framed and sanctioned by his own priest-
hood.

The Victor Emmanuel Gallery, which the King has just
opened at Milan—the only real city in Italy—is described by
the Times as the result of private speculation, by which
the city and province have been but slightly mulcted, and
the State not at all. It is true that the funds have been
in a great measure supplied by foreign, chiefly English,
capitalists ; but we do not suppose that the money was
subscribed either out of mere platonic love for the beau-
tiful, or from chivalrous sympathy with the Milan popula-
tion. It was faith in the solidity of the city and in her
assured prospects that gave the shares such a buoyancy on
their first issue. The funds came forth because the work
would pay, and this, is perhaps, the only enterprise into
which faith in emancipated Italy has tempted foreign
capital which has not been denounced as having led to
grievous disappointment, end which has not been the sub-
ject of endless mutual upbraiding and recrimination.

the Court.

BALMORAI4 Szpr. 14.

The Queen drovo out, accompanied by Princess
Louise and Prince Leopold, and attended by Lady Churchill.
Prince and Princess Christian, accompanied by M. and
Madame Van de Weyer, went out driving.

San. 15.

The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess
Louise, and Prince Leopold, attended Divine service in
the morning at the parish church of Crathie.

The Rev. Archibald Charteris, minister of Glasgow,
officiated.

Lady Frances llaillie and Mr. Hardy had the honour of
dining with the Queen and royal family.

A deputation from the holders of land grants on the
Mosquito territory, consisting of Mr. Pagden (chairman),
Captain Bedford Pim, Dr. Kelly, and Mr. Jacobs, bad
an interview with Lord Stanley at the Foreign-office
yesterday.

Her Majesty the Queen has graciously com-
manded that a copy of a line engraving from • portrait of
Mr. Peabody, just executed by Mr. Henry Lemon, shall be
transmitted to Windsor for the royal library.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur has discon-
tinued his course of studies for • short period at the Royal
Military Academy at Woolwich, and left the Ranger's
Lodge, Greenwich Park, on Monday evening, for Balmoral,
on a visit to the Queen. Before taking his departure the
prince, accompanied by Lieut. Pickard, V.C., Royal Horse
Artillery, rode down to Woolwich Arsenal, and spent
some time in inspecting the preparations now in progress
for the expedition to Abyssinia.

His Excellency the Spanish Minister has left the
Spanish Legation for the Isle of Wight.
The Hon. Edward Horaman and Sir John Rams-
den have bad, considering the scarcity of game in Scot-
land, very good sport at Glenfeshire, Kingussie. In one
day Mr. Hoesman killed 102 brace grouse, beside other
game. Recently (on the 11th), at deer.stalking, Lord
Stair killed three stags, and other gentlemen out on the
hills had corresponding sport. The wet weather since has
interfered with their continuance of stalking.
In the obituary is recorded the death, on the
12th instant, of the Hon. Robert Fulls Greville, only son
of the late Colonel the Hon. Robert Fulke Greville and
Louisa, in her own right Countess of Mansfield. He was
brother of Lady Georgians Cathcart, widow of Lieutenant-
General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart, G.C.8., who was
I killed at Inkermana, and of Lady Louise Finch•Hatton.
He was born Ist December, 1800, and married 25th April,
1/122, Georgian► Cecilia, daughter of Mr. Charles Locke, of
Norbury Park. He was formerly in the 25th Foot, and was
for his services at San Sebestian made a Knight of the
Order of San Fern►ndo. In 1854 he served the office of
sheriff of Pembrokeshire, and in 1862 was appointed colonel
of the let Pembrokeshire Volunteers.

The Earl of Winchilsea suggests that statues to
the worthies of England be erected on the aeries of piers
on the wall of the Thames Embankment. " Should," he
says, "a Petronins of municipal taste, or the chairman of •
metropolitan board, once become muter of the situation I
tremble for the result, and prophesy—lamps!"
The New York Trilnine states that Mr. Dickens
will give his readings in Roston the first two weeks in De-
cember. In this period he will appear six, and perhaps
eight evenings. lie leaves England in October.

It is stated that the surveys ordered by Lord
Cranborne of Captain Sprye's proposed telegraph and
tramway route from Rangoon to the western frontier of
China, a distance of 500 miles, has been completed, and
that the results COII6TM the views expressed as to its de-
sirableness and practicability.

According to the Liberte a meeting of the share-
holders in the Wiesbaden and Ems Karmale was held last
week at the former place, to consider the oonditions pro-
posed by the Prussian government for the prolongation of
the gambling in those twopopularßheniah vratering-places.
The terms offered by the government on which the tables
might be kept open till the 31st of December, 1870, were
the creation of a reserve fund. The company was to pay
to the town 400,000 florins on the 31st of December, 1867,
a like sum on the 31st of December, 1868, and 200,000
dorins on the last day of December, 1869—altogether •
million of florins, or nearly 86.0001. The shareholders re-
jected this proposal as ruinous, and will submit a counter-
proposition. Homburg is in a similar dilemma.

Rieciotti Garibaldi is at present the guest of
Mr. Thomas B. Potter, M.P., Pitmen'., Perthshire.