The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-21 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER AND THE EXPENDI-
TURE UPON EPISCOPAL TALAClLS.—Yesterday the Bishop
of Rochester reconseersted Wembourne Church, near to

Wolverhampton, which has bean enlarged and rebuilt—a
ceremony which he performed for the Bishop of Lichfield.
At the luncheon afterwards Lord Lyttelton proposed the
health of the right rev, prelate. Bishop Claughton, in
the course of his reply, said :—There hss been an attempt
lately to cot what I consider a very undeserved odium
upon bishops by members of the House of Commons
asking for the returns of what has been laid out upon
bishops' residences. (Hear, hear.) I saw the other day
a great many thousand pounds mentioned as having
been laid out upon the residence of the Bishop of
Rochester. Now, how does the case really stand? They
sold the old residence of the Bishop of Rochester for—(s.
Clergyman—" Hen its value ")—for half its value ! Why,
they could have sold it for four times as much if they
could have welted. They sold it, and they bought another
with • good part of the money. Well, then, I think it is
a great shame to say that we have been laying out all the
money that ought to have been spent upon hard-working
curates upon buthops' residences. They did no such thing.
They were ignorant of the transactions ; and if they had
waited till now they might have supplied four bishops'
residences out of the same sale, without in the least in-
fringing upon the hard-working curates—(applause)—
whom I am the first man, and not the last, to consider.
(Renewed applause.) Well, but I bad a residence besides
that, given to the Bishops of Rochester by some great
layman in former days—some 200 years ago—which would
have served me eery well to have done my duty under the
shade of the cathedral, there to take a part, such as a
bishop likes to take, in the heart—for • midlevel is the
heart of his diocese. (Applause.) Well, what did they
do with that? One morning the good people of Rochester
arose from their beds and found that the bishop's resi-
dence had been sold for 1,000/., whilst any one of them
would have been glad to have given 2,000/. or 3,000/. for it
that day. And so they did away with my chance of living
close under my cathedral, a duty—my duty—of every
bishop ; end I believe all the bishops in the church of
England at home and all the colonial bishops wish to do
their duty. (Applause.)
ScorcusiEN Ix Lorrootr.—The number of Scotch
in this capital is absurdly overrated. Though London is
inhabited by • larger per mintage of strangers or non-
natives than almost any other city in the universe—New
York and some American mixturesofcceinopolitan humanity
excepted, of course—yet the number of Scotch men settled
here is wonderfully small. Looking again at the official
census returns of 1861 I see it slated that while only
62 per cent of the inhabitants of the metropolis were born
within its limits, but one per cent, of the mass of strangers
was made up of natives of Scotland. The figures are :
Total population of London, 2,803,969 ; natives of London,
1.741.1177 ; natives of south-eastern counties of England,
222,319; of south midland. 147,132; of eastern counties,
156,592; of south-western, 128,444; of midland counties.
110,601; of Ireland, 106,877; and finally. nativesof Scotland
35,733. Thus it will be seen that the tendency of the Scotch
to go to London is considerably less than the movement in
the same direction of the people of any otherpart of Great
Britain and of Ireland. Even foreigners are far more
numerous in London than Scotchmen. The census returns
show 47,419 natives of foreign countries, besides 15,389
natives of British colonies—foreigners de facto, if not de
jure. Dividing the inhabitants' London into groups of
10,000, we find that in every such group there are 6,209
Radom of the capital—Codmeys per long, more or less—
while 792 are from the south-eastern counties, 524 from the
south-midland, 658 from the eastern counties, 458 from the
south-western, 381 from Ireland, 223 from foreign and
colonial parts, and but 127 from Scotland. Looking to the
countries of origin, and taking the figure 1,000 as the popu-
lation basis, we find that to 1,000 people in Yorkshire
there are 13 Yorkshiremen in London ; to 1,000 people in
Wales, there are 15 of Welsh birth in London ; to 1,000
people in the northern counties, there are 16 northern men
by birth in London ; but to 1,000 people in Scotland there
are not quite 12 Scotchmen in London.—London &Menton.
RAILWAY AcctesisTa.—The third part of a series
of reports upon certain accidents that have occurred on
railways during the months of April, May, and June of the
current year. has been recently published. It gives details
as to 12 accidents, one of which occurred on the Caledonian
Railway, one on the Glasgow and South-Western, two on
the Great Northern, one on the Great Western, two on
the London, Brighton. and South Coast, one on the
Midland, and four on the North-Eastern Railway. The
nature of these accidents may be thus particularised :
Six collisions, three in which, from various causes,
trains left the rails, one in which • showman's van,
carried on a truck, cams into contact with the
arch of • bridge; on* in which a lifeboat, carried
in the same way, came into collision with the carriage
of a train travelling on the other line of rails ;
and one in which an engine came into collision with buffer
stops at the end of • station. The most serious casualty
appears to have been that on the Midland Railway, which
occurred near the Methley station, on the 24th of April
last, and which resulted in the death of the engine driver
and very severe injuries to the fireman. The engine left
the rails when the speed of the train was about 35 miles
per hour, and it is suggested in the report that this was
caused by the worn state of the rsiis at this part of the
line. Two accidents happened to trains in which it was
' discovered that no communication existed between the
guard and the driver, and of the six collisions above-men-
tioned, four took plum at junctions, and all appear to have
occurred for want of proper attention, or strict adherence
to rules on the part of the companies' servants.
The total receipts of the Indian railways for the
quarter of 1867 were 1,503,0601., the miles of line open
being 3,5351.