The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-25 00:00:00

litre Court.

BALMORAL, OCT. 23.
The Queen went out accompanied by Princess
Louise, and attended by the Ron. Emily Cathcart.
Princess Christian drove with the Duchess d'Aumale to
the Linn of Dee.

A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall on matters
relating to the cattle plague. The Lords present were the
Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole and the Right Hon.
Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison attended the committee.
Deopatehes were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Offence. of Canada.
The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's
°canoe', k.c., at his lordship's residence, No. 7, Eaton-
square, on Friday, November 2 (the first day of
llichaelmas term), at 12 o'clock.

PROROOATION or PARLIAIKENT.—(THIS Dart.)—
This morning the ceremony of proroguing the imperial
parliament was performed in the House of Lords with the
customary formalities, but without any of the exciting
interest which ordinarily marks the close of a session.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee yester-
day afternoon at the Horse Guards. It was numerously
attended.
Accounts received yesterday report an improve-
ment in the Marl of Clarendoa's health.
Viscount Hamilton will accompany his Royal

Highness the Prince of Wales to St. Petersburg, to be pre-
sent at the wedding of the Czarewitch and the Princess
Dagmar.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left Dun-
robin Cutle for the season on Tuesday, for Tarbert House,
Ross-shire, where they propose staying for a week, and
will then proceed to Stafford House.
The Earl of Dalhousie has left Claridge's Hotel
for Brechin Castle, N.B.
The death is recorded of the Hon. Henry E.
Dormer, ensign in the GOth Rifles, who died on the 2nd
inst. at London, Canada West. The gallant officer was
the youngest eon of Lord and Lady Dormer, and was born
Nov. 2J, 1844.
Prince Napoleon, attended by Colonel Ferri-
Pisani, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel.
The Archdeacon of Surrey yesterday read his
annual charge to the metropolitan clergy of the diocese of
Winchester, in the Lady Chapel of St. Saviour's, South-
wark. He spoke of ritualism, the decrease in the number
of candidates for holy orders, the prospects of the church,
and several other topics of interest to the clergy.
Kensington Church, which Bishop Blomfield
need to designate the ugliest in his diocese, is nevertheless
convenient and capacious, and it appeared sufficiently sub-
stantial for many years. But some months ago symptoms
of decaywere disoovered,which induced the churchwardens
to have it carefully examined by two architects, who have
united in condemning it as incapable of being used for pub-
lic worship more than two or three years longer. The
vicar and churchwarden' are exerting themselves to raise
subscriptions for a new edifice, worthy of a great metropo-
litan parish.
The Cardinal Prince John Scitoveky, Arch-
bishop of Gran and Primate of Hungary, who has just
d'ed, addressed the following letter to the Emperor of
Austria a short time before his death :—" Gran, Oct. 13.
Eternity is near ! The God of mercy and of truth calls
me. I resign my soul into his hands. But before leaving
this lire I cannot omit to place at the feet of your Majesty
my most warm thanks for the numerous testi-
monies of favour I have received from you. I
wish your Majesty a long l'fe, joy, and happiness,
slci I pray God that the success of the glorious go-
Ten:anent of your Majesty may find one of its most brilliant
illustrations in the splendour and aggrandisement of the
church and of my dear country. May Almighty God bless
your Majesty, the Empress, Prince Rodolphe, heir to the
throne, and the Archduchess Gisele, and may the bene-
diction of God rest for all time upon the entire Imperial
house'—Cardinal JOHN SCTIOVSKT."
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALE/I.—NOR-
WICH, WEDNESDAY.-officiftl notice has been received
that two troops of Dragoons Guards will be sent to serve
as an escort to the Prince and Princess of Wales on the;r
visit to this city. To-day the town council met for the
purpose of finally determining upon the address to be
p -vented to the Prince. The address will be presented
on Wednesday in the Connel Chamber at the nildh►ll,
which is now being fitted up for the purpose. An address
will afterwards be presented in the same place by the
bishop and clergy of the diocese. The general nature of
the an angements has been already indicated. After the
morning performance in connexion with the festival on
Wednesday, tl-eir royal highnesses will proceed to Chapel
Field, where they will plant two trees to commemorate
their visit. The Prince will then be escorted to a drill
shed built for the Norwich volunteers, and the building
will be formally opened by him. The illuminations at
Norwich, on Wednesday evening, will be on a very exten-
sive scale, and altogether the Prince and Princess will re-
ceive a right royal welcome in old Norwich.
LORD SHAFTESBURY ON CHUBAIi QUESTIONS.

In addressing a Bible Society meeting at Salisbury on
Tuesday evening, Lord Shafteelsuay said that whilst they
felt interested in the circulation of the Scriptures abroad,
their greatest interest just now should be for home. He
confessed that he stood aghast when he saw arch dire-
ful heresies rising up under the name of tiactarianism.
Tractarianism was not, however, the right name. It was
full-blown, arrogant, insolent popery rising up in the
church of England on the one hand. and cold-blooded,
scientific rationalism on the other. They were apparently
antagonistic, but in reality they were one and the same
thing. Whether they built up popery in the country, or
whether they fostered neology or rationalism, the result
would be to bring the great masa of the people to one deal
level of unbelief and infidelity. Such an effect indeed
was being already produced. What he feared was not
that the people would become papiste—not that they
would become regularly established neologiets, but that
they would fall into as utter state of indifference about
religion. Rationalism was the most fatal thing that be
could possibly conceive, and the only way to obviate it
WAS by the most diffused circulation of the Scriptures.
With the progress of all these heresies, the circulation of
the Scriptures inns:coed also. So far from diznieishing
the demand for the Scriptures was greater every week ,• and
that was a matter for which they mart all heartily thank
God. There was one thing against which he would warn
them. He did not know that he ever read any ;king with
more horror and dismay than he did the statement of one of
the bishops of the colonial church, that there was not
throughout the whole of the Scriptures any command to
worship our Lord as God ; a statement that ad aside
the whole tenour of the Scriptures and some of the most
magnificent texts to be found in the whole range of the
Bible. But he would not say anything further on the
point, for he could not trust himaell to speak upon it.
He knew perfectly well that if he were to speak upon it
he might break out into great warmth. A rote had been
sent up to the platform asking his opinion on " Ease
Homo." He could only repeat the statement that he
made at the meeting of the Pastoral Aid Society, and for
which he had been attacked, that in his opinion it was the
vilest book that had ever been written. It was perfectly
true that at the Pastoral Aid meeting he used • e
prodigiously strung--expression ; but he could not retract
a word of it. He knew that it might be no strong for the
public, bet it wee sot too strong to express the truth. Be
could not, therefereretreet a single syllabi*.
CANDLICWICI. WARD.—III compliance with a
unanimously signed requisition, Mr. C. Y. Game, of Can-
non-street. Kea consented to serve in the above ward.