The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-05 00:00:00

RENIkRKS

The northern temperatures have risen consfilerahly. with a
fresh d6ninutlun of barometric pressure. In the n. wilt of
S .uland the h.trometer is nearly an inch lower titan at Rochefort.
Tue wind,hasc, in must instance:, returned to owth•west. Call-
: i..tiar) teletJwins have been sent to the northern, western, and
southern costs.

RITrALTSM AT ST. ALBAN'S, HOLBORN.—TeS-
tenlay again there was an overwhelming congregation at
St. Alban 's, Holborn, and some hundreds of persons who
arrive 1 after 11 o'clock vainly strove to obtain admission.
Morning prayer was said, as usual, at half-past 10, and
the communion office (a separate service) commenced at a
quarter past 11. Four priests took part in it, three of
them wearing white vestments, with chasubles, the cele-
brant (the Rev. H. A. Walker, M.A., of Oriel College,
Oxford) having a large embroidered cross on his back.
The fourth (the Rev. A. H. Stanton, M.A., of University
College, Oxford), who was the preacher, wore • purple
surplice, with a white stole, and his university
hood. He selected for his text the words, "Our
conversation is of heaven," from the epistle of the
day. In the course of his sermon, which was delivered
with extraordinary earnestness and vigour, he said that
probably these were some in the immense congregation
before him to whom the mode of carrying on the servicea
in that church was distasteful. To many ornate ritualism
might be objectionable, and persons who entertained such
views would be apt to think that they had nothing
in common with the clergy of St. Alban's. But
they had a great deal in common, for they
were all members of the same church, bad the
Lame Saviour to worship, the same God to glorify ;
they had all the mime heaven to gain, the same hell to
avoid. They had established there • holy bond which
bound them together, which no ecclesiastical disturbances
or any earthly power could sever. and the foundation of
it was the words of his text—" Our conversation is of
Heaven." Mr. Walker, the celebrant, made no secret of
the elevation of the Host. After consecrating the bread
he held the paten high above his bead, and then knelt
in secret prayer before proceeding further with the office.
He adopted the same course with the chalice after come-
crating the wine. Although the church was so crowded,
very few went up to the alter to communicate. It was
announced by the preacher, before commencing his ser-
mon, that the prayers of ti.e congregation were desired
for the 11ev. Charles Argentine Alington, M.A., of Merton
College, Oxford, who is about to join the Central African
Mission under Bishop Tozer.
TUB LATZ OUTRAGE AT SHITFIELD.—The excite-
ment which this outrage first caused in Sheffield seems
apparently to be but little abated, and on all sides • desire
is expressed that a commission of inquiry sherill be ap-
pointed, so that, if possible, the guilty parties might be
brought to justice, and the question decided once for all
whether this and other outrages which have made Sheffield
notorious were committed with the consent and with the
connivance of trades' unions The unionists themselves are
desirous that a commission should be appointed, the leaders
of the various trades' unions in the town having expressed
their perfect readiness to meet an inquiry, and their con-
fidence that it would show the outrages to be the work of
malevolent persons, and not of trades` unions. The town
council at their List meeting appointed a deputation to
wait upon the Home Secretary for the purpose of repre-
senting to him the propriety of • commission of inquiry
being instituted. The 'manufacturers' committee appointed
• deputation to accompany the one from the town council,
and their example has been followed by the Cutlers' Com-
pany and by the Chamber of Cowmen's. A meeting of the
council of the Chamber of Commerce was held on Friday,
when the following resolution was adopted :—" That a do-
putation,consisting of the president and vice-president, Mr.
Charles Atkinson, be appointed to act in conjunction with
the deputations from other public bodies in the town, and
wait upon the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, her Ma-
jesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, to confer with him as to the obtaining of a royal
commission to inquire into the circumstances of the recent
trade outrage in sew Hereford street, and other outrages
of a similar character, which had bees unhappily frequent,
and also generally into the working operation of trades'
unions in Sheffield, with a viewed putting ao end to the
system of terrorism to which both employers and numbers
of workmen are at present exposed ." At • meeting of the
Cutlers' Company, held on the same day, it was resolved
" To appoint a deputation to co-operate with the deputa-
tions of the other public bodies with reference to the
Hereford-street outrage, and to ask for a commission of
inquiry into the circumstances connected therewith, either
directly or indirectly."
GREAT NOBTBIRN HOSPITAL, CALIDONIAN-ROAD,
Istmoroir.—Number of patients for the week wading
Nov. 3, 1,081, of which 296 ware new mass.