The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-10 00:00:00

TO 'lllll 1111101% OP TON 1:01M11.

Sin,—As one very deeply interested in this ques-
tion, from having friends resident in Spain, I thank you for
your advocacy of the muse, and I beg to forward for in-
sertion a correct draft of a memorial which (with attain
local alterations) was forwarded from Alicante, Den* dc,
last winter. Loral John Russell I knew took up the case
moot warmly, and received an assurance that " the Spanish
government wan (pule disposed to be f►vourable to British
protestants if they had their worship privately, and did not
attempt to proselytise." Now, lam anxious to know if the
Spanish government endorses or repudiates the document
(No. 2) which was sent to an English gentleman six weeks
ago in the north of Spain, because on English clergy.
man had ainembloi thirty or forty Englishmen for Divine
service.-1 am, &c.,

DI TOLERATION.

" ToAthttateht Hee. Lord Jahn Russell. Her Britannia
s Principal. Secretary of State for Foreign

" The Nesaarial of the undersigned British Subjects, nui•
dent in —,

" Hwably showeth,—That your ruemorialiMs have long
felt the want of the ministration of their religion and of
education for their chndren, there being no meansof malting
for worship, and no schools but Roman catholic once, m
which the children of British protestant suijeote Sr. totally
Inadm4suble.by law, except by Wooer* Romaaiste. That
of
ainmuzi uitcs, in order to obtain the blesser' gs of re.
soil wadi," aro willing to subscribe funds to the
utmost d their mats ; but the, feel any such efforts on
their pert to be entirely unavaibug in the present state of
the law of Spahr.
" In Lord Howden's report, dated September 22, 1851, it
is state d—• By the law of the land there is but one religion
professed in Spain—the Boman cattiotio—and no oilier form
o: worship is tolerated ; therefore, until this law, which is
~iso in the constitatiou of the oountry, is changed
or modified, no facility for the establishment of proteetant
places of worship !grebe given, for it ia nut a matter which
depends on the private individuals in power, or on the ag-
gregate degree of liberality pervading any cabinet.'
"Again, the Royal Decree, dated Madrid, NosWnihar 17,
1862, says (Art. :tr.) No foreigner shall be able to pro.
tee W Sp.mr any other uligion thsu the Catholic Apostolat
Roman religion.' And in the letter of the Spanish Minister
of Foreign Affairs to the British minister, dated Nat=
24, likr4i, it reference to the bone' of the deed, leis
that—' No church, chapel, nor any other sip of a temple,
or of public or private worship, will he allowed to be built
in the aforesaid cemetery. All acts which am give say
indiiritions of the performance of divine worship whatsoever
are prohibited. In the COO,Prltini of the deed bodies to
the burial ground, any pomp or publicity shall be avoided.'
"That your memorialista,therefonr, pray your lordship to
intercede with the Spanish government foe such en liner-
invention of the existing law as will enable British sub-
jecte resident in Spain to have the same religious liberty se
they possess in France and Portugal, sad even in Rome
itself, and which Spanish subjects enjoy in England ; er, at
loop that they shall be tacitly permitted to have • resident
chaplain of the church of England at —, • congregation
etc naively confined to British protestant subjects in a pri-
vate dwelling, a school far their children, end Christian
burial for their dead. . .

"That your memorialists respectfully submit to her
Majesty's rvernment that the uninterrupted exercise of
their rashest Le a foredo laud is at least as important as
the protection of their civil rights ; but, while claiming
this position for tlimiaalves, they altogether dime°w any
interkvence, direct or indirect, with the established religion
of the country.
" Year memorialists are aware that in other parts of
Spain private protestant worship is tolerated by the audio-
sties but they have n 41.11 to apprehend that the same
measured tolerance would not be extended in this part of
the country ; they feel, therefore, naturally desirous, before
snaking arrangement. to follow their protestant brethren
is other places, to have some guarantee that they will not
bo interrupted or become amensll- to the existing law of
Spain in the matter, so long as they strictly confine them-
selves within such regulations as may be thought proper,
and that the departure therefrom shall deprive them of such
advantage.
" That your memorialists have been encouraged to make
fhb application by the arrival, on the fitb inst. of the Rev.
Alexander J. D. D'Orsey, the Bishop of Gibraltar's mis-
sionary chaplain, seat by his lontaLip for the purpose of
organising permanent chuplaiacies—au object they ardently
desire, bet which hitherto they have believed impracticable.
"—January 7, 1860."

THE Srang Dusts.—The affair of the Stade dues
(according to a letter from Berlin) now stands thus :
limuiver has not yet replied to Lien last English propos!•
tions, but deliberations are about to take place in Hanover
respecting the answer to be given. It is reported that the
Hanovertsn government has coufideutially requested the
enhinet of London to prolow the Angla-liaseveriau Treaty
of the 22nd July, 1844. Al, to Belgians, die, on the Treaty
November last, denounced the treaty of the 15th January,
1842, with Hanover, which expires on she 25th February,
1861. II before that deer Hanover doe* not, by a new
arrangement with Belgium. wootince the levy of the Blade
tolls on .Bellian mese" Hanoverian chips will no longer
ho reimbursed the tolls of the Scheldt which they have to
pay in Belgium.
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