The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-08 00:00:00

[STAIdPSD, la. ADDITIONAL]

The New York Constitutional Convention has
adjourned until November. It has not nearly I
completed its work, and has fallen far short of
what was expected of it thus far. The suffrage
question still remains unsettled ; the same thing
may be said of tho judiciary, and of muni-
cipal governments. The committees on these sub-
Pieta have all reported, but the convention has
not acted on their reports. The moil on the,
judiciary recommends tenure of office during good
behaviour, or until the age of event years ; and
election. The country diatricts,"it was felt, could
never be induced to go bach to tlnaold system of
appointment by the governor, because they feel
they get better judges under the present system of
popular selection than they did under that. This
is of course, very far from true of the large cities,
but unfortunately, as far as this is concerned, the
former are the ruling power in the State, and they
cannot be induced to change their own ways for
the benefit of the city, and it is doubtful whether
they would be willing to make an exception to
their general democratic theory in the case of the
cities. It is generally acknowledged that the plan
now proposed would work well everywhere but in
New York, and it would perhaps work well in New
York if it were not made a separate judicial dis-
trict electing its own judges, as it is now.

GERMANY.

(nom ova OWN

HAMBURG, Ocr. 3.

The negotiations that have been pending for a
long time between the King of Prussia and the ex-
King of Hanover concerning the future financial
position of the latter have now been brought to a
satisfactory conclusion, chiefly in consequence of
the declaration of his Prussian Majesty, that if the
question were not finally settled before the end of
September he should no longer be able to act in the
matter by his own free will, but should then have
to bring the future arrangement before the Prussian
parliament and be guided by their decision, which
would probably not be so favourable as the terms
now offered. This induced the ex-King to sign the
convention at the eleventh hour, and matters were
further facilitated by the absence of a formal abdi-
cation, as was at first insisted on. But the docu-
ment has a political importance, for, though only
nominally of a financial nature, by it the ex-King
virtually recognises the new order of things, thus ad-
mitting and indirectly confirming his abdication. By
the terms of the treaty King George is to receive
the sum of 16 millions of dollars, and the summer
palace of Herrenhausen, near Hanover, with its
domains, is to be considered his private property,
but placed under Prussian administration ; as one
of the principal conditions is that he is never again
to reside in his former kingdom. Nothing is said
in the convention relative to the interest on the
1600,0001. standing in his name in the Three per
Cent. Consols, which he will, therefore, continue
to enjoy ; but it is stipulated that he shall deliver
up to Prussia the money and state securities that
he managed to send over to London last year, and
which are now lying in the Bank of England.
The reports that have been for some time circulated
respecting the conversion of the ex-Queen Marie to
the Roman catholic church are now officially con-
firmed, and Father Blachard, a catholic priest, who
was last year banished from Hanover for his in-
trigues in the interests of the Guelphic dynasty,
has assumed the title and writes on his visiting
cards " Father Confessor to her Majesty Queen
Marie of Hanover."

Within the last few days the treaty between the
Crown of Prussia and the ex-Duke of Nassau has
also been concluded, the principal stipulations
being as follows : The ex-Duke receives the
nominal sum of fifteen millions of florins in
Prussian funds, bearing 411 per cent. interest, with
the interest on the same from JAIL 1, 1867 ; the
palace at Bieberich on the Rhine, with its gardens'
and circumjacent domains ; the Castle of Weilburg,
with its gardens and appurtenances; the palace in
the Sonnenberg-street at Wiesbaden, with the gar-
dens and buildings belonging to it ; the hunting
lodge on the Platte, near Wiesbaden, with the
forester, dwelling-house and garden ; the so-called
Saupark, near the Platte, with an area of forest-
land ; the forest of Grub, near Wiesbaden, with
the Greek chapel ; the estate of Hornau ; and the
stock of wines conveyed last year for security
to Strasburg, but subsequently claimed by
Prussia. (The value of these wines is esti-
mated at a million of florins.) The ex-Duchess
is to remain in the possession of Konigstein and
its domains. The Crown of Prussia undertakes
the payment of the apanage of Prince Nicholas of
Nassau, the half brother of the ex-Duke Adolph,
amounting to 18,0008. per annum, as well as the
pensions and annuities hitherto payable out of the
domain fund, and further the war loan contracted
last year with the house of Rothschild at Frank-
fort. Finally, Prussia abandons her claim to re-
imbursement of the 10,6008. appropriated by the
ex-Duke for his own private expenses out of the
domain fund belonging to the state.
On the other hand, the cellar of choice wines at
Rudesheim belonging to the state, and which fell
into the hands of the Prussians last year, has
been officially transferred by the Minister for War
at Berlin to the Finance Department, and is to be
brought to the hammer. It contains fourteen
casks of the best description of Rudesheim wine.

The nomination at Bradford is fixed for Tuesday
next, end the polling for thelollowing day.
!►t tho first meeting of the committee on Friday,
the 4th, for carrying out the arrangements for the ensuing
Lord Mayor's day, Mr. Deputy Tegg was elected chairman,
and Mr. Jame' Allen secretary.

THE EXPLOSION AT WOOLWICH ARSENAL. —The
patients in the infirmary of the Royal Arsenal are for the
dgreater part slightly improving. Another boy died yester-
ay morning, named Nolan, and the other lads, Lynch,
Lee, and Webb, remain still in a very precarious condi-
tioh there being but slight hopes of their recovery.
NOVEL RESULT OF A STRIKE.—On Saturday, at
the Huddersfield Police-court, Messrs. Liddell and Martin,
woollen manufacturers, Lindley, sued John Hincbliffe,
broad power-loom weaver, for compensation under the
Masters and Servant. Act, in consequence of lou sustained
by them through Hinchliffe and 18 other weavers ceasing
work before they had finished the piece then in their
looms. Mr. John Sykes prosecuted, and Mr. J. I. Free-
man defended. On the 12th September certain rules were
adopted, and copies placed in the weaving shed of the
prosecutors but one of the rules which the men had pre-
viously agreed to not being satisfactory to the operatives,
nineteen of them struck weak on the 26th September,
having their pieces unfinished, and causing a loss to their
employers of 461. 61., and the defendant was sued for
2/. 6s. 3d., being one-nineteenth part of the lose. After •
bearing which lasted three-and-alkali hours, the case was
determined in favour of the prosecutors, and the defendant
was ordered to pay 21. 6s. 3d. and the costs.
THE WSATH ER IN SCOTLAND. —The high and
piercing winds which prevailed in the early part of Let
week gave place towards the close to calm but very cold
wintry weather. There was a keen breeze from the north
during the day on Thursday and Friday; and at night
there were several degrees of frost. Saturday was bright
and clear, and somewhat milder; but there was again treat
after nightfall. A heavy fog hung around the city during
the whole of yesterday (Sunday), and some rain fell in the
afternoon, but the evening was fair, though cloudy. The
cereal crops have been almost wholly secured during the
last week, and potato lifting is now pretty generally com-
menced. All the Leith and continental steamers, for
whose safety some anxiety was felt inthe end of last week,
have now arrived, or have been heard of. The Ivanhoe,
from Amsterdam to Leith, put into Shields yesterday
short of coals. All vessels from the continental ports
have encountered dreadful weather.—Seoransaa.
METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL DEVONSHIRZ•
SQUARE, CITT.—The aggregate number otpitients relieved
during the week ending Oct. 5 was—Medical, 921; arse.
gioal, 665 ; total, 1,566; et which 696 wars now cane.

[TWOPENCE

Sat JALIINS KAY•SNUTTLEWUt:TN'S
SCHOOL RECOLLECTIONS.

On Saturday evening, the 28th ult., about 400
pomade of all ages, who had been scholars in the Bamford
Sunday school, accepted an invitation from the present
teaches' and friends to tea.

After tea the minister of the place, the Rev. Jwstre
BROWNX, took the ohau, briefly addressed the company,
and read some letters from old scholars who could not be
present. Mr. Browne also read the following interesting
letter from Sir J. P. Kay•Shuttleworth, Bart., a former
superintendent:

" Barbee, Westmoreland, Sept. 7.5, 1867.
"My dear Friends,—l regret that I cannot hope to avail
myself of your minister's iuvitation to be present at the
meeting of the old scholars of the Bamford Sunday school.
Probably few among you know that, for two or three
years before I went to college, and while I was living with
ray uncle Fenton at Batutord-hall, I took • very lively
intermit in your schooL I was a youth between fifteen
and eighteen years of age, and I devoted my leisure to
the organisation and management of the boys' school.
'Robert Porter, a deacon of the independent church, bad
charge of the girls' school. As these early events of my
youth have never faded from my memory, nor lost their
hold upon my feelinp, some of say remembrances may be
I interesting to you. Among the moat prominent of these is
my association with Thomas Jackson. He was the son of
the minister, and my moat active sasistant. He was
then a youth, learning his trade as • sboeuraker. He
wee crippled in the foot and leg, and of by so means • ro-
bust constitution ; but he had a wiry vigour of frame,
singular activity and energy, and considerable mental
power, bet only a very bumble elementary education.
He had then much quaint humour, was prone to be arch
and sarcastic, and was full of practical jokes. Beneath
this surface there was a depth and amputees of pur-
pose, and • sincere and fervent piety, which directed his
whole after-life. He taught in the Sunday-echool very re-
gularly, and with great energy. • • • • • I was
fond of accompanying the deacons in their visits on Sun-
days to remote folds' and hamlets in the hills of Black-
stone Edge and Todmorden, or sleet the range from
Hnowl-hill to Rowley-moor. I remember long
walks with the deacon, John Crabtree; his pious
conversation on the way, our &Irina at a weaver's
cottage in some far distant fold' on the edge of • wild
moor, the simple breakfast of oatcake or oatmeal porridge
and milk, the gathering of the neighbours, and the primi-
tive scriptural greetings sometimes uttered, the simple
eel-vices, and the quaint, rather dogmatic discourse of my
friend John. The mid-day meal of eggs, bacon, end oat-
cake ; then the walk home, and the arrival at Rumford in
the twilight or night. In these walks John bent his whole
influence to induce me to become • missionary ; but I had
an eager thirst for knowledge, and longed to go to the
university to study science, history, and metaphysics.
You know that the mantle of John Crabtree fell ou my
friend, Themes Jackson, who; in after years, while he sup-
ported his family by working at his tends as • shoemaker,
became adevoted missionary amongthe military hamletissul
remote villages of our Lancashire and Yorkshire highlands.
I have often heard him preach. His discourses were care-
fully prepared. They were characterised by much of the
quaintness of the old divines, and deeply tinctured by •
severe form of Calvinistic theology. But his icination
prevented his style from being harsh, and the geniality of
his disposition gave • winning sweetness to his manner, so
that the sternest doctrines of his creed were not repulsive
from his lips. I visited him from time to time to imbibe
somewhat of the spirit of his earnest life, and give him
some slight proof of sympathy in his labour.. Thus I
came to know that Thomas visited many outlying congre-
gations of weavers, miners, and labourers on the borders
of Derbyshire and Cheshire, and along theßlukstone Edge
range of hill.. He walked great distances to places re-
plete from any public conveyance. He commonly
lodged on the Saturday and Sunday nights in the cottage
of the deacon or other prominent member of the little con-
gregation, and conducted the worship on the Sunday,
either in some small chapel or in • cottage. There must
be in many secluded places a lively remembrance of the
earnest, nuwearied man who spent his life in such humble
but faithful imitation of Christ. I have a heartfelt plea-
sure in holding up to you the example of this noble-
hearted, good man—in pointing to his simple, cheerful
life—to his struggle with natural infirmity of body, and
his triumph over it, and to his self-sacrificing labours
under the influence of fervent religious zeal. At last, he
bad to suffer under grievous chronic disease, which slowly
wasted his strength, until his life flickered out. But his
hope rose as his vital fore, failed, and he died strong in
faith and full of charity. I wish I could remeuiber as
much of John Ashworth who was one of my scholars in
your Sunday school. Yon know that John Ashworth
is the missionary of Rochdale. He has published
beets, of which some hundred thousand copies hare
been sold. He has done more than any other man to
keep alive and spread the faith in Christ among the
manual labour class in the valley of the Roche, and his
missionary labours extend to many distant pieces. Early
in the cotton famine I visited Rochdale with a friend, to
make myself acquainted with the orpoisatioo of relief
there. We were in the stores from which bread, meal,
soup, and other food were given, and were examining the
forms of their amounts, and the modes of distribution.
Two members of the relief committee were explaining to
us their methods, when one of them said to me, • I am one
of your former Sunday scholars.' At Bamford Chapel?'
I inquired. Yes,' he mid, 'I am John Ashworth.' I
did not before that know that John Ashworth bad been
one of our Bamford Sunday scholars. Since that time I
have read all John Ashworth's tracts, and watched his
career. My conviction is that be is • noble-hearted man,
with • natural genius fur his work as an evangelist. You
ought to rejoice, as I do, that your Sunday echoed has pro-
duced such • man. I would not have you, however,
think that the Sunday school can do all that is
needed in the instruction and training of youth. The
Sunday school was the root from which sprang our system
of day schools. The force which makes religious training
the chief aim of the elementary day school was derived
from this root. The congregational organisation of our
school system had the same origin. Long before even en-
lightened statesmen and leaders of public opinion cared for
the education of the people the congregation had begun
the work in the Sunday school. When the government
first attempted to organise national education, it not only
found this machinery ready to its hand, but it also, after
various experiments in other directions, found that the
churches and congregations contained within themselves
a zeal and purpose as to public education which existed in
no civic body, not even in the parliament itself. Even
now, when great political changes have niade the edu.
anon of the people • necessity of the state, I cannot
conceive that any purely civic body like a com-
mittee of ratepayers or • town council can, in the present
state of information, opinion, and feeling, without mite
chief, supersede the congregation in the management of the
school. On the other baud, the congregational ..:drool will
have to become • public school, in which the civil rights of
the minority, however small and humble, will have to be
respected. On this beans the schools, which have sprung
from the root of the Sunday school, and retain both the
original aim of religious training and the congregational
organisation, may well be included in • national system
supported both by the general taxation and by
local rates. Your Sunday school has, as I am in-
formed by your minister, borne its natural fruit
—a congregational day school, attended by eighty
&cholera from what I know of the district. /
think this number ought to be greatly increased. That
increase would be insured if your children came to school
at an earlier age and remained to a later age, and if they
were kept more regularly at school. Few grow up without
sumo schooling, but the period of their instruction is too
short and too much interrupted. You ought not to confine
your exertions to the payment of the school pence, but to
make whatever sacrifice of wages or of home services is
required to assure to them a thorough elementary educa-
tion. The Sunday school will be regarded more and more
as a part of the religions organisation of the congregation.
The day school will, I hope, always retain the object of
bringing up our youth religiously, but it will also be
adapted to the political wants of the state, and to
the civil rights of the minority. We do not mato revolu-
tions iu England, but our institutions grow and speed
like our oaks. So this school system, which has had a
congregational origin, will grow, change, and spread until
it is national. New I bid you Godspeed. I have written
all thew words from my heart. I often think of l'..inford,
and I should not wonder if, among my last thoughts, is
tbe Sunday school in the organisation and management of
which I, 4.1 years ago, received the first impuhe to ob-
serve, inquire, and ponder on the methods and discipline
of schools for the people.—l am, my dear friends, your
sincere well-wisher,
(Signed) "JAMES P. KAT-SHUTTLSWOUTIL
"To the Old Scholars of the Bamford Sunday SchueL"

LORD BROUGHAM ON BLIICTOR.AL
The following note Is published in a contemporary :
"Brougham, Penrith, Oct. 2.—Lord Brougham has at-
tained his 90th year, and is anxious about the course things
are to take after him. Ills inset important dcath•bed
legacy is the repre.sion of electoral corruption. There
wants no new laws, but the vigorous improvement of the
existing laws. The law is clear, that the ex•otdieial power is
sufficient to arm the government with all proper authority.
If the ex-offtial power is exercised against electoral abuses,
no objection can be made ; and that any well-deserved
prosecution should fail would be a subject of real and Sill-
cern regret ; but this is sot likely, when we consider the
open manner in which bribery has been avowed in matey
borough■. Let it always be kept in view that the ex-
posure of electoral corruption is necessary for restoring the
character of pa. liament ; and it is evident that there sea
be no difficulty in proving what is universally stated."
CRYSTAL PALACE. ONZ SHILLING DAY.—
MiNDAY, Ocr. 7, 1867. Admissions on payment,
1,9,32 ; ditto by season tickets, 816. Total visitors, 2,798.