The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-04 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OP 011101 D AND THE CON-

PIBIIION4L.

The oomminioners in the late Boyne-hill ease
here each received the following letter from the Bishop of
Oxford :

Levingten-howie, Petworth, Sept. 30.
" Gentlemen,—l have received the report of your Com-
mission of Inquiry into the charges brought against Mr.
West, and heartily accept as my own the decision at which,
after a fall examination of the matter, you hays arrived.
"In thus formally adopting your decision, I wiab, for the
oaks of my diocese at large, to add a few words on the mo-
ral subject of confession.

" As I have already dated In writing to Mr. Shaw, I bold
it to be a pert of the wisdom and tenderness of the Church of
England that she provides for any parishioner who in Bick-
nell, shall feel his censoleace troubled with say weighty
=Aar' being' moved to make special mewl= of his sins ;*
and that she also provides for those who before Holy Comma-
aka %moot quiet their own consciences being invited to
math* grief to the minister of God's Word.'

" In meld 4 thla special and limited prey...eon for troubled
souls, I hold that the Church of England discountenance.
any attempt on the part of her clergy to introduce a system
of habitual oonfeesion, or, In order to carry out such a
system, to require men and women to submit themselves to
the questioning and examination of the priest. Such a
eyeteer of inquiry into the accrete of henna must, in my
judgment, lead to innumerable evils. God forbid that our
clergy should administer or that our wives sod daughters
should he subjected to it. lam care that any attempt to
' introduce it would throw gtievoue difficulties in the way cg
that tree ministerial interootree with our people which, for
their sakes and for the efficiency of our niiuistag, It Is all
important to maintain open and nosuspected.—l am, dco.,
"8. OION.
"The Commiesioners of the Boyne-hill Inquiry."

SIB G. O. LEVIS, N.P., ON P.

MORAL

KNIGHTON, SATURDAY.
The annual meeting of the Radnorshire Agricul-
tural Association took place yesterday afternoon in this town,
and was largely attended by the gentry and agriculturists of
the surrounding district.
The public dinner wea held in the evening, at the Farmers'
Club-house. air G. C. Lewis took the chalr, and was sup-
pmied by Sir J. Welsh, M.P., the Rev. T. Gress, MOM.
Mynas, Women, Peters, J. B. Green, Banks, 80.
&r G. C. Lewis, M.P., in proposing the touts of the
evening, took masks to his confidence in the jogai%
sentiments towards Baglmd of the majority of the French
nation. With regard to parliamentary refold), he observed, "It
is said that the eirmunstances of the times demand • apts.
matic plan of parliamentary reform. lam not dietitian( that
proposition, but I only say that any government which brings
or proposee to bring forward a plan of parliamentary reform
is bound to state distinctly what is the evil they proles to
remedy, and what are the detects in our present system which
they intend to remove. I must be permitted to remark that
those persons who think it is possible by some praxes of in-
genuity to propose a Reform Bill which shall increase the
power of • particular party, which shall throw an lUCT(49II of
influence into the hands of a particular clams of the commu-
nity, are entirely mistaken in their supposition that any mea-
sure, any contrivance, any device of that kind,
will impose on the general intelligence of the
country or inflame the decision of parliament. In my
opinion, in whatever form a Reform Bill may be introduced
into the Howe of Commons, it will come out of that house a
real Reform Bill, Increasing the popular character
of the legislature. It will give greater weight to
the voios of the people in the councils of the Horn
of Commons, and if any government should entertain different
views, and propose a Reform Bill not having that object, In
my opinion they will not only be grievously disappointed in
their erpeotnione, but will attemptto pan off &deception upon
the country. That most, in my opioiou, be the necessary result
of any proposal which may be made at the present time for
parliamentary reform, and I will add that, as it seems to ma,
at is the only legitimate bean upon which such a proposal
am be made. (" Hear, hear," and chews.) I ern very
mach indebted to you for the kind manner in which you
have listened to the remarks I have offered on this subject,
and I thank you cordially for the manner in which you have
drunk my health. The right hon. baronet tesumd his seat
amid load cheers.

The toast of Prosperity to the Radnorshire Agricultural
Association" was then given from the chair, rid the list of
print having been read,
Sir J. WA LS H, M.l'., in proposing the health of the
chairman, observed—l agree very much with what my
right hon. friend said, that any change which is made must,
in the present condition and temper of the country, be in the
daerocmtio direction. I cannot conceive that any govern-
ment would be successful in presenting to the Imislature and
the country any scheme of what we may call reaction, how-
ever carefully veiled and disguised. I believe that the acute-
ness of our opponents and the general sense of the country
would very soon detect any latent tendency of that kind,
Sack an attempt would be not only unsuccessful, but would
be followed by that discredit and loss of reputation which in-
variably in this country attends en attempt to am • disin-
genuous pan. (Cheers.) One remark I may venture to
make to this assembly, as it is a truth strongly impressed en
my own mind, namely, that it is a very great and pre-
valent mistake in the present ege, to nylons that all re-
forms, se they are called, are changes and Innovations
in the direction of democratic extension, which is idomf by
some identified with the cams of liberty. (Hear, hear.) I
believe there lino greater mistake In politics then to identify
those two vary difierent words and principlos—to suppose
that democracy and liberty are synonymous. (Cheers.)
Sir G. C. Imwts, after returning thanks for the honour
done him, said—l moat apologise for having called your
attention to subjects of more general interest than even that
of agriculture, but there are not many occasions upon which
Sir John Walsh and myself, the only representatives of this
county, have the opportunity of addressing so large a body of
our constituents. 'there Is one sentiment to which my bon.
Mend has given utterance and which I think will meat IVA
general concurrence, namely, that we are not necessarily to
identify democracy with tinny, we are not necessarily to
suppose that progress in the direction of democracy will itself,
without proper guards and securities, Menem our public
liberties. (Cheers.) He has taken you across the Channel t
and asked you to contemplate the political condition of the
kingdom of France. I will ask you to look across the Blies,
to look to Germany as well as to France, and say whether
the hasty and ill-considered rush they made a few years ago
fa the direction of democracy has not ended in riveting
despotism on their necks. Nothing is more obvious than
that • hasty and 11l considered attempt to run by a short cut
to the goal of democracy, will land you in the very opposite
goal. (" Hear, beer," and cheers.) I will, however, add
one remark to those which 811. John Welsh ham made,: end
that Is, that hitherto, in my opinion, all Mesons which we
in this country have made in the direction of demeeneys
have likewise bean advances in the dinettes of liberty.
(Hear, hear.) That has been owing to the mations manna
In which the progress has been mein, sad to the man-
ner in which public measures sew proposed and conaidand
this country. (Cheers) That width has been hitherto will,
I eincerely treat, continue to be the case. It is with a vier
of contributing my swell mite to that conclusion, that I have
ventured to throw out coy sentiments with respect to the
mining Reform Bill. I met those who propose it will form
a distinct Ida of what it is they seek to accomplish. I trust,
alio, they will make an honest sad Snare proposal, and that
they will not attempt to accomplish one thing under the
mask of another. If they do, they will have the certainty of
detection before their eyes. No political trick in this country
ever peens undetected, and the certain result is a reaction of
publie opinion, and • tendency to advance too rapidly la the
direction contrary to that In which an attempt may have
been made to mislead the public. From whatever quarter a
Redeem Bill may come, and in whatever shape It maz=
sent Itself, I trust it will receive that consideration
will who It obtains the sanction of the legislature, make It
teed to the public good, sad as I feel sure it will be. and
moat be, in the direction of democracy, so I believe it may be
brought to increase our fabbe Shensi. (Cheers.)
Several other toasts of a purely local character WIN thee
drunk, and the proceedings terminated.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT IN SHETLAND.—Another
of these sad boat casualties which at often wear In the
ate* sad are so frrquently attended with loos of life, has
taken place is Shetland, resulting in the drowning of two
mu. Oa Thursday last a Dunrossnes• crew were engird
in the barring &thing, and, utter hauling their nide and
setting nil for land, the boat being well laden with herrings,
miss was struck by a heavy sea, which threw her on her
side, in which pmitiou she remained, the mil preventing the
boat from either totally upsetting or righting. The cram all
got on the boat, but in about an hour after one of them let
go his bold from complete exhaustion, and was was
more seen. The other three continued to hold oa
by the boat for about four hours, one of them sorist•
fag his father; bat no aid appeering the yoang maw
was compelled to let go his bold of his aged perm;
in order to preserve himself. The old man immediately
mak beneath the waters. la this perilous condition the two
remaining EOM continued, tossed about at the moray of the
waves, and oil la the wreck of their boat, tUI after tea
e'eleek la the larawaee, or nearly siz boars after the sod-
ding 6e crew of • smack belonging to Mr.
h d min at acme littla dimwits. heed
Mk gassing
ma *dr milled= Wag deemed to
dare they bon they d, ebeereed the ewe we ail the La
ingi
the wok, owl isessatly easttitle Meow
them ow bawd, a work abetted with peg dratg-10
the enleasted state of the aaffensre, and of
stets of the sea, they pot their vessel aboetZlire=
landed the mm at the Birkabister Lighthouse. The ma
1 who helped his father so long was not expected to Ii Sj
coming ashore; but we are glad to say he has grestV 1r
covered, end has gone home on hanaback.—lrerthaa
rigs.
CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL TOE DIIILLeaI or
THI Carat, VICTOkIA-PLItIL.—The somber of primate
relieved at this institution daring the bet weak was 968, of
which 143 were sew mess.