The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-20 00:00:00

WORM DEMONSTRATION AT WHITSCHAPEL.

Yesterday afternoon, in accordance with a
request of the Bishop of Landes. a meeting was held at
the Vas -room of St. James's Church, Piocedilly, for
the purpose of considering the propriety of raising a
tton, me-
monal of the Right Rev. Dr. George Lynch Co
seventh Bishop of Calcutta, who was drowned a few weeks
sines while engaged in the work of his diocese. The very
Her. the Dean of Westminster presided. The Rev. E.
Parry, M.A., rector of Act*, moved the first resolution,
"That this meeting, called toliment the heavy loss which the
ohurch at large has sustained (tithe death of the late tame
**op of Calcutta, desires to tender its respectful an
fervent sympathy with Mrs. Cotton and the other membere of
his family under the calamity with which it has pleased
God to afflict them." This was seconded by the Rev. Dr.
Mullins, late missionary of the London Missionary Sooiety,
' Calcutta, and unanimously adopted. The Rev. Dr. Kay, for,
principal of Bishop's CoLege, Calcutta, moved the
appointment of a committee to carry out the resolution.
Sir C. Trevelyan seconded the proposition, which vase
also adopted, and it was agreed that the committee should
consist of the Dean of Westminster, the Dean of Norwich
(Goulburn), Mr. Giischen, M.P., Mr. T. Hughes, M.
Lord Ernest Brace, Profaner Conington, Dr. Kay, Dr.
Temple, prebendary Venn, Mr. Godfrey Lushington, Mr.
Few, Mr. A. G. Watson, Mr. T. Salt, and other gentlemen,
with power to add to their number. The
Rovev. C.
Bradley. head master of Marlborough Sc, hen med
that it was desirable that contributions received for the
purpose of raining the memorial of Bishop Cotton should
be chiefly devoted to the permanent establishment of the
schools founded by him, and designed for the Christian
education mainly of European and Eurasian children in
India, with the hope that the group of shools might,
cordance with Indian precedents, bear the name of the
Cotton Schools. The Rev. Prebentlery H. Venn, 8.D.,
secretary of the Church Missionary Society, seconded the
motion, in support of which the meeting was addressed by
the Rev. W. Bullock, secretary of the Propagation So.
ciety ; the Rev. J. D. Glennie, secretary of the Chris-
tian Knowledge Society ; and the Rev. Prebendary Storks.
The resolution was unanimously adopted, and on the
motion of the Rev. J. P. Gall, Incumbent of St. John's,
Notting-hill, a cordial vote of thanks was passed to the
Dean of Westminster for presiding. The Dean of West-
minster, in acknowledging the compliment, said he con-
sidered that this was very much more than a personal
question, and the main thing theyhad to consider was how
they should stamp on the mind of the public both in
Engler d and India a sense of the 100 which the country
and the church had sustained. For himself he was indiffe-
rent to the nature of the memorial. Whether they were
to combine the bill schools with those on the plain,
whether the schools were to bear Bishop Cottin's name or
not were to him matters of comparative indifference.
Mostly gladly would he welcome the name of Bishop
Cotton's Schools, but that mat depend upon the will of
the people of India, and on the amount of impression
which Bishop Cotton had left behind. If the people of
England wished them to be called BishopCottoia's Schools,
Bishop Cotton's Schools they would be called to the end of
time. (Hear, hear.) He would add that there had been
no one more instrumental in giving to the church in India
the episcopate of Bishop Cotton than the Bishop of Lon-
don. (Loud cheers.) The Bishop of London had done
many great things for the church of England, but
Cott noon
ne
greater than in promoting the appointment of Dr.
to the bishopric of Calcutta. (Cheers.) The meeting
then separated, and the committee appointed immediately
held a sitting for the purpose of making the necessary pre-
liminary arrangement'.

Last evening there was a reform demonstration,
hold at the instance of the Tower Hamlets bean" of
the Reform Leaps, at the Pavilion Theatre, Whiteolaspel-
road. Thp audience was a very large one, the &depletion
bang by ticket.
Kr. BLUM occupied the chair, and on making his ap-
pearance on the stage was greeted with loud cheers. Re
was accompanied by Colonel Dickson, Messrs. Baxter
Langley, George Potter, Bradlaugh, Rethwell, Connolly,
Cleban, Wicliartow,Bovkett, Weston, Mantel], Davis, and
the Rev. J. Thomas.
The estalitoUN, in opening the proceedings, said that
he was rejoiced to meet the men of East London, for the
reform movement bad met with many earnest supporters
at the Fret-end. He itongratunted the meeting on the
present potation of this movement for securing to the
great body of the people their constitutional rights as ye.'
prded the franchise. (Cheers.) The most talented,
philosophical, sad respectable of tho tory pub-
lications, the Quarter, y Review, had stigmatised
the Reform Association as a most arrogant society, which
disgusted all who were not members of the association
itself. If he could judge by the warm reception which the
Reform League bad met with at the various meetings held
In England, Scotland, and Ireland, they might congratu-
late each other upon the enthusiastic manner in which
the people had Wren up the question, while on the other
hand, no one had ventured to convene meetings to
It
; and so far as he was aware only one man, Mr7iCe,
had ventured to miss his voice against it, in a room
attached to his own brewery, but which was completely
drowned by the disapprobation of the meeting. It could not
be alleged that among the hundreds of thousandsof men, in-
eluding merobanta, capitalists, clergymen, and others, w
ho
ho
supported this movement there were not many who
Something to lose. He repelled with indignation the charge
that bad been made against him, that be had rendered
the cause unpopular, nor could it be said to be unpopular
when they saw an English, an Irish, and a Scotch Reform
League. He claimed for every man morally responsible
the privilege of the suffrage, which was the only thing
that could place the people in the position of free citizens.e
Their meetings, which bad been distinguished by the
g regard foe law and order, had abundantly refuted the
charges made spied the people by those who only wanted
an excuse to continue the system of oppression which
'existed. It but been said that manhood suffrage would
enable the working classes to dominate over all other
dames. That was merely an assumption based upon the
opinion of their opponents that the interest of the work-
ing. clangs was opposed to that of all other classes of
moiety ; and, secondly, that if they bad the suffrage,
tion they
would use it for evil purposes. It the first assump
were correct, it only proved how imperative reform was,
because it was evident that the interests of the go•
warning classes were opposed to the working
thane. He denied that there was the slightest
reason to believe that if manhood suffrage was granted it
would be used for evil purposes. Shame upon those
who made the allegation, and shame upon the working
classes if they submitted to it. (Cheers.) Had there been
say iniasinces of manhood suffrage in America or any n
of our
eolonies being used for evil purposes ? It had bee con-
einsinly shown by Mr. Hutton, for many years a mem-
ber of the Australian government and legislature, th
heat
before the introduction of manhood suffrage and t
ballot the elections presented the same features of violence
and immorality as existed in this country at the present
time—a system which had been completely put an end to
by the adoption of those two principles. Yet there were
members of parliament who sneered at the reform move-
ment, and among them the member for the Tower
Hamlets. (Hisses for Mr. Ayrton, and cries of " He'll be
turned out next time.") Then, again, the Adullamite
member for Lambeth had thought proper to sneer at
America, and to say, " God forbid that this country should
ever be brought to the condition of that country."
Just conceive a man sneering at a country
which had just conducted with remarkable ability
ens of the most gigantic wars on record, and yet imme-
diately it was ended had set itself to work, and had
already reduced the public debt by 30,000,000 i. while in
time of peace our government had never been able to
reduce our public debt, which was incurred for the most
part in foreign wars, in any appreciable degree. (Hear,
boar.) Conceive a man sneering at a country in which
every child was educated at the expense of the state, and
in which pauperism did not exist, when, if he chose to
look around him, he would find the most frightful pau-
perism and the most deplorable ignorance. (Hear, hear.)
He concluded by urging upon them that, inasmuch as par-
liament would never reform itself, it was their bounden
duty to support the Reform League, which would enable
them to bring such a pressure upon the legislature as must
compel them to do the people justice. (Cheers.)
Mr. GATF.S then moved, and Mr. Bea-ND seconded,
the following resolution :—" That this meeting,
whilst expressing its unfeigned contempt and in-
dignation at the means resorted to by a tory
faction, aided by a clique of sham liberals to
stifle and overthrow the moderate measure introduced by
the late government, records its want of confidence in the
prewnt ministry, and pledges itself to accept at their
Bands no measure as a settlement of this question that
does not hilly and satisfactorily restore to the people their
natural and constitutional rights—manhood suffrage, re-
gistered and residential, and protected by the ballot."
Both the speakers were working men, and made very
effective adaresses. The latter, with respect to the claim
made to limit the franchise to household suffrage, put it
to the meeting whether, supposing a prosperous tradesman
occupying a house for a long period of his lifo was sud-
denly reduced by unforeseen calamity to occupy lodgings,
he was less competent to vote for a member of parliament
than be was before.
Mr. BRAPLATOII supported the resolution in a speech
which produced consider-ie effect. The resolution was
also supported by Mr. MANTELL, and carried by ac-
elantation.
Resolutions were also passed to the effect that a petition
to parliament, based upon the first resolution, should be
presented, and that the meeting record its earnest thanks
to the champions of the cause of the people—Wm. (;wart
• Gladstone, John Bright, and John Stuart Mill—with
. others, in and out of parliament, who supported them in
their efforts on behalf of their toiling fellow countrymen,
• and who vindicated the character of the working men from
the most infamous slanders.
All the resolutions wore agreed to.
The other speakers were Mr. Jones, Mr. Baxter Langley,
Colonel Dickson, Mr. Payne, and Mr. Davis.
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro-
ceedings.
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TSB BISHOP OF CARLISLE ON ".RITUALISTIC
INNOV ATION."

The Bishop of Carlisle has addressed to the
clergy and laity of his diocese a pastoral letter upon
" Ritualistic Innovation." Ills lordship begins by ob-
serving that " there can be no longer any doubt that there
exists at this moment within the pale of the church of
England an organised combination, the object of which is
the reinstatement among us of those distinctive obser-
vances and doctrines of the church of Rome which were
cart forth at the time of the blessed Reformation. The sacri-
fice of the ma's, with all its attendant vestments, lights,
censings, and prostratious—auricular confession, with all
its consequent sacerdotal influences, loosening family ties
of God's Institution and working through fraternities and
sisterhoods of man's invention—these, and other essen-
tially popish teachings and practices, are now inculcated
and defended by men who have subscribed to the forum-
lanes, and who retain their position as ministers of the
protestant establishment of our land. With these for-
mularies themselves an actual dissatisfaction is no
longer denied ; while the endeavour is made to
supplement what is held to be defective, if
not to neutralize what is considered to be
erroneous, by the introduction of hyn-us of ominous doc-
trinal import, in unaccustomed but highly significant
places, in the celebration of divine worship. Nay, more
than this, services are held, over and above the usual daily
prayer and communion office, for which there is no legal
warranty whatsoever, and in which the Itomeward ten-
dencies of the devotee meet with more satisfaction than he
could otherwise attain within our borders. Nor are there
wanting plain indications that even Mariolatry itself is
regarded as that to which a close approximation may very
desirably be made." Although many protested that the
movement was not Romanic but Anglican, the end must
be " the absorption into the Papal vortex of the more art-
less and impassioned spirits of the ritualistic school, while
its disciples of deeper guile and sterner resolve will tarry
within our communion, to do the work of the enemy by
undermining our scriptural faith ; until, in another
generation, the bulwarks of our protestant church shall be
sought for in vain. Under these circumstances the people,
clergy and laity alike, naturally look to their bishops ;
hut it was more easy to state the problem than to dis-
cover its solution. An appeal to the courts of law had
been advised, but would that appeal be successful? Even
suppose a verdict obtained un one or more points, the
question would with Protean vitality he mooted afresh in
new forms ; and recent experience of the practice of our
ecclesiastical courts did not encourage the idea that the
decision of any case should be obtained upon its simple
merits. Legislation had been contemplated ; and legisla-
tin of a directly or indirectly declarative character might
prove ultimately to be the only effectual cure. But the
appeal to the magistrate ought to be the last and the forced
resort Moral and spiritual influence should first
be used; and upon this principle his lordship now
ventured to address to his dock words of emphatic and
timely wanting to put them on their guard against
the stealthily *deeming foes. The questions at issue
were of vital import. They seriously unff-r-estimate the
evil who %weld !peak Of it simply as one of liturgies and
ceremonial. " Dogmas, as these ritualists themselves
openly avow, apart from which, candles on the miscalled
oftalar lighted at noonday, stoles, and chasuhles, and copes
costly fabric and gorgeous hue, fragrant iucense and
melting music, would not be worth contending for. And
what is that dogma? One which they may indeed them-
selves believe to be distinguishable from transubstantia-
tion, but which no scripturally instructed Christian mind
can discover to differ from it in reality." His lordship
urges the laity to meet the introduction of the evil among
them by " firm, and fearless, and withal affectionate and
respectful remonstrance with the pastor."

THE C. 4 TEE
AN EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND
THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE.

GUILDFORD ELECTION.—The official declaration
of the poll was made yesterday morning at 12 o'clock. Mr.
Garth. Q.C., the successful candidate, and his opponent,
Mr. Pocock, were both present, and the former was loudly
cheered by his suporters upon his enteriug the hall. The
proceedings, howepver, were mu .11 more orderly and quiet
than on the day of the nomination. Mr. P. W. Jacob, the
mayor, ,intiounce.l the numbers polled for each candidate
to be as follows :—For Mr. Garth, 339 ; for Mr. Pocock,
301 ; majority, f Mr. Garth, lb. lie therefore declaied
Mr. Garth to ben duly elected to represent the borough of
Guildford in the present parliament. Mr. Garth then
briefly addreseed the electors, thanking them for the honour
they had done him by returning him to parliament as
their representative. He also thanked his opponent and
his supporters for the very fair manner in which they had
conducted the contest, and for their endeavours to make
it a fair fight. In conclusion Mr. Garth said he con-
sidered the trust that had been reposed in him a most
sacred one, and he assured them that he should use his The following correspondence is published by
best endeavours to repay the confidence that had been
the authority of the Bishop of Montreal :
placed in him by devoting hisbest energies to their ser-
Elinley Rectory,
vice. Mr. Pocock also briefly addressed the electors, and " Droitwich, Nov. 27, IS6g.
disclaimed entertaining views favourable to universal `your dear Lord,—l have much pleasure in forwarding
suffrage, and said that in this respect he had been very to lordship a copy of a letter I have received from the
much misrepresented by his opponents ou the present Earl of Carnarvon, together with a document from myself,
oecasion. A vote of thanks to the mayor closed the pro. giving you the necessary authority to proceed atone with
oeedings. the consecration of Archdeacon Bethune. lam sorry that
APPEAL TO YOUNG CATHOLICS.—Are there no there has been any delay in the matter ; but as we have
young matholics of birth—younger sons, perhaps—who I. hitherto acted on such occasions under emendate from the
think a life spent in fields ports, or in reading the Carnhilt I.
crown, I certainly should not have felt warranted in pro-
and the TiIIICR, and the Saturday Reriew and seasoner appearing ' ceeiling without it until thus advised to do eo by some
at Farm-street on the Sundays of the adient in , sufficient authority. And lam sure it will be satisfactory
the glory which they have borrowed from their tailors, to your lordship. and to the Canadian church generally,
very poor fare for the sons of Crusaders and knights- , to kuow that it is after a very full and careful considera.
errant, for children of the proud English nation who have tion of our position, in connection with all the recent
wept in their school days over the story of " Tanned," judgments, that the SeFretary of State for the Colonies,
or felt a thrill at seeing " Henry V." put on the stage, or acting in accordance with the opinion of the law advisers
in thinking of " Joan of Arc," or of " Tell ?" If there are of the crown, has written the letter of which I now fel-
ony such who read the We,kly Register, they might pas- ward you a coty.—l remain, my dear Lord, yours very
'ably find a short road to heaven, and would certainly find faithfully, F. litONTREAL, Metropolitan of Canada.—To
a place worth having when they did get there, whether . the Lord Bishop of Toronto."
by a long or a short road, by putting their energies that 1 •,Iwnint, 21st November, 18G6.
are lying fallow to the defence of the Father of Christen-
dom.— Wieldy Register. 1 "My Lord,— have received your lordship's letter of
the 10th of October, relating to the proposed appointment
ANOTHER RAILWAY SEIZED FOR DEBT.—To the of the Archdeacon of Toronto to be coadjutor bishop of
list of railways already reported as having been seized by that diocese under the title of Bishop of Niagara, and his
the sheriff's officer must now be added the Bishop's Castle,, consecration in Canada with as little delay
icias possi Commble.
ee
It
a line running from Craven Arms, on the Shrewsbury appears, by the recent don of Jal itt
and Hereford Railway, to Bishop's Castle. This line, in the case of the Bishop of Natal, that her Majesty has
though the a=ction already completed lies wholly in not the power to create a diocese, or assign a sphere of ac-
Shropshire, forms part of the Welsh system, and by a pro- tion to a bishop iu a colony in which an independent legis-
lected continuation to Montgomery is intended to form a lature has been established. And it is the opinion of the
junction with the Cambrian. The first portion of the line law officers of the crown, to whom I have caused this ques-
wss opened for traffic about six months ego, the event tion to be submitted, th
colonialat a mbish andate from
per the crown
the cis
s
being celebrated by a banquet and public rejoicings. The not necessary to enablebishops to form
seizure does not at preeent interfere with the working of the of consecration. As, therefore she interventian of the
line, it being arranged that one bailiff shall be stationed at crown is not legally required, ither to give to the
each terminus, and a third accompany the trains Archdeacon of Toronto the intended jurisdiction, or to au-
throughout the day. With respect to the position of the thorise his consecration to the emcees f bishop, it would not
Cambrian, the largest and most valuable of the Welsh appear that the propoeed maoould have any lwal
lines, there is unfortunately no longer any doubt of the effect ; and, under such circumstances, it would hardly
sheriff having entered upon possession. On Tuesday be consistent with the dinity of the crown that her Ma-
afternoon bailiffs arrived at the principal stations, and jesty should be advised to issue such mandate. It will
on producing their authority were quietly permitted to thus rest with yourselves ant' the other bishops of Canada,
sake charge of the buildings and their contents. The and will be in your own power u nd er the Canadian acts
nit under which the writ has been issued is understood of 19 and 20 Vie., cep. 121, and t 2 Vic., oap. 139, to de-
to be one for professional services rendered, and the termine, without hindrance or assistance from the royal
amount of the claim does not quite reach 1,000/. It has prerogative, in what manner the consecration of the
been decided that the adjourned general meeting of the Bishop of Niagara shall be effected. You are of course
shareholders in this company arranged to be held in Lou. aware that under Imperial acts, of which 69 Geo. 111..
don this week shall be merely held pro fermi, and dm- cap. 60, is the chic clergymen ordained by colonial
zoettiately adjourned to an early date in the newel::: bishops, not having local jurisdiction and residing within
Notices to this effect have been forwarded to the the limits of that jurisdiction, are subjected to certain
holders. disabilities, except when this rdination is effected under
LONDON Gs/mug OmirintniColrealix (LlNTred)). commission from a diocesan bishop and within his dioosse.
11,0 . 13e.
—Trak receipts for the week ending December 16, i --I have the honour to be,
The Bishop of KontaiICAMIASVON.
631 4d. " ."