The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-23 00:00:00

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SUICIDES OF SOLDIERS.

An extraordinary fatality seems to have pos-
sessed the military at Shornchffe and Canterh-ry. On
Friday. in the camp at the former place, • sergeant
of the let Battalion 18th Royal Irish, shot himself
with his rifle in the library attached to thy B lines
in the camp. This is the third or fourth suicide
within a month. In Canterbury the second suicide within
• very brief space of time took place on Friday,
the unfortunate man in this case being s private
in the 3rd Dragoon Gnarls named John Henry
Williams. The deceased, who had been 24 years in the
service, came off sentry duty on Saturday morning, and re-
tired to the barrack-room and cut his throat from ear to
ear with • razor. At the inquest held on the body the
same day by Mr. T. T. Delassaux, coroner, the following
evidence was adduced :—Hugh Usher, corporal in the 3rd
Dragoon Guards, deposed—l have known the deceased
for about three weeks. Since I have known
him be has been low and melancholy, and ap-
peared to have lost reason ' • but for what WIN! I do
not know. I saw him this morning at about half-peat
ti, when he came off guard, and appeared in toe same
state as before described. I went into his roam about
quarter-past 7 this morning and found him dead. with his
I thrust cut and a razor lying on his bed stained with blood.
He was lying in the same state when I found hiti as be was
when the jury viewed his body. Benjamin Banff ace, troop
' sergeant-major of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, deposed—The
last witness reported the death of the deceased to inn this
morning. The jury returned a verdict of " T-Anporary
insanity," and the proceedings terminated.

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paper, which, at an average of 10 cents per pound, would
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consumed by them mills 400,000,000 pounds of rags in
single year. Uwe estimate the rap to cost 4 cents per
pound, there would be a profit of 11,000,000 dole. in this
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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23.

Tss supposed imminence of the Eastern ques-
tion is setting a great many wits to work to dis-
cover, if not a complete solution, some scheme or
expedient which shall break the force of the ap-
prehended shock. As a rule, it is only when
measures of this class are ascribed to Govern-

menu that they deserve attention, for it is

only in their powerful hands that they can become
operative for good or evil. Some of the plans put
forward from time to time as having the sanction
of this or that Government, reveal by the incon-

gruity of their component elements their authors
masa of the magnitude of the work to be per-
formed, and perhaps also their slender faith in
its accomplishment. Only the other day an im-
portant European journal sketched the outline
of a portentous project which was to be
brought into operation in Egypt. The
Bashaw of that country was to become
a constitutional ruler, with a native Parliament,
divided into ministerialists and opposition, putting
troublesome questions to the Grand Vizier, and
voting an annual budget. It was easy to see
what an important part might be played in the
future by a State so favourably situated as Egypt
for exorcising an influence in the Levant if it
could only be regenerated upon European prin-
ciples. But before there has been time to carry this
notable plan into effect we are told, upon the
same high authority, of another scheme, if pos-
sible still more marvellous. For the last few
months negotiations have been going on between
the Court of Rome and the "Patriarch of the
" Greeks," with no less an aim than that of bring-
ing the Greek Church into the Latin Communion.
The negotiation is properly described as extraor-
dinary, and it is added that the utmost secrecy
has been observed throughout its several stages ;
a fact which may account for a certain vagueness
and incompleteness discernible in the statement be-
fore us. It seems that a " basis " has been found,
and mutually adopted, the transaction having been
greatly facilitated by the good offices of an im-
portant European Power, which we are left to sup-
pose is France. The journalists to whom the
world is indebted for this interesting intelligence
add that " it is not difficult to perceive the bear-
" ing of such an event, if it should be realised, for
" the Christians of the East, recognising the Pors
" as their Pontiff, would be released from every
" tie on the side of St. Petersburg. Russia
" would lose all power over them, and the West
" would thus find itself secured against the Rua-
" sian ambition which has Constantinople for its
" object."
It is difficult to know whether the Pors or the

PATRIARCH of Constantinople—who, we suppose, is
intended by the designation " Patriarch of the
" Greeks "—ought to feel most flattered by the
importance ascribed to them In this scheme.
If the POPE is able to settle the Eastern
question, or even divest it of danger, by a mere
ecclesiastical compact requiring neither armies
nor fleets for its execution, he may in the very
crisis of his temporal dominion boast a degree of
political power such as Kings and Emperors might
envy. We must, however, have a little more
information respecting this plan before pronouncing
finally upon its merits. There are one or two
preliminary difficulties in the way of the arrange-
ment thus described, besides certain facts which
make it exceedingly doubtful whether, if it were
carried out, it would have the consequences which
seem to be expected of it. There are, first of all,
the claims and character of the Greek Church. It
is very well at Rome to disparage that Church, and
refer to it as the Photian schism," but at Constan-
tinople
they say that the Greek Church is the '
Mother, not the Daughter of Rome, and re- ,
mind us that the only Councils which can pro-
perly be styled (ecumenical were Eastern Coun-
cils. The Greek Church his too little of the
active missionary spirit to care to reclaim the
West, but far too much historical pride, as well as
far too distinct a religious development, to be in-
clined to submit to that of Rome. " If," observes
Dean STANLEY, " the voice of authority is confi-
" dent at Rome, it is hardly less confident at Con-
" stantinople. Beyond the Themes there are
" unbroken successions of bishops, long calendars
" of holy men, unknown in the West, who can re-
" turn anathema for anathema, as well as blessing
" for blessing; who can afford to regard even
" Atroesrufa and JEROME, not as canonised saints,
" only as pious Christians of blessed memory.'
" In the eyes of an orthodox Greek the Pope is
" not the representative of a faith pure and un-
" defiled, but (I quote their own words) as the
" first Protestant,' the founder of German ra-

" tionaliem.' The Esaarnlll
"in their solemn docuißents

supremacy as the chief heresy of

Mies dip, destined to be cut down

ri.," vantipp away." Further, one of the parties
Orange compact is utterly and notoriously without
power to fulfil the conditions which he is reported
to be ready to assume. The - of Constan-
ifinople is the chief of four P of the
Zastern Church, who rule 'together' over a little
more than nine millions of souls. Formerly his
sway extended 4Wer all the countries of the Greek
Empire, but with the decay of i Thrills% power and
the rise of new States of Greek nationality in the
East, it has been greatly restricted. In 1833 the,
Regency of Greece declared " the Orthodox
"Oriental Church of Renee" independent of
every foreign authority. The Metropolitan of
Carlowita, in Austria, with his eleven bishops,
governs his Church as an independent patriarchate.
The Churches of Cyprus, Montenegro, and the
Danubian Principalities have followed the same
example. The Church which acknowledges the
direct jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Con-
stantinople is rent asunder by political
divisions. Two sections, the great &lave-
Man party on the one hand, and that of the
Greek velates and the Hellenic nationalists on
the other, perpetually contend for mastery. But
neither of than has any leanings towards Rome.
The Sat is an instrument in the hands of Rum*
the constant enemy of Rome ; the second is
ardently attached to the Greek Church, because it

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recog mss
in it the representative of the unity of
the Greek race, and the means by which the flame
of Greek nationality wee kept alive through a long
night of servitude. As for the Patriarch of Con-
stantinople, between the Turkish Government and
the Synod his situation is most precarious, and he
seldom reigns more than a very few years before
he is compelled to resign. The Synod, consisting
of eight bishops, is far more powerful than he is,
and frequently deposes him. The objections,
then, that lie against the credibility of this last
new story of Eastern politic are found in the sen-
timent of superiority over the Church of Rome
which the orthodox Greek communion has always
cherished, in the intensely national character of
the Greek race, and in the utter powerlessness of
the Patriarch of Constantinople, both as a subject
of the SULTAN and as a member of the Greek
Synod, to render the services required of him by
transferring his flock to a foreign shepherd.