The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-13 00:00:00

PREACHING IN TDB PUBLIC PARES.

The foUewisg soerespesdenes on this subject has
bus published by s wittompotary :
"011ie of Works, !kr., Sept. 8.
" Rev. Sir,—l bee have to sekoowledge the receipt of
your letter of the Bth tart., ote the sobjeot of preeebiag Is
the yobbo seeks, sad I "111 ley the setae Won the First
Comoisoiimer of ter Majesty'• Works, 410. I oleo beg to
eneessie a you, herewith, a eopy of the First Cosemissionor's
NO, se tin letters Iron the Bee. M►. emblem*, whisk wee
buidversouly sallied to be seat to you with the letter
which I wrote to you, by his direction, on the 6th ion.
"I as, sir, you mist obeliest "revue,
"Mara= norrut, Secretary.
" The BAT. G. T. Drifield."

" Rectory, Bow' Middlesex, Sept. S.
" SX-1 ha.* to seltaowledde the rewelpt of a fatty/ from
the OfSce of Works, Le., of tole day's dote, 'toured Alfred
Asada, secretary,' statists Um: my letter of the 611 inst. os
dui subject of presebisi la the parka, boa bees resteav4d, aid
will be laid before you.
" I have also rtesived a copy of ycour reply to cortala
latter*, whisk it is stated was isadvertestly omitted to be
swat with the totsaisaleatios to ms on Use 5116 fast. by your
Maeda&

Bowing rstarsod to goo the copies of the letters la qua-
ties I boohoo borsedth the copy t f s on reply Violet*. "bleb
I big leave oleo to lowa toe tbo reasoa staled la isy lowa
of the eth last .

"I so, air, you very obedient seneat,
"H. T. Dairrisia.
" The Right Hoe. the Pint Comahmeeer of Werkaolto.'

"Rectory, Hew, Se. 11.
" beg to lupus, oar sipere mere% rthst yes
should adhere to par determinstios to prohibit presetting
for the future in the pubs; under whist' term, however,
you still imply that the propounding of athea seed Mei
amasses of blasphemous impressive's nut be clamed with
the advossoy of that mamas Christianity with whieh the
pet& of this load are avowedly ideatifiad. We do sot
perceive how, if the groundsupon wb.eh los set is the pr-
iest lostanee be merest, sty preaching in the (pee air ems
be approved or permitted to be tarried oa is eel part of
the hingion. It is Weed our own opiates that the pshlis
;eras lip and osemniently afford the best st all op
tissitbie toe nub an (Iron is toe eases of religios lad
morality, as being unattended with soy intenaptios to
bailee's or Meerferesee with recreative.

" Allow as to offer one or two statesman' is referesee to
our retest proceedings. We here net acted loather as ea
°ripened committee, bat ban been easeful so Mr to under-
stead sad consult sack other as to avoid • 1 'pentanes
of sostrovany analog catesives, denominational adenines
basis, been cordially laid aside. We think this engin-
deice, which wet obvioas on the lan of ear proosediege,
might have noonnstaded us to • degree oteessidinatiou be-
Toad that which we hays received. We may old that *eery
difficulty tt an ecclesiastical mature la coasesion with the
established shards had been removed by the eitenase•see
that three incombests In whose several parishes Victoria-
park Is situated bad formally glen their ennui to nay
authorised clergymen so to tfbeists within their district. It
is also our duty to remark that your probibitioa sesames
the power of depriving those iseumbtnts themselves of their
right to eater such portico of their parishes for the pupas
of any public ministrations.
" The wawa of the year being now admitted, we do not
feel it our duty, me • boiy, to wooed farther for a'
relasatiou of year order; but while for the present we
withdraw from the protttution of our object, we renews to
ourselves the right to re-erect the quntioa at base at any
time, and in any meaner which our c.nseitines may sug-
gest and oar judgmeat approve.
" We are, Sir, your übediest and faith's! tunas%
(On behalf of a meeting of ministers at the above address
ea the 10th lest )
" G. T. DZIFFIRLD, R.ct,r of Bow, Chain's..
" The Right Wit, the First COOMilliolllll
Of Weeks, Ike."

Tue PRICE or BREAD.—Dariog the present week
the tieken of the metropolis hey* made a reduction in the
price of breed. What Is termed " beet" wheaten bread le
81. and 80. the 410 loaf, end remade" 74 sad 70., in the
poor sod densely populated districts, where t, e disslioge ere
chiefly for cash. The high pr red Damn, whom Maoism is
chi. fly on credit, are selling their bread at 91d. and 10d.
the 11b. loaf.
GALLANT REPULSE OF PIRATES.— SWANSEA, SEPT.
10.—The ship Raja of Sarawak, Ciptala Oiles, of this
port, we, st•acked by pirates in June last, in the Can-
ton River. The ROM" of &Taira was bound from Cal-
cutta for Whampor. The para. ulare 4f the attack ere
stet deebribed in a letter from Cattelio o,les to his freed..
" The ship was attached by pirates coming up the rivet.
We, however, beat them c.fl without losing one of our use,
hot killed eight of the pirate.. There were f, rty men in
the pirate pros, thirty - two of whom made thetr escape,
though their boat saak Wage reaching the shore, from the
*feet of our mine- posed grape."
Large quantities of English agricultural machinery
of every description ass sow Asia( *spurted from &mit.
=puss I. luso% by way et Nam