The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-02 00:00:00

TEI 50CIEZI OP lIIIINDB.

A special conferee% of the leading members of the
society of Friende, to whiek delegates ware emit from va-
rious parts of the smutty, hes beau held quite twee ti in
London, art the head-qamters of the body in H
for the purpose of dieeveelag cabin points of their in
disolplice, especially the tpredise of =Mar by members of
their eommustry with parses, not fa refigims 0301131 U-121011
with them, and else to s swish Wind, the gasetion of
dress, though on that comparatively less Mims use laid.
There were shout 300 persons t at the conference,
incladiag the central body taidsst le the weeroSe,
and the dame, whieh oressionally %same mewl
animated, bated four days. The to= ourelloh, w
wee (proudly moored by a Prised t in Yorkshire
bad two Omen Tbe ooaferenos was invited to onside.
first, the propriety of soaking such alteratiom in the existing
robe of the sootily so would allow of marriage being
echeloned in their 'menage for warship after the manner
of Friends by persons who professed to be Friends, sad
atiowied their religious meetings, one only of the on-
toeing parties being a member of the society ; se-
madly, beaver person who prearrol to le Monde sad at-
tended the irrel lease bet asither of whams were man-
bus of the society. The le ono whloh materially
cower% the so inky host!, sod else b germs degree the
general public, though the latter my sot be at Drat eight
=During Use lest menus satizmisare In Mb country the
es bees slightly but 17 dseeensing in num-
bers. The egoresate a strewth of the body is
Gnat Hilts% %estimated at about 16,000. There ace some,
Ye believe, who attribute not a hole of the %obis to theft
Aetna leAtmentopesay ,:ed Oafs • seplailme tampeallag

Zreitiised....if="'asmor—reno7 leTtr tietr—olon—doe•Witieni lr
two* likarbers at their own sonumnitt'• Prom thew to
time inewstosee of the society have desired to °Patriot mer-
rier with persons not actually menders, bat who
hare lees to the hatdt of aosinding then
mestinge; and molt parsons have either bees
te Map a inks, or to have it solemnised ant IV
own emmamies, ea sot width of Melt deprived the ma-
=i7mosether of the sate sag MOM at a member.
masking, parties so united have continued to
ahead the seniors sf the society is before, bat,
else in enc mem and thus a* es as eat of grain
and favour en the part of the ruling body, they hays not
been admitted to membership, end have bean obliged to re-
main in the poettion, so to speak, of " outsiders." On the
other Mad, lastances them are where petite so situated
have taken umbrage at the stringency of • rule which
reflood them the tile of marriage within the bosom
of the religions community with which they la
become ides, Med, one of them, it is true, more
closely than than the other, and drove them to have their
unna solemaiesd elsewhere, sad have broken away from
the society altogether. The teachnoy this has beep, It is
believed, besides creating oposaional thanbundngs within
the society Melt, to check its pout!,-fm this country at
Met, and to threaten it, at some time or other, with total
eithetion. It is also, la me pant of view, believed to
have seriously affected the dmiesth 'statism of the Friends
themselves, dooming many of them and especially the
women, to single IJe, who, if they had been mom tree to
comince mintage out of their own communion, irmemotive
of the sawn en their own heroism, woad have been the
mime of extending ila meniknons.
The whole eaten uaderwent ea ample dietaries at thecoalminninthcoaiaes,
coalmines, end ohs ninth was • resolution reoomnsmding •
modification of the &Wag fandamental regulation, so as to
admit of the marriages in question Mktg solemnised In the
meetings for worship of members of the society. Bodies,
however, the proposed ameatim ma take sleet It meet re-
arm the ranks of the society at thar sat anima meetlag,
but, @naming em it does hots a body so well Mislaid, teem
mohben mil inflamer, to the respmt et the whole broiler-
hood of Prima*, them can be thus doubt of Be attains ap-
The point of drew also came maim TIMM bat In rather
en heeial than • direct way. The result was to mom-
mead • seedifkation in the costume In some nopeota, so se
to meet canna objections; but It is nederstood that as
Moog a testimony m ever was borne daring the discussion
in favour of simplicity and modulation in dress end beha-
viour. Thenglt the meths has allonym beta more or lees
uniform, the dress of the members et the moiety has, in
point of feet, sever been defined.
The whole of the bagasse was coadosted I. the most
amicable spirit, and the coatroom broke up attar a uthersast
of four days.—Pieue.