The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-08 00:00:00

'THE BISHOP OF SALIRDURY ON " 5.0.0."

The Bishop of Salisbury has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to Lord S. Osborne :
" Ponmaen Mawr, Conway, Nov. 3,1866.
"My dear Lord,—l read yesterday afternoon, in the
Times of last Wednesday, a letter with your well-known
initide, and headed ' Priests and Priests.' After reading
it very carefully, I cannot doubt that a large body of my
clergy and I are in part the objects of your remarks, and
though it is my rule not to take any public notice of any
statements which concern me personally, my sense of what
its due from mu to the church of England, and to my own
diocese in particular, forces me to make an exception to
my rule in the case of an attack so made upon many of my
clergy and me by one of our brethren. Your letter ranee
such questions as the following:- Whether the training
for holy orders is what it ought to be ? Whether the
requirements in my diocese fur titlinission to holy orders
are sufficiently stringent ? Whether it is not too
patent that the clergy of the diocese are men of
like 1.1111/40011 with their lay brethren? Whether their
endowments are too large, and tend to substitute worldly
fur higher motives? Whether the clergy should be subject
to a stricter discipline? Whether they should be more
withdrawn from other interests than those immediately
connected with the cure of sous, such as civil, political,
social, or domestic interests? And whether the exercise of
any powers committed to them at their ordination should
be placed under more distinct restraint? I admit, of
course, that such questions may be most properly raised,
and may be discussed in a fair, candid, earnest, devout,
and reverent spirit. But I deny that such questions can
affect the meaning of those words with which you and I
received our commission to enter upon the office and to do
the work of priests in the Church of God, and which are,
I would remind you, as follow :--" Receive the Holy Ghost
for the office and work of a priest in the Church of God,
now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands.
Whose sins thou dust forgive they are forgiven ; and whose
sine thou doet retain they are retained. And
be thou a faithful dispenser of the Word of
God and of His holy sacraments ; in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen."
I repudiate the insinuation that my clergy do, as a body,
subordinate the special functions of their high office to the
acquisition of any mere accomplishments, however inno-
cent, and the over.ffidulgence of ally natural tastes, how-
ever simple. I assert, an in God's sight, my conviction
that my clergy as a body " are not merely excellent fel-
lows, with their families making a great part of the staple
of the pleasant social life of their respective localities, anti
as such mole or less respected ;" hut do by their lives
show that they ever " have in remembrance into how high
a dignity and to how weighty an office awl charge they
are called—that is to say to be meriaeneere, watchmen, and
stewards of the Lord ; to teach, and to premonixh, to feed
and provide for the Lord's family ; to peek for Christ's
sheep that are dispersed abroad, and fur His children who
are in the midst of this naughty world, that they may be
saved through Christ for ever :" and that a large number
of them are by their poverty disqueldied from taking to
themselves part of your delenaging, not to say con-
temptuous, remarks.
I feel it to be my duty to tell you that, in the judg-
ment of your bishop, your statement is, both in its letter
and in its spirit, ungenerous, undutiful, inaccurate, and
very unworthy of one who has promised " to maintain and
set forwards as much as licth in hint, quietness, peace,
and love among all Christian people." I must abo add
that, although you do not, I am sure, intend to do so, you
cut away in your letter no small portion of the ground on
which the church of England rests her protest against the
exclusive claims of the church of Rome ; and that so a pos-
sible effect of your letter may be to disaffect many thought-
ful and still attached members of our church, who have
rightly believed that as the church of England requires
her bishops, when they admit deacons to the order of
priesthood, to use those momentous words of which I have
already reminded you, she justifies those who have been
so ordained in believing that they have had committed
to them the same powers which the priests of the rest of
the catholic church, both in the east and west, have ever
claimed as their inheritance, and to which the literal and
plain meaning of the words points.
One word about myself. I most solemnly declare that
if, through a more accurate knowledge of Dry own past
motives, or from any doubting'. about God's special provi-
dence and grace, I am ever forced to be content to trace
back to "good luck in my profession " (as you say) my
having been placed in my present high and responsible
position in the church of God, I shall without any delay
I eagerly seek to be relieved of duties which would then be
amply intolerable to any man who knows the value of
words, has a belief in the judgment of a righteous GA
and has any dread of bringing ruin upon his own soul, and
pomibly on that of others.
It would have oast me mach pain and anxiety to writs
each a letter as the above to any of my clergy, but to
write such an one to you is, I assure you, far wane ; for
my heart is bound to you and yours by ties of gratitude
for ministrations of loving kindness at a season of great
anxiety and then of mourning, which nothing that you
can do can ever break and sunder ; but I should be untrue
to my deepest convictions, unfaithful to the allegianes due
from me to the church of England, and not duly prompt to
vindicate the honour of my own clergy, if I allowed your
letter to per by without words from me of sae ae4 re-
monstrance, or even, I may say, of grave rebuke.—l re-
main, my dear Lord, yours faithfully, W. K. Sawn.
The Rev. the Lead Sydney Godolphin Osborne.

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wmTDSOR CATTLE, Nov. 7.
The Queen walked and drove in the grounds
yesterday afternoon, and went out this morning accom-
panied by Prinoess Louise.
Princess Christian, attended by Lady Susan Melville,
went out driving.
Princess Beatrice rode in the Home-park.
The Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Christian went
shooting, attended by Lord Alfred Paget and Lieutenant

Haig.
The Count and Countess of Paris visited the Queen
and Royal Family to-day, and remained to luncheon.
Count Gleichen also visited her Majesty.
The Earl and Countess of Derby and Mr. Englehart left
1 the Castle yesterday.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of
Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole,
Lord Stanley, the Earl of Carnarvon, General
Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote,
Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne
Hardy, and Lord Naas.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hai.
ourable Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council-
chamber, Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle
plague. The Lords prcseut were the Lord President, Lord
Naas, and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison
and Colonel Harness attended the committee.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. The Lords present were Lord Westbury, Sir R. V.
Willhuni, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Canada.

MEXICO.
GENERAL SHERIDANRIALIETS AND THE IMPE;
The following order has . bees Weed by the
United States officer, General. Sheridan
HeadAnarters, Department of the Gulf,
New Orisons, La., Oct. 23, 1866.
General,—l am satisfied that there is only one way
in which the state of affairs on the Rio Grande can be
bettered, and that Is by giving the heartiest support to the
only government in Mexico recognised by our own—the
only one which is really friendly to us. You wi'l there-
fore warn all adherents of any party or pretended govern-
ment in Mexico or State of Tamaulipas that they will not
be permitted to violate the neutrality laws between the
liberal government of Mex;co and the United States ;
and also that they will not be allowed to remain in our
territory and receive the protection of our Bag,
in order to complete their machinations for the
violation of our neutrality laws. These instructions will
be enforced against the adherents of the imperial buc-
caneers representing the so-called imperial government
of Mexico, and also against the Ortega, Santa Anna, and
other factions. President Juarez ii the acknowledged
t head of the liberal government of blexico.-1 am,
General, very respectfully your obedient servant,
P. IL SHERIDAN, Malin-General Commanding.
To Brevet Brigadier-General T. L. Sedgwick, Command-
ing Sub-District of Rio Grande, Brownsville, Texas.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
SICILY.
FLORENCE, Nov. 8.

A despatch received here from Palermo an-
nounces the arrest of several persons of position in
that city, among others the Bishop of Monreale,
who have been discovered to be implicated in the
September insurrectionary movement.

ARRIVAL OF THE ARAGO.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 8.
The New York and Havre Company's United
States steamship Arago, from New York on the
27th October, arrived here this morning with 138
passengers, 59 bags of mails, 56,900 dole. in specie,
and a full general cargo.
After landing General Wm. L. Duff, United
States consul to Glasgow, and 11 other passengers,
and the mails, at Falmouth, she proceeded for
Havre.

(BE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.

The Democratic party have carried the elections
in Maryland and Delaware. The Republicans have
been victorious in New Jersey, and will probably
be successful in the State of New York.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Borussia has arrived out.

The France publishes a long letter from the
Duke de Persigny, in which he says :
" In these days, railways have lent to European societies
a much greater impulse. Bat for France to maintain her-
self with honour in the midst of the universal activity
that prevails, she hex no time to lose. It is neoemary
that our entire gateau of communications, railways, roads,
cross-road, and canals, our whole machinery of agriculture,
manufactures, and trade, brought to perfection with a
view to rapidity anal cheerless of transport, should be
accomplished as soon as possible, no matter at what
coat. Let this work be completed quickly, and
neither ourselves nor our children will be em-
barrassed about paying the ant. Besides, the
accomplishment of this great operation is not
commanded solely by the interest of the country. It is •
duty which the state contracted when it gave—and it was
right in doing so—s thousand millions of frame as • mob-
vention to the railway companies to construct our great
lines. For who is it that has paid that immense sum ?
All France, that is to lay, the population who are de-
prived of railways and have remained poor, as well aa
those who have been enriched by this powerful instru-
ment of prosperity running through their districts
But, it will be said, how execute tom; orks ? Where
will you find the nen/nary funds ? truth, I feel
myself humiliated for my country, when I hear
these cries of impotency. What ! a people who
came into the world yesterday, the people of the
United States of America, has been able to raise in a few
years, and during war, fifteen milliards for the purpose of
destruction, and we, a people of ancient origin, wealthy,
glorious among all the peoples of the earth, should be un-
able to find, during peace, capital for the purpose of pro-
duction' This is • strange error. On condition, be it
understood, of not employing it except to produce instru-
ments of wealth, that is to my, to create more capital, in a
country like France capital is inexhaustible. The more it
is employed the more it reproduces itself ; the more
rapidly it is turned the more riches it engenders. In pro-
portion as generations of men succeed each other does the
generation of capital add to the stock, and hence the ra-
pidity with which it multiplies among industrious peoples,
when nothing intervenes to arrest its development."

2 THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 8 1866.
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