The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-17 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARI3 AM RN T.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FraI.A), Auut•Yr 16.

In the Hooey of la.RIN
yester..ay. the Earl of
Die.BY stated that the house would meet this
day at 2 o'clock, in order that the prorogation
might take place on Wtidneolay next.
On the motion of the Duke of Rh.IIICIND, the
standing order with respect to railway deposits,
iu immolate* with the recommendations of the
joint committee of both houses, was agreed to.
The Expiring Laws Continuance Bill and the
Investment of Trust Funds Bill passed through
committee.

The Appropriation Bill was read a second time,
and passed through committee, and ordered to be
read a third time this day.
The Earl of DEVON moved the second reading of
the Hours of Labour Regulation Bill.
The Earl of Sitarrr.ssusy, while giving credit
to the employers of labour for their ready went
to the bill, complained that the hours of labour
had been fixed with different limits to those of
the Factory Extension Act, and announced his in-
tention to bring in a bill next session to remedy
that defect.

The motion was agreed to.
The Master and Workmen Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The Earl of LICHFIELD called attention to recent
returns relative to the friendly societies in England
and Wales, and said that a perusal of them could
not fail to convince their lordships of the misery
and distress produced among the working classes
in almost every district of the country by the un-
sound condition and the failure of a number of
those societies. Out of 38,823 societies established
since 1793 no less than 13,935 had failed. He bore
testimony to the great amount of good effected by
some of these societies, especially the affiliated
societies ; but a class of societies had grown up of
late years which granted insurances on lives, and
he pointed out the risk attending them, the coat of
management in one large society amounting to
nearly one-third of the income. Some societies
had become joint-stock companies, and carried on
industrial business. He expressed a strong opinion
that societies employing collectors and agents,
ought not to have the benefit of the Friendly
Societies Act.

The Earl of Divoic said it was impossible to
overrate the importance of the subject, and he was
sure their lordships would desire to co-operate with
the noble lord in his endeavour to remove the evils
ho complained of.
Several bills were forwarded a stage, and the
house adjourned at twenty minutes past seven
o'clock.

HOUSE OF 00MMONS.—FRIDAY, Aucrsr 16.
IN the Horse of COMMONS Mr. WATKIN gave
notice of his intention next session to move that
it is expedient that there should be annually
drawn up a national stock and balance sheet. Also
for the appointment of a select committee to con-
sider a memorial from the inhabitants of Ceylon
complaining of the present government of that
dependency.
Lord R. Moirraor stated, in reply to Mr. Read,
that the permission to land foreign cattle at
Thames Haven for the metropolitan market will
not be continued. He also stated that on the 9th
instant the government received information that
the cattle plague had broken out on a farm at
Barking, and that in consequence orders had been
given to slaughter a number of cattle on the farm.
Sir S. NORTHOOTS stated in reply to Mr. Craw-
ford that the amount required to be raised by loan
for the government of India had been raised, and
that no more money will have to be raised this
year on loan for the government of that country.
The Traffic Regulation (Metropolis) Bill and the
Royal Military Canal Biil were read a third time
and passed ; and the Lords' amendments to the
Local Government Supplemental (No. 6) Bill and
to the Merchant Shipping Bill were agreed to.
Sir R. PALMSR moved that the order on the
Increase of the Episcopate Bill be discharged. He
gave up the bill, he said, with regret, but after the
amendments which the Lords had made in the bill
he could not ask this house to proceed further with
the bill. The responsibility of the loss of the bill
did not rest with this house, but with the House
of Lords.

Tbemotion was agreed to.
On the motion for the adjournment until
Monday,
Mr. PI ZWDEaATS called attention to certain cir-
cumstances connected with the proceedings before
the Ecclesiastical Titles Committee. He said all
the evidence that was taken was on one side, and
from persons who were concerned in obtaining the
repeal of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act. A petition
was presented from persons who wished to give
evidence on the other side, which was referred by
that house to the committee, but by the neglect
of an officer of the house it never came to the
knowledge of the committee, a circumstance which
ought to be known if an attempt were made to
found any legislation on the report of the com-
mittee.

Mr. WHALLEY followed, complaining that the
government took no steps to resist Popish agges-
elan.

Mr. \VALI-OLE said the committee was appointed
to consider whether there was anything in the ope-
ration of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act which prac-
tically weighed upon Roman catholic,' and in his
opinion, and that of the Attorney-General for Ire-
land, no case was made out, but he regretted that
the petition referred to was not brought to the
knowledge of the committee.
The subject then dropped.
The house, at ten minutes past six o'clock, ad-
journed until Monday at half-past three o'clock.

THE BISHOP OP LONDON AND THZ EUCHARIST.
—The Rev. W. G. Cookesley, incumbent of St. Peter's,
Hammersmith, recently addreesed the Bishop of London
with reference to the address on the subject of the Eucha-
rist presented by Arehdeaeon Denison to the Archbishop
of Canterbury. In his letter Mr. Cookesley said :—" The
sulrocribers to this address declare that the Sacrament of
the Lord's Supper is • neritlee, and that the body and
Mood of Christ are really and truly, though in an ineffable
in, env% present in the elements, which ought, therefore,
to be adored." He maintained that this doctrine was con-
tredictory to the teaching of the church, and wished his
diocesan to state which of the two parties—those who
maintain, or those who utterly repudiate these doctrines
—should leave the church. The bishop has just replied as
under:—" My dear Mr. Cookesley, I desired Mr. Fisher
(the bishop's chaplain) to tell you that the incessant pres-
sure of business at the close of the session made it im-
possible for me to answer fully your letter respecting the
declaration on the subject of the Lord's Supper, made public
by Archdeacou Denison and various other clergymen, some
of whom are in my diocese. I have had • somewhat
sharp attack of Mime, from which, thank God I am
recovering, but which has brought some enforced leisure,
and I have taken the opportunity of reviewing the whole
matter. The only answer I can send to you is this:
I. That I have had no opportunity, that I am aware of,
for perusing the document in question, except from
reading it in the newspapers. It has never been
formally or officially laid before me. 2. That from
what I have seen in the newspapers, I gather
that the clergymen in question hold that view of
the Lord's Supper, or something very like it, which was
brought before the courts, but never decided, in the case
of Ditcher v. Denison.' You are aware that cam broke
down in the Privy Council, from the legal objection that
the proceeding* had not been commenced within the time
Axed iy the statute. However erroneous, therefore, the
opinions in question rosy be, and (so far as I can compre.
Rend them) are, in my judgment, it has never been de-
cided that it is penal is • clergyman of the church of
England to hold and announce them. Any one who
leases, and can show that he has a sufficient legal interest
in the matter, would be at liberty to apply to me, or any
other bishop concerned, for letters of request to have the
ease tried in the Court of Arches. But I have, at some
length, explained my views as to the undessimbleness of
such prosecutions, in my two charges of 1862 and 1866.
.A. C. LoNnum."

A magnificent meteor was visible at Brixton on
Tuesday evening, at 9.12. It slowly flowed through the
Leavens in • couch-earerly direction, and had it not been
toe the bright moonlight would have cast • definite
Window. Its colour was of • delicate amber, and its size
fuUy thrice that of Venus. It is said to have surpassed
the first-sire meteors of last week.

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