The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1860.

?HE BISHOP OP DOWN AND CONNOB AND

HIE CLERGY.

At a numerous meeting of the clergy of the
united dincewie of !bet and Connor and Dromore, u-
ambled after "Conference," on Toon*, the 13th of No-
vember, the following meulutione were nnanirnonsly agreed
to:

--"Reselmid,—That we "'isnot separate without giving az-
preemies to our deepest disapproval of, and regret at, the
riotous conduct matidested at the intended religious meeting
la the Music-hall teat evening, of which the Lord Bishop of
the diocese was officially the chairman.
" That we further regret that say minister of the united
church of Roglaml and Ireland, and especially • be
ig"
Iced clergyman of the united diocese,could be induced
to occupy the chair which the Lord Bishop had born cow-
-1 Wild to rissign, thus apparently affording his sanction to
die terhedeakreosedings which had previously taken place.
'• 7 hat, without a:l "using any opinion respecting matters
irrelevant to the lino.eiliat• object of the proposed meeting,
we herb, declare our solemn determination, under the
Divine Dim, to uphold, by every lawful means in our
Fewer, the digttty of the episcopal office in the united
iieease sad, anconlingly, have recommended his lordship
tagai=is the other religious meetings which had been
/or tide week.
" JANOS MITTH. Archdeacon of Coenor, chairman."
These resolutions were submitted to his lordship, who
replied as follows :
"My Dear and Rev. Brethren,—Though I did not re.
quires this expremiuu of your feelings to mature me of your
usepatliy and respect, is reference to in. outrage to which
I was gu lately subjected, vet I am deeply thankful to
yes for pee eating in. with these resolutions, as they
ere a permanent and official record of your reproba.
ties of the &up aeeful scene we recently witnessed, of
year some that • brother should be found so forgetful of
his character and station ma to stamp by his official act his
sanction of its turbulent pnweediegs, and of your deter-
mination, under the divine )Inning, to uphold the dignity
sad the authority of that office with which I am invested.
Avon* the many painful recollections which the late meet-
ing retalk, I look hack with alumni and sorrow when I call
to Wad that the time selected for the perpetration of what
bees, at least, the semh.,ncr of 30 Orange outrage was the
very time whim oar church was about to hold a series of
religious ineetines, and that the serpetiators of it were
three who, while they claimed the name of pndestenta,
showed by their conduct bow little they were influenced by
the scripts:a doctrines of their faith, or retlect"d its holy
teaching in their lives. " it. DOWN."

RIPIUMINTATION nr PiXtrumullinittu. —fly the
death of the Earl Candor. Tieroont Emlyn has been raised
to the Hews of Peen, which has mule a vacancy in the
representation el Pembrokeshire. There are two candidates
in the hld ; vie., Colonel Gime, ehiost son of &r John
Owes, M 16., Lonl•Leuteitiat of the county, and
Mr. George Lori Phillip., Lawreuuy Park, both of which
are instituileg a vig"r canimis, the molt. of which up
to this day (Nov. 114 Aro 'my problematicaL
PUISTPUNIMENT or TIM 11UP DuTy.—The col-
lective of the secou4l moiety of the bop duty, duo on the
16th of this isonth, has been postpoood to the let of Marsh,
1l Mil. in the ease of those planters who may &Aire the
indulgence, on their giving security for payment, with
interest at the rate of 5 per cent. ; and the collection of the
present year's duty has been postponed from the Ist of
Horeb to the 16th of August nest, ou the like terms And
conditions.

THE Bawer Sot•rwry.—The weekly meeting of
the executive committee was held on Tuesday, at the offices
in (linWhoa-chambers ; Mr. Spiesliam husks in the chair.
Mr. Whitehorst, Mr. Bootees., Mr. nt, Mr. Dawes, Mr.
Man, he were present. W. Muslin, Doi., Hatfield, Herta,
was el, ted a member of the council. The peutlin_; electioas,
especially those for rloutbwark, Newcastle-ou-Tyne, and
South Notts, moup;ed the deliberations of the committee.
A correspondence has between the committee and
the chief friends of the psi
lein Rochdale, as to the hallos
a meeting there seder the presidency of Yr. Cobden, M. le.
It apperunig that Mr. Cobden is not likely to rut Rochdale
at Emmet, the proposed meeting is fee the time absodoneeL
Tab LIBUILATION MOCINTY AT himtonerzs.—On
Welaesibiy, a large sad inffoential party of gentlemen met
at breakfast at the Albion Hotel, .Ifasnethester, to ressive a
deputation (rum the executive committee elf the Liberating
finciety, compoeed of Hommel Morley, Req., Dr. Foster, and
J. Carvell lidlisms, Req. The Rev. Dr. M'Rerrow, the
oldest-dissenting minister in Manchester, acted as chair-
Ilan, and said that as the society's opponents had now
given them • fair xhalleuge iu th.it city, by the course of
lectures which the had otanwenced, Le hoped that the
noncouformpt holy would show that they were animated
by the old spirit, which was displayed so effectively when
he came among them years Mr. Morley, is Lis
address, adverted to his evidence before the committee of
the House of Lords, and coropliined that it should have
been coeiliguned by those who had not read it,
and, still more, that it should he dishonestly mis-
represented, as be showed Mal bees done by
reading pammees which bad not been made as public as
other portions had been. He strongly urges! the dissenting
ministers, and the laity also, to instruct their young people
in the important points at I.IOIIIU between them and the
dre sup-
of a church establennient. Dr. Foster, who fol.
Lesisrhim and that as little justice bed he dons to him.
self in the matter of the evidence. He referred in detail to
several etelesiastical questions lately before parliament, and
is particular, nivel tint church.rates should be swept away
altogether out of Lancashire by parochial agitation, as they
bed osarly Ling already. Mr. Larval' Williams, in alluding
to the effect of nicest oppositiou, mid that the dimeutiog
body were never so united, nor hail the society overbook so
well supported, a. since societies were orpeised to emcee
it. The Messrs. Patrick Thomson, Rev. J. Parker, Rev. A.
Thompson, the !h.e. Ii Clarksoi, Jas. Sidebottoni, Esq.,
and Mr. Councillor Rummy, thin spoke iss resolutions,
warmly supporting the society, sot proposals were canal-
demi for the deliver, el lectures and obtaining more
subscribers.

Tam LoNDON Gorizia Poximas' DicsnwoS.VrT
Amsocismom—The dist meeting of the friends d the above
sessietr, for the purpose d sleeting pensioners, was hail at
the Condon ecere on the Ifith inst. ; Mr. George Moore in
the chair. Two pensioners wereeleeted, cad the committee
aussetly solicit the assistance of the piers generally of
Loodon soil their employers to enviih, them to relieve a
larger number of applicants at the ensuing half-yearly elec.
tioce. The object. ~f the society ore to grant penmons to
infirm or permanently disabled port.cs, their necessitous
whisrs and orplisos. It appeared from the report that
:1,1":11. 4.41. 54 is standing to the credit of the 4111,,Ckiiilt1
in the New Three per (Jest. Annuities, mid that there is a
further Wires of 2111. la tid. is hand The receipts of
the plat quarter were 24A/. lis. lid Toe committee sug•
Rest that sub-coaimittass dumb! be formed to all parte of

ihe nietrepolie, ea bp in doing the übjects tbs.sosiety
would beaus, eseiregMagb known.
RIVIsIoN or *as Lavin:v.—Two meetings on
the subject of the revision et the liturgy hare hero held in
London this wetA OM In Piseedilly, the other at the
c .de.h.men Adolph'. At the latter, which was
well attended, it was unaniiiilusly lesulyeil that a general
mewling should be held neat Pebrnary, at Exact-hall, for
the Puti.we of obtaining an expression of public opinion on
the glition.
A DIVIDIND LONU DILAVID.-31lany persl,o4 in
Totten were creditors, sad in most jousted' to huge
amosiota, of the Heron de Arahet, *bowline lisc..asel.twesity
year, since Lela a large estahluiturient s. thstcolobe, abosit
two miles fnen Tctnea. and who at that time drove some
dashing eleiperm to!o the turn. The baron because ipso!.
vent in 110$, and this insolvency has slumbered until last
week, when the creditocs reeerivr.l n u,"iee from the lewd.
Ts" rola. lenelon, that by applying at the pro-
Unieal ast,gorw...4tice, in P. state' vtr'wt• any Monday or
)nday within ts. ley 'now ha. tbry r.O tntitivo•dit.www of
&repent.* ts the 1.,it04. Wutery 7' 8.