The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY AND THE

PAROCHIAL CLERGY.

The following reply has been returned to a circular
of the Secretary of the National Society :

Bristol, Judy 18.
Bra. have jilt received from you a priatad
sir-
molar letter, dated July, 1866. By this letter I ea elikially
lafiemed that the Atobbishope of Canterbury sad York
have ameatod to the impost of the eommaittm of the National
&dot', to resommead to •' the bishops of their is-
epoxies provisoes that colleettoas should be made
la all charehee aid chapels wfttls theC several dio-
' isms, for the boaefit of the National Bodily." lea
also informed that you have Pea lastructed to state
the grounds wpm which the committee venters " to make
the appeal. Your letter, tagether with another piloted
paper oaelosed, imistains this statement, sad isoncludee
with the fellowlag appeal :—"The ..smitten moot be-
ll/IVs that you will hesitate to est before the membete of
your wmgreptioa the claims of" the Natlosellkelety. In
upset to this appeal, widish from the extent to which It
►ee bees elfeelalid may fairly be eonsidored public, I
plaialy and pabliely reply, that sot ply do I hesitate, bat
altogether react, to set the claims of the National Bociety
before the members of my epileptics. Ido so bemuse—
First, I dewy, if set the right, at least the propriety
of the archbishop and bishops thus attompting to
Wafers with t►e free shake of the parochial &orgy in t►e
matter of publie ecieleties. The 'impropriety of such a step
is especially striklag at • time wheel her Majesty, by the
withdrawal of the royal letters in favour of this sad two
other seeitties, bee been pleased to oat a mist gracious
maple of leavisi print* pivotal unfettered to all sub
mum

Gamedly. The slain of this socisty to be " the a►tioasl
sanny," a thin' mein tainted on in the pr:nted piper
ineempaaping yaw letter, Is a men pretence, and kw so
feudalism whatever in fact. For this so called Manual
Bonny, iodating f• oae of Its rules SS a 030dition of salsa
that " the skittle's are to bs instructed la the liturgy sad
este chin of the established numb," naiades, is far as it Is
' a►le, • large reties of the aation frees its schools, sad
don it. beat to naketain a most illiberal sad pritiadidal
span of sodas towards dissenters.
Thirdly. Toe Nasty, instead of educating the poor, es by
its title it professes to de, la " the principles of the settle-
tithed church," Is sans of its teai►iag softiies iscalsnes
principles wank sonar of popery, sad the like of whale
la other plums ban already been found to be the beeps down
which weak protesnats hare lanasibly glided inn the
boson of the church of Rome.

Fourthly. The committee or ..waging body of this m-
oiety, la a spirit quite foreign to the eusetitatiort sad alu-
mna' of this °pastry, is neither representative nor normal.
ble. It is a dose borough of the most rotten deseripti, a,
sod, existing by royal charter, bids defiance to all smarts
at rebus. The archbishops sad bishops are all it 0.04*
members of this oessisitters. 8o are the ten lay vica-prsol.
dram. Of the remaialeg shares aemben of the committee
foar retire every year, bat ere thpable of noeleetiom. These
vamuniee are filled up by the assail Gabe/vibes. ce members
at their iseetimp ; sot, however, from lb* whole body of
sabscribers, bat from a list of eight prepared by the view
presidiums. The sabecribers have so farther voice in any
part of the heathen of the society, sor eves In the
thoptioa or rejectles of the mama report. The episcopal
sad clerical is predemaisaat over this lay element is the
slumbers of the committee; and Is the management of
parethial schools the lay element Is reedited almost auga
tory by the dad appeal being made to the bishop of the
diocese slime.

Fifthly. The 10,486 puochial sehools. claimed by this
society as its own. owe to the satiety nothing more than a
bedding grant, generally snail ; naive so anneal sat pie
from the society, aid are not nuessuily aad Beldam mutiny
wider its laileenoe, and f.ra, therefore, but snail ground
for its appeal for fund..
For thus reasons, amongst othen, I dunce to ut before
the umbers of my 000gregatioa the elating of the National
Sway. Lad lam rejouted is know th.t the Bishop-Nett
of this diocese, is 'hoes elation 1 bad the pleasure of taking
a part this morning, whatever any be hie °plaice of the
National Society in pentads', has already publicly ex-
pressed hie disapprobation of the basing of these episcopal
laden.

I us, Reverend Sir, year faithful servant,
EDWARD OIRDLEITOXI,
Cason of Bristol, and Irma. of 8.. Nicholas.
The Rev. the Boastary of the Netioaal &clay.

CLINGY PBOVIDENT BOClSTY.—Yettorday the tu-
nnel meeting of the stesbers of this emulation was held at
79, Pall-mall ; the Bishop “f Oxford I. the chair. The re
port stated that the ofj et was to rates aad admiaister an
auxiliary land to maim the poster clergy in the ;tamest et
the premien to been for imputative, as allowance of 21. •
week when disabled by Martina Mamma ; or, sesoadly,
to reader sublimes towards the eseirames of a deferral as-
amity, not etetedmg 104 i. per mule, atter the age of 60 or
70; and, thirdly, towards tweets( as endowment, not es.
among VOL, Mr a Grind on sustains the age of 18 or 21.
TM amanita bell the eormeradaseet, is May,-1866,

to irat titems twr lad. siteWd bat the
vestment saress,ed to 648 L la, and ths donations for ma.
lintsery expenses sad animal sebseri otiose to 1621. Be. By
the latter eau were to hi met the entire sapensts incurred
to. misting, poems., adosnislag, ie., during the two years
totot Jib tb• meaty bad bees is tbe 00111111 of forma ies,
smosatisi to 1261. 6.. &swats P. brasty last aid the
pram' dam 112. sabsoripties U.S bad bees gradually in •
mowed : 6131 16e. had bees lammed by the Mamma; and
Mo issame fee the roust rat from the leterset of that la-
Oellegme.mai from easual subeeriptioss (ineludlog 20L per
EMS OMB the Arobbielaop of Casts:Mary) migbt be already
411=isctr 1801.
ATION or COLOOILL—New colour' men
pasentsd to th. 26tb Itaglmost. wr Kum'. Ows Borderer.,
yesterday, at the Salford Bamako, by Liestosast-Oeseral
Me Harry