The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-26 00:00:00

RIME CORPS MOVIMENT.

Tao VICTORIA RlTLEll.—Velderthly wt. a rood
Held day of the Victoria R M Corps. The compeer
mustered at the London•bridge station, leader the
command of Capra Jordan, First-Lteutetuente H.
Busk ead Greenhill, Second-Lieutenants Collins and
Dickenson, and thence proceeded by rail to Bel-
rash, a little horned Reigate, one of the most picturesque
of the many charming spots upon the Brighton line. From
liskomb the regiment marched throng h the most lovely
@morn to the seat of Mr. Robert Leder, at
H Brehm, about three miles dieter. It Is scarcely
or el ete hew the rural population at.
tended in the line of march, and the /peer*
apart from its other merit., was a decided novelty,'
for, timers as It may seem, it wee exactly yester-
day
24 years since any volunteer case bad paraded lal
the " open" for service drill. The euthuslasse, there•
fore, on behalf of the corps won warm In the exhume, and
rose to such • pitch in the parish of Brigham that on the
hill which marked it. boundaries the regiment was re.
calved by a deputation of its inhebitaats end presented
with an address, complimenting them as their patriotism, awl
welcoming the corps to one of the prettiest rashes in Besse.
Atter this ceremony had been gone through, and duly are
kmowleclged by Captain Jordan, the ales of the regiment con-
tinued their march to High Beeches, at the entrance to the
grounds of which woos small but haadsome triumphal arch,
and under this Mr. Lodes and a numerousthele of the nobility
and gentry of the country received the corps. Once arri red
upon the lovely ler, which overlook. one of the most
exquisite hits of teener, in England, the rigid bends of dis-
cipline were relaxed, and the companies allowed to Orden
Merelyes to the truer of a greener Mach. for which
thetas& had admirably prepared every man of them. An
hour re thee given to rest, and to sliced tits
gentlemen an opportunity of strolling through the
grounds and enelosuree of or of the most pictograms
Arks of its size in the county. A little are
o clock the " assembly " sounded, and 'the reglinento Nv
lowed by a large circle of Wits and geneses, waned
through the ground. to an open space in High Boni
Forest, where a crowd of spectators from the surronadlog
villages had collected to witness the evolutions.
BIRMINGHAM.—An adjourned meeting of the gen-
tlemen engaged in the formation of a rifle corps in Birming-
ham was held on Tu. sday night; Mr. Coon illor Wright
in the chair. The question of " continuous drill" was dis-
cuss d, end mention was made as to doubts which have
arisen es to the construction of the clauses In the act under
which these corps may he organised. With the view to a
definite undesatanding off several points, a sub-committee
was appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the restrictions
imposed upon voluntary corps by the provisioos of the act
of 44th George the Third ; aloe, as to whether sotociations
for private riffs corps can be formed otherwise than under the
provisions of that act.
NOTTINGRAM.—Volunteers are daily registering
their names for this corps. The Duke of Newcastle, lord-
lieutenant of the county, was remit at a meeting of the
borough sad county twirler, at the Shire Hall. There
were also present Lord Helps, Mr. Denise (the Speaker),
Sir Thomas Pukyns, Bart., Colonel Coke, Colonel Holden,
ice. The Duke of Newcastle occupied the chair, and in a
lengthened riders criticised the latter of the Secretary for
War, deporting its want of detail. He (the duke) said it
was essential that the rifles should ha of cue uatfuem gauge,
and be thought that the government ought to find the
weapons at their own expense. The following resolutions
were proposed and carried .—" That this meeting desires to
sprees its medicos to co-operate with her Majesty's govern-
ment In carrying out in the most efficient manner the allele
lishment of one or more ride corps in this county.
That more detailed information on the subject than is cen-
tered in the letter of the Secretary of War seems Mete.
eia Were active steps can be taken for the formation of
such a corps. That ids Grace the Duke of Newcestle be re-
quested to ea another meeting el the eseStmtese and
deputy-lieut. ninth, when he has been able to ascertain
further information of the views of her Meleety's govern-
ment on several masters of detail nersenry for the efficient
formation of suchcorps. That the tartrates of Nottiagtessa
be a committee to receive applications front persona wishing
to enrol themselves in the rifle corps of this borough, sad
take preliminary messum for the formation of such Darr"
OfffOßD UNIYERBITY.—A congregation was holden
yesterday afternoon, when the sew statute, to enable the
sadargrailaatee or this university to forgo a volunteer rifle
corps, was forwarded anodes sage, the measure being passed
by 14 votes to 6. A committee his been formed for the p ur-
ines of making the nacres', y arrangements for the formation
etas reps.
BALISMIRT.—It waa stated in these columns a few
days slam that an influential meeting of seailemen had
bora Wad, with the Mew of establishing a tile cotps ha this
city, At • meeting of the c =metes, it has bees decided that
the arms sad accoutrements of the proceed regiment shall
be provided by the committee, out of funds to be raised by
public subscription, and that the only expense to be borne by
marberi of the corps will be for their own uniform and the
cost of this is not to exceed 31. 10a. It is expected that this
liberal srraegement will induce a large 'umber of volunteers
HHott..—A meeting was held in the Hall Town-
hall on Moeda), evening, the Mayor In the chair. Mr. Moss
moved a resolution to the effect that the meeting expressed
lie °Flair that a: the present crisis it wee expedient to form
• ellea rps. Mr. Alderman Bannister seconded the motion,
Mr. Richardson opposed the formation of a rifle corps on
such roles es the government bad batted. The rich men
would become officers and be provided for, but the poor men
would here to tight. Mr. Richardson made several inef-
fectual attempts to speak, but the misting would not hear hies.
The Mayor rose to order. Mr. A. Samuelson read a resolu-
tion, which he intecded to move, to the effect thet the meet•
isg disapproved the meeting held previously, and called by
circular, and !het tbe meeting was of opinion that the officers
of the proposed corps stould be tried professional wee.
During the reeling Mr. Samuelson was Interrupted by a
loud burst of diespprobatlon, which continued for some time,
After a noisy illenleeioD, Mr. Samuelsoe's motion wee
carried amid • scene of great excitement. Further resolu-
tions were tarried appointing a committee, and ordering that
the Mayor Sort wait on the lord-lieutenant o I the county,
fork his lordship to seceder whether the government
would provide the cannon and ammunition In case an artillery
amps ems formed.
BIRIDINBLAD.—A meeting of the inhabitants of
Birkenhead and the adjoining districts was held on bloaday
awning, for the purpose of establishing • volunteer rifle corps
for the hundred of Wirral. Mr. J. Laird, chairman of the
Birkenhead Commissioners, occupied the chair. He was of
opinion that If the Admiralty performed their duty, the ribs
corps would never be called upon; still, as the continental
swims looked more to an army on shore, he believed that
the formation of the elfin asp, would be the means of
deterring Francs or Russia from attacking no. He then
referred to the regulations issued by the government, which
he urged, would not meet the ere, as working men and
others could not reset therolves 24 days in the year frees
their business for drill. He had no doubt the commiees to
be formed would rusks a representation to the lord-lieutenant
of the comity with the view of obtaining en alteration In
the present stringent regulations.. Mr. H. lattledele pro-
posed a resolution to the effect that the present state of con-
tinerel affairs rendered it necessary that all persons capable
of besting sr should qualify thirdses to tight is the de-
feace of their country by formiog themselves into volunteer
ride corps. Mr. Chambers seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously. Mr. Vincent Vag proposed the
second resolutiou, calling upon the men of Wirral to enrol
themselves an a volunteer rifle regiment, which was seconded
by Captain Mends, R.N., who advised the people to place
so ilepradeace upon finely-built forts, for be would undertake
• stake his commission upon the event that be weld
eater the Mersey at night with gun•boath, and inflict M-
I calculable damage upon the place. A committee was &p-
-robated for carrying out the details of the proposed mea-
sure, and the meeting broke up. The committee of
the volunteer corps for the hundred of Wirral held their lint
meeting yesterday (Wednesday) morning, at the moms of the
commissioner., in Birkinhoed. The chair was occupied by
Mr. John Laird, and there was a numerous and influential
at enders. A deputation was appointed to wait Imes the
lord-lieutenant of the county and lbe Sorry of War, and
committees were organird tor Birkenhead, Claughton and
Oxton, Rock Ferry and Welles/.
SOB ER'fi PURT.—Neither Tenoyson's spirit-stirring
lines, nor the intimation given by the lord-lieutenant of
his reedier to receive proposal., seems to hove rouged the
martial energy of the young men of Shrewsbury la almost
every other 'minty town throughout the kingdom meetings
has been galled, and the neresary steps liken for the foe-
motion el ride eef e. Seeing that this is not the c ise with
this " relent borough." may we venture to ask "the tern
why r—lArewbUry Jerrold.

SOCIETY FOB THE PEOP4GBTION OF
THE GOSPEL.

The annual general meeting of the subscribers and
friends of this soden, which wee incorporated by charter
greeted by King William the Third on the 16th of June,
1701, for the reniving, managing, and diiposing of such
funds as might be contributed for toe religious instruction of
her Moleety'e sutlects beyond the a ass, for the maintenance
of clergymen in the plantation. colones, end iliftgOti(ll of
Great Britain, and for the propsiation of the Gospel Isamu
puts was bead yesterday at 6.. Jennie Hell, Piccadilly.
The Archbishop of Canterbury po,Lded, and there were on
the platform the Bishops cf London, Oxford, Western New
Tor St. Helena (elect), Columbia, the Rev. Dr. Goalbura,
Lord yttelion, the Rev, J. B. Kemps, Archdeacon Sinclair,
Archdeacon Bale, and a large number of the metropolitan
e The
report, which wee reed by the Rev. Ereeet Hawkins,
8.D., minister of Clue= Chapel, congratutated the meeting
upon the fact that when two colmial bishop, who were at
prevent awaiting coneccrallon—naniely, the Rev. Dr. E. W.
Tuffnell, Bishop-designee of Brisbane, New South Wales,
and the Rev. Piers Cawley Cnughton, M.A., Bishop-
designate of St. Helm', were admittei into the episcopate,
there would be 37 bishops of the Roglith Chortle hi the
colonies and dependencies of the British crown, considerably
outnumbering the bishop. of the Church of Eogland at
home. One cf the bishops shortly to be oonsecrated (the Rev.
Dr. Talton!) was about to take tte epieooal supervision of a
moat important portion of New South Wiles, which formed
part of the present diocese of Newcastle, the bishop of which
had most getterourly surrendered a large portion of tt,s
endowment in order that the new me InOt be erected.
While, however, this increase in the numb of Wheys
had taken place, there was a great need of an extension of
the episcopate of Indic, and it was highly destratle that ar-
rangements should to made sit!) se httle delay se ponible
for the erection of • bishopric) at Agra for the North West
Front:ion—one at Lahore for the Fujin!), and one at
ralamootta for the missionary province of Tinnevelly. At
the wenn time the et.ciety had ordained robsionarien
,Scripture readers, catechists, and schoolmasters at work is
all the colonial diocese.; while the vest which had
recently taken place in Chins, Japan, sad Borneo, had
completely outstripped all its eff.rts to keep pace with them.
The society, in tummies of a resolution to double the
number of its European rainionaries is limn, bad shady
de Tice clergymen, graduate. of Oxford and
Cambridge, to that country, and wee anxious with as
little delay as posible largely to Moreau UN number.
By another resols:i n the s,asety stood pledged to found
sew and strengthen existing missions he the providential and
other principal cities of lid* and it wara:d pectination
mention /Crampon Fates, Allattabed, Ladino*, Bareilly,
Lahore, Ahmedabad, end Bomt ay, as places touch of which
it was dean= of sending, at awe, en eMciezt staff of moo-
elosaties and echooltaasten. _ .

•
Resolutions adopting the report, and affirming the neces-
sity of supporting the society's milldam in the present
critical state of the colonial church, were unanimously
edted, and it was ►nnounced that IM ansieweery festivil
of The society would be cal/brand in St. Paul's Cathedral on
Tuesday, June 210, ( n which (combs Lad Auckland,
Bishop of Beth end Wells, had commented to preach. Ibs
Lord Mayor bee undertakes to pest& over a meeting to to
held at the Masion•bouse oe Thursday, Jona 23rd.

LONDO.V SOCIETY FOR TEACHING TRI BLIND
TO ISAD.

The 21st anniversary meeting of this institution,
establiehed in the Avenue-mad, Regent's-park, was held
isterdey afternoon, at Hanover-some Rooms, Lord Either
the chair ; and ones very fully attended. A considerable
number of bad pupils of both seam were present, and in
the course of the proceedings they MS, with excelket effect
from embossed music, pieces from Handel, Haydn, Motet,
and Meedeleeohn, being socompanied on the organ by the
Waite master, Mr. Edwin Berme.
The report, which wee teed by the secretary, Mr.
Can, stated that the inmates were divided into two
classes—first, free scholars, of whom one left the institution
last year and Am were chosen, and pupils whom
friends paid wholly cr partly for their board.
of whew fourteen lett in the last year, while the aggregate of
both classes at present. was 62. A- pupil nailed George
Matthews had recently been appointed organise of All
&iota Church, IX 011We-cid, Hempstead. The society
would in future be called tt The Smite y for Teaching the
Blind to Read and for Instructing them in Industrial Em-
ploymento." The large sum of 1,292/. had yet to be raised
to purchase the grouse rent of the buildings belonging so the
society, amomtleg to 701. per annum ; and the oommitne
urgently initialed to the friends of the society to contribute
liberally tswards that object. The report concluded by
narrating instances of betake comforted en different pupil's.
The balance-sheet showed that the maids of the year
amounted to 2,094/. ss. 10d., end the expenditure to 1,9911.
13s. Ild., and that there was a balance of 243/. la. against
the society.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, osograttdated
the meeting on the very full attendance, as it evinced the
great interest which the public continued to take in the
opernims of the pottery, especleity as they had to coutead
with thermal attraction et a llotralfle in the Regent's Path.
He bad artfully perused the report of the two previous
yews, and he could contidently my that the report for the
pest year would be found (ally eacouragbeg. The society
bad now indeed Oa majority, having beep established
twenty-one years, Ind he believed it et wad go on it:tandem;
its operations. Test was jot the Ant society which wee
founded lot the tomtit of the blind. The where in St.
Georges-in-the-Fields preceded it in point of time. That
inatitation was founded for the benefit of the itdigent blind;
this was established for those who could efford to pay some-
thing
for their education, and the number of persons of that
clam who were under training lest year wee nu lees than 60.
There had been great improvements of late In the different
modes of teaching the blind to read, and he anticipated a
Maher advenceroent. No one would have sup-
posed a priori that the blind could be taught get o-
graphy ; yet even that had been Pined practicable.
It was not improlehle that the teaching of the blind of this
coasts, to teed would actually be instrumental in spread Mg
Christianity in Chins, room meticulerly in the province of
Ningpo, to which the ho:y Scriptures bad been already sent,
and where a Chinon Inman, who was formerly a pupil of
that institutien, was engaged in teaching her countrywomen
to read. Great progress had bees male en teaching the blind
various trades. the most inineseing of which was the emboss-
ing of Bibles for the me of the blind. Many of the blind
wore being taught to read at their own houses ; so leas than
64 volume. of embtmeed books had been published ; and there
was every indication that the benefits of the twisty were
being widely diffused. (Chanel
On the motion of the Rev. T. NOLAN, seconded Ly the
Rev. E. GARBITT, the repeat was adopted unanimously
and resolutions do Leetnony with the grind object of the
society were subsequently pawl.

SOCIETY OP TEN FRIENDS 0P IVILEIONIIIB IN

The charity the annivewiary of which wia celc-
btated yesterday evening at the Lend.= Taves is, we bel eve,
one the parallel of which could not be found beyond the circuit
of the Bennie island,. Paris, Vienna. Berlin, and Peters-
burg are niggardly enough of benevolent fonetheions even
for their own poor; but London, in the prefunion of its
charity, and !melts first provided ter every possible form of
domestic destitution, has still enough left to sue •,,r the
destitute foreigner in his ditties.. Toe •rocie.y now under
consideration had its origin in the numberless applications
made to foreign protestant clergymen resident in London by
their respective conntnmen. These settee:on, pestles
themselves, knew well the benevolence of the Britian I.l'ioll,
and they therefore founded the soc:ew, which hag cow lased
to prosper, although with varying Niecess, ever elms 1806.
The °bite*. of the institution is to grant relief to destitute
foreigners without distinction of country or religion. spe-
cially thole who are not entitled to perecbial aid, end to fur-
nish means to etch es may be desirous of returning
to their own country. So warm bed bees the
response of England to the call of "to:signers in distress,"
that the directors had been enabled piece t he stablishment of
the society to relieve 93,922 natives of diffeent stens, and
to grant allowance, t wards the rapport of 167 persons
It is also worthy of remark that although thereat* lumens
numbers of wealthy foreigners in this country it is tot to
them that the director., priccipally look for emmursgement,
but to the proverbial benevolence of the British /cold,.
By the Guy 41did report, which was read at the meet:ar of
yesterday evening, it append that during the past ,oar,
1,837 applicants had been relieved, and 219 hail See (tabled
to return to their native countries. Monthly allowances had
been given to 73 aged Lemons, and 84 were rseiving
allew-
anole of fm. a week, with, in a few cams, the addition el
6J. In additien to the., the jubilee bounty of V. had
been awarded to six of the moat deserving of the pensinocre.
The Right Hon. the Earl of CAkLtSLI presided at yester-
day.' festival, and his lordship fa stating the foregoing feels
aloe observed, that however prompt had been the espouses
of public benevolence, there were save red bead* of the society's
expenditure which were sill In sores,. The almthoutes at'
Norwood bed not been fully paid for, the oast of maintenance
for the trosent yrar. and of some mvaisery repairs, beng
wholly usprovided for. Still the operatios went efficiently
on, and it only r, maimed for his auditor., to come liberally
r ward to meths the thieves to carry out 11.6 society to its
fullest development. Let them remember how dif-
(erect was our lot in this country to that of the
people of the most favoured spot is continental
Rumps. (Hear, beer.) What a contrast did the city in
which they were then sumnbled afford to the state of old
Berets, sped salt was into all the honors a war, is
people an mated only by strife and hatred, its Beide ataintd
with blood and carnage, the gorges of its natautair.s pouring
down daily armed legions, and its rivets eyed with the
blood of hacks citizens. (Heat, hear.) Rice ground" end
vineyards and mulberry proves at this moment presnit,d a
strong contrast between the bounty of Providence and the
weigniaary Nadeau cf ma. (Chem.) He tested that