The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-10 00:00:00

[STAMPED, 14. ADDITIONAL]

EARL RUSSELL AND NIS IRISH TENANTRY.

(From the Frwmans ✓ournal.)

When Earl Russell's tenants were made aware of
the intention of his lordship to visit hi■ Meath estates in
September. they held a meeting and arranged to give hbu
• public reception at Navan,to entertain him at a dejeune►,
and present him with an address. The chairman having
communicated their resolve to Mr. Joly, his lordship'.
agent, received • reply expressing his lordship's
thanks, and regret that being limited as to time,
his prior arrangements would not admit of his
going to Navan ; that he had arranged with the Countess
Russell and the Duke of Leinster to visit Ardsallagh
Castle on the following Wednesday, 25th September,
where be would be happy to see any of his tenants who
might feel disposed to call upon him. On receipt of this
communication • further meeting was held, at which it
was resolved that • deputation, headed by Mr. John
Mullen, chairman of the Navan Town Commissioners,
should wait upon him and present him with an address.
Accordingly the deputation proceeded toArdeallagh Castle
(the residence of Mr. Robert Collins, M.D., who kindly
lent it to his landlord for the day), on Wednesday, the
29th September, where they were graciously received by
his lordship, who, having introduced them to the Countess
Rumen and the Duke of Leinster, who, he said, must be
well known to them all as a landlord, and by whom he
would always be advised in matters relating to his
tenantry, received the following address :
"TO THE RIGHT HON. JOHN, LEL EVISEELL, KNIGHT ON

" My Lord,—We, the tenantry of your Meath estates,
ever grateful for the comforts we enjoy and the indepen-
dence so generously secured to us by the best of landlords,
take advantage of your presenoe here to-day to greet you
and your amiable family with a genuine Irish welcome—
s need mWe failthe—to Meath, and to assure your lordship
that no words could express how deeply we feel indebted
for all the benefits you hare widened upon us in the way
of granting good and substantial leases: making ample
allowances for improvements, and giving liberal indulgence
when the times or circumstances render it desirable ;
and last, though not least, in having placed over us
as agent Mr. Henry E. July, (the worthy son of
a worthy sire), who, whilst he never forfeits the duty
he ever owes his noble employer. is yet always ready to
consult our every wish, and to exert ell the means within
his power to increase our comforts and to promote our
beet interests. We beg also, my lord, to thank you moat
sincerely for the kind and liberal manner in which you ac-
ceded to our request, and granted to the people of Naysn
a site whereon to erect offices for the use of their bishop
and clergy. We trust that this visit of your lordship will
tend to draw closer the bonds which should unite us toge-
ther ; and with best wishes for the health, long life, and
happiness of yourself and your lordship's amiable family,
we venture to express the hope that the time is not far
distant when you will do us the honour of making
amongst us a more protrected stay.
(Signed) " JOHN Whim., for Self and Brothers."

His lordship returned the following reply:—" Gentle-
men,—l am eery grateful for the manner in which you
have expressed yourselves towards me, and the kindness
with which you have greeted my family. I cannot think
that I deserve (otherwise than by my earnest wishes for
your prosperity) the praises you have bestowed upon
my conduct as a landlord. But I am anxious to
avail myself of the eo-operation of my excellent
agent, Mr. Joly, and to learn through him *bat is
the best course to pursue. An improving tenant
will always find me ready to grant him the secunty
of • lease by which he may feel himself safe in
the application of his skill, diligence, and industry.
I am happy to have been able to assist the people of
Nevan in t heir very natural wish to have their bishop re-
siding amongst them, and I shall be happy if hereafter a
child of mine, inhabiting this house, shall be able to culti-
vate the relations of friendship and good-will with all
classes of the community end all denominations of the
Christian family."
His lordship and the members of the deputation then
conversed on general subjects for some time, after which the
deputation withdrew, thanking his lordship for his gene-
rous reception. Subsequently his lordship, accompanied by
the Countess Russell and the Duke of Leinster, sad at tended
by his agent, walked and drove through the grounds of
Ardsallagh (which his lordship expects will be the future
residence of one of his children). They also visited the
national school and the several tenants residing on the
Ardsallagh estate, and conversed most freely with each
and every member of their families. lier ladyship takes
the most lively interest in the welfare of the tenantry, and
is most desirous that their houses shall be comfortable and
cleanly kept, and is most anxious to further the same to
the utmost extent of her power, and suggested that pre-
miums be given to thole, that keep their places neat.
Her ladyship gave each a substantial present in
the shape of warn, clothing, tea, and flannels, and
expressed her regret that time would not admit
of her personally calling on all her oottier tenants,
but left with the agent similar presents for each of them.
The noble party then proceeded to the Hill of Tara, • por-
tion of which is on his lordship's estate, where, having
visited the tenantry, who, as well ss the Ardsallagh
tenants, gave the party a most hearty welcome, his lord-
ship and the Duke of Leinster ascended the hill, and stood
on the spot where it is supposed the great O'Connell stood
when he addressed the mighty multitude. The great
statesman made many inquiries about that great meeting,
and was much struck with the extent of the view and the
richness of the country all about. The parties having
expressed themselves much pleased with their visit to
Heath, returned by the 5.10 p.m. train to Carton, the seat
of Ireland's only duke.

THE LATE SIR FREDERICK BRUCE.—The remains
of the late Sir Frederick Bruce reached Dunfermline on
Monday at noon, by the second train from the west, which
brought at the same time the Hon. Thos. Bruce and Dean
Stanley, brother and brother-in-law of the deceased diplo-
matist. The remains of Sir Frederick were conveyed to
Broomhall.house, the seat of the Earl of Elgin, nephew to
the deceased, where they remained till removed yesterday
to be interred in the family vault. The preparations at the
vault in Dunfermline Abbey for the reception of the body
of the deceased were all finished early yesterday. Candles
were burning mostly all the day in the vault. The place
prepared in the vault for the reception of the body was
exactly above the place where the remains of Thomas
the seventh Earl of Elgin lie. The funeral took
place yesterday afternoon. Dean Stanley conducted
the church of Englaud service at Brooinhall, and the Rev.
Mr. French, Dunfermline, officiated as the church of
Scotland minister, Rev. Dr. Jobnatone, Limekiln., also
officiated, and reed a portion of Scripture. After this
service, the funeral procession formed and started for the
abbey. Long before the arrival of the procession, or even
before there was any sight of it. a great many people
turned out to witness the spectacle. The gates of the
churchyard were guarded by a force of villa) constables,
so that only a select few were admitted. Outside there
were a great many people collected, and in the abbey
a considerable number of ladies and gentlemen had as.
.ambled. When the hearse containing the coffin entered
the churchyard, the coffin was taken out and carried
shoulder high by eight men. Dean Stanley led the way to
the vault, reading from the service-book. When the pro-
cession reached the top of the entrance to the vault, the
dean proceeded with the service, after which be offered
prayer, and then the coffin was lowered into the vault.
The abbey bells tolled from a little after one o'clock till
after three, when the funeral was over. Amongst those
present at the funeral were the Hon. Thomas Bruce, Dean
Stanley, and the Earl of Elgin.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. —Last evening Dr.
Lankester held an inquest at the Prince of Wales Tavern,
Pentouville-road, on the body of Ann Rotten, aged 44,
who committed suicide after four attempts on Sunday last.
Jabez Henry Rotten, &watchmaker, occupying lodgings at
:ti, North-street, Pentonville-road, said the deceased was
his wife, who had been a drunkard for 20 years. They bad
no family. They lost a child 41 years old, and that was
the foundation of his wife's drunkenness. Last Sunday
morning he left home at a quarter to one, leasing his wife
to prepare dinner by half-past two, but his mind being
ill at ease he returned Lome and found his wife doubled
up on the floor. There was a cotton handkerchief round
her neck, and a little blood on the floor. There were two
cards on the table, on one of which was the following in-
serintion :—"I beg to state my husband, Jabez
Rotten, is perfectly free from this deed. This is
done with my own hand.—(Signed) ANN lorrint."l
Mr. Thomas Bell Hay. M.R.C.S., deposed to being called
to the deceased on Sunday last. He found her on her back ,
on the bed. She was quite dead, but there was foam about
the mouth. There was a wound across the throat (a
scratch), extending from the left angle of the jaw to the I
right, and another across the elbow joint opening one of
the veins. He had made a post•mortein examination, and
found that the holy was well nourished. Internally the
lungs were healthy. The heart was feeble, with air in it.
The stomach contained about two ounces of paraffin oil. I
The liver and kidneys were diseased from drink. There
had no doubt been four attempte at suicide, viz., cutting
the throat, drinking paraffin oil, opening the vein of the
arm, and strangulation by the handkerchief. Finding that
air had entered the vein of the arm. he cut up to the
shoulder, and found the sir had entered the heart. The ,
cause of death was the entrance of air to the heart
rl the
opening of the vein in the elbow, which stop the
heart's action. The jury found a verdict of ' Suicide
while in an unsound state of mind, brought on by habits
of intoxication."
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[TWOPENCE

TN& DEAN OP WESIMINsTER AND TliN
"PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD."

The Dean of Westminster has sent the following
rnispondenae to the Guardian for publication :

It will be seen (says the Dean in the note which
socompanies the correspondence) that whilst, as guardian
of Westminster Abbey, he could not allow it to be used
for the purpose of giving • sanction to the conference, he
was anxious to give any such facilities as were compatible
with this duty. The allusions in his letter to the inten-
tions of the Primate refer to expressions used by hie grace
in previous communications, assuring him that all party
questions would be avoided.
"Deanery, Westminster, Sept. 21, 1867.
"My dear Lord Archbishop,— I have been honoured
with a communication from your grace through the Bishop
of Loudon, requesting the use of Westminster Abbey for a
special service to be held for the English, American, and
Scottish bishops now assembled in England, to be held, as
I understood, on Sept. 28. On all occasions it is my
I earnest desire to render the abbey and the precincts of
Westminster available for purposes of general utility
and edification, and this desire is increased when
the request comes from your grace. You will kindly
allow me to @tote the difficulty which I feel in the
present instance. I have endeavoured to act in such
matters on the rule of granting the use of the abbey to
such purposes, and such only, as are either co-extensive
with the church of England, or have a definite object
of usefulness or charity, apartfrom party or polemical con-
siderations. Your grams will, lam sure, we that, how-
ever much your grace's intentions would have brought the
=Piseconference at Lambeth within this sphere,in
ie-le se esaisidated. The absence em
primate and the er part of the bishops of the northern
province, not to s of the Bishops of India and Australia,
and of other important colonial or missionary sees, must,
even irrespectively of other indications, cause it to present
a partial aspect of the English chureh,whikit the appearance
of other prelates not belonging to our churchplaoes it on a
different footing from the institutions which are confined to
the church of England. And, further, the absence of any
fixed information as to the objects to be discussed and
promoted by the conference leaves me, in common
with all who stand outside, in uncertainty as
to what would be the proposals or measures which would
receive, by implication, the sanction given )1 the 140 of
the abbey—a sanction which, in the case of a church so
venerable and national in its character, ought, I
- conceive,
to be lent only to public objects of well-defined or acknow-
ledged beneficence. These are the grounds why I hesitate
to take upon myself the responsibility suggested. But,
when stating this difficulty, I feel so strongly the value of
the friendly intercourse to promote which has been the
chief intention of year grace, and of, I doubt not, many of
the prelates who have concurred In this conference—and I
am so desirous that the abbey shall be made to minister
to the edification of large sections of our church, even
when not representing the whole, and of those outside
our own immediate pale (especially our brethren from
America) who are willing to co-operate with us in all things
lawful and good—that I would gladly, if possible, join
in advancing such a purpose. It has occurred to
me that, as the service indicated by your
is to be held after the conference is finished, the grace
might be granted for it. without any relation to the con-
ference itself ; but either for some specific object, such as
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, or for other
Home or Foreign Missions of unquestioned importance, or
else (in those general terms which, as I apprehend, express
your grace's wishes) for the promotion of brotherly good
will and mutual edification amongst all members of the
Anglican communion. Under these circumstances and
on this understanding, which I should wish to be made as
public as the announcement of the service itself, I should
have great pleasure in permitting the use of the abbey
for such a service, to be held in the morning or afternoon
of September 28th (as may he deemed most convenient);
and I trust that, if this meets your grace's wishes, your
grace will undertake to preach on the occasion.-1 beg to
remain, my dear Lord Archbishop, yours faithfully and
respectfully, A. P. STASLEY.”
"Addington-park, Croydon, Sept. 25, 1867.
" My dear Dean,— I laid your note before the conference
yesterday, but it will probably not close its sittings on
Friday evening, as there is reason to believe that com-
mittees will be appointed to report at • future date. Under
these circumstances. it is obvious from the tenor of your
letter that the abbey is not open to us. I regret, there.
fore, that we shall not be able to avail ourselves of your
kind offer under the specified conditions.—Believe me, my
dear Dean, yours very truly, C. T. CAtiruaz."
" Deanery, Westminster, Sept. 27, 1867.
"My deer Lord Archbishop,—l have to acknowledge
with thanks your grace's letter of the 25th, and to express
my regret that your grace and the bishops assembled
should have felt themselves precluded from accepting my
proposal—in reply to your grace's request—to meet in the
abbey for some specific object' of charity or usefulness, `or
for the purpose of promoting brotherly good-will and
mutual edification amongst all members of the Anglican
communion.' I beg, however, that you will assure the
prelates assembled, especially those of our American
brethren, for whose sake, as I stated in my former letter,
I especially proposed to grant the use of the abbey as
before mentioned, that if they or any of them should wish
to attend the services in the abbey on Sunday next (at 10
a.m. or at 3 p.m.) every accommodation and welcome shall
be afforded —I beg to remain, my dear Lord Archbishop,
yours faithfully and respectfully, A. P. STAIILEI."

THZ BISHOP or LINCOLN'S Vlseramole. —At
Lincoln Cathedral, on Tuesday, the bishop of the diocese
delivered the charge in connection with his fifth triennial
visitation. After alluding to many other topics, his lord-
ship toucl.ed upon doctrinal ritualism, called by its pro-
moters " the catholic movement." It was true that our
church from the Reformation had always comprehended
two schools of thought—one which regarded religion more
in its subjective, the other more in its objective aspect—
one which concentrated keen on the individual, the other
on the church. Roth contained necessary truths, though
they exhibited them out of their due proportions, but
neither could overpower the other without injury to the
truth and the church's overthrow. The Puritan triumph in
the seveuteeuth century was not more disastrous than would
be a pseudo-catholic triumph now. After illustrating in
several ways the additional force that the sceptical move-
ment had given to that which called itself the catholic
movement, the bishop resumed his argument by pointing
out that, thus set free by the action of a hostile movement
from many of the restraints of opinion and law which
were formerly supposed to confine within certain limits
the clergy, if not the laity, the latter movement bad
been pressed on with an energy and ability which deserved
acknowledgment, and had occasioned both anxiety and
alarm. In this system the Reformation was regarded as a
mistake or a misfortune, and the term protestant as a title
of reproach or sutithesis to truth. Holy Scripture was dis-
paraged as the rule of faith, excepting as interpreted by
catholic reading, and the Thirty-nine Articlesasa hindrance
to unity, a burden ou the Anglican priesthood, or at best
formularies necessary for the Itch century, but unsuited for
our own. Even our Prayer-book and communion office
were decried in comparison with the Prayer hook of Edward
VI. and the previous " uses" of our nuraurmed church.
It was no wonder if, when the limit and criterion of faith
had been thus shifted, the estimate of doctrine should be
varied too; that the test of justification by faith, as ex-
pounded in the " Homily of Salvation," and 1,7 Hooker,
should be disliked and explained away. even if it escaped con-
demnation as a Lutheran heresy. Rut the innovation on
received doctrine which has attracted molt attention, and
perhaps met with the widest acceptance, was that which
concerned the Eucharist. Them was little suitableness to
any such theory of the Eucharist as the ritualists held in our
communion office, and there was absolutely no support for
it in our formularies, and its character had heen altered
by the introduction of practices confessedly obsolete, pro-
bably Vestments were worn, sometimes desig-
nated "sacrificial," and assumed to be authorised 1,7 the
Rubric on the ornaments of the church Hurl ministers ;
lights, incense, and the mixed cup were reiutralliced
after being significantly omitted in the Prayerdiook ;
hymns were interpolated which contained the doctrines
which in our aims would be looked for in vain. Instead
of breaking bread before the people, the minister, with his
back towards them, lifted up the Sacrament of the
Lord's Supper for the purpose of adoration, and
the people were encouraged, and even required,
to remain during the celebration, though not com-
municating, that their prayers might be more availing,
pus up while the sacrifice was being offered. After point-
ing out further inconsistencies with our existiee foi Dieta-
ries, his lordship said he should be wanting to Lis own
deep convictions, and to the responsibilities of his position,
if he did net .ay that in his judgment the developed
teaching of the so called " catholic" movement wee as
irreconcileuble with Holy Scripture as with the formularies
of our own church—tending to lower the tone of healthy,
personal ieligiou, was leading some to the system of Rome,
and was likely to provoke a reaction on one hand to a bald
Puritanism, un the other to cold and sometimes scoffing
unbelief.

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l'rotemor Husky, on entering the room, was accompanied
by the Mayor (Mr. Thomas Avery), Alderman Nyland, Mr.
S. Ti iiiii .ins, Alderman Wiggin, and Mr. W. Aitken.
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