The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

• •
01 •
r ,
RDY
•
.gyENl$O, pECEMBEA 15 i't-:•1866-;-.,,

. ,
Treating of the fearful colliery calaiikies, the
Times urges that it has become an object of national im-
portance to invent some antidote to fire-damp, or at least
some method' of testing its presence, so as to
put the most reckless on their guard. The
Post assumes that such mcidents •naust occasionally
occur so long as it is possible that a lamp may be
broken or the reckfeamiess of a single miner bring
a Tight in contact with the most explosive of gases. The
Herald thinks wp should institute a mining police for the
colliery districts 'to supersede the imperfect system of oc-
casional inspection. Noting that the worst accidents
in tie largest mines, the Tdeeraph thinks that two
occur
shafts, which the law at present requires, affording distinct
means of ingress and egress, me not enough where the
workings extend for two miles underground.
In the midst of the contradictory and incoherent news
which reaches us from Mexico, the Daily News observes
that it is at least clear that Maximilian is treated by the
French generals as no longer an operative element in
Mexican affairs, but as already belonging to the dead pest,
while their own action is exclusively self-regarding, and
directed to securing the safety of their troops. Of the
future government of Mexico nothing is said in
French circles, but with regard to an opinion
which is very common in this country, the Daily
News rays that if President Johnson and Mr. Seward
contemplate the reconstruction of Mexico, they cannot
succeed without the co-operation of Congress, which they
have not the least chance of obtaining.
In other articles the Daily News discusses the re-
organisation of the French army, and the correspondence
which has been issued relating to the Admiralty and the
conduct of the British officers concerned in the recent
occurrences in Jamaica. If, it says, we had read first in
any foreign paper the statements which now come to us
confirmed by the most authentic evidence, we should
have denounced them as foul libels, which could by no
possibility be true.
Mr. Doulton is sympathised with by the Times and
Herald. The boa. gentleman has done nothing that the
Times can see to forfeit the character of a liberal, and both
Times and Herald consider that the manner in which he
was treated is not likely to convince the upper and middle
classes that the political interests of the country would be
promoted by the suffrage of the working man. On the
other hand the Star thinks that if Mr. Doulton has a
scintilla of originality, a grain of knowledge, or a sensation
of true self-respect, he sill sink into utter and deserved
obscurity ; and it will add to his vexation that not only
the working classes, but "the bulk of the middle claims,"
will rally round a really liberal successor.

S.

OUR-,
6.

Evart.
al'i WINDSOR CASTLE, 13.0. 14.'' .:
The Queen walked out yesterday afternoon, at-
'!
tended by the Marchioness of Ely.
The Prince and Primus Christian arrived at the Castle
lut evening from Knowsley Park, attended by Lady
Susan Meliille and Lieutenant-Colonel George Gordon.
Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, also
arrived from Greenwich Park.
This being the anniversary of the Queen's great sorrow,
went this
her Majesty, accompanied by the Royal Family,
morning to the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore, and re-
mained there some time. The Dean of Windsor at-
tended, and read prayers andportions of scripture selected
for the occasion.
After the Queen's return to the Castle, the Mausoleum
was by her Majesty'
the
opened for all the members
of the household, including the servants, residents within
the Castle, and most of her Majesty's tradesmen in Windur,
to visit it.

~NT.

1Y•)

P'

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat
yeaterday. The lords repent were—Sir E. V. Williams,
Sir IL T. Hindersley, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence
PeeL

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh
arrived in town yesterday from Sandringham Hall, Nor-
_

folk.
Ambassador and
His Excellency the Prussian
till Mon-
the Counted. Bernstortt do not return to town
_ .

day.
Viscount Hamilton, 31. P., who was detained in
Paris by a slight indisposition, on his way home with the
Prince of Wales from Russia, is expected to arrive in
town this evening.
The Lord Bishop of Salisbury, Mrs. Hamilton
Palace ,
and family have just returned to the EpilICOPIll ,
Salisbury, after an &been°e of about two months. His
lordship has been spending his vacation in North Wales.
The family of Sir William Erle, the late Lord
Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, hasof Lady
been
placed in mourning by the death of m
the mother
Erle. She was the widow of the Rev. Dr. David Williams,
Warden of New College, Oxford, and canon of Winchester
ICathedral -___.----------------_

DR. PUSSY AND THE CONFESSIONAL.

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

The Saturday Review says that the worst of the
Popes late address to General Montebello is that it is ap-
prehended in France, now the Pope has bit upon the id
the
ea,
that all the French bishops, v. ith M. Dupanloup in
van, will begin praying for the Emperor's health, and finish
up with intercessions for his soul,—for it is impossible to
make that a criminal offence. It remains to be
seen after this gentle and harmless piece of malice,
whether the projected journey to Rome of the Empress
will come to anything, but the journey may have its uses.
Just as the Emperor leads the industry and glory of France
it is the Empress's mission to take the lead in the depart-
ment—so to speak—of piety. If the Holy Sepulchre were
not unfortunately in Palestine she might take that on
her way too, and perform two pilgrimages at one and the
same time ; and the French nation, which is all in favour
of religious exercises to be performed on the part of
Frenchwomen, would like her the better for it. The
journey, too, would reassure the Pope of the moral support
of France, and prevent him from running away.
While he who would rail against the policy of
encouraging emigration from Ireland must be pre-
pared to rail against the decrees of Providence, the
Saturday Revile regrets that the stream was not
guided at a time when that would have been
practicable towards our settlements in the southern hemi-
sphere. Fate has walled it otherwise. Those who might
have remained our more fortunate fellow-subjects have rid
themselves at once of their calamities and of their nation-
ality. They have made themselves aliens and enemies,
and in the novelty of an unwonted prosperity cherish the
recollection, not only of their own, but also of their
fathers' sufferings. Willie those that they have left
behind enter on a career free from the pangs
of a fretful and hungry competition, enjoying
plenty where they once knew starvation, and learn-
ing independence where they once cultivated servility,
the malignity of English faction and the blind fury of class
hatred make this improvement of their fortunes a reproach
to the landlords, whoa) greatest folly and greatest crime
I would have been to obstruct an emigration which had been
alre..dy proved so beneficial to Englishmen, and which has
since proved the economical salvation of Ireland. The fact
that, penury and starvation banished, discontent and dis-
affection sunive, shows quite as much the impracticable
nature of the Irish people and the insoluble difficulties of
Irish questions, as the injustice of the government or the
cruelty of the landlords.
As the Examiner tiews it, the present idea of the
French government is to Lave the National Guard ready
as a second reserve in case of disaster abroad, as a third line
of defence should the frontier ever again he crossed by
the German, such a line as, it will be argued, might have
I enabled Napoleon 1. to drive the invaders back during the
campaign of the Meuse. But it is not of defence that
France or her Emperor is really thinking. It is the re-
I vindication of territory once French that lies between the
I Scheldt and the Rhine, or the recovery of some portion of
it. It is no use shutting our eyes to the drillings and
tendeucies of things. With all his self-adequacy and self-
possession no man ever steered his course more steadily in
I the mid-stream of opinion than Napoleon 111. It is tuns
that he has hitherto avoided reefs and shoals ; and what-
lever old diplomatic charts and recent diplomatic flourishes
may indicate to the contrary, to this policy of pilotage he
will undoubtedly adhere.
Though the Examiner has no doubt of a strong leaven
of good Irish loyalty pervading the whole island and not
the north alone, it thinks it much better employed just
now in quiet co-operation, when required, with the au-
thorities, than in noisy demonstration ; which, in per.
fervid Ireland, unfortunately means party display of
emblems, and party songs and cries, and party fights.
And it trusts that when the present difficulty is tided
over, the still patent grievances and causes of ill-will
may so be dealt with that Ireland may yet come to be all
loyal.
Time, observes the Spectator, does not work in favour of
Governor Eyre. The more we hear of what happened in
Jamaica during the repression of the disturbances, the
more we see how completely a " reign of terror " it was.
We believe we rave nearly a year ago the history of
the unfortunate Haytians who left Jamaica in • vessel
chartered by themselves just before the disturbance,
and were driven back to Port Antonio in a dis-
abled state by • storm, only to find a most inhospitable
reception. Mr. Eyre took the circumstance for a descent
of Haytians in aid of the insurrection, a suspicion not
quite unnatural orunjustifiable at first, but not to be acted
upon without evidence. He wrote first to Captain de
Horsey, then to General O'Connor, " to try the vessel by
court-martial," but both gentlemen expressed their doubts
whether court-martial was a process by which a vessel
could be tried. Mr. Eyre has almost rivalled Don
Quixote's chivalric ire apinst the windmill. We wonder
he did not try the island of Hayti by court-martial at
once. Lieut. Brand would have liked the job. As • matter
of fact, the disabled vessel was not tried by court-martial,
but the Haytians, General la Mothe and his companions,
were landed, insulted, their luggage plundered, and finally
deported from the island by Mr. Eyre's order. Sir James
Hope says that Captain de Horsey, R.N., is responsible for
the insults which he ought to have prevented, and that
Captain Luke, of the 6th Foot, is responsible for the
plunder of the luggage, which he ought to have prevented.
General la Mothe, of course, must be compensated, but
Captain de Horsey and Captain Luke add two more to the
long list of subordinates not only not restrained from, but
stimulated to, mischief, by the weak panic of Mr. Eyre.

This morning the Rev. Dr. Posey returns to
subject of confession, in the correspondence columns of
the Times, occupying considerable space, in reply to Dr.
M'Neile sad "S. G. 0." Dr. Puny does not, it seems,
claim with other apostolic gifts that of miraculous power.
" A commission to do spiritual acts is one thing ;
a power
to work miracles is quite another. The material is the
province of the one ; the immaterial, the soul, is the pro-
vince of the other. The one relates to nature—the other
to grace." Nevertheless, " whether miracles have alto-
gether ceased, is a question into which I will not here
enter." The removal of the words which express the
ministerial forgiveness of sins from the Ordinal or the
Visitation of the Sick would break the Church of
England in pieces. " Their removal would be a denial of
belief, which would render it impossible for those who
hold that belief to continue in her. Our Prayer-book is,
under God, the common bond of the church of E
the
ngland in
England itself and the colonies. Any alteration of
Prayer-book in what expresses doctrine would divide
churches in the colonies from the mother church, and,
Perhaps, the church in many colonies within itself. This
disruption would be irremediable ; for it would not be like
judgments which are not the acts of the church itself.
Alterations in the Prayer-book which should net be the
act of the church would bo disobeyed ; alterations which
should be the act of the church would either rend her in
two or rend off a larger number of earnest souls than
people have any thought of. There would be few families
which would no: feel the rent sooner or later."
Meanwhile the Times begins to bo uncomfortable under
the weight of Dr. Pusey's theological contributions, and
humourously hints that the time is near at hand for
declining to publish any more of them. "We must needs
enter a gentle remonstrance against our columns being re-
garded as a field for abstract theological controversy,
and being inundated with quotations from the
fathers and the general councils. Such discussions
are as much out place before a popular audience
as a scientific medical disquisition." It is on the
practical side that the Times more particularly
condemns the practice of confession. "It is alleged to be
desirable that yoang boys and young women should not
only make spontaneous confessions, but should be taught
to question themselves, and should even be questioned by
priests, upon subjects to which it is indelicate even to
allude. Now, when the matter is brought to this
practical issue, we are justified in saying that theo-
logical considerations became wholly irrelevant. The
slightest approach to such a practice is utterly abhor
rent to the most essential principles of English mora-
lity. Englishmen regard any such attempt—and long
may they do so—us an outrage upon the innocence of
youth, the delicacy of women, and the manliness of men."
Englishmen do not consider human nature as a clock which
must be periodically picked to pieces and cleaned, but as a
plant which needs only to be rooted in a good soil, and
exposed to the invigorating influences of sunlight and
fresh air. Accordingly, " they believe that the evils of
boyhood are best counteracted, not by confession to
priests, masters, or even parents, but by the healthy
atmosphere of a public school ; and the vices of
manhood or womanhood by the open influences of
and example. • . . These ritualistic
public teaching
confessors are the quack doctors of theology ; and it
would almost seem as if the paiallel might be pursued
still further. Such teaching is equally repugnant
alike to the courageous theology of the English church
and to the free spirit of the people. These men have no
faith in the efficacy of truth, the power of religion, or the
force of virtue, unless it be administered in carefully pre-
pared doses by a confessor's spoon. They don't believe in
the regenerating influence of the open thought of pro-
testantiam and the healthy exercise. of a natural English
life. These, on the contrary, are precisely what English-
men do believe in, and they will never traasfer their con-
fidence to the medicated prescriptions of a priesthood, the
stifling atmosphere of ecclesiastical authority, and the
maudlin habits of a feeble monasticism."
The Earl of Shaftesbury, writing under the influence of
considerable alarm at the progress of the ritualistic move-
ment, says, "It is said—and truly said—that the laity
have the power in their own hands. No doubt ; but will
they come forward and exorcise it? Will they address
their bishops, memorialise their clergy, leave no abuse un-
noticed, sustain one another, and sink all minor differences
to subserve the common cause ? If they will do this, we
shall be secure. If from a variety of reasons they decline
to do so, a miracle alone and nothing else, will save the
Reformation in Great Britain."

We (A thenaum) are sorry to see that the friends
of Mr. Henry Phillips, so long our most redoubtable bass
singer, find it necessary to appeal to the public in his
behalf, a subscription having been announced.
Mr. A. Mellon announces an operetta of his com-
position, The Terrihle Hymen, in which Madame 3lartorelli
Galas. and Signor G. Garcia will appear, to be performed
before the pantomime.
M. Victor Hugo is said to be building a theatre
near his residence in Guernsey, where two unperformed
plays by him, Torquentada and La Grand'inere, are to see
the footlights.
On Thursday evening the Westminster scholars
gave their first performance of Terence's .A ndria. The
second and third evenings, on which the prolozne and
be spoken, arc Tuesday and Thursday of the
epilogue will
ensuing week.
The Institute of Civil Engineers will hold their
annual general meeting on Tuesday, December 18, when
the ballot for the president, vice-presidents, and other
members of council, will take place.
The recently-created office of curator in the life
school of the Royal Academy has been filled up by the
appointment of Mr. R. S. James, a first-clams life student,
one of the teachers of drawing in University College
School, London.
The following regiments are expected at Alder-
_
shot Camp early in the year 1467 : The 70th and the 44th,
We (Army and Nary Gazette) believe that very from Dover ; the 43rd, the 40th, and the 68th, from Ports-
little progress has yet been made with the navy estimates mouth; and the 80th from Devonport. Five regiments
for the now fast approaching session of parliament. It now ou passage from India and New Zealand will be eta-
would sees that the authorities have not yet decided upon
either the number or the exact character of the new ships boned at the above garriaons on their arrival home.
WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 12.—The Queen was this
which it is proposed to add to the navy, so that the sum of day Rimmed to confer the honour
of of knighthood
of Wales's upon
money which may be required for building purposes has William Hackett, Esq., Itecorder
yet to be fixed. Island.—Gaiege.

" LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
e 6
ININSIOMION 1N CANDIA.
ale insurrection of the Candiots which has been
so often suppressed (in telegrams) seems to be very
far from being extinguished, and may possibly
rise to complications far beyond the limits
of Crete or even Turkey. Russia, whose sym-
pathy with the Cretans has been openly
expressed, is reported to be openly re-organising
her beet in the Black Sea. The Odessa Gazette
admits that this is an infraction of the treaty
le with
England and France, but it adds we care littfor
this, and moreover " France and England not keep-
ing their engagements why should we be bound by
ours "In the Dibats of to-day M. St. Marc
Girardin ridicules the idea that the insurrection is
supported by Garibaldi in the following terms
If Crete has not kindly submitted to the paternal domi.
nation of the Ottoman Porte, it is Garibaldi's fault ! It is
be who sustains the insurrection in Candi& ; it is he who
is sending these Italians to fight for and to be blown up
with Candiots. The Grand Turk has put his foot in it. He
thought be had to do with the island of Crete only,
but he has to do with the island of Caprera.
Now the island of Caprera, be it known, is not
the petty island which Garibaldi has raised out of soli-
tude and silence, but the revolutionary volcano of the
Mediterranean. It is the island of Elba of 1815, or the
island of St. Helena before 1821, before Europe, delio
iserd
of its prisoner, breathed freely. It is Garibaldi wh
sustaining the insurrection in the interest of the revolu
tion. This is the explanation given of its oontinnance.
As for ourselves, we respect Garibaldi more than we likd
e
him. But if Garibaldi believes that the West has entere
into the detestable path of egoism and insensibility while
it secs the Christians of the East slain before its eyes; if
he thinks that he would be an accomplice in a massacre
if he did not prevent it when he could ; if
he is anxious that our statesmen should at
length feel their conscience stained and burned with
the gouts of innocent blood, why should we notke him
Why not thank him for the aid which be would give to
the Christians of the East? Why not praise him for his
sympathy, although we believe it to be inefficacious? But
ono must indeed be at the end of his inventive faculties
to blame Garibaldi for the heroics perseverance of the

C'retans'
that the resist-
The writer then proceeds to say
ance of the Cretans is founded on the purest prin-
ciple of nationality, supported by the Greeks gene-
rally, and that if France does not interfere on their
behalf the wanton insults of Menchikoff will be
heard in Constantinople.
The following moving, perhaps legendary, circum-
stance is reported from Athens to have preceded
the explysion at Arcadium, by which so many Cre-
tans and Turks were killed :
When the Greeks found that no hope remained they
resolved to sell their lives as dearly as possible. They
fell
on their knees before an old monk who had been exhorting
them for two days and two nights to continue the
combat. They asked for his parting blessing, which he
gave them, promising that they should all meet in heaven,
in the bosom of God, and would find there the old martyrs
of the Greek Church. All—combatants, women, and
children—having responded " Amen," they fired the
powder which blew up the convent—defenders and assail-
ants together.

GARIBALDI AND EARL RUSSELL.
The Movimento publishes the following letter
from General Garibaldi :
To the Italians.—Lord John Russell is coming to visit
Italy. I w:sh to make known to my compatriota that the
illustrious statesman in ls6o threw intothe scale of our coun-
try's destiny the powerful voice of England against those who
wished to intervene and to isolate in Sicily the movement
for emancipation. Thanks to this generous idea the de-
liverance of the Neapolitan continent was facilitated, and
the union of the Italian family, now so happily accom-
plished, became possible. To this noble person, then, the
well-merited expression of our gratitude.
G. GARIBALDI.

Caprera, Dec. 4, 1866.

(Revrza's TELEGRAMS.)
THE CRETAN INSURRECTION.
rAms, Dze. 15.