The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-22 00:00:00

A NEW AgLIVIOUS MOVEMENT.

Yesterday afternoon a numerous and influential
meeting, convened by advert; cement, was held at the
Freemasons' Tavern, Great Qm:11-strogto Lincoln's-inn-
fields, to promote " common &Aka abide** those who
rely for the religious improvement of int.men life on Alial.
piety and brotherly charity, with or without more per;
denim agreement in matters of doctrinal theology."
Amongst the genn present were the Reverend,
James Martineau Jed
rayler, J. Gordon, Dr. Etadlier,
J. Manners, J. H. Thom, H. lerson, Mr. James Heywood,
Mr. W. Sheen, Mr. M. C. Conway, Mr. Hensleigh Wedg-
wood, Mr. Samuel Courtardd, Mr. Edward Enfield, and the
Rev. P. W. Chryclen. Mr. Wmoowoon having been called
to the chair, it was explained by Mr. Enfield, that at •
meeting held In June last, an executive committee,
with • larger consultative committee, were ap-
pointed to draw up a scheme for the foundation of
• new religions union. Since then the question had been
fully considered, and he bad now to submit the com-
mittee's This document was preferred by the fol-
lowing ' preamble and declaration of object :"
" Whams, for ages past, Christians have been taught
that correct conceptions of Divine things are academy to
acceptance with God, and to religious relations with each
other • and, in vain pursuit of orthodoxy, have parted
into rival oharches, and lost the bond of common work
and love ; and whereas, with the progressive changes of
thought and feeling, uniformity on doctrinal opinion
becomes ever more precarious, while moral and spiritual
affinities grow and deepen ; and whereas the Divine will is
summed up by Jesus Christ himself in love to God and love
to man ; and the terms of pious onion among men should
be as broad as those of communion with God—this society,
desiring a spiritual fellowship 00-extendve with these
teems, invitee to common action all who deem men re-
sponsible, not for the attainment of divine truth, but
only for the serious search of it ; and who rely, for the re-
ligiose improvement of human life, on filial piety and
brotherly charity, with or without more particularagree-
went in matters of doctrinal theology. Its object Is, by
relieving the Christian Illy from reliance on theological
Mihail or external rites, to save it from conflict with the
lowriedge and conscience of mankind, and bring it beak
to the essential conditions of harmony between God and
men." It was proposed that the society should be celled
" the Free Christian Union," sad to establish • central
church in London. The scheme gives in detail the laws
and constitution of the union. Mr. W. B. Cookson, the
chairman of the former meeting, having moved, and the
Rev. J. H. Thom seconded, the adoption of the report and
the scheme which it advanced, Mr. Sheen took exception
to the use of the word "Christian," as being calculated to
exclude many of the great thinkers sad pubs
instructors of the age, sod he moved an aansod-
went with the view of having it expunged.
The amendment, which was 'wooded by Mr. Davenport,
gave rim to a long, learned, and interesting discussion, in
the eon:se of which the Rev. James Martineau urged that
the word was not a dogmatic but an historic term, and
could never be got rid of by any man, no matter what his
theological convictions might be. The amendment was
ultimately withdrawn, and after an ineffectual attempt
by the Rev. H. Sully to introduce into the preamble, after
the word " charity," the words " according to the teach-
ings and example of Jesus Christ, as the most perfect
manifestation of human excellence and divine g
the original motion was agreed to and the scheme adopted.
The gov • body was then appointed, and the proceed-
ings, which extended over three hours, terminated
with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

The three candidates for the vacancy in the
representation of Manchester have, in reply to inquiries,
expremed themselves in favour of an extension of the
suffrage to such portion of the fair sex as are householders
and ratepayers.
THE PRINCE OF WALTZ ra WORCISTERSIIIRE.—
EVIDOILII, THOILSDAT.—Tbe royal party at Woodnorton,
received to-day a considerable accession of distinguished
visitors who had been invited by thel Due and Duchene
il'Aumale to neat his Royal Righnenethe Prince of Wallis.
To-day was devoted to a run with the Worcestershire fox-
hounds. The meet was advertised for Pershore, but it
was understood that for the convenience of the royal party
the hounds would be taken to Cropthoene, a village on
the banks of the Avon, some four or five miles iron the
advertised meet, and here an immense field of horsemen
and pedestrians had assembled by 11 o'clock. The
weather was dry but cloudy, and a piercing
north-east wind searched through the warmest clothing.
A general holiday was proclaimed at Brenham, and the in-
habitants had turned out en maw to do honour to their
royal visitor, who was everywhere enthusiastically re-
wind. So' many people had been in the vicinity of the
gone, if not in the corn itself, during the morning, that
there was very little chance of sport. Two foxes were
killed, but afforded no run. It was understood at one
time that the Prince would hang' with the duke's harriers
to-morrow, meeting at Rockford, in order to give the hunt-
ing men of Cheltenham and Tewkesbury an opportunity
of meeting his royal highness, but this idea has been aban-
doned, and it has been arranged that the prince will to-
morrow again shoot the Woodnorton coven, the beet of
which have been reserved for a final beat. To-night there
will be an illumination in Evenhans and a ball in celebra-
tion of the royal visit, under the patronage of the mayor,
Dlr. W. Allard.

ExErea-nam..—The Sacred Harmonic Society
commence their thirty-sixth season this evening with •
performance of Men4ielsecilues leltiah, being the 499th
concert given by the society in the great room, Exeter.
hall

LONDON MILK. —With the object of giving an
insight into the quality of milk now supplied to tended
consumers, as compared with the prices charged by the re-
tail dealers, the British Medical Journal has had a series
of specimens carefully analysed by Professor Vieleker. It
states that All the specimens we have taken, with the
single exception of that in Paddington, were from estab-
lishments certainly of and above an average in character
and trade. The Paddington specimen was purchased from a
shop evidently doing • trade chiefly amongst the poor and
where other articles besides milk were sold. The price, it will
be seen, was as great as that at which the best country milk
can be, and is being, sold in London. It is retailed at
4d. per quart ; its strict value about ; its utmost
value would be, according to calculation from the analyses,
Id. per quart. The poor are certainly the worst served
in this, as in other respects; and when we remember
how largely the infants of the poor are, from
sheer necessity, brought up by Land, and fed upon
this kind of scanty and wickedly diluted milk, often in
small quantities, it is not surprising that an enormous
mortality exists among the infant population of this city,
and that the chief causes are diseases of nutrition. The
Pimlico specimen is an almost equally flagrant case, and
in some respects worse. It was purchased at • high elms
establishment ; and the pretentious character of this esta-
blishment is supported by • charge of fivepence per quart
for the milk. Dr. Vielcker's examination shows, however,
that it is precisely skim milk, from which all the available
cream has been removed. It has been brought down to
four per cent., which is shout as low as any ordinary
skimming will bring fresh milk. The market value of this
poor stuff Is about 2d. • quart ; and for this the inhabi-
tants of this suburb are paying bd. This, and the example
purchased in Kensington district at id., which is very
little better, and which was also purchased at one of those
"first-ohs establishments," far which the phopfitter has
done all that skill and taste can suggest, show very
clearly that no reliance is to be placed upon
high pries or upon ad raptandum statements, as in-
suring good and pure milk. There is only one remedy
which we can suggest. It is that the vestries of these
parishes should use the powers which the law has expressly
given them, but which have never been in force. They
have nearly all of them • appoll.l ted analysts to detect adul-
terations in food, but their services are rarely called into
requisition. Why should not the analysts (who are nearly
always also the medical officers) be required from time to
time to take samples of milk and report on them in their
health reports! The public ought to be aware that, for
the very small fee of half-a-crown, they can get analyses of
the milk made by the public analyst of their pariah.
FRZSCH LIBSRTY. —The affair relative to the
cemetery of Montmartre come on yesterday before the
Correctional Tribunal. Oahriel Robinet, aged 18, out of
door pupil at the College St. Louis ; Charles Ifeusey, 22,
civil engineer; Louis Laurient, 28, journalist; and
Pierre 'Desmareali, waiter at a restaurant,
were charged, the first three with having impeded
by words and acts, on the 2nd November, the
agents of the public force when in the exercise of their
duty, and last with having shouted out " Vice Garibaldi !"
The circumstances of the case have been already stated on
more than one occasion. At the beginning of the
sitting M. Picard for Robinet, and M. Delattre for
Laurent, applied to have the case postponed. but the
court refused to accede to the application. In conse-
quence those two accused allowed the judgment to go by
default. The charge, having been proved, the tribunal
condemned Robinet to three months' iroprisonmest.
Reurey and Laurent to one month, and Desmatean to a
fortnight of the same punishment and ltfr. fine; like.
wise all conjointly to thecosts.—Galiynani.