The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-29 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

PESTR, JAN. V.

A difference of opinion has arisen between M.
Doak and Count Andra/lay, relative to the question
of uniform monetary and railway systems for
Hungary and the rest of the empire.
John Simon, Bishop of Oyoer, has been ap-
pointed Cardinal Primate of Hungary.
Count Majlath has arrived here.
This morning, at the academy, the usual com-
memorative festival took place in honour of
Nessenffy. The address on the occasion was de-
livered by Baron Eotvos.

The committee of sixty-seven will hold a sitting
this afternoon.

SOUTH GERMANY.
MUNICH, JAN. 28.

The conference of representatives from Bavaria,
Wurtemburg, Baden, and Hesse Darmstadt, which
is shortly to assemble at Stuttgart, was convoked
by the Bavarian Government in an identical note
addressed to the other South German States, and
dated the 9th inst. This note lays down the
Prussian model as the basis for a new uniform
military organisation, and proposes general liability
to military service, the division of the army into
regiments of the line, reserves, and landsturm, and
the suppression of the right of recruits to be re-
placed by substitutes.

AMERICA.
(ay ATLANTIC MSC turn.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 26.
President Johnson has approved the bill for
re-assembling Congress on the 4th March next.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Germania arrived out to-day.

THE PARIS ExHierriox.—The portion of the
machinery gallery which has been assigned to Great Bri-
tain contains eighty large clerestory windows. It is in-
tended to till these with blinds of a decorative character,
and a window has been offered to each of the most im-
portant corporations of Great Britain, chambers of com-
merce, civic companies, and railway companies, to enable
blinds illustrating the manufactures, ikc., peculiar to the
town, or decorated with designs, heraldic or otherwise, to
be erected. Among those which have at present accepted
this invitation are the corporations of London, Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Liverpool, Belfast, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Brad-
ford, Oldham, Rochdale, Stoke Chamber of Commerce,
the Honourable the Mercers' Company, and the Stockton
and Darlington Railway Company. The British execu-
tive will fill several windows with blinds illustrating the
early history of inventions. Stephenson's " Rocket,"
Brathwaite's " Novelty," ilackworth's " Sanspareil,"
being the earliest trial locomotives ; Symington's steam
while-engine, which was the first successful engine of the
kind ; Watt's, Sun and Planet beam-engine and Ark-
wr*ht'a loom furnish subjects.
The proposal of her Majesty's Commissioners for
the l'aris Exhibition to present at one view, as nearly as
practicable, every publication which has issued from the
press of the United Kingdom during the year 1866, has
made, it is stated, very successful progress towards com-
pletion. Upwards of 3,000 volumes have been contributed
by the various publishers as a loan for exhibition, and
almost all the leading firms in London and Edinburgh
have sent in their publications of the year, including
many of a magnificent and costly character. Saturday,
Feb. 2, is fixed as the last day for receiving these publi-
cations, at the Paris office, South Kensington Museum.
GAvezzi me Vasirrie.—A friend in Dublin has
received a letter from Gavazzi, dated Venice, January 15,
1867. He writes : " Thanks be to God lam here on duty,
making my best for the spreading of our dear Jesus' king-
dom, by preaching to the Venetians the Gospel of Christ,
which is the power of God unto salvation.' I have a great
confidence in the work, but it is a delicate one. The Vene-
tians, as a rule, are religious, but precisely because such,
they are after the Neapolitans the most superstitious
people in Italy • and although, by genteel nature and a
superior intellectual development, I hope not to find them
brutal as the priest-ridden bigots at Barletta; nevertheless
there is fanaticism enough to counsel prudence and mode-
ration on our part. Meantime the beginnings arepromising.
I have not advertised my speaking, having still a little
room where to speak, uo more capable than of eighty
Renolilseimtl'lriyerLdrs hmayvesepromisrvices :dvethemselves large ha
wbehaeremtoy
lecturing will be made known, and they they think will be
largely attended by the people, not few among them
anxious to hear about the truths of the Gospel. For the
present—l preached twice on Sunday—taking for my
subjects the life which is inJeaus, and how to do the will of
God. I was very satisfied with my audience, consisting
generally of an educated class, and a majority of well
instructed youths, very attentive and interested in the
subject. Yesterday night I commenced my controversial
lectures for their preparation to embrace our evangelical
profession, afters free dircuasion of the matters connected
with their change. I shall continue daily these lectures
until we shall have a larger place, where I shall deliver a
counts of conferences I have prepared on the " Philosophy
of Christianity," suited, in my opinion, to the public at
large and of other creeds. My actual theme is the exposi-
tion and confutation of the notorious creed of Pius IV.,
which is the dogmatic rule of all popish errors. Write me
here for a month, My best regards to your cora vow, and
believe me, yours affectionately, ALESSANDRO GAVAZzi."
THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY AND THE A NTI -
RrruALDas. —The following " protest " against the sup-
posed ritualistic tendencies of the Bishop of Salisbury has
just been presented to hie lordship, signed by 500 of the
" clergy, mtgistmtes,gentlemen,yeoraen, and others of the
diocese :" ' To the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salle-
bury,—We, the undersigned, having read with the greatest
regret the answer of your lordship to Lord S. G. Osborne's
letter, in which you state that clergymen of the esta-
blialed church have had committed to them the same
powers which the priests of the rest of the Catholic
Church, both in the East and West, have ever claimed as
their inheritance., and feeling that such views essentially
tend to the Rommb practice of confession and absolution,
and false doctrine, and considering the efforts which are
now making by a certain party in our Church, to bring
back the ceremonial and ntualistic rites of the Romig&
church into our reformed protestant church, do hereby
solemnly protest against such views, from what-
ever quarter they may arise, and do signify our determi-
nation, by the help of God, to stand firm against any
opinions or practices which are too evidently leading to
Romanism, and entirely subverting the great doctrines of
the established church, as defined in her Thirty-nine
Articles, and deduced from the Word of God."

THE UNIVCRAITY CARBIR.-1 nere ie IleareClAs
more difficult problem connected with the higher educa-
tion, than to tie the period at which the comparative
self-help of the university may with advantage be sub-
stituted for the drill of the school ; and in seeking to
solve it we ought never to forget that our greatest men,
not in Scotland alone, but in England and on the Con-
tinent, commenced their university career about the same
or an earlier age than Ferguson. Milton went to Cam-
bridge at ln, Bacon at It, and Barrow at the same
age ; Hooker was sent to Orford at 15, Belden and
Hobbes at 14, Bentham at 12, and Dr. Donne at 10,
" having at that time a seed command both of the French
and Latin tongues." Bishop Berkley was admitted at
Trinity College, Dublin, at 15, and Burke at 14. It was
the same abroad. George Buchanan went to Feria at 15,
and Hugo Grotius to Leyden before he was 12, whilst
Lagrange was actually a professor of mathematics at 16.
All the great men of Germany of the last generation en-
tered the universities early ; and it was not till the begin-
ning of this century that the present gymnasial system
was introduced, and that 18 to 19 came to be considered as
the academical age.—Edinburgh Merino, new number.