The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-06 00:00:00

THE LONDON DREWMAILLNIF COMPANT.
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Yesterday afternoon the annual general meeting
of the members Gleba aminiatirte took Pore st the reel-
dome of Si/ Derer_Doreal, Dart., M.P., in Beikelity-equare;
Mr. T. Hoops, M.P., presiding.
A report was read by Mr. HAT, the secretary, which
stated that the directors fogad the premises in Clifford-
sirl ficadobeet, umentiosed In their report to the ge-
nelinesting I* 1865. admirably adapted for the puposes
of the company. They, however, soon found more epees
obsoletely seemeary, and bad been farthest* enough to
matte the of No. 17, the adjoining house,
alto upon that
= was commenced on Lady-day
last, sod it was with the utmost confidence that the direc-
tors ionted attention to the balance sheet, which, inspite
of showing no profit out of which to declare • disrobed, but
on the other hood a lose of 4001. 17s. U, would still be
• frond to Notify the asiettion that, oonsiderieg the
unavoidable expenditure incident to the formation of anew
business, as well as the fact that every single item of expense
which could be charged spinet the working of the eats-
bliehmeet during these, its first nine months, had been
allowed for, the affairs of the rionopeay were nevertheless
in a highly satisfactory reedition. One thousand two
bemired sad fifty4oer shares had been allotted, mere-
natio.* capitol of 6,2501„ which the dinettes believed
would prove amply sufScient for carrying out the objects of
the eompsny. The directors bad purchased the goodwill
of the business et Mines Mortimer and Korey, of Oros-
veiteralrest, sad hod thus secured a valuable ethoexion ie
saltiest es their ewe. Two other est•Miebineete of so
loran standing had already adopted the principles of this 1
company—a melded,' proof that example is better than
precept, and that thep had at least been gained towards
the ainelionake of rendition of the workwomea of
Leaden, and the foundation of a better usderetandiug be-
twain employers and workpeople in this teed.. The di-
rectors tendered their grateful thanks to those ladies who
bad given so much of their time to the working of the un-
break*, as well se to the heads of the various depart-
monis, who had, at the sort of timeliest self-seerillee and
priesoaal labour, carried oat the letter of instructions gives
them in the spirit which prompted this movement.
The CnAnteltr, in moving the adoption of the report,
*Nona that the company was 'tooted in consequence of
cornettist. which orated reepeeting the condition of the
west-end trade, and its objects ware threefold—to toned a
shop, to make it pay, sad to infiueere the teed* for the
hermit of the employed. The two hopes in Clifford-street,
which they had taken, had been foetid well suited to the
purpose, and the directors had every reason to be satisfied
with the malt el their labours. Although there was an
apprises Wanes spied them, it most be recollected that
there wire many expedites at the outset of a public seder-
taking which would sot afterwards occur ; and moreover
they had actually realised a profit during the last three
months, the accounts presented having referrers only to
the period between Mara and December, 1865. The reso-
lution of the directors, limiting the employment to tee
boors a day, had been strictly adhered to ; and two import-
ant establishuento bad adopted their rules both in regard
to the workshops mad the dormitories ; and there were
many dim shops La which, through the exactions of this
employ, much improvement had taken Paso is tke
regulations.
The motion was seconded by Lord HIRCALDII, sad was
unanimously adopted.
After some formal resolutions, including a vote of thanks
to the ladies' committee, a tribute of soireowledgment was
paid to the chairman and to Sir Percy and lady Burial,
and the business was brought to a close.

TELEGRAPH TO INDIA COMPANY (LIMITED).

Yesterday the fifth ordinary general meeting was
held at the offices, No. 62, Noorgate-street, City ; Sir Mac-
DONALD Briesfineoe, the Chairman of the Board of
Directors, occupying the chair. In moving the adoption of
the report which bad been Is circulation some days, be
observed that the chief business to be trumpeted was, to
authorise a distribution of the lest half-year's rent of the
Egeotian line, amounting to 1,250/., which had been duly
paid by the lessees, and out of which it was proposed to
make a dividend at the rate of five per oeat. per annum on
the paid-op capital, 'free of Mouse tax. He availed
himself of the opportunity of teasetnieg the share-
holders of the prospect that now exists of an early
accomplishment of the object for which the com-
pany bad been formed, vie., the establishment of as lode-
Etipt sad direct telegraphic communication between
tliritaii and India by the Nediterraneea and the Bed
Sea. The directors had received assurances fromgestlemes
of high mercantile position of the value and importance of
the undertaking, and of its undoubted financial rumen,
hoes the large measure of commercial rapport it most re-
ceive as soon as it should be completed. Like steam
navigatka, however, submarine telegraphy must pass
through a variety of phases before it could achieve perfect I
success ; and he knew that there existed amongst the en-
gineers, electriedann, and scieetilic men now einnpd in
its promotion a resolution that England should not
lag behind in the contest, but should continue
to hold her ground in the vac of this as is other cagi-
neering enterprise. A diminish* arose upon the expediency
of reducing the nominal Vane of the shares from 21. to 11.,
the amount already paid upon them, with the view of
relieving the public mind as to the extent of li/slaty ;
thereby enhancing the market value of the scrip; but it
was pointed out that supposing there were no legal
or pecuniary obstacles to the adoption of such
a comae, there was yet no immediate **acuity for
it, inasmuch as the directors hoped by the next meet-
ing, or within 12 months at the farthest, to be enabled to
snootier* the success or abandoement of the sub-mat is* por-
tion of the scheme. In the latter event, it was stated that
everything would be done to ensure the shareholders
amide compensation for their put outlay.
The report was unanimously assented to, the dividend
declared payable on and after the 16th instant, sad the
retiring directors and auditor having bees re-elected,
thanks were voted to the chairman, wad the proceedings
closed.

CHUN43I RAT'S ABOLLTION Bn..—We under-
stead that Mr. Hardautle, ILE, has undertakes the con-
duct of this measure, and that he will give an early inti-
mation of Ma intention to bring in a bill for the total
abolition of the rate.

now-irdays W

THE JAMAICA ASSEMBLY.

(From the Daily Nam}

DEATH OF MR. W. BENNETT. —We have to re-
coed the death, on the 19th of January, of Mr. William
Bennett, who for many yams fanned %leder the lath
Duke of Bedford, and was deservedly held in high re-
pute for his thorough practical knowledge of hoe-
baadry. During the agitation connected with the repeal
of the emu laws, DOOM unpleasantness which arose be-
tween the Doke of Bedford and Mr. Bennett, who was
an uncompromising Protectionist, resulted in his giving
up his farm, for the improvemente in which he was fully
compensated by his noble landlord. Mr. Beenet then re-
moved to Cambridge, where for some time he carried on
business as an estate agent and valuer. Adversity and
affliction at length overtook him, the strong man was bowed
down, and during the last few years he lived in retirement
in his native county, his wants and comforts being attended
to by some sympathising friends, who had known him in
better dare, Gad who were able to appreciate his worth.—
Bedford Asses.
ARDENT OF SOLDIIRS AND OTHERS AT CARRICK-
os-Sm&—The meet important arrests that have been
made up to the present in this locality, in ocemixims with
the Fenian movement, have taken place at Carrick-on-Bair.
Under orders from (we are led to believe) Sir Hugh Rose, cm-
maoder of the forces in 'reload, the military authorities at
Carrick-on-Snit have placed under arrest Oolour-Sergeant
M'Oarthy, Corporal Beeline°. a native of Carrick, where
his father formerly occupied the position of porter at one
of the banks ; and Private Melly, a native of Dunearvan,
all belonging to the 53rd Regiment, • detachment of which
is sow stationed in that town. While these errata were
being made • party of five policemen, under Mr.
hi S.L, went down to the factory recently
erected in that town, one by one, in order not to create
suspicion, and took into custody four men. The police
also arrested three other civiliane, who, with the
four men from the factory, were lodged in the
Widow"' The names of six of them are :—P. Mor-
rissey, Win. Dobbyn, John Ryan alias Brien, John
Matter, Richard Hoare, and Wm. Maher, who was recently
allowed to steed out on ball, having been in jail on the
charge of having pikes concealed on his premises. A pre-
liminary investigation, which, of course, was private, was
held at the btidewell. before Samuel Hansa, R. M., and
Lorenzo H. Jephson, Perm. All the parties are charged,
in the intimations of a Constable Talbot, with having
attended Fenian meetings and being Fenian. The
magistrates remanded them for examination. The im-
portant feature in connexion with the arrest is the alleged
complicity of the three eoldien—WOarthy, who has been
thirteen years in the army, Hiely. and Brennan—hi the
unfortunate movement that now agitates the oountwu.3ol::
these men being brought before Messrs. Hanna,
and Jephson, and the charge read to them, they made no
answer. if what tumour states be true, WOarthy has
been actively eeptl In seeking to drew his comrades from
their alirgience. We believe he has been heard to boast
that he is a coasin 01 Stephens, the Heed Centre. —C/onottl
Chronicle.
Attain OF AN AMERICAN OPTIONS.—We have
jvA received intelligence from Tharles of the snood of
Captain Joseph Gleason, of the United Stakes army, and
for seine time past nesidiog with his family at Borrisoleigh.
He was taken into custody by Constable Ferns upon a
charge of Feeianism. Captain Gleason is well known in
'fflpperary. Since his return to this constry he has been
travelling about, attendiog races, fairs, and markets. The
captain was arrested in Borrisokigh„ and met up to the
Thurles bridewell. He wee dieoltarpd from custody upon
giving security—hinmelf in 4001. and two sureties in 2001.
each —to appear for trial.—Clonsiel Chronicle.
(Adrartinomont.)l—HOLtoWhen 0111TNINT AND
pima.—Few ailments are more alchemical/mg, and nom mom
ominous, then uleerattoes on the surface of the body. Wherever
they are situated, it is difficult to cure them makes treated N
cionely with some cooling. heann& inTilldralialbos=lionikee
title never-tolling Ointment, It us worked w in making
bad isgs sound and strong, even whim the power of the blood-
root& bad nasty been &stored. and shawl entire etnpation
of the drew had rendered every Mbar ennedhat mom
abortive. No sore wean& or deer. eon vlthelend tta Weald
inftnence, which can be most tanelteleak merterl whom winter Is
'Megrims to spring, and the eteetelenen belowins mem active
sad mon madly ormaafflebte hi Per, 8.001111&
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THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 6, 1866.

rary imitation, can be proved bertiad historic gum-
tion to have originated in the edifies' of despotism,
and to have aubssrved them. The Housed Ome-
moos has become a power in the State only so far •
as it has followed • different mares and has
invested with political rights all classes which
have practically becomes living part of the nation,
adopting them not -as distinct orders, but fusing
them into the mass of the already enfranchised.
The aristocracy had the good sense to acquiesce in
this policy as regarded the middle classes at the
tune of the Reform Bill ; and it has since ostenta-
tiously announced its unity of interests and aims
with them. Wisdom dictates that the example be
followed in the enfranchisement of the working
classes. If the suffrage is granted to and exercised
by them, or only by the Elite among them, as a
separate order in the nation, choosing special!
representatives to watch over special interests, the
challenge is given to an undesirable, and possibly
dangerous, social conflict. Instead of fusing
themselves into the mat of the electoral body, and
accepting alliance with those above them, they
will remain aloof, as the leaders of the mew
below them—strong in a separate and skilful or-
ganization, and in the silent, perhaps, and nude-
signed, but real and constant, menace of as over-
whelming physical power. A safe Reform of the
House of Commons can be effeoted only by a fur-
ther enlargement of it to the dimensions of the
nation, and not by imitating artificial arrange-
ments, the real character of which is misappre-
handed bemuse their natural working has been
counteracted by other and healthier influence&

Witxx the Parliament of Great Britain is
assembling, to carry on the self-government of the
nation, it is impossible to help thinking of the
strange end unnatural contrast which has just
been exhibited in a British colony to which the
i•etitutions of self-government had been trans-
planted. In Jamaica, the constitution which had
been bestowed upon it, by exceptional favour,
soon after the first establishment of the colony,
has just been voluntarily renounced by those who
under it were the depositaries of power. No
such occurrence has yet marked in any country the
history of free government. Constitutions have,
indeed, times out of number, been trampled down
by foreign forme or internal faction, extinguished
by conquest or usurpation. But where shall we
look for an example of their voluntary surrender,
when neither an enemy was at the gates, nor •
tyrant menaced life if liberty were not abandoned?
There was, indeed, in Jamaica a concurrence of
the circumstances which would seem to make
such self-immolation most improbable and
most uncalled for. The Legislature and the
executive were in the most absolute harmony
together; they have just triumphed over what they
considered a fatal blow aimed at their authority.
They were free from any admixture of elements
which they could deem hostile to the mainte-
nance of their powers. The conduct of the Go-
vernor had indeed been impeached, and there was
a possibility of an inquiry into his proceedings
being ordered by his superiors at home. But
more than this was not known in the island at the
time. He had also communicated to the Legis-
lature the fact that if they chose to lay down
their functions the Home Government would not
be unwilling to accept the sacrifice. But if the
sacrifice had not been voluntary it was more than
doubtful whether it could have been enforced.
And such an intimation is not one in which in any
case free-born Englishmen are likely W be as
seeing that it implied the abandon-
ment of every cherished right of self-government,
and subjection to the arbitrary will of a distant
authority, in which they had no representation.
But while the graver reasons which could be
adequate to explain such • step are in this case
absent, there are certain local and personal reasons
which have been put forward which are equally
inadmissible. It could not be fear of being over-
whelmed by the blacks, for the Assemb'y was a
white man's Assembly, the admission to the suffrage
was in its own hands, and had within the last few
years been so modified by raising the qualification
and by imposing a registration fee, that only a
small per centage of the electors were black.
Neither could it be alarm at the tediousness or
inflammatory tendency of the harangues of such of
the members as were favourable to the blacks, far
GORDON, whose long orations have been gravely
assigned as a motive for the Assembly's self-ex-
tinction, had been hung ; and the Governor had
been newly armed with further powers of pro-
claiming martial law, which would have main-
tained order more effectually than the speaker's
voice. It could not be indignation at re-
stricted authority, for in the brief session it
had passed such acts as it thought fit, including a
prior one for its own modification, before it voted
its own abolition. What, then, could be the rea-
son why a body so powerful, so uncontrolled, so
victorious, should by its own mouth decree its
own annihilation ?
There can be but one anwer to such a question ;
it was the corruption that follows on the long
possession of despotic power that made freedom
seem indifferent or troublesome, and the secret
consciousness that the power had been so abused,
that made its resignation seem advisable. The
planter and moneyed class in Jamaica had con-
trived to make a few thousand electors supreme
over three hundred thousand inhabitants. They
were, and had been since the institution of the
island constitution, an oligarchy ruling
a nation. But when was an oligarchy
ever zealous to maintain even its own
freedom for freedom's sake ? When were the
ten, or the thirty, or the three hundred, or the
five hundred, who have at different times possessed
themselves of the rule in nominal republics!, shown
any true sense of what liberty is? Often they
have rained the State in seeking to preserve their

own powers or privileges, but it was for motives
and for ends very different from the independence
of freemen or the maintenance of civil rights. And
when their own selfish class interests have been no
longer capable of being maintained, such oli-
garchies as these have ever been the readiest to suc-
cumb to a usurper, or to betray the State to a foe.
Despots in heart and by habit, they have been
unconscious of the glory even of the eelf-govern-
ment of themselves which they have forbidden to
others. So, though no tyrant or foe menaced the
oligarchy of Jamaica, they sank by their own act
when they felt that their conduct must draw upon
them inquiry and the reprehension of public
opinion, to which no Englishman happily can ever
become wholly insensible. Knowing that life and
property would still be secure, they bad no oars to
keep higher privileges, and no stomach to face the
indignation which they instinctively felt must
follow examination of their conduct. And in this
fact lies the answer, too, to those who tell us that
the state of public opinion in Jamaica, the " uni-
" versal belief " in a widespread rebellion, is a jus-
tification of the acts which were done after the
oatbarak was adisigledly cashed, and as ate-

Dion d n bong know for treason where no
evidence of boron was adduceL If such
I " universal belief * did ixist, how is it that Se
body which is its naiad mouthpiece dissolves
• itself before it can give expression to its belie(
If it was conscious of • well-founded belief,
how came it first to oak Governor Eras
to inform it of the grounds for such belief,
and on Governor ETRZ referring it only to its
own prior declarations, how came it to accept so
tamely his intimation that the Home Government
would approve its resignation of an ancient
constitution without so much as a stipulation for
a new one T No bluster, no reiteration of man-
National narratives, no invocation of "what every-
" body says," can avail to rebut such fatal evi-
dence of consciousness of powers abused and
brutal rigour unwarrantably applauded and sup-
! ported. An inward but irresistible consciousness—
, for the Assembly dissolved itself when the first
news had reached the island that English opinion
was shocked at the sots it had rewarded with its
thanks, that inquiry was demanded whether the
facts alleged were true, but ere yet the news had
arrived that a Commission was appointed, and
while the Governor had suffered no more to be
• known than that his energy was approved where
occasion for energy existed. Political suicide at
, such a time is confession of political guilt beyond
I pardon or excuse.

PARTIES IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

(From the Daily Newt.)

THE dislike with which an untheological age, I
more bent on making things pleasant in this world
than in providing for the next, sees its news-
men taken up with accounts of Church move-
ments and meetings, organizations, and deputations
to public men, finds expression in the opinion that
all this stir denotes a mere clerical excitement—a
passing epidemic like influenza or autumnal fever.
It certainly is a troublesome fact that the clergy
will persist in treating their religion as a thing so
real, instead of contenting themselves, as most of
them used to do, with saying their prayers and
baptizing, marrying, and burying our children. Bat
the clergy are not alone in this disposition; and
whether they belong to one school or another,
whether they explain away the supernatural with
the Rationalists, or preach justification by faith
with the Evangelists, or extol the sacraments with
the High Churchmen, they carry large numbers of
the laity with them. Indeed, it may be said
that the strength of each of the three great parties
or schools of thought in the Church at the
present time resides in the laity. The composition
of the depntationswhich have waited on Earl Ras-
mus and the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, within
the last few days, sufficiently show the earnestness
and intelligence with which the laity enter into the
questions that are now dividing the Church. How-
ever these questions may be regarded by indiffe-
rent lookers-on, to the heads of the Church they
appear most serious, if not in themselves, at least
in their effects. The language which the Arch-
bishop addressed to successive deputations on Fri-
day and Saturday, and that which the Bishop of
LONDON held in the House of Lords last session,
leaves no doubt on this point. No one can foresee
what consequences may follow the overthrow •of
the convention—for it seems from what the Arch-
bishop said on Saturday that it was nothing more
—which has secured uniformity in the modes and
impede of worship in the Church for the last two
hundred years. There can be no doubt that worship
has been, much more than doctrine, the effective bond
of union between the great body of Churchmen.
Nine worshippers out of ten have u traced
the history or weighed the import of the Articles,
but everybody has entered into the spirit of the
sublime and simple prayers of the Liturgy, which
have been offered up according to a uniform rite
from generation to generation, and from one end
of the kingdom to the other. A heavy responsi-
bility rests upon those who have broken up this
salutary and historical arrangement, and, by gra-
tuitous super-additions, made services in which for-
merly Churchmen of all parties could join to speak
the language of an exclusive school. It may be
said that we ought to look at this outbreak of ex-
treme ritualism as a natural development of ideas
which have always had a home in the Church, and
which have for a long time been gaining more
prominence. But if we are not entitled to look for
restraining good sense, respect for authority, and
consideration for the common good from the clergy,
all that remains to be said is that the ritualistic
movementwas an inevitable misfortune. It is easy
to deride it as a thing of ribbons and millinery,
as almost every serious thing may be made to seem
ridiculous by judging it by one or more of
its external accidents, selected for that purpose.
The use of chasubles, dalmatics, and incense,
and the employment of acolytes, may be aptly
described as child's play and frippery, but when
they have once come to stand for the signs of
doctrines and opinions which Churchmen of one
section regard as dangerous, and those of another
as exceedingly precious, their importance cannot
be determined on the ordinary principle of taste.
There is this peculiarity about the sensuous ritual-
istic mode of worship which is now so fast extend-
ing, that wherever it is introduced, whether it
establishes itself or not, it makes a return to the
modes which it supplants difficult, if not impossible.
From the old high and dry system to the Evan-
gelical, and from this again to Tractarianism in
its earlier and merely doctrinal form, the transi-
tion was comparatively easy. But when once a
congregation has got fairly accustomed to the
variety, animation, and movement of extreme
ritualiste—to elaborate musics to the dramatic acti-
vity of the priests, the lights, the incense, and all
that plane the eye and ear in their method—it
loses its taste for the simpler and more sober
worship which it formerly enjoyed.
The very influential deputation which waited on
the Archbishop of CANTERBURY on Saturday was
composed only in part of those who countenance
' extreme ritualism, but all its members were
strongly opposed to any appeal to Parliament on
the subject. The deputation which Archdeacon
Woanswonnt beaded on Friday, and which memo-
' deltoid the Archbishop against ritualism, was of
the same mind, and strongly deprecated any resort
to the Imperial Legislature. As the Earl of Can-
; xsinoN truly observed, there is no practical dis-
tinction between legislating on the Rubric and
legislating on the Prayers expressly with the view
to doctrine. This concurrence of opinion is a rig-
, nificant fact ; it is very instructing to find the op-
, posing pares in a State Church agreeing to depre-
cate the action of Parliament, which in England
'is the State. It is not as if either had hopes of
relief from any other more strictly ecclesiastical
Legislature. The property of the Church of Eng-
' land is held by a parliamentary title, or, what is
the same thing, Parliament prescribes the laws
, I which fix the doctrinal and liturgical character of
the Church, and which enables some and disquali-
fies others to become its members and ministers.
Last session Parliament relaxed some of the coo-
-1
, ditions on which the clergy exercise their ministry,
and did so in the plenitude of its own authority.