The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1866;

"admitting to the polls unqualified and *Maxed ' the speculators contracting to deliver an immense
men in a city which eatable" spil retail/Abe queasily of she. *Mout having Wynne poseennt of
thee fienrhen she Mired alkneciation came it Last it
" worst of the foreign immigration, iind wherlithere
el are aevenforeign-bornvoteato ases7fivaail4". &roil frees the wants of the sperulatoes themselves, who'
were foralto buy frig. the pulite at Its price that which
But it is admitted that ewn Under tee very' thy' liad undertaken to deliver. The Tines NOG the
exceptional circumatarilis of New Yolk' whabtreth 1 not ilat yet, and Ills astliaprobe that
household franchise worked well. All this` cor- some of those who took part in the cosplihration were, from
ruption has originated in a definite time, and as the the first, its intended victims.
result of a particular change, which change has and 1 The upshot of the matter between Mr. Bright, T. B.
Smith, and the Bishop of Oxford, the Daily New/ My., is
ospiiptve no parallel to anything that has been sug-
this: that Mr. Bright's facts are undisputed ; that a state of
gashed here. " Within the memory of men still things which, the bishop admits, "seems to be disgraceful "
" living," says the Review, " the affairs of both , does really exist ; bat that, in the ease of the particular
" the City and State of New York were so well family to which Dr. Wilberforce dexterously narrows the
" managed, that other States and cities were glad controversy, the blame rests sot with the clergy but with
"to copy their methods of doing business. The I parental negligence and vice. The parasol ques-
ohnowinever,. !ate
wvheory small one. onee.
Surely
only
" time was when men, after a brilliant career in ' tiqr
" Congress, regarded it as a promotion to be
business of the clergy Is to overcome the dead.wyeight
" mayor of the city, when a seat in the city legis- of indifference which they attribute to the farm labourers.
" lature was the coveted reward of a lifetime of ITo the great landed proprietors great social and political
" honest dealing in private business, when a seat privileges are secured by express legislation, and if the
"in the State legislature was the usual first step joint influence of clergyman and squire fails, then our
"to the highest places in the national government, ecclesiastical and territorial organisation breaks down.
" when the very ward committees were composed In acquitting person., the Bishop of Oxford indirectly casts
"of eminent merchants and lawyers, and when blame on institutions. His doctrine, by inference, is far
more revolutionary than Mr. Bright's. Many concurrent
" even to serve as the secretary of a ward corn- causes must conspire in order to bring about a change for
" mittee was a feather in the cap of a bank-
the better. A large emigration, elevating the material
" teller or a head book-keeper in a house of condition of the poor who remain ; the gr.wth of a keener
" business." But this was not under a restricted sense of their duty on the part of the privileged classes ;
suffrage in the English sense of the term, but and more efficient legislation—all are necessary.
under household suffrage and the ballot, and that Lord Carnarron, the Daily News states, has called upon
the Canadian government for the production of all the
at a time when rents were low, when most of the
documents that can throw light upon the facts in the
New York population lived in their own houses, Lunirande case, and in due course our Foreign-offioe will
and when education was not nearly so universal or have to apply to the French government for Lamirande's
complete as it now is. So far, therefore, as this restoration. The result will be expected with much lute-
New York experience runs at all parallel to our rest in England, inasmuch as it will show ui bow our
questions, and so far as it throws any light what- neighbours regard the engagement subsisting between us
ever on the question of Reform which we are now and them, and to what extent they are prepared to see its
discussing, it goes to support and justify an ex-
working affected by the different habits of mind which the
judicial officers of the two countries respectively bring to
tension of the franchise to the widest extent that
the estimation of the evidence of crime.
any statesmen of the present day are at all likely
The Star thinks those journalists who stood almost alone
to propose. in warning England of the danger of permitting Southern
It is quite true that it is to an extension of the privateers to sail from her ports may be excused if they
franchise that the degeneracy of New York po- now enjoy something like a triumph when their opponents
litics is to be traced, but it is to an extension of come over bodily to the same aide. Even the tory journals
which applauded when the bold Mr. Laird avowed his de-
which our social condition affords no parallel. In
sire to be the builder of twenty Alabama, now coolly
1821 the democratic party abolished household
speak of
thethe fitters-out of those ships
suffrage and gave the vote to foreign citizens, deplore
R in permitting
andthe
making naturalization easy. A foreigner who has question to grow into a serious international difficulty.
been ten days a citizen, who has resided in the A tory journal bemoaning the depredations of the
State one year, in the county four months, and Alabama is ,wonderfully like a certain personage quoting
in the district ho votes in thirty days, has a vote. Scripture.
He may, and generally does, know nothing of
politica, nothing of parties, and nothing of in-
dividual men ; but he is induced by political
agents to take up his citizenship, and is
persuaded by them to give his vote. He is at
heart an alien still ; in ideas, in education, in
association he is a foreigner ; he cares nothing for
his newly-adopted country, and he votes as he is
bid. Thousands of Irish, our correspondent
tells us, were thus being made citizens in anticipa-
tionof theelection of Tuesday last, whenthey would
be driven to the polls to swell the Democratic vote
for the supporters of Mr. JOHNSON in New York
city, and to diminish the vast majority which
every other portion of the State is sure to give
against them. A foreign immigration thus laid
hold of by the induati ions agents of the Demo-
cratic party neutralizes the native element in New
York politics, gives them their Democratic charac-
ter and their rowdy aspect, and produces that
municipal degeneracy which all good Americans so
winch regret. But what has this to do with Eng-
lish politics ! What foreign element, ignorant ot
our affairs, can be enfranchised hero ? Yet the
argument has no meaning otherwise. Nothing is
being proposed hero but the wider enfranchise-
ment of the English people. Will any eta-en-nen
stand up in Parliament, and reason as it has been
reasoned by some of our contemporre :es on these
New York revelations ? Jf so, this will be his
argument—" The indiscriminate enfranchisement
"of foreign immigrants has caused New York
" municipal politics to degenerate to the foulest
" corruption ; beware, therefo e, how you proceed
" t.o the discriminating enfranchisement of a per-
" tion of your own countrymen. The forcing of
" votes on foreigners who care nothing for politics
"of which they know nothing has made New
" York municipal politics a trade ; beware how
" you gran: Notes to Englishmen who have shoe
" thc 'r interest in national affairs, awl have ear-
" neatly desired to give practical effect to that
" interest and knowledge." But it is not even
on inconsequent argument that the feeling against
Reforie is based. A vague fear, an unreasoning
prejrdice, a foolish dread of the people, is really
at the bottom of it, and these New York difficul-
ties, only half appreciated and utterly misurder-
stood, do as well as beater reasons to keep alive
• I tha:, uneasiness and fear.
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THE WEEKLY PRESS.

Lord Romilly has practically decided, the Spectator
says, if his judgment be sustained on appeal, that if
the colonial churches wish to emancipate themselves
from the final control of lay judges, they must give up the
name of the English church, constitute themselves on a
voluntary basis of their own, and if they continue the
episcopal government, must accept bishops conse-
crated voluntarily by other bishop., but not selected by
the crown, not consecrated at the order of the reigning
monarch. Bishops created and consecrated by the Queen's
order cannot, without renouncing their allegiance to the
English church, go over to such free colonial churches
as are now contemplated. Such churches may, no doubt,
remain in communion with the English church—in-
deed, the English church is in communion with the
Scotch episcopal and American episcopal church, and may
be in communion before long with the Greek church,
but they will not be part of it ; their clergy and arch-
deacons, and bishops cannot minister in the English church ;
their onlers will not be held valid in the English church ;
in a word, they will be an entirely different church—a
church with a common origin and a common root of dogma
but likely soon enough to issue in branches, leaves, and
flowers of a very different variety indeed. But will not
the temptation to be free from the curb of lay tribunals,
and to have the clergy determining what is orthodoxy and
heresy for themselves, operate so powerfully that churches
schismatic in all but their wish to remain in communion
with the mother church, will yet be formed ! That some
I attempt of this kind will be made in the colonies, as soon
as it is known that to belong to the English church means
accepting sbsolutely the decisions of lay tribunals with re-
spect to the nature of the obligations imposed by the for-
mularies of the church, the Spectator does not doubt.
As there is no certain knowledge of what may be the
views or future policy of Prussia, the Examiner cannot but
deem it highly premature to come to a decision here as to
our future adhesion or repugnance to it. If the internal
government of North Germany manifest itself in liberal
progress, let ns be ready to award all praise. It relying
upon its now compact territory, its late victory, and a
strong military organisation, it direct its steps to its own
German development,there is no one among us who will not
applaud. But if the new government of Prussia be found
intriguing or allying either with France or Russia for a
further disturbance of the balance of power of Europe,
and for the conversion of it from a great republic of inde-
pendent states into a mere triad of empires, then the
world will have reason to curse the day when Bismarck
triumphed at KOniggrutz.
In an article called " Young Oxford," the Saturday Re-

view informs its readers that the present fancy there is for
vestments—for the quaintest, richest, and most expensive
ecclesiastic garments. The undergraduates form themselves
into • holy brotherhood, and settle that the brethren shall
wear something as splendid as fancy can suggest and
money can buy. The room in which one very precious set
of vestments is stored is said to be insured for thousands
and thousands of pounds. A sort of celestial bagman goes
round on behalf of a celebrated millinery warehouse, tout-
ing for orders. A publisher has a secret and sacred corner in
his shop where every information on costume cm be obtained.
Young men walk about the liigh-street with garments
and bead-dresses on, that give the initiated to understand
that their wearers are as much priests as it is possible for
young laymen to be. And, naturally, the appropriate
theology prevails also. Undergraduate after undergraduate
announces that he IN restored to the bosom of the true
church ; and as under the modern system Roman catholics
I are allowed to be members of many colleges, • fervent
young man can go over when he pleases, and yet pursue
his university career. With this high dressing excitement,
that of gambling on a scale previously unknown is said to
have come in, and epigrammatist, remark that it is either
maw or unlimited 100. It certainly seems, after the two
great movement, at Oxford, the high church movement
and the liberal movement, a strange bathos to sink
to these pnerilities—these silly extravagances which
usually promote a strong reaction against all religions. In
the larger theatre of the outside world, the ordinary Eng-
lishman, the complacent, church-going, tolerably bene-
volent taxpayer, would be quickly petrified into indiffe-
rence, or irritated into enmity, if religion came before
him in the shape which it assumes among the leaders of
Young Oxford. But the reaction, if it comes, will be only
temporary ; and before long the whole effects of the pre-
sent excitement will have died away. Let us hope that
something more noble and more worthy of young men
will take its place, and that Young Oxford may once more
occupy itself with the works of great writers and the
thoughts of great thinkers.
1 The Economist considers the question, Ought the tories
to touch a reform bill I and comes to the conclusion that
there is no place for such a measure. All snares, artifices,
and "dodges " on so palpaLle a matter will assuredly fail,
and any reform bill really gratifying to sincere conserva-
tives would, if it be possible, fail even with quick cer-
tainty.

THE PRINCE ow WALES'S PARE AT BINGLEY.—
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has contributed
to the park at Bingley, in the West Riding, • umber of
trees, in recognition of the " good and kind feeling shown
by the inhabitants and working men of Bingley towards
himself and the Princess of Wales." The folio • is •
copy of a letter sent to the vicar of Bingley, from
Sand-
ringham, concerning the gift, and in it was enclosed a list
of trees sent per rail to Bingley station :—" • ham,
King's Lynn, 6th Nov., 1466. Dear Sir,—Referring to
our former correspondence, I have now the pleasure of in-
forming you, by the Prince of Wales's directions, that a
parcel of trees has been forwarded to your address, this
day. from Sandringham, with a view to their being planted
in the People's Park at Bingley. I enclose a list of them,
and trust they will be acceptable and arrive without
damage. Any expenses that may be incurred fur their
carriage I shall be obliged by your sending me a note of, in
order that I may refund the money.—l am, dear air, very
truly yours, W. KPOILTB.—Rev. A. Irwin."

the Court..

WINDSOR CAME, Notts 9.
The Queen drove in the Home-psi. y0[4104191,
afternoon, nasmHapanied by the Princess 44» and Prince
LeafialL
Her Majesty, with Princess Louise, &Menai' by
Viscountess Jocelyn, drove in the grounds of the Castle
this morning.
The Prince and Princess Christian also went out driving.
To-day is the birthday of the Prince of Wales.

A committee of the Lords of kir Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall on
matters relating to the Cattle PlAgue. The lords present
were the Lord President and the Right Hon. Sir Stafford
Northoote. Mr. Harrison and Colonel Harness attended
the committee.
A deputation consisting of Mr. John Holms, Mr. John
Plummer. Dr. Black, Mr. Mark Coles, Mr. George Low-
land, Mr. George Dornbuach, Mr. Gilbert Marshall, and
Mr. J. R. Crompton, had an interview with Lord John
Manner at her Majesty's Office of Works yesterday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester
day. The lords present were Lord Westbury, Sir E. V.
Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and
St. Helena.

Prince Arthur having now reached his sixteenth
year, her Majesty, it is announced, has determined that he
shall enter the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich as a
gentleman cadet. The Prince of Wales is a general in the
army and colonel of the 10th Hungers ; Prince Alfred is a
captain in the nary ; and it Is intended that Prince Arthur
shall be prepared for a commission in either the Engineers
or Artillery. The royal family will thus be connected with

nearly every branch of the service.
Nearly 200 of the tradesmen appointed to their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales cele-
brated his royal highness s birthday yesterday evening, by
dining together at the St. James's-hall. Mr. Alderman Cope-
lend, having most kindly foregone his seat at the Guildhall
banquet, presided, and gave the various loyal toasts with
true aldermanie spirit. By direction of his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, through General Knollya, a bountiful
supply of find venison was provided for the feast. The
chairman was supported by the honorary secretary, Mr.
Melton, of Regent-street, who announced that a ball would
be held at Willie-rooms on the 3rd of December next, in
honour of the birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess
of Wales, and that the worthy alderman had consented to
allow his name to appear as a steward. In the evening
most of the royal tradesmen illuminated.
_ .

His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has
consented to lay the foundation stone of the " Smalley
wing" of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum in the course
of the present month.
ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM. —His Royal Highness
the Duke of Edinburgh has graciously signified his inten-
tion of opening the grand bazaar and flower show in aid of
the funds of this institution at the Guildhall on Tuesday,
the 13th inst., at one o'clock. Contributions of needle-
work, &c., will be thankfully received by the secretary,
98, ('heapside.
The Earl and Countess Spencer left Spencer
House, St. James's, yesterday, for Althorp Hall, North-
amptonshire.
Tho marriage of Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart.,
M.P., with Miss Harriett Moncreiffe will take place on the
6th of December.
The Lord Warden and the Countess Granville
will leave Widmer Castle on the 16th inst.
Lord Lytton (Bulwer Lytton) has left Podevin's,
King's Head, Dover, for Paris and Nice. Hi■ lordship
is not likely to return to England before the opening of

parliament.
There is a rumour that Lord Chelmsford may
resign the Lord Chancellorship, and take the place likely to
be vacated by Chief Justice Erle, the Chief Justiceship of
the Common Plmis, in which case Sir Hugh Cairns would
take the Lord Chancellorship. .

We read in the Spectator : " Ecce Hurno '.' appears
to be at last definitely traced to l'rofessor Seeley, of
University College, London. The author complained in his
recent preface of its being supposed that he could wish
to mystify the public as to the drift of his trea-
tise. We suppose he felt no such scruple as to
his Authorship, as he seems to have succeeded
admirably in mystifying even intimate friends. It is
not, we should think, any want of pride in such a hook, or
in its reception by friends and foes, which ioduced him so
perseveringly to preserve the incognito."
" S. G. 0." AND THE 131 SHOP OF SALISBFRY.—

In reply'ng in the Times to the recent letter to
him of the Bishop of Salisbury " S. G. 0." obis: ryes that
that letter is conclusive as to the fact that members of the
episcopal bench can hold much of the doctrine he de-
nounced, and he had a right to assume that where a bishop
sanctioned the teaching be would only consider the vest-
ments and ceremonial as so much of accessory eleirent in
the matter necessary to give it its full dignity. As to the
charge that he was creating disaffection by cutting away no
small portion of the ground on which the church of Eng-
land rests her protest against the exclusive claims of the
church of Rome, be remarks that they were fast
cutting away all grounds for exclusion from the latter
church, and it was hardly worth while to protest against
what they were so rapidly removing. The apostolic " in-
heritance" which the bishop claimed for the clergy
must include all that is claimed by the Romish
clergy ; it could not be held in part, or re-
ject 1 in part, at the will of the heir. The word
" lucky," as applied to ecclesiastical preferment, S. G. 0.
says he used in its ordinary sense, and he never con-
templated applying it to any particular bishop.
He cannot understand bow it is that bishops and
clergy, who' all claim to hold apostolic powers
differ so much on points called essential. In conclusion,
the writer says that no fear of rebuke can induce him to be
silent when he sees daily the growth of this attempt to
destroy what our forefathers established at so great a cost ;
" far better would it bo to dismiss to Rome a thousand or
two of those who clearly love her better than us, and
serve us with a traitorous service, than to allow tamely
the spread of a poison which, carefully adapted to youth-
ful, weak tastes, snares our children into a creed which
palliates the deceit that covers the belief of the papist
under the clothing of the protestant."
The New York Tribune of the 31st ult. has the
following :—Mr. Hepworth Dixon, the well-known editor
of the London Athencrum, and biographer of Lord Bacon
and William Penn, leaves for home by the Scotia
this morning. Mr. Dixon has devoted the last
four months to a tour through the northern States, a
portion of the South, and as far west as Utah, where ho
orient several weeks in studying Mormon faith and practice.
He visited the James River, Plymouth Rock, and otherlocal-
ities of interest in our early history. He has also been
studying the sentiment among our publishers, authors, and
journalists upon the question of an international copy-
right law, with the view of co-operating in a fresh move-
ment for its adoption. Upon reaching home Mr. Dixon
will immediately issue in two small volumes a work en-
titled The New America," recording his observations
of social and political life in the United States ; devoting
particular attention to those peculiar and curious religious
organisations among us of which little is known by the
general public either in Europe or America. He has been
greatly pleased with his tour, and his observations will
doubtless be entertaining and valuable.
THE PAMS EXHIBITION, 1867.—A meeting of
the committee for the representation of objects for the use
of the army, navy, and navigation, was held yesterday in
the Sheepshanks Gallery of the South Kensington Mu-
seum. The following member of the committee were pre-
sent Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, K.G.;
his Grace the Lord President, the Right Hon. Sir J. S.
Pakington, M.P. ; the Right Hon. General Peel, M.P. ;
Lord Allied Paget, Sir Morton Peto, M.P. ; Colonel E. M.
Boxer, R.A. ; Mr. James Buchanan, Captain IL C. Close,
Trinity-house; Colonel Dixon, RA.; Mr. John Fowler,
P.LC.E. ; Captain Douglas oslton, C.B. ; Lieut.-Colonel
Jervois, C.R , R.E.; Brigadier Genera Lefroy, R.A. ; Cap-
tain B. H. Martindale, R.E. ; Mr. John Macgregor, Mr.
D. Ramsay, Mr. E. J. Reed, Mr. J. H. Ritchie, Mr. J.
Scott Robertson, Major-General St. George, ILA., C.B.
Mr. William Scholefield. M.P. ; Mr. J. White, and Colonel
Younghnoband, R.A. Mr. Henry Cole, 0.8., Secretary to
her Majesty's Commissioners, attended ; and also the fol-
lowing secretaries of the committee :—Rev. J. Woolley,
LL.D.; Captain J. F. Donnelly, ItH ; Mr. J. Wilson
Cooper, Mr. H. K Acton, and Commander Scott, R.N.
..a-ratt Ham.. —The National Choral Society
will comment* its seventh season on Tuesday, the Bath
inst., with a performance of Elrijsd, in which Mr. &alley
will appose. Mr. Southey is she angered by this society
for its Christmas performance of the Nesase, Dee. 26th ;
and for the Creation, Jan. 3rd. Ooadader, Mr. G. W.
Mortis.