The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-13 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT AND THE DISSENTERS.

Yesterday morning the committees of the Dis-
senting Deputies and the Liberation Society, acting
*me g, gave their annual parliamentary breakfast to the
leading dissenters of the metropolis, at the Grosvenor
Hotel. Above seventy gentlemen were present, and among
them were Mr. Mills, M.P. (who presided), Mr. Baines,
M.P. Mr. Hadfield, Sir Morton Pato, M.P., Mr.
Padinore, M.P., Mr. Hardcastle, M.P., Mr. Jas. Heywood,
Mr. Morley, Mr. Miall, Mr. S. Courtauld, Rev. K
Mr. C. Reed, Rev. J. G. Rogers, Rev. W. M. Statham,
Dr. Mullen., Rev. A. Hannay, Mr. W. Edwards, Rev.
Newman 1111, Rev. J. Tucker, Rev. Mark Wilke, Mr. H.
Spicer Mr. Chas. Shepheard, and Mr. Carvell Williams.
The chairman, in opening the proceedings, congratulated
the meeting on the favourable auspices under which
they had assembled, and in referring to recent successes
in parliament, said that the &hoopoe of opponents was as
significant of the presence of their. fnends. He also
called attention to the bill he was about to bring in for
abolishing the grants for ecclesiastical purposes in the
West Indies. Mr. Hardcastle, M.P., introduced the church-
rate question, and expressed the opinion that the amend-
' ments of Mr. Waldegrave Leslie might, with some alte-
rations, be accepted. Mr. Miall dealt with the abolition
of ecclesiastical tests at the universities, and expressed the
hope that the time was coming when dissenters, having
established their own rights, would be able to unite with
university reformers in improving the en entity system.
Dr. Underhill addressed some friendly words to the dis-
senting undergraduates who were present, and urged them to
be faithful to their principles, and Mr. Heywood and Mr.
Michael adverted to the Public Schools Bill, and the neces-
sity for inserting a conscience clause wax insisted upon.
Mr. Morley also spoke as to the university question, and
to other practical points. Mr. Reed urged strenuous
action to carry the bill for preserving Bunhill-fie ds from
the avaricious grasp of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Sir Morton Pete, with inference to Lord Redea.lale's Con-
secration of Churchyards Bill, said that if it ever reached
the Commons, it must be amended so that dissenters
should have a hare of the additions made to churchyards,
and stated that the Liberation Society was preparing It bill
to mien all churchyards to dissenting ministers. Mr. Had-
field, M.P., described the provisions of his Religious Bites
Bill, which he said would become valueless if the Lord
Chancellor persisted in the amendments of which he had
given notice. Dr. Mullein and Mr. Neville Goodman, of
Cambridge, proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman,
and, in doing so, Mr, Goodman said tiled nonconformity
we. well represented in CambrtdgeUniversity, and that the
prejudices of churchmen were greatly removed by coming
in contact with nonconformists. The proceedings lasted
till noon, and were very harmonious.

ARRIVALOP THE AUSTRALASIAN FRON NEWYORK.
—The Royal Mail steamship Australasian, from New York
on the 3rd inst., arrived at Queenstown at 7.15 p.m.
yesterday, with 61 passengers. She landed all the mails,
consisting of 123 sacks, and 14 passengers, and proceeded
for Liverpool immediately. Her news is unimportant.

A Nair INDUWittrez. Archbishop Manning
has solicited of the Pepe an Indulgence of one year to all
who shall devoutly recite the Gloria Petri and Ave
Maria, with the intention of obtaining from God the per-
fect conversion of the English nation to the obedience of
the truth and intimate reconciliation to the chair of St.
Peter. The Pope has granted the prayer by a rescript
which the Archbishop has published, and in which we
read the sapiration, " May this union be according to the
spirit of this Holy See, the Mistress of faith and truth."
On Thursday evening the certificates and prizes
won by the local students at the Oxford and Cambridge
University local examinations, held at Brighton during
the past year, were distributed at the Pavilion to the sue-
msful competitors, before a crowded audience. In the
absence of Professor Fawcett, M.P., the distribution was
made by the Rev. Canon Swainson, Norrisian Professor at
Cambridge.
Ties GOVERNMENT AND CEVECE EDUCATION.—
The Solicitor-General for Ireland, in proposing a resolu-
tion to the meeting of the Church Education Society, in
the Rotundo, Dublin, presided over by the Earl of
Clancarty, and addressed by the Bishops of Team and
Cashel, said that it expressed the positive principles
of the Church Education Society as a scriptural insti-
tution, and also its position as an antagonist of the
national system. Was it right that instruction in the
Bible should be, as in this society, the essence, or, as in
the national system, the accident of public education?
What was our experience of the state of Ireland, after
some thirty-five years' trial of national education! On the
night of Shrove Tuesday all Ireland was startled by the
rising of armed thousands—by an insurrection of such
magnitude that we owe for our preservation deep gratitude
to Divine Providence and a vigilant government—the
fruit of that extraordinary conspiracy, in which property
bad no representative, and in which intellect is repre-
sented exclusively by the emanated teachers of the
State system of public instruction. Since 1832 the educa-
tion question bad not been in so unsettled a
state as at the present moment. It must necessarily
attract the anxious attention of every government, and
he had no doubt that her Majesty's present government
desire to deal with it in a just spirit, and with an earnest
wish to extend as widely as possible the blessings of sound
education. Was not this a favourable time for the friends
of scriptural education to put before the public some plan
possible for them conscientiously to accept, and possible
for government politically to grant? He urged the pru-
dence of considering some mode of settling the education
question, some mode which shall 011 the one hand be
acceptable to the state of public opinion in the United
Kingdom, and on the other hand secure to the clergy of
the established church free Bible and au open school.
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THE LIMITED LIABILITY Q r ESTION. —Yesterday
Mr. Watkin's select committee met, and Sir William
Page Wood followed as witness Lord Homily, Mr. New-
march, Mr. Ed. Church, and the numerous highly-quali-
fied witnesses who have given evidence in this important
inquiry. The first suggestion offered by Sir William was
that the present mode of subscription to a company should
be altered. Now, the form of application for shares which
usually accompanied the prospectus was so drawn as to
bind the subscriber to the terms of the deed, not in exist-
ence, but to be afterwards prepared, and which was often
inconsistent with the professions in the prospectus. A case
bad come before him of a financial company that in the
prospectus proposed to do banking business and
to deal in bullion, but which took powers in
the deed to engage in any description of mer-
cantile enterprise. In another instance of a well
known Russian ruining company, the prospectus invited
subscriptions for the working of a particular mine on a
lease of 99 years, but the deed gave power to work any
iron or other mines in any part of the empire of Russia.
This he thought an injustice to credulous subscribers,
from which they should be protected. As a remedy for
this, lie proposed that applicants for shores should be fur-
nished with copies of the memorandum of agreement and _ _.. ___
articles of association before they were bound by the deed,
if inconsistent with the memorandum and articles. He also THE PARIS Exinarrion.—A hall which has been
recommended that shareholders whose names had been i erected in the Protestant Minikes ground, Champ de Mars,
placed upon the register without any authority should be : right hand side of the Grand Avenue, and denominated
discharged airaidiciter from liability, but that registered 1 the Salle Evangelique, is to be opened on Monday next by
shareholders who bid given authority, although they a public meeting, at which the Earl of Shaftesbury is to
might have been deluded, or the victims of false i preride, and addresses will bedelivered by English, French,
representations, should not be so discharged. He also I German, and American ministers. The undertaking is
recommended that the amount of " promotion I under the direction of the Evangelical Alliance. The hall
money " should be fixed at the outset, and 1 has been built from plans accepted by the administration
that shareholders, after joining a banking concern, should I of the Exhibition. and is in harmony with other edifices
not be left to find out after they embarked in the concern erected upon the Protestant Blission ground, and will con-
that the hanker who had transferred his business took tain about 500 persons. There is, in addition, a room at the
10,0001. for it. In the case of a company reducing its end, opening into the hall. for small meetings, regb4rY a
capital, Sir William thought that it miglit suffice if notice addresses, writing, and similar purposes. Therewill be
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was given to each of the creditors, and the intention to two English services every Sunday, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. , I
reduce thoroughly advertised. In the case of a company . a service in German or French, at 9 am. ; • service in
dealing in its can shares he recommended that such trans- , Dutch, Danish, or Swedish. at 1 p.m. ; a sereicein Italian,
actions should only be by a specific vote of the share- ,' Spanish, or Portuguese, at 3 p.lO. ;a meeting for prayer
holders and that shares, bought for a company should be I in different languages, at 8 p.m., besides various occa-
registered in its name, and that votes should not attach to I 40821 mrscOnfiL
such shares. He approved also of the judges of county I ADMIRALTY, APRIL 12.—APPOINTMENWL—Ma5-
courts having winding-up powers, but was strongly in ters G. P. Heather, to the Crocodile ;H. Bond, to the
favour of voluntry winding up, or of winding-up in such Serapia ;G. White (additional), to the Indus, for the
eases as it might be necessary under sapervision aimpl/ of Daphne. Paymasters D. R. Chamberlain, to the Seraph, ;
the court. He approved of companies appointing t sir G. W. Simmons, to the Crocodile. Assistant Paymasters
ownliquidators to hold office at the pleasureof thecompany. H. W. D. Stembridge and J. Watts, to the Serapis.

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