The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-26 00:00:00

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE
GOSPEL.

MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)
The Archbishop of Canterbury presided to-day at
the annual meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel, which was held at St. James's-hall. From a brief
statement which was presented by the Rev. William Bal-
lot*, M.A., the Secretary, it appeared that the society has
now been engaged for a period of 164 years in endeavouring
to plant the church in the colonies and dependencies of the
British crown. From North America its dependencies had
been gradually extended to the West Indies, Australis, India,
South Africa, New Zealand, Ceylon, Borneo, British Co-
lumbia, Honolulu, and Madagascar. When the society
was first founded there were probably not 20 clergymen
of the Church of England in those lands ; there were now
congregations under the pastoral care of upwards of 3,000
clergymen. The British possessions abroad extend over a
surface of about 9,000,000 square miles, and are the seat
of 45 bishoprics. In 1865 the society's income for general,
appropriated, and special funds, was 94,2571. The society
desired to provide this year from its general fund for the
maintenance in whole or in part of 516 missionaries, and a
lame number of catechists and schoolmaster. in Australia
and various parts of the world. The meeting was ad-
dressed by the Archbishop of Armagh, the Duke of Marl-
borough, the Dean of Binly, Mr. Coleridge, M.P., ►nd
other gentlemen, in support of resolutions affirming the
claims of the society to extended public support.

Commit/Holy 20 ROME. —MT. J. T. Watford,
M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and assistant
master at Eton College, has left the church of England for
communion with the church of Rome. Mr. Watford took
his B.A. degree in 1607, when he was first class in classics.
THE STEAMSHIP CITY or WASHINOTOM—Nothing
has yet been heard of this vessel, and the premium upon
her has risen to 60 guineas.
PATENT-OFFICE MUSEUM, SOITIS KIUMINOTOX.
—Number of visitors for the week ending April 21, 2,000.
Total number since the opening of the Melanin free daily
(12th May, 1858), 1,027,379.

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IT INTELLIGENCE.
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AIIIPIEIA AND PRUSSIA.

The Independance says :
'the information from Germany to-day is of the mine
character as that of yesterday. The only question which
could explode the powder is removed. The two great
powers have pledged themselves to disarm. It is ►t
Frankfort that the contest will now be decided.
If, as has been stated, a majority of the Diet,
insists on the presentation of the Pruesian pro-
gramme before considering the question of the assem-
bling of a German parliament, the occasion of new
conflicts will arise. The most dangerous of all would be
the resolution of Prussia to withdraw from the Confedera-
tion with those States which would follow her example,
and to form a narrower combination, as was attempted in
the Erfurt parliament.

ITALIAN FINANCE.
FLORENCE, Arm 21.
The report of the committee of the Chamber of
Deputies upon the budget proposes :
" An income tax of 8 per oent. on all incomes
above 350 frame per annum. Incomes between
300 and 350 francs are to pay a fixed annual tat of
14 francs, and those ranging from 250
to 300 francs a tax of 7 francs. Incomes below
250 francs are to be exempt from taxation. The
tax upon incomes derived from government stock,
public appointments, and pensions will be deducted
by the government at the time the dividends, sala-
ries, or pensions are paid. Incomes from landed
property will be liable to the tax for one half their
annual amount."

The various measures proposed by the com-
mittee will, it is estimated, !reduce the deficit
to 50,000,000 francs.

THE ATTEMPT ON THE CZAR'S LIFE.

The Nord publishes the following despatch, dated
St. Petersburg, April 25 :
The name of the person who made the attempt against
the Emperor's life is Dimitry-Karokoeon. He was born in
the government of Sarolof, in the district of Serdobsk,
where his father possessed a small property. He Needled
at the University of Moscow. He is of a hypochondriacal
and misanthropic*" disposition. He is weary of life, and
holds the most advanced socialistic opinions.

The //ma i& Busse gives an account of a review
on a great scale, which took place on the 18th,
in the Chump-de-Mars of St. Petersburg, " every-
one " says the journal, " being anxious to see with
his own eyes the adored monarch, and to testify
the feeling of boundless affection and devotion
for the Emperor, of which the Russian
people are so justly proud." " The people
who lined the streets made the sign of the
cross as the Emperor passed along, that being the
expression of the sincere joy of a people happy in
seeing the sovereign whom they love and venerate
saved from the peril with which he was menaced."

(111IITZB'S llzzaauf s.)
PRUSSIA_

BERLIN, APRIL 26.

A considerable time before any war rumours
were in circulation the military authorities had
made preparation); for the drill of the landwehr,
which has been ordered by the royal decree of the
15th February. In conformity with this decree
about 40,000 men of the landwehr will be assem-
bled for military exercise within the next month or
six weeks.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

BUCHAREST, APRIL 25.

The Russian Consul-General in this city has ad-
dressed a protest to the Provisional Government
against the accusations made against Russia with
reference to the late disturbance at Jassy. He calls
attention to a letter of the Prefect of Jassy, wherein
the conduct of the Russian inhabitants during the
disturbances is declared to have been peaceful.

SCHLES WIG-HOLSTEIN.
KIEL, APRIL 26.

The governors of Schleswig and Holstein have
issued orders extending to arrivals from Russia and
Belgium, the prohibition against the importation
of cattle, sheep, and pigs into the Duchies.

SPANISH FINANCE.
MADRID. APRIL 25i EVENING.

The government will next week bring forward a
bill in the Cortex for the formation of a mortgage
bank, the concession for which will be granted to
the Credit Fancier of France.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, AraTL 25.

The government has signed a contract with M.
de Browse for the construction of quays, docks,
and railways at Lisbon. It results from the con-
ditions of the contract that Lisbon will become
almost a free port.

MAURITIUS MAIL.
SUEZ, APRIL 25.

The Norna arrived at 7 a.m. to-day.

OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND
AUSTRALIAN MAILS.
GIBRALTAR, Ann, 25.
The Poonah, from Southampton on the 20th
inst., arrived to-day at 2 p.m., and leaves at
6p.m. for Alexandria. All well.

The cholera has praised from the Duchy of Lux-
embourg into Holland ; letters from the Hague mention
that it has broken out in several Dutch towns, and at
Rotterdam and Delfehaven especially. In the former
place seven cases occurred on the first day, of which four
terminated fatally.

A letter from Naples in the Temps says that the
late dispute as to university students has led to a duel
between the conductors of two journals : the Popolo
d'ltalia, absolutely devoted to the students, and the
Rosen, which had wished to take a middle course. " After
much abuse and the free use of such phrases as' shameful
liars,' an appeal was made to the sword, which is here the
usual weapon for duels. The person who represented the
Popolo was a priest. Re fought bravely, and wounded
the champion of the Roma in the hand. You might sup.
pose that for a priest to fight a duel would cause great
surprise. But it did not. This sacerdotal pugnacity is
here regarded as nothing at all extraordinary."
Tns Two Pilawrzas.—The Civitta Cattoliea, the
organ of the Jesuits, contains an article on the above sub-
ject, from which the follow:ng is an extract :—" The
papacy and liberalism are two opposite masters—Christ
and Satan. It is impossible to serve both or to attach
oneself to one without separating from the other. But
it may be said we can Christianise liberalism

and render it more favourable to the Pope.
To Christianise liberalism ! This is truly a more than
poetic idea. Do you mean to say that you would constrain
liberalism to abdicate—to be no longer itself' To
Christianise liberalism it would be indispensable to make
it admit the syllabus, that is to say, to condemn
the principle recently put forward by the Florentine
Minister, viz., that it belongs to the cavil power to
impose limits on the church's freedom of action ; to
condemn cavil marriages, accomplished facts, non-in-
tervention, liberty of worship, liberty of thought
liberty of the press, and the separation of church and
state. Liberalism must also be made to admit that
peoples are not to rebel against their legitimate
princes, that the church baa • power of compelling
by oorporal punishment ; that it has the right of
superintending the instruction and adoration of youth ;
that the place!, appeals against abuses, interference in
seminaries and pious foundations are so many usurpations
of the secular power ; and, admitting all this, what would
remain of liberalism r