The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-09 00:00:00

THE I!XPRESS, THURSDAY EVEN/NG, FEBRUARY 9, 1860.

appears from the remarks which Mr. Diats6l.l
made yesterday, that in the eyes of some ef her
zealous friends her chief use is to repress earnest-
swain religion. The right hon. gentleman said:
" Sir, if there were no other cause for the mainte-
" nonce of the Eelablished Church at the prevent
" moment than that which must at once occur to
" members on both sides of the House, I hope they
" will remember that that Church bu been, and still
" it, and I trust ever will be, the best security of
" this country against that religious fanaticism
0 which has more than once been prevalent in this
" country." This is the language of the eighteenth,
not of the nineteenth century, the age of VOLTAIRS
and GIBbON, when men were thought wise for saying
that the virtues of the clergy weie more dangerous
to mankind than their vices ; yet it is founded, to
certain extent, on experience. There is no way so
certain to secure a perfunctory performance of any
offices as to detach them from voluntary and private
enterprise, and oonneot them with the taxes. Hot
we do not imagine that many who went with Mr.
Dl:instil into the lobby were thankful for hie ad-
vocacy.

The demand for the abolition of Church Rates has
now been urged many years in Parliament and in
the country, and always with increasing success.
The most moderate statesmen have one after another
expressed th..ir opinion that no compromise of the
question is practicable. Last year it was Lord JOHN
RUSSELL RAO, after long and effective support of
Church Ratee,sbandoned the traditioseand associations

of a life, and declared his conviction that " it woicd
" be better and safer for the Church to rely upon the
" voluatsry offerings of the people than to continue
" a compulsory rate which is disliked by almost all
" clean of the community." This year another most
moderate statesman, Sir G.Lewis, confessed that "he
" had lost his faith in any probability of a reasonable
" compromise, and he reluctantly came to the eon-
" elusion that the only course fur him to take was to
" support the second reading of the Bill." Toe great
tide of public opinion is in favour of complete aboli-
tion, and it is cot to be ignored or resisted because
there are special current., ecdies, and back w►ter.
The gentlemen who now waste their energies in
Church Defence Committees would act more wisely if
instead of marsh►lling their followers to devise
means of fastening burdens on other people, they
would teach them the habit of taxing themselves.

I AT last Tetuan has fallen. The Spanish army,
brave in the field, sad patient in the camp, have in
the course of some fifteen weeks marched precisely
fifteen miles. This is at the ram of not very much
more than aat m.'s throw a day. The event, never-
theless, haa some political significance.
An opportunity has now again arrived for the
mediation of the British Government ; ant unless
the Mane of peace or continued war should be set-
tled on the instant between the belligerents, we
may hope that both parties will cheerfully receive
it. From the outset, the Moors would have bailed
oar diplomatic intervention ; and while we assume
that Spain must desire at length to treat, the condi-
tions under which she bound herself at the begin.
ning of the war would preclude her from prosecuting
any scheme. of territorial annexation. Tun Spanish
Government, having declined to specify the maximum
of sea-board around Ceuta which it would demand
on the termination of the war, according to the pro-
position of Lord JOHN ltiNtiaLL, offered, in place of
such a definition, a guarantee that it would not
occupy any tract of land dangerous to the inde-
pendence of navigation through the Straits. In
the event of any large demand being made on
this head by the Court of Madrid, it would
be for the British Government to peas its
own judgment on the compatibility of such a de-
mand with the guarantee already give,. Spain
will readily appreciate the importanci, of courting
the good will of this country in a settlement of the
Ceuta boundary question. At present, indeed, it
would be rash to predict the political results of the
capture of Tetuan ; tut we are not without hope
that it may now serve the interests of all to termi-
nate these baselees and gratuitous hostilities, which
are ill redeemed by all the glory &chiseled by
Spanish arms,

[RLIAMISNrARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. $.
CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL.
Order kw second reading; motion made, and gesetios pro.
pawl, " That the bill be now read a second time."
Amendment proposed, to Leave ottt the word "now,' and
at the end of the question to add the word., "upon
this day six months "—(Lord Robert Mont ,go )—Huee.
den par, "That the word 'now' stani part of the close-
dem" The house divided :—Ayes 263 , noes 234,

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The abanstets Include the followlsg Mors* of whom
about twenty ere members of the Irish party :—Hon. A.
Animal, Sir F. Baring, F. Bowdon, R. B.illow, J. A. Blake,
E. P. Sourer* J. Brady. J. W. Buller, Viso:tont Bury,
Sir J. T. Barks. J. B. Carter, ft. Cobden, W. Cogan, 11.
Corbally, B. Direct, Lord Dunkellin, N. Dunne, J. Ruth,
J. Esmoado, Sir R. A. Ferguson, F. Foljambe, D. F.
Format-we, W. E. Gadotoae, L. D. Gordon, B. Gordon, J.
Girnoy, Lord Haddo, for W. G. Hutu, T. R. Hoodlum,
H. Herbert, 8. Herbert, R. Horseman, L,,rd R. Howard,
J. Leolisa, W. Leo, J. 0. Lime, W. Mackinnon (re.),
W. Marshall, J. Iltincrle4 T. Hasty's. J. T. Norris, D.
O'Connell, Th•O'Dosoghar, 11.0 Str J.Uwoo,Lord
A. Paget, Viecount Palmerston, F. Peel, L-nd Proby, F. W.
Russell, Sir W. Scott, V. Sou ly, Mugu'. of Staff ird, C. R.
Talbot, W. P. Urquhart. J. Warre, H. Wilk*, L.
Lad Worsley, W. Wrightson.
The cionservativosabwat wore C. Adderky, H. B. Basing,
W. Beall, I. Butt. Lord R. Cdatoo. J. W. Cobbstt, C.
W. Caper, Alderman Gtp.laa4, Berl ot Dalkeitb, J. Druz'
H. Drum:mood, F. P. Duane, Lord Elam, 8. Fltseerald,
G. W. Franklyn, Sir W. P. Canvey, J. M. °oaken, E.
Grow* G. Greenall, G. V. Harcourt, Sr E. Hayek D. S.
Her, C. Leslie, R. Palmer. G. Peacock, .1. Pritchard, Sir J.
Smith, J. G. Smyth*, C. N. Start, B. T. Witodd, C. Wyeas.

OnThanday next Mr. Locke Kiog will move for a
bill for the further securing the lib..rty of reHgiona worehip.
On the motion for gong into oommittee on the
Church wee Abolitbet Bill, Mr. Packs will move" that this
►ate' will, upon this d•y six ntooths, resolve itself into the
said tentsittre."

Tomorrow Mr. Wyld will ask the Secretary of
slab for War, if it In the intention of the government to
provide grounds for the target practice of the volunteer ride
mope.

On Moaday, the 20th inst., Mr. Cardwell will in-
troduce a bill into the House or Cummons farther to amend
low* rotating to the rep e.eatatlos.

Captain Leicester Vernon, on the 21st init., win
am ow am anteadtu nt to the motion of 81r De Leey Evens,
Se more, "that whereas the promotion la the eintority amps
airsedy exLtitte, viz., the Royal Artill.ry, Royal Engineers,
and R 0,4 b.ing of on u ,seurfaotory character
this house is of or inlon that it in not &nimble to extend the
malority system to the whole of the army,"

LATEST INTELLWENCE.

CHINA AND JAPAN.
SHANGHAI, Dn. 21.

The Chinese are strongly fortifying Pekin and
the entrance to the Feiho. 100,000 Tartar troops
have been centred near the Peiho.

The British are energetically preparing for the
coming campaign.

NAGASAKI, Dec. 12.

The trade with Japan has beeu stopped by the
excessive demands of the Europeans for Japanese
gold in exchange for dollars, and by the insults
offered to the Japanese.
_ _ _

The British Consul his isbued a notification
blaming the conduct of the Europeans.

CENTRAL ITALY,
TURIN, Fes. 8.

The principles on which the new vote on the
annexation of Tuscany and the Amami provinces
to Piedmont is to take place, have been resolvcd
upon.

REJECTION OF THE ENGLISH PROPOSI
TIONS BY AUSTRIA.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The French government has received to-day a
telegram from its ambassador at Vienna, announcing
that Count Rechberg has received v. :th great de-
ference the communication of the English proposal,
but that Austria will never accede to the third point
concerning the annexation of Central Italy to Pied-
mont.

Tile direct reply of the cabinet of Vienna will be
sent to Paris in a few days by courier.

INDIA.

MADRAS, J. 16.
Three Queen's regiments and on (?) native regi
manta and artillery, have been ordered for China.
Tao Governor has gone on a tour to the south and
south-west districts for two months.

THE UNITED STATES.
QUEENSTOWN, WIDNISDAY.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Com-
pany's steamer Edinburgh, Captain Cumming,which
left New York on the 28th ultimo, arrived here this
afternoon, bringing the United States mail and •
small amount of specie. On the 29th ultimo she
psased the Fulton, from Southampton, bound west.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

MR. SPURGEON IN PARIS.
('sox cox owx ooxxxspowwwwir.)
PARIS, WZDIIIIADAT EVENING.

The Bishop of Orleans (Mgr. Dupenloup) has
honoured M. Grandguillot, of the Coestitutionosel,
by writing him a letter of immense length, the pub-
lication of which the Constitutionnel, for want of
room, is obliged to postpone till to-morrow. The
object of the letter is to discredit bis predrc-svor,
Mgr. Rousseau, whose opinion that the Pope had no
occasion for temporel power M. Grandguillot lately
cited. The Bishop of Orleans of to-day says
of his predecessor of fifty years ago that he was a
"respectable priest, but in the lowest sense of the
word; a man whose mediocrity of character was
even greater than the mediocrity of his mind ; that
he bad no notion of the dignity of the episcopacy ;
that his pastoral letters, his ordinances, and his corre-
spondence were, both in point of style and doctrine,
extremely vulgar ; and that in a word he was a
very ordinary man." The particular letter cited by
M. Grandguillot is stigmatised as having been
written in obedience to a " ministerial circular and
from the most vain and servile motive." This testi-
mony of one bishop as to the motives which led to a
solemn manifesto by another is particularly edifying.
The Bonne opened with some heaviness. The
rise of yesterday was attributed principally to the
purchase of premiums by parties who looked to
make themselves bate if they operated for a fall.
The telegraphic account of a stormy debate in the
House of Lords, on Lord Normanby's motion, was
not without a depressing influence. Later in the
day, however, large purchases were made for
the account of two leading capitalists; and
the statement in the English parliament that there
was no treaty between France and Sardinia for the
annexation of Savoy being considered a reassuring
symptom, the Rente became rather firm, and closed
with a rise of 10c. for cash and 15c. for account, at
67fr. 90c, in each case. Mobilier rose 3fr. 760. The
Orleans railway rose 7fr. 50c. ; Lyons, lfr. 25c. ; and
Eastern, 2fr. irOc. There was no change in the other
liner. Austrian Credit Mobilier was quoted for the
first time to-day on the official list.
The Pays announces that news of a serious insur-
rection in Constantinople has been received this
evening. Tao telegram, said to be a private one,
has not yet been made public.
It is stated that M. Yeuillot is about to be made
director of the Roman railway,.
Mr. Spurgeon's first appearance in Paris attracted
an overflowing congregation last night to the
American Chapel in the Rue du Berry. How many
were unable to obtain admission I cannot say, but
I myself arrived three quarters of an hour before
the commencement of the service, and then found
but three seats vacant, and those close to the door.
One of these I was fortunate enough to secure. A
few minutes later and all the aisles were closely
packed with people who had to stand during the
two hours that the service lasted. Among the
patient listeners unable to get a seat I observed
Lord Gray of Gray. A great many ladies and
women of the humbler class of English residents
were present. Tne assemblage consisted almost
entirely of English and Americans; I myself did
not see a single Frenchman, and I know that
but very few were there. A Frenchman's
evening in Paris is too precious to be
sacrificed to any foreign celebrity whose fame has
not yet been stamped by the fiat of an approved
Parisian critic. On Mr. Spurgeon's appearance in
the pulpit a thrill of excitement passed through the
crowd, and was only prevented from breaking out
into open applause by respect for the sanctity of the
building. But a few minutes passed before the
preacher gave evidence of his eccentricity. After
• short prayer he gave out a psalm, repeating
the first verse, after the manner used in dissenting
chapels, and also by many clergymen of the church
of England. A thin stream of melody, in which
certainly not more than one in thirty of the congre-
gation joined, was all that was heard in answer to
the invitation to sing. Mr. Spurgeon said
atter the first verse, "Your singing is a
very feeble cry ; could we not sing a little
more earnestly ?" The reproof produced no effect ;
the church was mainly filled with that respectable
upper stratum of the middle class which is not ad-
dicted to public psalm-singing, and could not change
its habits at the word of command. After the sing-
ing and another prayer, Mr. Spurgeon pronounced
a discourse which 1 mistook for the sermon, bat
which turned out to be only an exposition of the
103rd psalm, of which he read the first verse," Bless
the Lord, oh! my soul, and forget not all his bene-
fits." " You are not," said Mr. Spurgeon, " required
to remember all his benefits ; you cannot do that,
for they are too numerous ; but, at any rate, do not
forget them all. String at least some of the beads
upon the threads of memory, and hang
them round the neck of gratitude." 'f he ser-
mon proper came after another hymn. Before giving
out the text, Mr. Spurgeon said that a minister of
the gospel, preaching for the first time before • con-
gregation, was under a great temptation to choose
a subject which might give occasion for burning
words and florid periods. lie had struggled against
that temptation, and had chosen a text, than which
a more simple one did not exist in Scripture, and
which would give him no occasion to glorify himself.
It was, "Believe in the Lord Jesus enlist, and thou
shalt be saved, and thy house." There existed, he
said, in ancient times cities of refuge to which
criminels might fly from the avenging arm of the
law. It was the humane public policy of the civil
governments of those times to facilitate access
to the cities of refuge. Sign posts were
erected at every cross road with the word
" Refuge" written upon them, so that the fugitives,
hotly pursued, might not hesitate a moment as to
the course they were to take. In like manner his
text to-night plainly enough pointed out the road
which the sinner must follow and the city which he
must try to reach. But it was his especial bu-inese,
as a surveyor of the road, to fill up quagmires, to
level hille, and to remove stumbling block,. After
this introduction he proceeded to enumerate a
variety of the impediments which stood in the way
of a Christian course, and to show how, by faith,
they might be overcome. I can only recall from
memory a few of the many striking illustra-
tions, which were new to me, and which
will perhaps be thought worthy to take rank

among the " gems of Spurgeon. Developing
the doctrine which he preaches to the fullest extent
of absolute and irrevocable election, he said :
Never believe in any religion about which there is any
uncertainty ; that cannel be a true religion. Dose anyone
tell you that it is possible for the pardoned sinner t f ,•I
away from gm*? Never believe them. You sae how wide
is the east from the wist. If the boundaries be not infinite,
nothing that we can conceive comes so near it. Well, the
strongest winged angel in heaven would drop down ul
fatigue lefore be would reach either of those boundurie..
And per, believe me, the sins of the pardoned sinner are
farther removed than any angel can fly, and not Satan sr.!
all the baste of hell can ever bring them ba:k Soflo3. They
are plunged into the depths of the sea—not the bhall.*,,
mind—but down, down, down, to the lowest deep: All Icy
wrath of God which fallen man ever did or ever a II deserve
was concentrated into one black, bitter draught. And et,:
night, in the garden of Gethsemane, a man—for ha wan a
man—took in him hand the cup which contained the whole ..,1
that dreadful potion, and with one mighty draught of love by
drained destruction dry, and no drop was left for any believer.
Come not to Christ with your mouldy merits and your mus. y
virtues, but come naked as you are, and he has a gar neat , t
light ready woven to be thrown over you, coulees that y
are hungry and a beggar and he will give you the bread ~1
I life, but seek not to buy his free grae:—offer him but e
farthing and you ere lost. There is no cote to the doves , i
the Lord Lut the clefts in the Rock of Ag:t, whica are tt,
wounds of Christ. A virtuous life if led for the tike tt
salvation is nothing worth, tor tbo motive ia selfish. The par-
doned sinner is virtuous imply tA AIM he heirs sin and it
Is no temptation to him. DJ a- . look to your own feelings;
your feeling, can never save you—do not look tic(
(beating his bean)—but look there —(p3;it'ng up arde)—
look to the nailed hands, the nailed feet, the cr yen of thorns.
the open wounds, the blood St w -ig, and ex -lam with Ow
dying monk of old—tea vithiera—lua otthiera. Prayer is ti.
treading-in of the spirit of heaven, and praise is breatbm;
it out again, and this is the mechanism of Chr:s'ian respira-
tion. The curse of the church in England is the Pl'qesoPhY
that has crept into it. Away with all the drlpsiy which
bides the Cross. I care not whether it le Calvinism or
gay other ism, away with it, down with i:—the Cross, the
Cron, the Cross. Instead of saying, Down with the Pope,
let us say, Up with Christ—that is the true way to put the
Pope down.

Recounting an episode of his own conversion, Mr.
Spurgeon said that in the early days of ha
Christian career he was much troubled by wicke.'.
and blasphemous thoughts which would come into
his mind, when he had fancied he was moat ardent:y
struggling in prayer, and which would even so rust
to lips that he had been obliged to put his hand to
his mouth to keep them down. He had consulted a
venerable Christian friend about these wicked
thoughts, who Irked him whether they came
into his mind in any cot.:czu•ive form, or
only by fits and starts. He replied that
they came quite suddenly, and had nothing
consecutive about them. " Oh, then," said the
friend, " care nothing for those thoughts; I know
where they come from ; treat them as in Old
England we used to treat vagrants, flog them at the
cart's tail and send them home to their parish.
Those thoughts come into your mind from Satan,
who says to himself, .I am likely to lose this man,
and makes a desperate effort. Flog them at tce
cart's tail and send them home." Mr. Spurgeon did
so, and was never troubled in like manner again.
Atter the sermon Mr. Spurgeon announced that
when he had accepted the invitation to preach at
the American Chapel, his intention was that the
collection should be for the benefit of that institution,
but his friends would not allow it, and insisted
that the money should go to the fund far building
his chapel in London, for which 20,000/. had been
already subscribed, but for which 10,0001. more
were wanting. He gratefully accepted the offer,
and hoped he might live to have an opportunity of
returning the favour in some way or another. He
asked no one to subscribe, bat merely informed the
congregation what would be the destination of the
money they might please to give. The managers
of the chapel, in order the better to ensures dona-
tion from every person present, had arranged to
send out the plate to everyone in his seat, but Mr.
Spurgeon, seeing that this operation would take a
long time, cut it short, and begged the collectors to
go to the door, so that he might ask a blessing, and
dismiss the congregation. In conclusion, he made a
second ineffectual attempt to introduce universal
singing. '. We will finish," he said, " with the
doxology, and now do let me have the satisfaction
of hearing one universal shout of praise." The
result must have disappointed the preacher.