The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-11 00:00:00

COUNT or COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court of Common Column was held at Guildhall,
yesterday; the LOAD MAYOZ

Kr. Derttiii;;;ioliria Kr. I;m:sifiiior mu, ro-
olootiol to royeessat the City at dot board.

THE CITT ARCHIVES.
It was agreed that the application of the Master of the
Rolls fee permiwion to transcribe oertain mannecripte—vin,
the " Mar Albite and "Libor Cetsittmantm "—in order to
tompleas a national dilatory in preparation, should be granted.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

BANK OF FRANCE.
(IT 111. DMARINE *BD Barium 171.10114PIL)

PARIS, FRIDAY MOILNI7IO.

The ifonireur publishes the monthly returns of
the Bank of Franoe to yesterday, June 10. We give
the moat important items, with the corresponding
figures of last month en regard :

June. May.
Coin and bullion, Paris 229,067,916 200,002,642
Ditto ditto branch banks
Bills discounted, Paris 161,763,628 .... 177,366,788
Ditto branch banks
Notes in circulation, Patio
Ditto branch banks
Treasury deposits
Private deposits, Paris 139,193,201 .... 136,034,426
Ditto branch banks
Advanced on public securities 24,480,000 16,210,900
Ditto by branch banks
Advanced on railway securities 49,746,342 .... 60,166,792
Ditto by branch banks
The principal feature in this return is the enor-

moos increase in the coin and bullion, the total of
which is now raised to no lees than 20,400,0001.
sterling. The discounts have again declined nearly
a million and a quarter sterling, indicating ex-
treme languor in French trade. The circulation
exhibits a trifling falling off.

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PARIS, THURSDAY BVINISO.

The Conference held its fourth sitting to-day, ac-
cording to expectation. The plenipotentiaries met
at half-put one, and remained sitting till five
o'clock. Immediately afterwards, Count Walewaki
returned to Fontainebleau, where it is understood
that he will remain till the 18th, until which day
' the Conferenoe will not meet again.
The following semi-official note has been sent to
the government prints for publication :

The death of theDnehess of Orleans has given mouths,
both abroad and In Fresco, to political manifestation, on the
part of a certain number of Frentehmen. These manifests-
thus have not been in say way interfered with, and no re-
pressive measures have bees tam spinet the journals
which have given them. The Basparoe's government under-
stands and honours the worship of sorresnirs by all pudes
without distinction. It is perfectly indifferent to their hopes
Confident in its popular origin, the government congratulates
itself upon being able to be more generous than its prede-
cessors have been under simUar circumstances. Modern his•
tory proves this. Let those, then, who regret the past give
tail scope to their sentiments with all impunity. The power-
' ful and solid structure of universal suffrage cares little for
II their pilgrimages, their strictures, and their malevolence, and
leaves them at liberty to display that facile courage which
1 insults the man who protects them and denies the benefits
which they enjoy.

This manifesto is, methinks, rather too angry to
be dignified. Moreover, the facts which it assumes
are more than questionable. The French press is, I
am sure, not aware that it has been in the enjoyment
of so much liberty as the paragraph would infer.
It has been extremely cautious in all its comments
upon the situation created by the death of the
Duchess of Orleans. It would, I think, be very
difficult to point out any instance of excesses either
on the part of individuals or newspapers to justify
the pretensions of the government to credit for mag-
nanimous indulgence. The writer of the paragraph
must probably have had in view foreign journals
over which the government can exercise no juris-
diction except by preventing them from coming into
France. It is certain that nothing has been pub-
lished in Paris about the house of Orleans which
could have afforded a decent pretext for a
" waning."
Baron de Bry, the Prefect of the C6te d'Or, has
issued a circular urging the speedy sale of the estates
belonging to charitable foundations in his depart-
ment, which, in conformity with his instructions
from the General Commanding the Ministry of the
Interior, is written in the same threatening tone as
that of the Prefect of the Saone and Loire. Be
says :—" The government has means of action for
carrying out its views to which it will, doubtless, not
be necessary for me to have recourse, persuaded as
I am that, confident in the good intentions of autho-
rity, and enlightened by your concern for the public
welfare, you will second me by your zeal and efforts
to ensure, as far as in you lies, the success of a work
as grand u patriotic, since the object of it is to suc-
cour the unfortunate more efficaciously."
The Bourse opened eery firm and a further rise
has been realised, but the highest prices of the day
were not maintained. At half-past two the news
that the Bank of France had reduced its discount
from 4_to 31 per cent. was posted ; the announcement,

instead of producing a further rue, led immediately
to mks for the realisation of pmfita by parties who
had bought in anticipation of the event. The
Rente, after having touched 68fr. 15c. closed at
68fr. for cash, and 68fr. sc. for account, with a rise
of 15e. and 10c. Mobilier, after having been at
625 fr., closed at 802 fr. (oc. with a rise of 12fr. 50e.
The railways were decidedly weak at the close ;
Northern fell 7fr. 50c., and Lyons, 6fr. 25c. The
I other lines were about 2fr. 50c. higher. It is said
that the companies contend that they are not bound
to fulfil their contracts with government to make
their new lines within a certain time, because they
have not been allowed to raise all the money they
calculated upon.

Three hundred men of the 6Srd Regiment of the
line, under the command of Colonel Ferro, have
received orders to leave Nancy on the 15th, with
the band, for Plombieres, to do duty there during
the Emperor's stay.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Inca 9.

A decree has appeared, ordering the sale by auction
of shares of 2,000 reals in railways, canals, and
harbours, to the extent of 59 millions. M. Donee°
Cortes is appointed Under Secretary of State for the
the Finance department. General Conant remains
at Cuba.

MONTENEGRO.

A Vienna letter, in the Nuremberg Gazette, says:—
" The discussion of the Montenegrin question will
be commenced at Constantinople immediately after
the arrival of Sir Henry Bulwer, the new English
ambassador. The memorandum addressed by the
Porte to the Great Powers has jest been com-
municated by Prism Callimacki to Count Buol."

THE
CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

We have been favoured by the Peninsular and
Oriental Company with the following despatch,
received by them from Marseilles this (Friday)
morning:
_ _ _

" The steam-ship Panther, with the Calcutta
and China mails, arrived at Marseilles at 7 last
evening.

" The mails left for London at 10.30 p.m."

The launch of the magnificent tiret-elase mem
frigate the Orlando Is to take place at Pembroke to-morrow.
The °dud° is the Bret of the new elms, she is MO Let ia
length, end of 8,726 tons Medea, eat her srmacesst is et
the heaviest calibre. Bbe is af greater length time the
Dab et Walston, 140 gams.

TBE CONI2BBIONAL iii BELGRAVIA.

PUBLIC MBETING.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning a public meeting was held in St.
James's Hall, Piccadilly, for the purpose of hearing some
disclosures in connexion with an alleged abuse c f the confes-
sional in the parish church of St. Banishes. The meet-
ing was convened by placard and advertisement in the
daily papers, the notioe containing the following remark
In consequence of the nature of the disclosures which
will be made, gentlemen only are expected to attend."
Every part of the hall was crowded, and the
majority of the meeting appeared to belong to
the aristocratic circles of Belgravia. Lord CALTHORPR
presided. On the platform were Mr. Paul Fos-
kett, Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, M.P., the Earl
Maniere, Mr. Wise, M.P., the Berl of Shaftes-
bury, Mr. Banbury, M.P., the Bed of Shrewsbury
(late EadTalliot), Mr. Ellice, jun.,M. P., Mr. Brims, M.P.,
the Rev. A. G. Bdouart, Incumbent of St. Micheal's, Bur-
leigh-strest ; the Rev. William Curling, Incumbent of St.
James's, Southwark; the Rev. J. E. Keane, Incumbent of
St. Jade's, Bethnal-green; the Rev. J. Thomas, domestic
chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury ; the Rev. Dr.
Worthington, Incumbent of Trinity Church, Gray's-inn-
road; the Rev. William Cadman, Rector of St. George's,
Southwark; Sir W. Verner, Bert., Mr. Moody, M.P.
The Cam avert soured the meeting that nothing but mimes
of duty had indneed him to preside. The fact was the abuse
they were met to denounce had too long been overlooked, not
to say tolerated, and the time bad now arrived when the
matter must be nerimely taken in hand by the public. He
would not detain the meeting with a speech, but at once call
upon a reverend gentleman to make known the cases of abase
and abomination that bad come to his knowledge.
The Hon. and Rev. Mr. BARING then read the evidence
that he caused to be laid before the Bishop of London, and
by which it was sought :to obtain the dismissal of the
late chaplain of St. Barnabes. It had been charged
against him by the Rev. Mr. Liddell, that the case
against the chaplain rested only upon the evidence
of two profligate women who were seeking to ob-
tain money out of their false and scandalous statements ; now
the fact was that those women did not come to him but he
sought out them, and he went three times to them before he
weld get them to say adagio word. It west' ly on Wins=
that it was not from ',variant curiositthat he
their evidence; it was for the parposa of laying It before
the bishop in order that the par4h might be delivered from
such a state of thirty. (Cheers.) The Whop ceased the evi-
dence to be sifted and tested byalegal gentleman, and the result
of that investigation, no far from weakening the case, added
to its objectionable features, by being confirmed and enlarged
by three other female witnesses. The bishop then caused
the curate immediately implicated by the diaclosures to be
first suspended, and then, tailing any defence, to be dismissed
tram his curacy. It was deeply to be regretted that several
ladies in the perish had sashed the citrate in supplying the
confessional. The Hon. and Rev. Mr. Liddell, the carafe's
• smirks; wished it to be believed that in these cases the
male had been carried away by real and enthusiasm for
. the thumb, bat the truth was there were several CAM equally
Mr. Liddell himself and his other curates.. Fre
igrlrgarlag) belonged to no party, either in the church or
• politics, and be entered upon this distressing investigation
without consulting any one. He had made the case public,
became be felt it was the duty of the bishops of the church
to prevent its holy communion from being thus abused by
their subordinates. He could liken the evil to nothing INS
r than dram drinking—the one affected the moral while
I the other destroyed the physical condition of man.
These holy fathers of Belgravia had hitherto been
, in a state of mental intoxication, and when they
came to hear of this meeting the tremens would
fellow. The hon. and rev. gentleman, in the course of his
address, which was much cheered, mad to the meeting the
Twitches statements of seven females, relative to question'
put to them in the coefessional. These statements had been
printed on slips of paper, which were in the hands of some of
the gentlemen on the platform. The documents were In
the form of a deposition, but only the Initials
of the witnesses were given. One of them said—
" I was formerly in service with Mr. —, one of the curettes
of St. Paul's ; his back drawing-room was fitted up like St.
Barnabse's church, there was an altar covered with different
cloths on different days, with crow, candles, and beads; he
generally bad six or seven persons a day to confess. I have
frequently seen persons coming out crying in consequence of
the questions that had been put to them. ' (The greater pert
of the statements are of a nature precluding their 'ppm
once in a public iro_ernaL)
Mr. MOODY, M.P., •• resident In the pariah, moved the
tint resolution se follows ,—" That the cordial thanks of
this meeting be given to the Hon. and Rev. Frederick
Baring, for the judicious and manly mums he has adopted
in bringing before the pprnopperr ecclesiastical authority the
painful evidence, the disclosure of which has issued in the
revocation of the lionise of the clergyman charged with
premising auricular confessions in the pariah of St,
Pad's, Knightsbridge. And this meeting is alm
of opinion that the circumstances of this MO
are each as to demand the fullest publicity." The
facts they had heard spoke for themselves; there wag
no necessity to enforce them by speeches, because when they
became known to the world, the public would be put at ones
on their guard against such abominable proceedings. (Cheers.)
Mr. Purim, a Leadsmen of the pariah, seconded the
resolution, and observed that it was understood no speeches
were to be made.
The resolution was then put from the chair, and carried ky
sochunation.
The CHAIRMAN said—Gentlemen the object of the meets
log is new accomplished, and I must vacate the chair.
Three cheers were given for Lord Calthorps, and the
meeting separated.
It was stated by gentlemen concerned in convening the
meeting, that there were present 230 members of parlia-
ment, 'minding 60
the peers.
The anxiety of conveners of the meeting, that no
citing speeches should be made, was so great, that a writes.
request was forwarded by them to the representatives of the
mese not to remain after the chairman had pronounced the
proceedings at an end. The caution, however, appeared
needless, as, after adopting the single etiolation, the swap
blagequistly disperse& The whole aspect of the proceedings
was imposing and extraordinary, and the disclosure'
produced a profound impression.

MR. GRAUER DICEINir READINGS.

lAA night, Mr. Charles Dickens read, for the
drat time, under the title of " little Dombey" the ("lade
from his work of Ihrehey aid ties, in which the entire Oils
MG of that ill-stirred heir to the fortunes of the house I
cccomied. To the mind of every reader of the work the
queer, quaint character of the child, so child-like In Us
fancies, to old•faahlosed in its dreamy reveries, so sweet end
innocent in its love, so perfectly natural and affecting in In
reverence and awe, will stand out as the one thing to he is.
membered, and it will not be doubted that each of thews
phones received due into pretatiou through the voles of their
creator. The figure of that small child, with its spirit real- 11
bag far away and listening to the distant murmurs of
waves and the
" Madden,' scream of a beach dragged down by the tide,"
while the somnolent Mrs. Pipchin, rubbing her nose along the
top of the fire-guard fender, indulges in dreary reverie,
always rises is our mind as a silent protest against the
popular cant that childhood's days are the hip/Aiwa of life.
Mr. Dickens' audienoe of last night entered th
into the spirit of the reading, laughed with him, w;utfril
him, and applauded him to the echo; sad "Little Doethey
may henoeforth take its stand with the other readings se the
most attractive wits of intellectual treats ever eared to ale
appreciative public.

THE NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM DISTRICT
Sama.—Yesterday (Wednesday) was the Sag aced to the
call on the shareholders of the (Wednesday)
aid DowWm
District Bank, and the official tirditors Iwo Ins* sos
gaged, during the whole day, la vonkkg roprols sr to
settling calls. It has not bees eillolsily stifled to me hem
mach money was paid in. but the swieest easy be ticaelihrea
eiiher as large or small, accordhig as it is viewed sr*
reference to the mayor rossatiso Mtho book, or es I
represents the yot ustoonsuori arms or ths=
So limey doleful ead by no rum mitassiot
hue been afloat to tats tows, that weary consider it • mi.
ter of ocagrotolotisa to find soy =Ass of the shamigliste
reestleg their obligalkma. The faiterkir of the beak awing i
to bo notorsaksor into eastrikkm at tho orstraits og :
as elostra book. with large pelnielMifie eel psee sell Paw .
for the Skeetiom el So wars. Or lad, " Pay Oohs lassy. .
with a bre yollatir to thollialloa or ihe tosoks. Oki a T,
melaawhWy opledow dtits dinar* slaw to Mpow fa
wealthy Aareaddsr.—Nritreasik &bowls.
TEE NZWPORT OLD RANIL—A final dividend of
4d. in the pearl wee declared yesterday in the Court of
Bankruptcy for the Bristol District on the estate of Wil-
liams and Sees, of Newport, bankers. This, with the
fanner divlisk sossoutilog to 4*. 4d , mhos • total par
meet of 4s. U. hi Os persail on the debts proved, which
reached newly *MK
RACHEL'S RALUITZL—Ott Wednesday, Mae.
Sarah Felix, the siert at the late Millk. Italbel, brought ea
Nair bike the civil Yawl against Mesa. O'Connell, the •
wel-baswa artist, to *Main damages for levies •
Sledge belestiim to her. MAL flush, it an the .
learkeersr *Mr at Oriar os the Sal al semi ha,
eamed apheleaseelmr la fake a likeness 0 bar an her Melt-
boa. Ho sisiror or vorrekrio /who szosatala bat it
wok so was said, " bad . to whirr," loossrsh r II
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of ark. As Mk Sarah's Aleut fa basin the
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