The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENiITa, SEPTEMBER lU'' 1.461 t.

The Earl of Harrowby—Themingregsions In Frame are
hardly parochial; there is at understanding among the
clergy that they shall not attach themselves t• parochial
divisions!—Yee, the whole et the paroebistidokiestions

are considered to be open. •
How is that with regard to the visitation of the sick?—
We keep that rule also.
So that you visit the sick of your conk,:egation and not
of your parishes!—lf they belong to one of the other
churches we send them to the clergy of that church.
So that the system at Fromo now is rather a congrega-
tional than parochial system f—Yes.

The Rev. A. D. Wso N ER, of St. Parrs,
Brighton, examined by the Archbishop of CANTER-
BURY whether his congregations consisted princi-
pally of persons from his own district, replied :
"It is impossible to say. There are a great many
" who come out of it, but they come from all
" parts of Brighton, and persons in my district go
"to other churches. The parochial system may
" be said to be extinct in Brighton."
Agreements of this character, in which the
parochial limits of rights and duties are ignored
by the clergy, are of grave significance. They are
the recognition of the existence, side by side in
the Church, of two incompatible systems.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

GERMAN UNITY.

The Timeg, commenting on the speech of the
King of Prussia in opening the North German Parliament,
says that Count Bismarck has done too little or too much
for national unity. There are before and behind him an-
tagonistic principles which even all the ascendancy of his
powerful genius will be insufficient to reconcile. There is
1 a common cry in Europe against his insatiable ambition,
although, if the truth were known, it would be seen
that events have already driven him far beyond
his most daring aspirations. The work of Prussian
absorption has already been carried farther than
he designed, and it is not without misgiving that a
man of his turn of mind would contemplate the merging
of Prussia in Germany. The instinct of nationality is
strong in German besets, both north and south—so strong
as to overrule all considerations of local interests, and to
set at naught the jealousy of local governments. But the
national tendencies in Baden, in Wurtemberg, and in
Bavaria point to other results th►n those at which Bis-
march and Prussia have hitherto aimed. Should north
and south come together in council, it is hardly likely that
Prussian conservatism would maintain its preponderance.
Prussia's position of &isolate supremacy would be changed
into one of merely limited pre-eminence, and the last bul-
wark of her traditional conservatism would hardly with-
stand the onset of headlong democratic innovation.
The Daily News remarks on the speech of the Grand
Duke of Baden, delivered on a similar occasion, as follows:
—lt would be &beard to pretend that the Grand Duke of
Baden is an unauthorised exponent of the national will of the
German people. The son-in-law of King William cannot
be disavowed like the Coastitutiontatl or the Patrie. All
the world knows well that this voice from Carlsruhe is the
voice of all Germany, North and South. so far as the
national unity is concerned. There may be local dis-
pleasure at Frankfort ; dynastic jealousy at Munich and
Stuttgard, political dissidences and angry party spirit here
and there, but when the Grand Duke of Baden appeals to
the courage, the confidence, end the devotion of his
chambers in pro►iding the means of defence against every
foreign attack he feels that he is consulting the common
%tercets of " the whole German nation."

Them is little reason for suspecting the Prussian King
of any deep-laid scheme to disturb the peace of Europe,
observes the Pod. He would be glad to see the distinction
between North and South Germany disappear ; but be
knows that such disappearanoe is more likely to be effected
by lapse of time than by an appeal to foroe. It is his
policy to make it worth the while of Baden and Bavaria
and Wurtemberg to throw in their lot with their northeia
neighbours ; and in order to effect this end he must show
to the world that North Germany is prosperous and power-
ful and contented. The parliament is now assembled, and
the course of legislation mapped out for it is far from In-

There are no allusion., says the Telegraph, to foreign
politics, consequently nothing that can positively offend
the most sensitive opponents of German unity, though
sharp critics can hardly overlook the significance of a
reserve PO marked. Instead of touching on that delicate
ground King William speaks only of internal reforms, at
of which point to peaceful improvement. With the ex-
ception of the new treaty relative to the Zollverein,
not a 'abject is mentioned which can in an; „o„,e, pro.
Vol"! 7...f;4751rab1i' "U'"!11. sue rest of Europe ; and
saving that guarded reference to the accession of the South
German states, the substance of the address points une-
quivocally towards peace. The speech of the Grand Due
of Baden was, however, the voice of South Germany
calling for the unity of the Fatherland in the one form
now indicated by the irresistible force of circumstances.

COMMISSION.

There must be an end, the 7istes remark., of the at- I
tempt to represent trade outrages as exceptional incidents
of Sheffield life. The Manchester Commindon has been
sitting about a week, and yet all such presumptions have
been already disposed of. Save that no union secretary has
hitherto confessed to the practice of systematic murder,
the Stockport brickmakers appear quite u bad as the
Sheffield sawgrinders ; indeed in some respects they are
worse, and it seems as if the brickmakers generally must
have had more direct knowledge of what was going on
than Mr. Broadhead's sawgrinders.
The distinctive feature of the Manchester inquiry, ac-
cording to the Herald, is the thoroughness with which
each society approved and adopted the vile means em-
ployed to secure the ends for which trades unions' live,
and move, and have their being. Their great object being
to raise wages unnaturally, there was no hanging back, no
quelmishness, no natural shrinking from expedients worthy
of the most cruel and diabolical assassin. Almost inva-
riably, whether at brick spoiling, tool destroying, infernal
machine throwing, fire raising, horse mutilating, or man
murdering, the union is in the background, inspiring, di-
recting, counselling, and defending the authors of these
atrocities. The Herald calls for some strong and drastic
measure' of legislation for the future repression of an
organia►tiou which rivals in its pitilessness, its treachery,
and its cruelty the corresponding features of the secret
, societies of the middle ages.
The Standard now knows for certain that of which it
was only morally sure. It has it on the testimony of trade-
' union officials , presidents, secretaries, treasurers, members of
' council, and their hired agents that trade unions and trade
outrages are as closely allied as cause and effect.

;10 TOPICS.

The Daily News concludes an article on the moat recent
phase in Americsui isolilics by observ:ng that for nearly
three months during the recess there is nobody to control
President Johnson, and he seems to be determined to make
use of his power. But any who anticipate any ("ther result
then a repetition of last year's failure, with results more
serious for the county and more disastrous tohimself,have
under-estimated the persistency and courage of the Ame-
rican people.
The Times, remarking on the difficulties of the Abyssi•
Man expedition says :—No one knows where the King is ;
no one can tell whether the captives are with him or with
the rebels who have rendered him • fugitive. We have to
search for Mr. Cameron and his fellow-prisoner in •
country which it is flattering to the few travellers who have
visited it to describe as imperfectly known, and which
Europeans can only enter at the peril of their lives. It
is idle to talk of exacting vengeance from • ruler whom
we may never find. We shall only he too happy to record
that the prime object of the expedition has been gained,
and the captives restored to liberty. After that, the lees
we have to do with Theodore or Ms subjects the better.

Mr. Edmond Yates has written to the Times
deprecating the angrf reception which his unfavourable
opinion as to the ments of the 93 Welsh poems submitted
to him met with from the meeting at sftrmarthen, and
adds that the office of adjudicator had been unsought by
him, and only accepted at the earnest request of an old
friend, Mr. Brinley Richard'. Mr. Yates also notices the
inconsistency of those assembled at the Bieteddled, who,
while condemning him for not awarding the prise for
poetical composition, decided to re-examine and re-con.
eider the award of the prize for a prose tale upon which
he had been requested to adjudicate and did adjudi-
cate.