The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-03 00:00:00

to be tyrannical, and won't, coesequently, preside over
the clergy of his archdesconry to resist the supremacy
of the Porn—and that the bishop himself hu ad-
vanced
pretensions foe the church of England,
Romish in essence, and intolerant in practice.
Weil, the Mayor and corporation of Chipping
Wycombe, knowing all this, address. Dr. WIBRIt•
FORCE, their biatop, ascribing the Potts presump-
tion to the encouragement giveollim .ley the spread
of opinions in our church chestyallied to thoseof the
Romish creed, and asking him to eerier'. Romish
opinions, doctrines, and practices amongst hi! dem.
And what toys Dr. WILBERFORCE to Chipping Wy-
combe ? He denies their assertion, and states that
he is not aware of any Popish tendencies
amongst his clergy, which have been allowed
to pass unrebuked. Of course not ; for what
the people of Chipping Wycombe, in their honest
sim-
think are }tarnish tendencies, their bishop in
his subtlety and refinementealla Anglican practinee,—
what they in their rustic ignorance think comes from
Rome, he, with a pretentious air of learning, traces
to an Anglo-Saxon Cnurch ; what they, dull realists,
regard as Popish, he, glib transcendentalist, describes
as primitive; what they, good souls, dislike, as being,
they suppose, repugnant to the Reformation, he, learn. d
clerk, teaches is quite apostolic ; what they suppose
is not protestant, he, smiling benignantly on their
stupidity, enures them is altogether catholic.
Before, then, municipal bodies in the diocese of
Oxford address their bishop, they should be prepared
with something better than vague generalities, for
though every body else will understand what they
mean by "Romish opinions, doctrines, and practices,"
Bishop WILBERFORCE is jnit the man to refuse to
know what it is they toter to. Cardinal WIARMLN ‘ll
a " great fact " in his path which he can't well get
over ; so, accordingly, he anathematises and exorcises
that " schismatic " as unmercifully as Dr. SLOP in-
tended to do SI7EANNAR. So, too, are the Papal Bull,
Father lotearns and his wily project, for converting
I Young England by the intrusion of Irish Roman
Catholic nursery maids into our families—all thus
are things no man sees so plainly and denounces so
elegantly as Dr. WILBERFORCE, Desperately alive
was he, moreover, to the Sabattarianism and Latitu-
dinarianism of Dr. HAMPDEN I that stung him
to the episcopal quick. Bat Dr. PEASE, a
canon of his cathedral church, he does not apparently
know ; at all events, he does not seem to have the
ghost of a notion that nine-tenths of England cannot
be persuaded but that the doctrines, opinions, and
practices of that member of his chapter are eminently
popish; and have, in point of fact, sent one hundred
of the clergy of the Church of England who adopted
them into the bosom of the Romish communion. He
sever heard of Romanising tendencies in the Univer-
sity of Ox'ord; not he. He knows nothing of the
seen heaped on the Reformation there. He is, by
his own account, "on principle and by disposition, so
largely tolerant of others," that, though he joined
voluntarily in hunting down Dr. HAMPDEN, he only
mildly rebuked Mr. ALLIES, when he returned from
the Tyrol, fall of those miracles of the Addolonta
and Ecstaties, which ultimately beguiled him to
Rome.
The Bishop of OXFORD may be thus deaf, and
blit.d, and unobservant of the Romish tendencies
around him, without any impeachment of his honesty
or fidelity to the church of England; even though
concurrently he is singularly sensitive to the 111100a-
ragetoeat the " protestant hero," Lord Joan Roseau,
has given popery in the colonies. But if this blind-
ness, and deafness, and ignorance be compatible with
honesty to the church of England, it must be benumb
Bishop WILBERFORCE does not know that these ten-
dencies are Itomish ; and that is, in reality, a much
more dangerous error than a desire to come to terms
with Rome. For it is quite possible for the church
of England to become internally popish without any
external conformity with Rome. And this °neon-
sciousneis of Bishop WILBERFORCE of Romish ten-
dencies, is eminently calculated to produce that result.
Dr. Pussy is, doubtless, very sincere when he
declares be intends to die in the service of the church
of England; and all the leading men of his party hold
secession from that church to be sinful. Bat thus
their attachment to, so far from lessening, increases
their danger : for the attachment (and it is deep and
unaffected) springs out of a persuasion that on the
church of England are showered all those preter-
natural pretensions Rome exercises over its followers,
and that such authority in the English church is ego
alloyed by some doctrines and Factions of Bea%
which even to them are of naive. Now of this piety
Dr. PntLLPOTTa and Dr. WILDE/wows are the pre-
lates. Hence what the rest of the country call Ronda
tendencies they think catholic crthodaxy.
It is in this state of preparation for the coavereion
of the church of Eogland from a ministering into a
sacrificial church, from an assistant into a mediatorial
church, from a legal institution into a mystical body,
from a human corporation into a divine organiaation,
'that the real danger of our times lies. And vain is it
to deny that towards this change, not only religious
teaching but secular education, art, literature, ee-
-1 search, and even fashion, have of late years been tend-
ing, by holding up authority, tradition, antiquity, as
superior, in directing human conscience and conduct
and taste, to the free exercise of individual thought,
to reliance on the responsibility of individual Slime et
right or wrong. It is this spirit which has arrested
political progress and reform as well as regions intelli-
gesce,aud which now threatenecontinental Europe with
despotism, just as it was preparing England for
priestly domination, when the Pore by his audacious
folly roused the country to some small sense of its
danger. AU who have read Dr. ARNOLD'S letters will
recollect how acutely and painfully he saw the pro-
gress of this spirit ; and how, under its varied mini-
legations and various names, he resisted and repelled
it : now as Oxford malignancy, then as conservatism.
Rome, it is clear, the present crisis can and will
deal with. Public indignation alone is sufficient to
repel the POPS, and reduce the CARDINAL to his
proper dimensions. But to repress those Romish
tendencies of the English church which Bishop Witt-
BERPORCE will not, or cannot, see, is another and a
more difficult matter. That is, indeed, a task. Yet,
left undone now, how little will have been accom-
plished?

FRANCE.

PARIS. Monnev Bynum.
General Lahitte is aid to have received • tele-
rat:stile despatsh boon Berlin, announcing the seta,
merit of • pacific arrangement between Bates Man-
Lama' and Pilsosahwaisenberg at Olmeitn. It is
-believed to be stated herein that, in a teleraph to
Atha, Baron Minitauffelendinoes tbe weans in
ale puts to be settled, and espressos his eatidestien at
the conciliatory manner of Frill°. Schwarzenberg.
Further, that he says the Austrc-Bavarian troops writ
gait Electoral liesse,lf the Prussian troops also
that country. (It seems from oar accounts from Ger-
many that the federal troops hive already begun to
retire.)
The Fryman Chambers, it is said, are likely ham
adjourned in the beginning of next week, in order to
avoid parliamentary discussion in the present state of
the question. (A measure stated to be probable in
our Berlin correspondent's letter, published in Satur-
day's Express.)
In its sitting of to-day the Assembly decided,
without debate, against authorising the prosecution of
M. Emile Peen. A debate then took place upon the
bill opening an extraordinary credit of 12 millions for
expenses not included in the budget of the ministry
et war. M. Charms demanded a reduction el
23,000 fr. upon the pay of the troops, and presented
this reduction in the light of a censure directed
=the reviews of Satory, and the scandals sad
to which they had given rise. Gen. Oudinot
explained that the 23,000 fr. demanded did not rem-
seut distributions of wine beyond these which were
authorised by the sums assigned for this puree In
the budget, but to augmentation of rations, whisk
wee necessarily from an increase in the efftotive
force. The motion of M. Charms was then put to the
vote, and rejected by 374 votes against 233. A re-
duction proposed by M. Sebolober, with the same
I object, was set aside by voting the previous cyanides.
'The bill was then adopted by 429 votes against 176.
A debate then took place upon the proposition of
MM. Paulin, Gillen, and others, respecting. a tan
termed prestatium en nature, or contributions in kind,
each as the service of horses and oarts for repairing
roads, &o. No feature of interest presented itself.
A report of the committee on extraordinary credits
proposes the adoption of the bill of the Minister at
Finance, opening a credit of 600,000 fr. for Monte
Video.
The Erlnernent reports that the Society of the Dias
Deoembre is being reconstituted.
The club of the Passage de l'Opers, where apses-i
lators meet before and after the Bourse, is going to
be closed, and the crowd of persons engaged in stock-
jobbing who throng the passage of the Opera will be
henceforth prevented from assembling there. This
measure, it is said, has been taken in compliance with
the request of the shopkeepers, who complain that
the circulation and acorns of purchasers is completely
stopped by the swarm of speculators. Last night
great excitement prevailed among this community in
consequence of the false announcement of a journal
that it had received by telegraph the account of the
Berlin funds, which were represented to have fallen
considerably.
BOURSE.

PARIS, Du. L I Mar
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ITALY.

PIEDMONT.

TURIN, Nov. 27.
The sitting of the 26:h ult. of the Chamber of De-
puties of Turin was not without interest. After some
preliminary business, the Chamber decided that all
the bills that had been left unfinished in the preced-
ing session should be again moved by those members
of the boon who would sastune the responsibility
of them, that they should then be submitted to the
bureaux to decide on their utility, and that in the
event of their approbation, the Chamber would, in-
stead of voting on the question whether the said
bills should be taken into consideration, at once vote
the approval of all the stages they bad passed through
in the preceding session. After this decision, Che-
valier Bonoompagni, who had been an4sted
in the preceding sitting to draw up an address in
answer to the speech from the throne, was called
upon to read it from the tribune. It was, as might
be expected, a paraphrase ef the King's speech. The
paragraph relating to the Roman question was se
follows:

Year people, Sire, will sot mese to rem, the catholic
share's and the religion of its lathers, that milieus which
is the first fooadatien ot every virtue and style bberty, al-
though the supreme authority of the law has destroyed
I privileges which were ['temptable with the tree institutions
of our eimstry, and with the iscressed drilisatiow of our
tinme.

Signor Broiferio moved that this draft should be
printed, as he thought there were passages in it which •
might be objected to. An animated discussion ensued,
on the question whether the draft ought to be voted
without discussion or not ; but, in consequence of the
opposition to the former course, it was eventually
agreed that Chevalier Bonoompagni should be
allowed to withdraw his project, and that the
president should name a member to draw up
another, when, to the astonishment of all present,
Signor !loath, the president, appointed Signor
Brufferio, one of the met determined members of
the Extreme Left, to prepare another address. This
nomination was greeted on all aides with load laughter
mingled with cheers, it being evident that Signor
Brofferio's opposition to Boncompsgni's address was
solely directed against the paragraph relating toßome.
In the lame sitting the Minister of Finance presented
two bills to the Chamber, one authorising government
to alienate four millions of francs worth at destasial
lands, and the other laying a tax of a quarter per
cent on loans bearing four per cent. intone& It le
calculated that this new tax Trill Pram about
1,200,000 haws a-year.

THE EXPRESS. TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, IMO.

According to the Conatitutionelle Zeigung, the in-
structions of-ht. Manteuffel in the conference of M-
anes embraced these five conditions: hat, Proses
r.quires the optedlig of free conferences in • neutral
lad, he suspension of the Diet daring
the conferences; 3rd, the free right of union
for separate states, es soon as the reconstruction
of the wider union shall be accomplished; 4th, the
common oceupation ef awe by Austria and • Prussia
(this article mast no doubt be modified by new
turn things have taken with respect to that electorate);
and, sth, the settlement of the Schleswig-holstein
question in free-conherentwe.
The Budget submitted to the Prussian Chambers
shows that the receipts have been 94,694,959 thalers.
The ordinary expenses 93,488,711 *alms, there
is, therefore, a surplus of 1,211,248 Otlets.
But the extraordinary expellees have been 3,229,248
thalers, there is consequently a deficit of 2,118,000
thalers to meet. °The entire expenditure of 1851 will
exceed that of 1850 by 2,462,396 cholera.
The Cam: f3uzettestate4, officially, that the Elector
of Lliesse has named Herr Frederick von Trott his
plenipotentiary at the Germanic Diet.
The movements of troops from the south to the
north of Bavaria have recommenced.
The evacuation of Hesse by the Federal troops has
commenced.

FRANKFORT, Nov. 29.—Lord Westmoreland is
going to Vienna is Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of Great Britain at the Austrian mom
Toe Hon. John Art►er Thu Alas Bloomfield, Ambassador of
Great Britain at tits Court of Russia, will repl+ee Lord West
riaareland at Bnlin, sort will I)* 'upended at St. retsranng
b 7 Sir George Hamilton Seintour, St present representing
hi! °MAO it the our& of Portugal.

SPAIN.

MADRID,

Nov. 27.

The address baa been voted in the Chamber of
Deputies by a large majority, and will be presented
to the Queen to-morrow.
llahnte, Nog. 27.—Three per Conte., 25+; after Bella,
86 1-1 G I cash, 35 3.16 paper. Pour per Cents. 12f.
Flee per Cents., 131 paper; after Belie, 13 paper, 12icesb.
Coupons, 71 ash; aher Bales, 7 s paper. Puttees, 3 15-16
nub; after Balsa, 316 16 cub. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 954
paper. Exchange on London, 60.35.

COLONIAL.

NEW ZEALAND.
By an arrival from New Zealand we are in posses.
sion of a file of the Wellington Independent (Port
Nicholson paper) to the 3rd July. The colony ap-
pears to be tranquil, but the papers are filled with
complaints of the Colonial-office, and with dis-
mission', about a constitution. The government
council of New Zealand was expected to be
assembled on the let of August, but its deli-
berations were ridiculed by anticipation, and it was
confidently predicted that they would "end in getting
the Civil List snugly carried." The governor, Sir
George Grey, had published a despatch from his rela-
tive, Earl Grey, in which the cousin in England de-
clares that the cousin at the Antipodes was worthy
every confidence, and was entitled to the respect and
I, gratitude of the New Zealanders, whether native or
European. The papers hereupon remind the public
that Earl Grey said much the same to Lord
Torrington and, others, and the despatch ap-
pears to be the subject of considerable ridi-
cule. Another despatch had been published in which
Earl Grey promises that New Zealand shall not be
made a convict station. It will be remembered that
the settlers expressed themselves strongly on this
point when a rumour once got abroad that convicts
weed be landed on the islands. A very strong feel-
' lag prevailed on the subject of the appointment of a
“IWge of the Supreme Court for the settlement of
Otago." This appoiutment is said to be a mere
Downing-street job. It is unhesitatingly declared
that no judge is wanted at o.ago, and that the reve-
nue consumed in maintaining one would be much
better expended os schools, hospitals, bridges, roads,
sr public improvements. The Hillington lode.
pendent gives the following picture of Outgo, and its
new legal authorities :
This little settlement comprises about 1,200 Inhabitants,
chi. fiy of the labouring clue, and every respecteble steady
going body of men they are. Toe amount of litigation in
each • community mut necessarily be exceedingly until in
gaantity, and still smeller In ioportanee. Eves In the set-
Bement of Nelson, which contains three times the number
rambabitanu, and more than three times the gustily of
penury likely to give rise to law suers, there 3 hardly a
civil case, and not above two or three criminal cues Tried in
the year, while the Lumber of sum disposed of summarily
by the justices of pekes (both civil and criminal) is some-
ehere &bow 100 In the year. At Otago, the amount of civil
business in the supreme court will probably be one
ease in three years; of criminal, possibly • ease in
a year; while tome thirty or forty cues may be
dispoeed of by the justices of peace in the same
period. To diseiee of the overwtt.lmlng amount of
law business the Colonial-offloe has appointed a judge with •
salary of Boor. • year, who of course must have a registrar
*lilt a salary of say 1601, a crier at 601., and contingencies
501 more. Annual coat therefore 1,050 i. But a courthouse
must be found for him to sit in, mother fixed outlay pro-
bably of 6001. And all this to meet the exigency of one
civil case in three years, and three criminal ones (possibly)
is the same period. If the government instead of app iint-
ins a judge w mid ones • year charter a thousand ton ship to
bring the parties engaged in litigation up to the Wellingion
Courts, it would cost the canny much lees than
this new job. The Otago people had just learned
with much satiVection the fact of their having
• surplus of 7001. of revenue on the present yf se, and were
congratulating themeless on the prospect or having it ex-
pended on their roads or other public works. It seems,
however, to be a rule with the Colonial Office, no leis than
with the local government, that so long as • new office can
be invented and a salary found for it, no part of the ue
shall be expended on any work of public utility. If there be
• tenth cousin of any governor, or of any .perk in the Colo-
nial Office, unprovidsd for, the revenue of the colonies can-
not be better employed than in finding him a maintenance.
The colonists may eo without roads, bridges, ferries, gaols,
or schools; Ge orge's brother or Bir James's cousin cannot
go without • ber.h. If roads are wanted let the colonista lay
on • "littlysseentent," which they will never feel, and the
general revenue will still continue the perqui.ite of the innu-
merable leeches, which greedily suck ev,ry drop of vitality
trout tee body politic to which they cling.
In the same article the Wellington independent
gives the following particulars concerning the exist-
tog government of the colony, which is said to be as
fine a specimen of Colonial-office jobbing as any in

existence :
In the government of this province particular cars seems
to have been taken to avoid appointing men of business
habits and experience to the chief employments. The oula
nisi secretary is well known to ha anything but a man of
business; the resident magistrate is an architect; the trea-
surer the son of au English peer brought up to no profession ;
the suditor and manager of the government bank (the latter
a mom important and responsible berth), previously to en.
teeing on his duties had had no experience except as a private
secretary or citric of a nominee council; the Attorney-
() I's succrss in court speaks for itself ; the Surveyor.
General when he received bis office was a raw boy, scarcely
into his tailed met, whom professional skill is manifestedby
that unfinished abortion the Wairarapa road; except the
judge and the connector of enstoms. Mere is not among them
all a man who before his appointment had the commonest so.
quaintness with the elements of business. The public
ineonvesiones arising tram Ibis is notoriously very grad;
the most ordinary nation of form present Oilman to the
undemanding' of these gentlemen, which it often maims
►ours of *splenetic& or mama of correspondenee to make
them comprehend, while public business not unfrequently
stand. still, patella debts go unpaid, public money is ma.
bemled, and the ends of justice are defeatei through their
incapacity, and unfitness.

Annum BURGLARY IN Bonsai.—Another daring
burglary, aceompeniod with vielemos, took plat* on Saturday
evening last, at the house of a Mr. Marshall, residing on
Froschan-common, near Farnham. The particulars, as for
as we have beta able to sumertain, are as follow : About
eight o'clock on Saturday evening Mr. Marshall, who lives
with his sister alone, was aroused by a load knock at his
front door. 0a opening the door be found a group of moon
Rea standing roved it, and as soon so he presented himself
oafs of their bomber inquired the road to Guildford. Mr.
Marshall was in the act of stepping out to direct them when
lie was soddenly knocked down, as is supposed by a life
. . . . _

preserver. The men immediately entered the house, when they
were at ones eueonatered by Mime Marshall, who, with great
pretence of salad rushed upstairs to procure a gun which her
Mat►er always kept loaded, calling out at the sane do*,
" fire at them." The villain, eau ght her upon the
Mamie, and, presenting pistols at her, dragged her to the
front door, when they pointed out her brother lying in sa
insensible state as the ground, and cautioned her to be
quiet. They thee ransacked the house of everything of a
valuable character it sostained, taking off, 'mono other
property, a number of old guinea.. Before laaviug they
abused Kim Marshall to good set tams for not hating more

property in the home. lir. Karelian remained in-ace
sessible state for nstzly two holm, and is still suffering wi-
ve* trim the injuries ha sustained. The police en It
poessedea of a elands/tics of the rasa, sad are setively ear
wed in sadsevenrias to true thew.