The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-23 00:00:00

To this forcible rearming Mr. NISBET HAMM-
Totes oply replj sTsa se appeal to the 'elision, of
the Maddingtonshire proprietors. The proposition,
he said, mounted tea new barthen on land, and
land woe already over-burthesed. This, with grqat
submission to that large landed proprietor, is non-
sense and stupidity. Good road', if necessary or
useful to a district, can never be a burthen on
it. In the same sense a staircase might be
said to be a burthen, and not a conveni-
ence, to a mansion. Such roads augment and do not
diminish rent, because they render celtivation easier
and markets more accessible. Statute labour and
highway rates are not, then, taxation, but a charge
on cultivation, which is repaid the cultivator, and
which ultimately falls on the consumer. If it be
true that the tolls now collected in Haddingtonshire
be mainly paid by the inhabitants of that county, or
if even only three-fourths of them be so contributed,
then it is apparent as the very simplest sum in
arithmetic that to substitute a rata for tolls would be
a real economy to the county. But in the same
spirit in which Mr. r.......-RIBTOPIIER resisted • free
trade in grain, under which his rental has, we dare
say, very largely increased, so Mr. Maar HAYILTON
in his new sphere opposes a local measure of reform
and economy in this question of road maintenance.
It is pleasant, however, to observe that the influ-
ence of such men is rapidly declining. Lord
Euno's common-sense view of the matter did not,

indeed, prevail at the meeting of the Trusts of that
shire, bat it was only defeated by a majority of owe.
And thus encouraged, Lord EL MO will, it may be
hoped, transfer the labour he inaugurated in Had-
dingtonshirc to the Imperial Parliament, where only
the quistion can be satisfactorily mottled.

Cbe Court.

WIT:T.IOSO.R, Opr.

The Right Hon. Sir Charles WOodrirriedat
the Castle yesterday Mier:Loon on a visit. so 4 had tho honour
of dining with her Majesty. The Dean of Windsor and the
Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, and Colossi Ridley, commanding
°Moir Sad battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, had also the
honour of being invited.
The blind of the Scots Fusilier Guards played duris:
dinner. Her Majesty's priests bond afterwards perform*
the following plimes

Oreterw,.44 Pre sax Clercs" lierold.
Beisetko from the works of Handel
312imble sad sir, " Karoo Spade Aube,.
Musa, "

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The Queen and Prince Consort, with the Prime of Wales
sad Prince Alfred, rode "t the ridinir-pools this forenoon.
The Duchies of Kent visited her Idniany et the Cantle.

His Excellency the Prussian Minieter and the
Conte= Bernatorff have lea town en a risk to the Lord
Chancellor and Lady Cranworth. _ _ _

The Duke de Richelieu hal arrived at the St.
Beep's Adel, from Perk.

Th, Marquis and Marchioneu of Normanby have
Wt the St. George's Hoisi., oa the raw .1 to Mance.

The Mardimess of Waterford has left Claridge's
Horst, far Curragttnore, irele d.

The Marquis of Queenebiny is among tie recent
deportorm from Long's Hotel.

The F.arl of Howth has arrived at Cltridge's
Hotel, horn Howth Cost* Dublin.

The Earl and Countess of Darnley and family
have arrived et Clstidge's Hotel, from Cobham Hill,
Gravesend.

Lord Itibblesdale has arrived at the St. George's
Hotel.

The following have been among the company re-
cently enjoying the hospitality of the Earl of Eglinks at
Renton Castle ..—Leed end Lady Colvlfe, Wr Frederick
end Lady Elimaketh Aran:, Sir H. Campbell, Mr. and
Co►entry end the Mime Coventry, Captain lobs Hamilton,
the Mimeo Handle= (el Pinarove), Mr. W. Hamden, Mr.
Gilmour, Mr. Stirling Cetaford, Colonel Chattel*, Kr.
Leith Falconer, Mr. sad Mrs. Clrearile Vernon, Mr.
Andrew Cookeroll end the Mimeo Cockerel!, Colonel Taylor,
M.P., Mr. Thoropeou. Ur. HOOBIOII, Mr. Sinclatr, the Dean
Tighe, and the Deem Wilson.

The Earl of Yarborough, who is utisfactorily im-
proving is health, is about to take a voyage in a strain lo
Gibraltar anA back.

Prayers have been ordered in all the churches et
Spain fur the cab deliverance of the Queen.

General Le& has availed himself of the passport
fiir France *sod at his disposal by the Buspreor in the man-

an ■beady dercrilxd. The portend, etc; a kid .ty in
Paris, proceeded to his chateau of 7.1 reheat, Dear Medd; in
Brittany, where he Intends to occupy himself eselvively
with the education of bie three children.

The Bishop of Strasburg has issued a circular re-
tommeadieg all corms in Isis diocese to barn protestant
bibles, and all books and tracts whatsoever published by
bible societies which say he in ibis hands.

M. Thins wu seen at Leon, a few days ago, sur-
vey* the mood at which the battle of the Bth and 9th of
Much, 1815, was fought, ander the walls of that tows. The
histatio of '• TM Console's sad the Empire" wee after-
wards getag to Witt the battle-801d of Creoune.

A new journal, called the etreaele, which
14 advoelieed for nest week, Aaree with a (*einem entitled
0 Nana Sahib, or the Strangler of dwindles."
_ _

A letter from Smyrna, in the Moniteur de la Rate,
ap :—" A Frisch eabjeat has been carried di and held be
mecca by some kelps& of Scala Nova and Samoa, It is
thought that them men have taken refuge in the latter island
and are now concealed there. The commander of the French
stearuer Solon hie been applied to by the cousto, and is about
to start for Samos, and the Turlnah authorities of Smyrna
lave also meat ea Ottoman weenier with a detachment of
pollee to Nue the shore, and thew prevent the brigands from
'gawks by Ma."

thetoaatiationwtone of the new Nottinghamshire
Tows red County Lana* Hospital, on Mapperley-111111, le
but to he hild on Friday next, by his Grace the Duke of
Newesstiy lad lieutenant of the county.

ST. °LAVA'S, HART-STREET.

The Rev. I). Laing, who has been presented to
the relent living of St. Wave's, Hart-street, !umbels thirty-
four years in the ministry. During twelve dare years hi
was chaplain to the Royal Iduldleer: Hospital. La the ye
1846 he was offered a district in the parish of St. Pawns by
the Rev. Canon Dale, ma the rabdieinion of that parish. "Tea
new district, eitaated at Camderi-town, had than a popalatkm
of 9,000 souls, without either church, reboots, or parsonage.
Communing his work in a store-room belonging to the Lou-
don and North Western R•ilway Company, Mr. Laing
gathered s eseereestion about him, sud has eines, daring
dm ten mid a ball years of his ineambauty, procured the
erection ot a church capable of containing 1,600 persons, of
excellent national schools, of a library and reading room,
• ' ' ' "

•ad of • ragged school, the doily •ttend•na at which
aeere(;e• 140. 11•ay other excellent peroclaial institution•

have been founded by the rev. gentlemen. The population
under his charge luring increased in 1045 to newly 17,000
rola, Mr. Laleg procured • fresh subdivision of the dis-
trict and the erection of • temporary iron church in the new
cure. The committee engaged in building the Bret church
and schools having involved themselves in a debt of 4,0001.,
Mr. Laing became penman, responsible for the money, and
has during several years cheerfully sarriiioed more than his
whole profogional income in payment, connected with that
liability. Hislaboure therefore have been not ealy utterly
unremunerated but attended • :th heavy pecuniary sacrifices.
Mr. Laing has been for fourteen yeah honorary secretary
to the °overawes' Benevolent ',untidier' and Horne,of both
of which he may be considered the practical founder. When
some yews ago the friends of those institutions perientsd
Mr. end Mee. Laing with the own of 800/. as a teatroonv to
their eminent sorrier in that good came, a memorial clock
wee purchased with • portion of the money, and the rest was
devoted by the rev. gentleman and his wife to the foundation
of en annuity for an aged governor. It may be added that
the Bishop of London was perroallT unacquainted with Mr.
Laing till gime time after hia lordattiVe
-him
to the
re, but hie attention was soon called to him ea one of the
meet serous end hard working clergyman In the diocese.
Mr. Laing in IM2 refused • listing of 1,0001. a year rather
the quit the dither of London, to which be b tenth
attached. It is in contemplation to divide the peoceede of
Bt. °lris with the Impoverished adjacent parish of St.
Akintwato.