The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRFSS THURSDAY

lot:n(13w help and sympathy. It is the simples:
thing in the world to make jokes about the ornite's
dippers Mid embroidered brace's ; but, o:t 'the
other 11141111, an utter disregard for curates, imdu•l-
iug their suspenders. may have a serious aisle to it.
'Die Irish rector, however, obtains an un,13,,
amount of private importantsi. Pictures h ire
lien drawn of his sitting down with the pried,
slid holding friendly relations with him. Ste.lL
1.1 etc 11C0 are ideal-- at least, the ciretmostanees iu
whit h they are taken from the life are so p-
ticnal as not to bo worth counting when
want to atrivo at a general truth. The priest. as
a auk, is only on tho most distant terms
the motor. Ile never visits him or dines with
him. The daughters of the latter would CC 110011
encourage an intimacy with tlie exciseman as with
the spiritual director of their Roman Catholic
neighbours. In Dublin tho separation between
the sects is as complete as the separation which
formerly existed beitweea the white man and the
negro in America. But this unanimity of Pro-
testantism has not done much for it. The Irish
Church is loyal to the back bone. It has its
Chapel Royal ; tbero used to be quite a military
and defiant display of heraltro and polemical
bunting in old Patrick's Cathedral, but Vlore aro
ro rigns or tokens of any real proselytising spoils.
A si tiety for abusing Roman Catho ice (for it is
really nothing else) papers the dead walls with
Alurpliyite war cries. and has emissaries in the
:Iwi.e of old women with reticules to drop trwts in
Ja'lwsy carriages, together with a contin en
I /ale of scripture readers, but it all a tans to
nothing. The rapists defy the ehal!eni•w,
nt 11. e old women and the ten and utterly ign tr.
tLr ',lila tire u•utlers. Within the plrisilllLl cli or. !nes
I ).4 11' is an orderly eomplialll43. with t ice V.! Jib: i ilex•
riot:td,nrtd a most impatient abhorrent,• tif any in:•li-
untie it towards itole•ry. We liar keen] . I t
11 ese tt marks by an meolint of a I,
to 1)r. Tti 'NELL anti an Archtletcon. To our ,
rice' we found that a little ritiilis,r had ct.•p'
into Dublin, but the small quantity ere ►tot sat
a noise that it proven the posit' we put forw•.anl.
it ,is to our minds one of the misfortun, s of
the Chun hin Ireland that it is so lethal-4.1e.
It appears to be utterly ignorant of the si;
nitionnt mutations through which ere,e,Caiti •al
afinirs are liassing amongst us. With dis-
establishment we trust to seo Protest t ion
gt t a new start, and a renovated a.•tivity in
Ireland. It certainly has sunk, and is siuk;n4,
uud.•r the comforts of endowment. As a M scion -
'try Church. we tan only etuitemplate it with a
ft *ling akin to thapnir ; as a I)''tie Chur.•'.c, it
al 1,, era a fine institution for goim; to sleep
Wt. say nothing of the private worth of its m.•m-

I vrs and its ministers ; but tho-e who ere con-
t.( rued for ou r faith rulad ,entirely aim rt from poti t
reasons, anxiously del.ite the severanee of the Irish
Church from a connection which is rendering it
et matose. The patient may be dreadfully un-
willing to undergo the anguish of a surgical ope-
iatiun, but, in this case, then• is nothing for it
tut submission to the knife. Then. is no time t)
be lost, when head and heart are alike sick, awl
the limbo begin to fail.

" FA7IIFR Blivhque."

Tim Yaws. TARR, father sad ROW. Yel • the ,
pidii nue of sober churchmen. While " Father '
losams" brings ridicule upon High Church-
men, his parent is unintentionally active in the
some service for the Evangelicals. It would be
&Hi/ lilt to decide which of then, causes the other the
most anxiety. Bat for the son it must certainly be
allowed 11 at ho abstains front confiding his
feelings to the publ;c. Mr. LYNX senior
locks at the matter differently, and ROAM
*icier to lose a chance of publishing a gushing
tter to en a ditor, a rector, or a bishop.
His address to the Bishop of Lomnow printed iu
one of tho morning papers should go for something
as 1 t nanee to the credit of the son. Mr. LYNX
writes My first great pain as respected my
" son, the ker. J. L. Lvine, was when Idle:severed
" that the Bishop of NORWICH had no power to
" control the Rev. °Kokos DRURY, of (Hayden—
" and no 'ewer to any for my son with effect, ' Go
" thou and tarry at Jerusalem till thy beard be
" ' grown.' " In his " sad reflections" th
father seee bow much safer is the happiness of a
timid if be places his son in the army or navy,
N hem it wholesome discipline prevails. But he will
cot Weno his lordship, " because as far as I under-
"stand Church distipline, a bishop is forcod to
"di ire his horses without bit or bridle." But Mr.
IA RE is a father, mid, shaven though his son
imy Ix., cannot see him insulted without a
father's to • ings. 'fills is tho only flake
i,f sense in the letter. The scene in Lombard-
: I h .Idr h.lik to bet nk with the Church ARla-
lat I 11, ni bli I e • njoyed leis Rymp by.
•• Al). 1•••• l, Let d 1 go fui tiger to eonnin m. year
Id. Lip that tlaroltpliona tbs. length and bre, lilt
• I f •.i.r • 1,1•Ity, and we may well four echoo.l
tl n, tit bt.l t. Llllol e, the Cry will be

tt ,ight
'• lett" r, ton' unit ugly to beho:4l'

M) lord, I slvill make Ito 'apology fur esuvin
•• ilus I. tit rI o Inn& public, beuauv.• I f. 4,1 Pity
•• d. silt• to t )1.w.. t.he• Cbun•b Association an I the
•• Ilip,h Chum, party quite irresiatiblo." In onem
i:etunato of •• Valhi r $ll the cirninu-
htautta of his life should tio taken into account.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)