The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-12 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.

Tammiroar Smarm—The select committee of
the Rouse of Commons to inquire into the organisation and
management of those branches of the Admiralty, War-
cake, India-office, and Emigration Board, by which the
business of transporting by means of shipping troops, con-
victs, emigrants, materials of war, stores, and any other
similar Denims m now performed, met yesterday. The com-
mittee consists of the followinr members :—Mr. M. Baillie,
Mr. T. G. Baring, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Card, Mr. Dalglith,
Colonel Dickeon, Admiral Buncombe, Mr. Fortescus, Mr.
Isamu, Mr. Kinasird, Colonel Lindsay, Mr. Lindsitieharei
Longheld, Lord Cisme° Paget, General Peel, Sir
Seymour, sod Sir F. Smith. Mr. Lindsay having been sp.
pointed chairman, the committee adjourned.

MITZOPOLIA LOCAL TAXATION.—The select com-
mittee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into
the local taxation and government of the metropolis and the
local administration of justice met yesterday. The members
of the committee are Sir G. C. Lewis, Mr. Ayrtua, Lord
John Manners, the Lord Mayor of London, Mr. Locke, Bir
J. Shelley, Mr. Alderman Copeland, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Locke
Bing. Mr. Barrow, Lord Enfield, Lord Loraine, Mr. Barley,
Mr. Beecroft, and Mr. Tile. Mr. Ayrtoo was appointed
chairman, and the committee then adjourned.

TH. ARCHBISHOP or CANTIRSUBY AND " &RAI'S
AND Rrvlewa."—His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
has appointed to-morrow (Wednesday) to receive an address
on the subject of "Essay. and Reviews," signed by clergy-
men of all parties in the church. For example:—Archdeacon
Denison, Archdeacon Law, Archdeacon Ullertou, Arch-
deacon Grant, the Dean of Lincoln, the Dean of Ripou, the
Dean of St. Asap'', Dr. Pussy, the Rev. Canon 'feudlay,
Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford; Professor Fame,
of Birmingham ; Canon Dale, Canon Champneys, Dr. Irons,
of Brompton • the Dean of Carlisle; Dr. Cotton, Provost of
Worcester College, Oxford ; Bishop Trower, Chancellor Bird,
Dr. Ogilvie, Archdeacon Allen, Dr. M'Neile, Dr. 'MIMI,
the Rev. John Roble, Dr. Marsh, Dr. Moberlev, Archdeacon
Clive, Archdeacon Burney, the Rev. C. P. Golightly, the
Rev. J. EL Jeekinecie, Vicar of Battersea • the Rev. W.
Greeley, of Boyne-hill ; the Rev. J. F. Lingham, Rector of
Lambeth • the Rev. Prebeedary Bargees, Rector of Upper
Chelsea; the Rev. High Stowell • the Rev. A. D. Wagner,
Incumbent of St. Pees, Brighter; ; Canon Headrick, Canon
Carus; the Rev. R. Auriol, M.A., Rector of St. Moslem-
in-the-West ; the Rev. Sir C. Harding., the Rev. Sir
IL Thompson, Archdeacon Hankinson, and Archdeacon
Osrbett. The address, which is said to bete the sig-
natures of upwards of six thousand English clergy.
men, is as to/lows :—" To the Mint Rev. Father
is God, John Bird, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury,
Primate of All England and Metropolitan : —We, the
undersigned clergy of the United Church of England and
Ireland, respectfully request yourgrace's attention to certain
opinions contained in a volume of Emays and Reviews'
recently published, the tendency of which, as it appears
to us, is to annihilate the authority of the Bible as the in-
spired word of God, to reject all miracles (not excepting
those of our Blessed Lord), as incapable of proof end re-
pugnant to reason, and, in one instance at least, to under-
mine faith in Gad as the Creator. These opinions have
been promulgated with one exception by clergymen of our
church, holding positions of great trust, and possessing op-
portunities favourable in no ordinary degree for the diffu-
sion of error. We therefore earnestly entreat your grace to
take counsel with the other members of the epssioopate, and
to devise such measures as may with God's blessing, banish
and drive away from our church nll such erroneous and
strange doctrines. The opinions against which we protest
ea being repugnant to the natural meaning of our formu-
laries, and inconsistent with the teaching at the Church of
England, are expressed in the accompanying extracts from
the • Essays' to which we refer." (Then follow a number of
extracts.) ft may be stated that during the present week
meetings of the archbishops sod bishops of both province.
of Canterbury and York, with a view to determine what
course their lordehips will recommend to be taken in refer-
ence to the volume which has given rise to so much dis-
cussion, will take place.
SUMER-HALL EVENING ClottinEt.—The orinductorri
of the Metropolitan Evening Classes at Sussex-hall, Leaden
hall-street, have MA Wised a report detailing their history
foe the last 12 years, and showing a very great amount of
success in their educational work, particularly at the exami-
nations of the Society of Arts, and for civil service appoint-
ments. As, however, must be expected in institutions of
this character, there is a deficiency of funds, although the
young men have paid for their own education during the
past year the sum of 6004 The honorary subscriptions have
amounted to only 11 guineas, and there is a deficiency in the
year's working of 1401. The question hence arises—Will the
public admit it to be their duty to supplement the exertions
of these 500 industrious students, or will they leave the in-
stitution to its fate? The question is important, and
remains for the consideration of thoee who have the means
! and the desire to assist in the advancement of educational
movements generally. By inspect.on of the report it appears
I that since the year 1855 seven members have obtained
I government appointments, and about 25 prises have been
obtained by members since that date, besides certificates of
proficiency from the Society of Arta.
Tug Pia:inc.—Contemporaneously with the an-
nouncement of a survey of the Pacific Ocean. ordered by
the United States government, with a view to !eying down
ic communication between the west coast of Ame-
rica sail Asia, an announcement is made of the intended
establishment of the English Episcopal Chen* in Honolulu,
the capital of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands. The cen-
tral position of which group constitutes them a resting
and refreshing place for the trade now forming a path
between the old and new worlds yid the Pacific, and for the
large whaling fleet in that ocean. A strong committee ham
been formed to promote this mission, which has the addl.
ti„nid inwrest„ beyond that which attaches to the progress
of religion and civiliestion in new directions, of being the
tint invitation ever given hy an independent monarch to
our church to establish itself in his dominions. The Epis.
copal Church in America heartily coincides in the design,
and has already offered to seed clergymen to the North
Pacific io co-apostles with the Polynesian 111116011.
A fearful hurricane was blowing from the north-
. west yesterday afternoon at Southampton. In the forenoon
the cold we. intone, sad a heavy shower of hail fell.