The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-07 00:00:00

L'.VION OP CHURCH AND STATE.

Our etwond edition yesterday oontained a report
of the resolution' adopted at the great meeting on the
subject of the Irish church. held in St. Jamees-halL The
report of the proceedings occupies upwards of a page of
the morning journals. The resolutions were all agreed te,
bet there was &persistent interrup.ion at intervals. Some
who greeted the Bishop of (Word with dienorslant noises
caste forcibly expelled from she hall.
The Bishop of OXFORD said that the Aural altogether
put aside the idea of endowing other creeds than that of
the established church, and insisted that it was no ergn-
ment against the establishment that in a particular pro-
vince of our common country those who used its servioss
happened to be in a minority. He contended, moreover,
that there was no feeling against the English church in
Ireland itself, and that the aaitatioo was stirred up by the
emissaries of the Liberation Society. He concluded by
implosing the audience to stand by their suffering sister.
The Bishop of LONDON said none of them, he supposed,
Were determined maintainers of the gem, quo in the
church of Ireland. " And we simple men," said his lord-
ship, '' who are clergymen," were not able to fathom the
motires and meaning of tnose who bad come forward with
projects for its ilisesteblishment. Ile was sure the old
constitutional wills party in the country was opposed to
whit was called a free church. He had no fear that a
diseetablishment would lead to the domination of the
R•man catholic religion again, but it would throw the
country into contusion, and m--.aerially affect the supre-
niacy cf the crown.
T•he Archbishop of Yost. who wan received with cheers,
said in the course of his speech —lt is said that
we are to disestablish the church ; that there are so
many opinions that the state must have done with
all of them. and must ja di try to keep under whilst
they are contending amoug themselves. llut how do you
recmcile this with the present mode of government in
this country ; with the fact that the Queen is in theory
the fountain head of all government, and that. although
parliament enacts the laws, it is the Queen who signs them
and finally makes them I is/, that it is in the name of the
Q•teen that all justice is ailministerni—it is by her that
all honours ere bestowed You may say it in a republic,
if you want to have your President tried!—(hear, hear)—
but here we have s monarch governing in some spirit.
In what spirit In the spirit which all our laws tell
no is the spirit of religion—gratin Dei—(loud cheers)
—.mil although you say the Queen niles in the
Divine name, you s.y '' this is to go on in
England ; but teat these is such an objection to
it in Ireland that it must lie done away with there." As
was.eloquently said by the light rev. prelate who spoke
first, to have religion as a state element is more important
to the state than to the church. and so it is. lint, on the
other hand, it is also an injury to the reformed frith to
disestablish the church in Ireland. (Cheers.) I have been
told that the thing is settled. le There are so•ue people
who look with great awe on a majority of the House
of Commons. (laughter.) We are told we bad better
not throw our grappling irons over the edge of a sinking
ship lest we go down with it. Ido not shut my eyes to
the state of the question. We shall not go down just
yet. (Cheers.) But they meets us to go down, and if
any of us had stayed away today, and left the Irish
church to its fate they would hare meant it all the same—
neither more nor less. (('heers.) I thank the meeting for
the patience with which they have heard me (cheers).
and I will conclude with another quotation fro:. that re-
teat {table book to which I has e already alluded. Mr. Glad-
Stone • (hisses, and cries of Order "I
—says, " An answer
should, if possible, be made ready in the conscience of each
man who is called to act in public trusts, to the question.
whet:ter it be er be not the manifest ordinance of Almighty
Go.l that governments shou:.l bear active duties towards
religion, Christian governments towards the Christian
chetah *: As WAS said of old, If the Lard be Cod, serve
HMI; but if Baal, then s-rt e him.' So it should be now
• to the English people. If there be no conscience,
no form of religious disci ',lntent in well-ordered states,
and if unity in the body be no law of the church, let us
freely abandon the emir ent policy tinder which this hand
has consoled 'tea her strei.,th,and sustained het happiness,
awl earned a fame yet wider th in the dominions that are
leached by every sea ; hut if the reverse of both these pro-
positions be trite. then lit us decline to purchase
moral debility and death wrapped in their disguise
and entitled peace; then• in tile sacred name of God,
to the utmost and to latent of our power
let U. 4 sturdily abide by the noble traditions of
only fathers, and be faithful to posterity, even as antiquity
ha; been faithful towards as. (Cheers.) My lords,
th •so are noble words, and I stand by then,. (Loud cheers.)
• n see mole up our minis on this great question.
(lt.mewed cheeriug.) It is w.itteu on the face of our his-
tory and at the Lead of oar I tws that the Queen, who
represent., her people. has active duties towards
We wish that to be kept up to the last. When it goes let
it go. 110: AS on^ single thing, but along with all that of
which it forms is part. (Loud cheers.) We comnotdibpute
with it fur the monarch of this great country. We are
all concerned that it has active duties, and we all to the
lest of our will and power will do what we can, so that the
machinery by which those duties are carried out. shall be
tr msmitted —even threatened as it is —to other genera.
Lions after ourselves, (Loud and long continued cheer-
io
Le Dean of WRSTMINS‘TRR was constantly interrupted.
The other speakers were the Etrl of Harrowhy, Lord
Colchester, the Duke of Northumberland• Lord Chelms-
ford, and the Archbishop of Canterbury (the chairman).
Lord Chelmsford said the established church was founded
undo:' the policy of Divine Providence, and if the Irish
church was overthrown the whole establishment would be
levelled to the ground. The Archbishop of Canterbury
e pre.sed a wish that a little more tolerance hastbeen
towards some of th, speakers.

,YAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF Esatixo.
The following gentlemen. havingundergone the necessary
exatuinations for the diploma' were admitted members of
the college at a meeting of the Conrt of Examiners on the
nth inst., vi:.:—Messrs. It chard Fletcher, Bury, near
Manchester; Andrew Boutitower, Manchester ; H. W.
Bodily, Manchester. and .1. P. Anderton. Manchester,
students of the Manchester School ; %ValWr Hart, Lupus.
street, Pimlico; W. L. ltoterts, Spilsby, Lincolnshire;
Fletcher Beach, Bridport, and .1. A. T. Cartwright, Spal-
ding, Lincolnshire, of King's College ; J. H. Gay. Wis.
beach ; John Luck. L.S.A , Ilford ; J. It. Morgan, Merthyr
Tydfil, and W. I'. Bridges, Cii encoder, of Guy's Hospital;
W. J. C. Ward, L.R.C.P. Edinb.. Edinburgh, and J. L.
M.B. and M.C. lidinb., and L. S. A.,
Wrrxlmm, of the Edinburgh School • J. W. Palau, M.B.
and M.C. E•linb., Ayr, of the Edinburgh and Paris
Schools; K. M. Jones. Cr,,,.., Denbigh, of the Dublin
School ; C. H. Joubert de la Fert&, Porchester.terrace, of
St. Mary's Hospital; W. P. Adams, Rochester, of the
Charing-cross Davits] ; T. W. W. Fay, Liverpool, of the
Liverpool School ; S. .1. Snake. Leeds, of the Leeds
School; Pliarez Shore, Walsall,of the Birrningbani School;
W. Blandford, Corbridge, Not thumberland, of the
News tette Seismal; J. It. Reuel.. Bristol. of St,. Barthel*.
mewls Hospital ; and J. A. P. Banks, Acton, of the Dub.
lin and Middlesex Hospitab.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF ?IItAICIINS OF GE.EAT BM-
SAIN.—At the monthly meeting of governors and court of
assistant. of this society this week, Mr. J. T.Wilby in the
chair, Mr. Anderson. the honorary treasurer, moved a
result:Son to the effect that a loyal and dutiful address be
presented to her most gracious Majesty, the ratronees of
the society. expressive of the horror with which the news
of the attempted assassination of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh has been received, and a committee
was formed for carrying out the same. The court then
proceeded to grant the necessary sums to the claimants
for the present rucoth. and make arrangements for the
performance of the Mogul!, at St. James's-hall to-morrow.
THE PATENT OFFICE. MI*SEI'M AND LIBRARY.-
ID furtherance of ono of the objects of the Public Mu-
seums and Free Libraries Association. namely, the im-
provement of existing scientific. industrial, and literary
collections, the attentiou of parliament is about being
called to the present condition of the Free Library and
Museum of the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions.
These institutions are crowded to repletion, and besides
are separated by the distance of three miles from Chan.
eery-lane to South Kensington. Repeated reports and
memorials from 1848 till 1A44 produced little effect. In the
latter year a parliamentary select committee stated that
the place where specifications and drawings were examined
was little better than a dark passage, in which
there was barely standing room ; and the
books of the library were stowed away in a
number of small zooms, or rather closet., some
oa floors, some on tables, some in passages, and some on
shelves, while the store-rooms were so overloaded that '
the floors had already sunk, and the surveyor of the
Board of Works refused to allow them to be loaded any
more, lest they should break down. New rooms were
then built, but the space these afforded was sufficient only
for the lihruy as it stood ; and consequently they are
already filled, while the library grows every day.. The
museum of machines and models is in even a worse con-
dition, in a shed at South Kensington. The Patent-
office, it should be recollected, yields to the treasury a
surplus sum annually which for 1866-7 was upwards of
41,D01. . _

- The execution of the Fenian Barrett having
been fixed for Tuesday, the 12th Mat. (the day on which
the convict Robert Smith has been doomed to undergo the
last penalty of the law), Calcraft, who had been engaged
to come to Dumfries, has (says the Dumfries Courier)in-
tiurmted to the town-clerk that it will not be possible for
him to attend. The town-clerk has since secured the
services of Askern the York executioner, who demands
the same fee as Calcraft for a cast of his ghastly office—
twenty_iguiness.
A WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH.—On Monday an
elderly woman named Bennett, residing at Southaes, was
burnt to death. She retired to rest early in the evenlng,
leaving a candle burning on her bedroom table. A lady
went upstairs some time afterwards and found Mrs. Ben-
nett enveloped in Owes, her feet resting on the landing
and the upper part of her body In the bedroom which was
on fire. The fire was easily extinguished, and the unfor-
tunate woman removed to the hospital, where she died in
great agony. It is believed she got out of bed and met Are
to her night dress imeidentally.
For thirty years Horniman and Co. hare co-
oiwrated through agents to supply tea on more advantageous
terms than byteh ordinary ch innel : their tea reaches tbs eon.
sumer in the same pure mate as it leaves the grower, aa it
encexed in peekeeg.-lAgyerustmentj