The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-18 00:00:00

JAPAN.

PARIS, MAT Is.

7'.. er of this morning publishes the
x from Japan under date of the 26th
t 4 Nlarch :

y nutiafaction demanded for the massacre

0.. French sailors at Osaka has bcen given.
•I 1. ileiii.inds made by the French miniskr were
.-I.ilcuitiation to death of twenty of6c...rs, non-
officers, and privets* who had
or executed the massacre, the payment of
of 130,000 piastres to the families of
"actin's, and the presentation of spologiesby the

••• utati yes of the Mikado and Prince Toes.
I: .. 1..4 the culprits were executed on the 16th of
'I .r. 1., Captain Dupetit Thouara then stopped
Neentiun of the nine others, declaring that
:era satisfaction had been given. The French
h, • -ter has gone to Kioto by invitation, where
• s;,, received by the Mikado. The English
•r accompanied him."

1 I: M'ITICEMION OF BRIGANDAnK IN

SOUTH ITALY.

( 'METER'S EX PRESS.)

• nem' l'allavieini has issued a report of his
, awns against brigandage from the 23rd March to the
.‘pril, which gives the following results:—lo brigands
i 2 brigands arrested without fighting, 28 bri-

I. including the chiefs Cullamattei and &wardens°,
voluntarily surrendered themselves to the &litho-
' u-t. Nines the publication of this report General
has obtained a great success in the complete
.‘ struction of the Sataniello band which, under that faro.
I,IIA chief, had for several years past been a scourge to the
•,.ountainous district of Matese and the valley of the
Volturno. The general bad long sought to strike
a decisive blow against the Sataniello and his
associates, and with that object had despatched
troops to all the issues from the brigands' retreat, situated
pun a mountain near Itraeigliano, in the province of
• derno. The proper moment having arrived the troops
!lanced from their respective stations upon the band.
4strperate conflict ensued, in which Sataniello himself
tt.l killed, and the whole of his companions killed,
...Aided, or taken prisoners. Sataniello's hands were
....liar] with innumerable murders and atrocities of every

rob. cox% UT Baaarrr.—Yesterday afternoon
ernor of Newgate received a communication
Home-office, respiting for another week
Tuesday (to-morrow) the convict Barrett,
now lying under sentence of death for
. .

A.:, I ;k: ing-oui.of the explosion at Clerkenwell.
l• ‘‘l. DEATH IN Limenoces.—An inquest
.t the Spread Eagle tavern, Liniehouse-canseway,
ftdol.ih, before Mr. Humphreys, respecting the
Alice l'orkiss, • child three years old,
later of a blacksmith of that name. The evidence
the fact that father, wither, and three children
:••• ae.l slept in a washhoute, which was some.
• tight feet square, and the height only six feet
• of which was 2t. a week. The jury found
t aild had died from natural mum ; but that
accelerated by great privations, from want of
by dwelling in a room which was neat fur

'''''‘;(.lllNA, AND AUSTRALIAN (HEAVY) MAIL...
'•'' l'", ,k, MAT 17.—The Ceylon left at 9 a.m. to-day
r N•utt,..ll,llton, where she may be expected about the
:.!!.,1

I%Alo, INDIA AND CIIINA MAIL OF THZ 2ND
.rii M%v.--31.1ZT, MAY 18.—The Delhi, foe Bon bey,
for Cakotta, left Sues at I ma., and 68. M
3 1`41,1 rtePtctively, clearing off cargo.

THIRD EDITION.

THE IRISH ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

CITY MUTING OF LAYMEN-(THIS DAY.)

A meeting of laymen of the City of London
was held this afternoon at the City Terminus
Hotel, Cannon street, according to the terms of
the notice, "in support of the united church of
England and Ireland, and in mainteu•nce of our protestant
constitution in church and state." At 1 o'clock, the hour fixed
for the commencement of the proceedings, the great
hall of the hotel in which the meeting took place, was
by no means crowded, though there were some hundreds
present. Admission was by ticket, and there appeared to
be • careful examination at the door. The chair was
taken, at 1 o'clock, by the LORD MATOR. Among those
present were Viscount Crichton, Mr. Peter Bolt, Mr.
E. C. Freshseld, M.P., Sir R. W. Carden, Mr. Bromley-
Moore, Mr. It. N. Fowler, Mr. Philip Cnzenove, Mr. T.
Cazenove, Mr. A. Beattie, Mr. J. Braithwaite, Alderman
Sir William Rose, Alderman Hale, Sir W. Baynes, Mr.
Baggallay, and Mr. H. J. tiiffard, Q.C.
The proceedings were opened with a prayer bearing upon
the connection between church and state.

The Loin) MAYOR expressed the pleasure which be felt at
finding himself supported by so many leading com-
mercial representatives of that great city. (Cheers.)
It was the duty of all Englishmen to support
the protestant monarchy of this country—(foad
cheers)—and he believed even the beads of the Ron.an
catholic church were not opposed to the course they were
pursuing ; for in supporting the protestant church of Ire-
land they were in some measure enabling them to carry on
their own work. (Cheers.)
Sir W. Barmen moved the following resolution :—" Th►t
this meeting, believing the highest duty of a state to be
` the maintenance of true religion and virtue,' is of opinion
that our present constitution of church ►nd state ought to
be upheld, as affording the best means for the promotion
of Christianity amongst the people, and as important alike
for the welfare of the state and for the efficiency of the
church." He said that great lay demonstrations would prove
that the laity were not indifferent to the question. The meet-
ing was held for no mere political purpose. In the move-
ment for the disestablishment of the Irish church, made
for the moment for party purpoees— (cheers)—an attack was
being made on the connection between church and state.
(Cheers.) They were there to contend for the maintenance
of that, which was one of the safeguards of the protestant
faith. He hoped that even yet those who had commenced the
movement against the Irish church would be led by their
consciences to retrace their steps. Let the constitution in
church and state be destroyed, and the ma&tenance of
true religion and virtue would perish in this land.
(Cheers.)
Alderman Sir Wm. Rome seconded the resolution, intro-
ducing himself to the meeting as the governor of the
Irish Society—(Cheer,)—which he said bad conferred
great benefits on Ireland, though an effort bad been made
to destroy it. He was Isatounded at the effrontery of
public men, who, having protested for years against any
interference with the Irish church, now proposed its aboli-
tion. Urns said that that church was an anomaly. Was not
life full of anomalies, and were they because of an anomaly
to make a bad law (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He found
all that tended to prosperity in the north of Ireland, and
all that tended in the opposite direction in the south.
(Loud cheers.) They most protest against that priestly
influence which sought to secure not toleration, but pre-
dominance, for the Roman catholic religion. Advert.
ing to the present position of the government, he said
there had never been a more successful government in
modern times, whether in war or in other matters of public
interest. (Great cheering.) He ►ccused the priests of
being connected with the recent Fenian events at Man-
chester and in Clerkenwell. (Cheers.) As a nation we
had been released from the control of the papacy,
and now it was sought to place us under it again.
Laymen must grapple with this difficulty to the direst ex.
tremity, and he had no doubt they would conquer. (Loud
cheers.)
Mr. H. GIFFARD, Q.C., in supporting the resolution,
quoted a work published, as be said, by Mr. W. E.
Gladstone—(loud and prolonged hisses)—some years
ago, which he contended was in favour of the
object of the meeting. He denied that the agitation
for the disestablishment of the Irish church originated
with Roman mitholics, and quoted from a speech of the
Roman catholic Bishop of Meath in 1865 to the effect that
any agitation for that purpose was carried for party ob-
jects. The worst faction fight■ from which Ireland had
suffered were those in St. Stephen's. (Cheers.) In order to
cure the religious evils of Ireland, the lamp of the
Reformation was to be pat out ie every parish in Ireland;
in order to cure absenteeism one resident gentleman was
to be driven out of every parish ; and in order to make
Ireland happy the most loyal portion of the nation was to
be made discontented. (Cheers.)
Alderman HALE, in supporting the resolution, de-
nounced the conduct of Mr. Gladstone as disgraceful and
designed for the selfish purpose of enabling him to return
to office. (Loud cheery.)

When the question was being put, a gentleman, who
laid he was a citizen of London, asked permission of the
chairman to move an amendment, but he was imme-
diately met by erica of "Turn him out," while a few
voices cried " Hear, hear." The chairman proceeded
to put the resolution, and declared it to be car-
ried. There were apparently only • few dissentients.
When the chairman called upon the mover of the
second resolution to rise another gentleman in the
back part of the meeting attempted to speak, but he also
was assailed by cries of "Turn him out," and he was
quickly ejected amidst tumultuous cheering.
Mr. P. Cazzzovz then moved the following :—" That
while this meeting is fully prepared to concur in such re-
forms as may be desirable to promote the efficiency of the
Irish breach of the united church of England and
Ireland, it believes that the disestablishment and dis-
endowment proposed would be a serious blow to the pro-
testant constitution of this kingdom, and would materially
affect the supremacy of the crown, without securing good.
will and harmony in the sister country."

[The wetting wits proceeding when our report left.]

DRAMA.

MR. PAUL BEDFORD'S FAREWELL BENEFIT.

The curtain has at last fallen on en old actor
who has amused two generations of playgoers, and who
has probably enjoyed more personal popularity in his time
than almost any living member of the theatrical proles.
lion. There is something odd in the fact that one of the
oldest living actors should take his farewell benefit in one
of the newest of the London theatres, but the enormous
seating capacity of the new Queen's in Long-acre--a seat-
ing capacity that exceeds that of any theatre in London
with the exception of the Standard and Drury-lane, hilly
justified the choice of the committee. Mr. Paul Bedford's
farewell benefit at the Queen's on Saturday—though
in come degree n repetition of the ceremony which took
place on the 2nd of February, 1865, at Drury-lane Theatre,
was a great and gratifying sumer. It proved (if such •
thing requires proof) the cohesive power of the theatrical
profession, and the steadfast friendship of the public for
• popular favourite. Mr. Paul Bedford may not have re-
presented the highest walks of dramatic art, but he tho.
roughly amused his public, and was one of the main props
of that theatrical institution—the Adelphi drama. He
began life as an opera-singer, which made him useful in
vaudevilles and burlesques, and had a certain original
personal humour which no one has ventured to copy.
The performance of Saturday afternoon was necessarily
made up of dramatic scraps, to give the companies of the
various London theatres an opportunity of testifying their
respect for an old companion. This respect wee testified
in various ways by the principal actors and actresses from
the Surrey, New Royalty, the Adelphi, the Queen's, and
the Frio:* of Wales's, with the addition of Mrs. Stirling,
Miss Herbert, Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Matthews, Mr. Arthur Stirling, and others. Miss Glyn
was to have appeared, but was unhappily prevented by •
domestic bereavement ; Mr. Bentley came too late,
owing to a mistake in his instructions ; end
Mr. Sothem and Mr. Backstops tried to amuse
the ■udienee as representatives of the Haymarket
company by a half serious performance of part of the third
act of Shakespeare's Othello. The audience, as many ex-
pected, were not very patient with this well-intentioned
outrage on the national poet, and both actors bad to make
apologies and shelter themselves behind the oonveeiens
cloak of ch►rity. The last scene was a gathering of some
of Mr. Paul Bedford's private and professional friends on
the stage, in which Mrs. Keeley stood prominent, Mr.