The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Donut!, Aran 16.
A public meeting, convened by the mayor, was
held in Sl'go on Thursday last, to petition against
the peopoeed abolition of the office of Lord-Lteute-
sant. A similar meeting will be held in Limerick
to-day, also convened by the mayor; and meetings
for the same purpose have been announced to take
place in Drogheda and Dungarvan. Thenseeting for
the Doblin Post-office Ward has been fixed for to-
morrow.

In the eassameial artkle of the Reinnan's Journal
we fled the following discouraging account of the
state of basin. here :
Then las not, we regret to say, been any revival in trade
this week, and the share market is rather wore. The Cus-
toms asseipts for the wink are only 16,4001., of which 6,8001.
is on Ise, and 2,0001. on tobacco. The return of the Cur
to.. manes of this poet for the quarto just ended shows,
we regret to observe, a very serious falling off from even the
reduced amount of last year, the receipts fur 1860 being oaly
214,0001. against 230,0001. in 1849.
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The newspapers from the various provincial sea-
ports describe emigration as going forward without
intermission. The JYater/ord Mail says More
persons have left our port destined foe America than
soy other during the season. The
_great majority
',ergot the better clam of farmers." The Cork Con-
stitution says :—" A numerous body of respectable
looking fanners, with their wives and children, from
the midland counties, arrived in this city on Thurs-
day by railway, all intending to emigrate. Same day,

ezvere Causeless, ansurrox-namon, Aoau.l2.—A bar-
home murder was bet eight perpetrated as the parson of
Petrick Egan, a ponsieser' raiding as the townisad of
Clamors, the property of eldr. Usher. The poor sus ww
&Iliad end in bed at the time of the attack, so early as den
o'clock. One of the easwelea wrack him with a pistol, and
this lisped so violently as his duet that ha expired is tea
minutes. It is not kaowa at present what the motive of the
attack was. Rees was known to have • cossiderable ewe of
money, and also a pen for his protection. The hitter wee
carried off by the villains ; they ludo so Dean& for the
massy. This is the third attempton the anfartenato man.
At Glasalongb, is the county of Monaghan, a shot
was fired on Wednesday night last iuto the bed-room
window of Mr. John Robertson, land steward to C. P.
Leslie, Esq.

MR. Cimosas HUMS, M.P., was last week look-
at Isse Perk, alba it le sW WA be ispnweild his Wm-
tis• or lissming • bidder for it, trim wilts. wader the
locustbsted Estates Att.—Leisure? Expesas.

THE GORHAM CASE.

The following correspondence has pawed between
Miss Belton, the Sister of Mercy, and Lord Chief
Justice Campbell :

The Orphans' Home, Plymouth, March 19.
My Lord,—lt is with a pain, the intensity of which,
amidst such apparent gratitude, your lordship will not
readily losgi•s possible, teat in writing to express my deep
sins, of your kindness in consenting to aid tits work at
Devosport. I have now to request the withdrawal of anima
which, noble and honoured as it is, is connected most pain-
fully with a decision which for a presentbrands the church
of England with unewholic teaching.
As a most unworthy, yet faithful daughter or that church,
I have, as your lordship will perceive, no choice left me in
working lac her but to withdraw Iron one who has
twisted in • judgment which I am bound to beleve is so
contrary to her fundamental principles as to be fatal to her
unless absolutely planted.
It is nachos to multiply words of sorrow. Your lordship
will know and feel that such a letter as the protest cultist
not and could nut be written without much grief and em.
barramaneut. Entreating your f nue, and praying that
all blaming may attend you and yours,
I am, your lordship's humble and grateful servant,
PRISCILLA. LYDIA SELLON,
Ye mother snpr.

Midland Circuit, Warwick, March 31, 18.50.
Madam,—Hating • most sincere respect for your piety
and benevolence, I would beg you to ncensider your request
that in 7 name may be withdrawn from the list of theme who
are desirous of assisting you in the truly Christian objects to
which your lite is devoted. I really holier' that you mie-
understand the judgment to which you refer when you eon.
eider that it is so dangeroas to the church and so disaedit-
, able to those who commend in it. I issue you that we
have given no opinion coatrary to yours upon the doctrise
of baptismal rrgeorration. We had so jurisdiction to de-
' ride any doctrinal question, and we studiously abstained
from doing so. We were only called upon to construe the
articles sad formularies of the church, and to say whether
they be so framed as to condi mn Ci rtain opinions expressed
by Mr. Oorham. If we be mistaken in thinking that they
are not es framed, you will hardly say that for this mistake
(which you will charitably believe to be conscientious) we
ought to be excluded from communion with orthodox Christ-
ions. Recollect that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the
Archbishop of York entirely approvad of what we did, and
that they are as much answerable for it as if they had bean
mamben of the court instead of being only our advisers.
1 Reflect, then, whether it be for the good of the church, to
which you are so afiaothoutely attached, to pronounce ex-
communication against all who approve of the decision
which you censure. 7erheps you may find that • large ma-
jority of the pious sons and daughters of the church of
England think that the decision is sound, and that it may
heal the wounds from which she has lately suffered. At
any rate I do hope that open re wasideration you will still
allow me to have the gratification of being upon your coni-
rr Rtes. If you remain inflexible, I must submit to your
determination, bat I shall continue to pray that Heaven
may enlighten your understanding and further your labours
with its choicest blessings.
I have the honour to be, with the highest respect,
Madam, your most obedient faithful servant,
CAMPBELL.

The Orphans' Home, April 8.
My Lord,—l found your letter on my return from a short
absence from home. Need I say that this unexpeeted kind-
DM of its °samosa only made me the more bittirly mourn
over the unhappy came which separates me from such a
benevo:eut acd noble heart—oepswee me, es I still hope,
only for a time, for how an I believe but that your lordship
will us time perceive what is involved in your decision, and
will lament as deeply as any one of us that it should have
endangered the church by the apparent admission of heretical
teaching ?

You Tell me that, on the contrary, It will help to heal her
wounds. Alas! my lord, that you should my so! How
an it heal her wounds to tell an that her articles admit of a
heresy which her creed rejects? I may not believe it, al-
though such words are sanctioned by the two archbishops.
By lord, I do not believe ft. It would be to question the
truth ot the church of Eagand to believe that it wire mat-
ter of allowed indifferent,' whether an article of the creed
were c intradieted or not. It is not being faithful to her
to doubt until her own voice condemn her, which may
God forbid! But many hearts sines the decision do
fail. They believe that your decision is jest; they
do not believe that the church of England is • whams
to and a holder of the truth of God—they torn from her as
not being " a light set on a hill which cannot be hid." Their
faith is utterly shaken. I speak from a bitter knowledge of
facts. I see her forsaken by those who have loved her. And
you, my lord, do you also believe that the Church of Eng-
land has been untrue to herself—that her formularies are
so constituted that she contradicts her own belief—that she
will aot maintain the faith other creeds—that she will admit
priests to teach her children that which has been condemned
as a heresy ? Forgive me, my lord, for writing thus to you.
How can Ido otherwise? It is not that I forget the differ.
ens* which God km placed between us—the differ-
ence between an exalted aid • lowly position—the difference
of age, and sea, and station ; but all Wee away while I n
collect the wonderfal kladnees of your letter—the noble re.
lunatic* with which you withdraw the aid which once I
should have so joyfully and gratefully accepted ; and I can.
not bat speak to you heart to heart.
I thank you very earnestly for your promise of remember-
ing me in your prayers. lam not worthy to prey for you—
and yet if the God of all goodness will hear the supplication
of • loving and deeply sorrowing heart, He will bring you to
grieve for the injury done to the church, and will help
you to repair it—and gin you all blessing in time and in
eternity.
Yours, very humbly sad affectionately,
P. LYDIA SELLON.

Btratheden hoses, April 10.
Madam,-1 deeply grieve that (although is very eon-
teems laaguage) you adhere to the stern resoluta of ex-
°lodise me Ire. she gratification' of being epos the list of
your committee and of soatributing my mite to the extol
lent shanties obi* yen is laudably superintead. I moat
confess that you de on mem Mme to have made any way in
proving that lay seneureenes is the decision of the Judicial
COOLNUttee In the Glifia• itiosahl disqualify me humbly
to amain you is akin eon ef e2hans, is providing • (knot,
lan 'duration for the *Edna westhless parents, sod la
mitigating the physisal salleimp one blow-matins.l
Nano* Wok shot I eta sailed upon to answer your
observations respecting the sentn of the Monism or in pro-
bable effect upon the Minsk, se I 'saki essay show that
you beg the question entirely by riming that the destrine
to which you object has been eendoessol by km mistse
and formularies as a honey, sad I mien demenstrats that
whether the doilies be wrong at right, it ma steed no
andausPtie pretext fee kenos the dunk se ne ropes& ass
ough spa her must misoonstrootion of anions
fermaier end ibe a very 4111118
her If she has omitted to denesnee one Mee destine se
heruisal, coasideriag that as theistion shwa ha prehoord
M settle dogmatically all penis of serene, and that the
sheenin which those she teemOsin mast bitterly men
disposed to take refuge has etnesus4 left epos various quer
Boas, comeidered by the isonnere of that slunk be of
kick importune.
I have new only to submit to
and
erases. Though
expelled from your conseitue and forbidden to have any
cammunieation with you in your charitable deeds, I may,
perhaps,be 'Bowed in putts' to remind yes tithe perilyou
haw implicitly giving te way a religious impedes. " gams
of the hut and most dangerous priestliest of seen," said
Lard Erskine,n " arise from the mast honourable Flaws's.
Wham penman. are caught up from bad pwisne, the wont
ass feel intervals of reassess to Wen eirlibeVee thin ;
In t when they arise from iteserame =mom
none, they are hugged der M the beam, me the kindest
and most empeetkineee saws foal a plenum in fostering
• blind and unjust ineentmstaL"
If at any tine howalker pore shank be Wend to relent,
I shall joyfully avail myself et the opportunity of inn
trying to further yen beneveliat sebum, rad in the men
time,
I have the honour to rensin, with the highest respect,
Madam, your most Obedient, faithful &erne.,
Miss Moo. CAMPBELL.