The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-09 00:00:00

the single aim of church progress,
with regard to the kind of pry
anxious to promote. The reader
any one of these newel apers,
rant of its principles as r
will do well in the first _
at the advertisements. They will tell him at onoe
that which he seeks to know. They will show
him by an unerring test how high or how low, or
how moderate in its theological opinions a church
newspaper may be. Take up, for example, the
Church Times, and you will find offered for sale
in the advertising columns the Bonnet, of a cirdi-
nsPa robe, and " priests of Catholic principles"
offering their services for permanent and tempo-
rary engagements. Among the books or tracts
brought before the Church Times public are many
eminently characteristic of the school to which
it belongs, such as " Flowers and Festivals,"
" Incense agreeable to the law of the English
" Church," " The Deformation and the Reforms-
" tion," and so on, and among the articles sup-
posed to be of special value to clergymen, a
small black leather bag is advertised containing
" an oak altar, altar cloth, bursa and veil, two
" corporals, two purificators, veil pall, two candle-
" sticks (with candles), altar cross, chalice, paten
" and flagon, cassock, cincture, biretta, alb, mice,
" girdle, stole, maniple, chasuble, ha." In such a
journal not even little girls can be offered educir
tion without the additional statement that it shall
be " Catholic," or conducted on Church principles.
Pass from the Church Times to the Rock, to
which Mr. MARTIN TUPPIR appears to be the
laureate, and Dean CLoss the chaplain, and
we breathe at once a different ecclesiastical atmo-
sphere. Advertisers in this journal appeal to the
friends of Evangelical Protestantism, they call the
Pore " the Man of Sin," and in their zeal against
Romanism they offer for sale " The Confessional
" Unveiled ;" and if " earnest Evangelical curates"
want employment, Scripture readers seem to be
equally in request. The Rock looks precisely like
an offshoot of the Record, but there is one point of
dissimilarity, the former being a penny weekly
paper, while the latter is published three
times every week at the yearly sub-
scription of 1/. 19s. With the exception
of this difference, no trifling one truly,
the tone of both journals is so similar, the ability
displayed in them so exactly on a level, their tole-
rance or intolerance so nicely adjusted, their ex-
ternal likeness so striking, that it would be diffi-
cult to know one from the other if the names
of the papers were concealed.
Between the vigorous Protestantism of the
Rock, and the ultra-Anglicanism of the Church
Time, or of the Church News, stands that old and
able journal the Guardian, which years ago would
have been accounted "high," but now merits the
title of moderate, not because its views are changed
but because the opinions or prejudices of the
extreme Ritualists have carried them beyond it.
In the Guardian a clergyman is not necessarily
called a priest, and "moderate views" figure con-
stantly in the advertising columns. The Church
element prevails, however, even in the secular
advertisements. If a good plain cook is wanted
she must be a Churchwoman and a communicant ;
if a clergyman requires a groom, " one who could
" sing would be greatly preferred ;" if those
disreputable articles, manuscript sermons, are
offered for sale, it is, of course, speci-
fied that they are "of good Church
" tone." The Guardian is singularly free from
the peculiar and often irritating expressions
which stamp a party by a phrase or a sneer. It is
, a manly outspoken journal, firm in its attitude to
• opponents, but rarely, if ever, offensive. It may
argue against principles but it will not attempt to
traduce persons ; it may object to a man's views,
but it will not inquire into his personal habits, or
make party capital out of his private deficiences.
This eminently nu-English habit does prevail, we
are sorry to say, among a certain class of clerical
journals, some of which are prone to apply
opprobrious epithets in a most repulsive manner.
In the recent number of the Rock Dr. MANNING is
termed " the modern Judas," and " a worthy
" successor of that Apostle that carried the bag" ;
Mr. Macsorrocnis and " hie Romaniaing myrmi-
" dons" are said to exhibit at St. Alban's a
" monstrous system of imposition," and are termed
wolves in sheep's clothing ; while on the other
hand, in the Church Review, the evangelical party
is said to be engaged " in rooting and grubbing in
" the lowest depths of controversy, and flaming
" abroad in the fantastic and hideous rags of
" faction."

The aim of the Ritualista and the tendency of
extreme ritualism is clearly displayed in this
journal and in others of the chum. In an editorial
article of the G7►wrck Times LIITHZR is termed
" a perjured monk," the doctrine of the Real
Presence is stated to be a Church of England
dogma, and after putting the question " Who is
" on our side I" the writer replies, " not those
" who are ashamed to be seen crossing themselves
"in church, and who furtively draw a minute
" sign over the stomach. Not those who neglect
" reverence to the altar on entering church." In
the copy of the paper before us the correspondence
relates to altar lights and chasubles, altar candle-
sticks, eucharistic vestments, and Roman altar
bread, and in the correspondence of the Church
Review a writer earnestly advocates pilgrimages to
the Holy Land, and exclaims, "We want the
" pelmet again among us."
On the whole, the ordinary reader will not
find much "edification" if the old Puritan
phrase may be pardoned, either in the
Anglicanism of the ritualistic journals or
in the strong flavoured Protestatism of their Low''
Church rivals. Englishmen for the most part have
a very distinct repugnance to theological extremes.
They won't believe, however frequently it may be
dinned in their ears, that all truth lies in one nar-
row groove ; they detest priestcraft on the one
hand, and what, for lack of a better word, may be
called preaching-craft on the other. They have
little sympathy with well-meaning but weak-minded
enthusiast*, who rake in medieval dustbins, and
prefer candlelight to sunshine, and they are as rea-
sonably annoyed with zealots who forget discre-
tion, and with dogmatists who drop from their creed
the first of Christian virtues.

respectively.
good old English custom of respect for
public convenience, to a feverish and un-
necessary parade of political excitement by which
trade, traffic, and the town generally are impeded
and annoyed. Besides, there is really no occasion
for demonstrating just now. Mr. GLADSTONE and
the Liberal party are in a large majority, and
know their own business perfectly. To bold maw
meetings in the streets to insist upon the resigna-
tion of the Government oversteps the line between
sympathetic support and unwarrantable inter-
ference ; and it will in the long run be bad for
England if her statesmen are ostentatiously
gibbetted whenever their policy runs counter
to the popular will. Let us have as
many and as frequent public meetings against
or for the Irish Church as may be equal to the
demand ; only let their whereabouts be chosen
with discretion. To cram Trafalgar-square with
processions and banners for the mere pleasure of
abusing Mr. DISRAELI from under the shadow of
its lions, is to invest both the locality and the
occasion with an importance utterly beyond their
,1 merits.

THE Marquis of SALISBURY'S maiden speech last
night in the House of Lords commenced with an
apology, which spoke volumes concerning the
change which has oome over the habits of his
political life. When " this hour of the night"
means five minutes past 8 in the evening, and an
excuse is needed for detaining an assembly so
late, wo have one of the many contrasts between
the Upper and the Lower House brought before
as in a sentence. But last night proved Lord
SALISBURY and Lord CzAtraoxsz to be one ; and
that, like the BOURBONS, he has learnt nothing and
forgotten nothing in his translation to another
sphere. The same lofty and slightly
crotchetty honour ; the same contempt for
expediency, and independence of mere party con-
siderations ; and the same individuality of judg-
ment marked his decided views upon the case of
Sir CitAitimi DARLING as have become identified
with his name on a score of other subjects. Again
apologising for the lateness of the hour, Lord
SALISBURY wound up his speech by insisting that
" the connexion between the Crown of England
" and its colonies would be a mockery and a Bela-
" aion indeed" if the colonists were in practice
allowed to have their own way in the management
of their own affairs. The good and the honour of
the empire are, according to Lord SALISBURY, as
well as to statesmen with whom he has little else
in common, dependent upon our vexatiously thwart-
ing a full-grown community, which is unwilling to
sever its connection with the mother country, but
which is well able to run alone.

A cass tried in the Bail Court on the Gth of
May, in which the well-known music-sellers, the
Messrs. Camden, were the plaintiffs, and a gentle-
man named AYLEN the defendant, is rather dis-
turbing to those persons who are in the habit of
purchasing articles of furniture at auction marts.
The Messrs. CRAMER had lot a piano on hire to a
gentleman living at Southampton, the terms
being the system under which the pay-
ment of three years' rent is equivalent
to a purchase and settlement. The hirer of
the piano in this instance broke down in his quar-
terly payments after the seventh or eighth
instalment had been paid, and his goods
were seized by the Sheriff for debt, and
sold in the usual manner. The piano was
included in the general clearance, and was
purchased in open sale by the defendant, Mr.
AYLEN, who appears, from the reports of the
trial, to have been a perfectly " innocent holder,"
and to have known nothing of the contract with
the Messrs. CRAMER until after he had paid the
money to the auctioneer. The plaintiffs demanded
the piano ; the defendant refused to give it up ;
and an action was brought which resulted in a
verdict for the Messrs. CRAMER, with costs. Mr.
A.exex had to give up the piano and pay the costs,
no small amount, and was lucky if he succeeded,
as we presume he did, in getting his purchase-
money back from the auctioneer. There are
many hundreds of pianos, to say nothing of other
important articles of furniture, sold in auction-
rooms every week under executions, and few of
the purchasers, as long as they get a "bargain,"
ever trouble themselves to inquire whether they
are not buying goods illegally seized, that may be
legally demanded by the owners. Pianos and
billiard tables are the articles most frequently
sold and bought on the three years' system of
payments by instalments, and are, therefore, the
articles that should never be taken from an
auction-room without a sound character from
their last places.

THE QuzaN'e answer to the address of the Com-
mons on the subject of the Irish Church is to be
brought up on Monday, and the nature of the
reply is a subject of general interest.
Thursday is to be given to the Boundary Bill,
and, as at present advised, the Government, we
understand, intend to fight the Opposition, in
order to oarry the bill against Mr. HIBBIRT'S
motion to confine its provisions to fixing the
limits of the new boroughs.

DEseivE the Impeachment Trial, occasional
angry speeches at Washington, and newspaper in-
vectives, the political, traces of the late civil war in
America, are gradually disappearing. The state of
Arkansas, which a few weeks ago adopted a new
Constitution under the Reconstruction Act, has
now taken the second preliminary step to entitle it to
a place in the Union. The Legislature elected under
the new Constitution has finally ratified the neces-
sary amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, and as soon as the Impeachment Trial is
over, its Senators and Representatives, on applying
for admission to Congress, will be received. Other
of the Southern States %sing Mr. JOHNSON'S
failure, are preparing to follow the example of
Arkansas.

United a.0.4.1i nd of the Odenies, exempt each as
may be y necessary Inn* existing contracts, or
to weeks which mania bit suspended without
serious inenoverdenee, ought to be incurred until the
report of the committee recently appointed ellen have
been laid before this house,"—(llr. Childers)—instead
tlered—Queetion put, " That the words proposed to be
left oat steed part of the question." The bones divided
—Ayes 93, Noss, 48.
AVE.
Adderley, C. B. Maratha°, Lard C. Powell, P. Et
Barrett, H. Hervey, Lord A. Pugh, D.
Vied. Hay, eh J. C. =ooa.. W.
listßantesegt°n, Si
T.
T. Herbert, Gen. P. F.
Dentine:ln 0. C. Hogg, Lieuk-CoL Royston, Visit.
Booth, Sir R. Hope, A. B. Russell, Sir C.
Brett, Sir W. If leston, J. W. Seleriebsr, C.
Brooks, R. Aunt, 0. W. Sclater-Booth, O.
Brace, Major Kerslake Sir J. Sconrileld, J. H.
Bruce, Sir H. H. Kavanagh, A. Pebrln-Ibbeteon, H.
Bruen, If. Laird. J Severn', J. E.
Cave, 8. Limon, Sir C. Seymour, O. H.
give, Lest.-CoL Liddell, H. G. Stoollett, P. B.
Coeknase, A. D. Lindsay, Col. R. fkaa.a.set, Z. A.
Cole. J. L. Lopes, H. C. Stanley, Lord
M
SMIf F. S. Lowther, J. Stirling-itaswell.
lOX,ST.eIf. 'a, P. filr IV.
Dickson, Major MennL
egann% Lord J. Stronge, Sir J
Muddle, R. Mayo, Karl of Thompson, A. O.
Du Cane, C. Miles, J. W. Tborold, Sir J.
i yott, Col. Montagu, Lard R. Torreon, R.
RAwards, Sir H. Montgomery, Sir 0. Turner, C.
Egerton, E. C. Mowbray, I. R. Vanes, J.
Fellowes, R.
J. NNeville-OrenvWs,lL Verner, K. W.
Perfusion. 24r iert, Visit. W R. R.
Finch, 0. H. Noel, G. J. Wynarren,dham, P.
Floyer, .1. N Col. Wynne, W. R.
Forester, Gen. Northeote, Mr S. Yorke, J. R.
Goldney, G. O'Neill, F.
Gordon. E. S. Pakington, Sir J. TISLIRS.
Gore, J. R. Parker, Major Taylor. Col.
Griffith, C. D. Paull, H. Whitmore, if.
Gurney, R. Pemberton, E. L.

NOES.
Adam, W. P. Forster, W. a O'Loghlen, Blr C. M.
Allen, W. 8. French, Col. Osborne, R. B.
Ayrton, A. 14. Coulee, Peerjt. Pollard-Urquhart,
Boller. Sir E. Davin, Mayor W.
Candlish, J. Glyn, 0. O. Ramsay, J.
'Chambers, Y. Goethen, G. J. Salomon., AM.
Childers, 11. C. Gray, Sir J. Neely, C.
Cowen, J. Hibbs.* J. T. Ellwaidan, E. B.
Cooper, E. H. Kinnaird, A. F. flykin, CoL
Cranford, E. H. Labouchere, H. llompson, M. W.
Crawford, B. W. Lawrence, W. Tartans, W. T.
Davey, E. Lewis, H. Winterbotham, H. 8.
De La Posr, E. Lank A. Young, E.
Denman, O. Martin. P. W.
Duff
Dlibryn,lf. I. Monk, MUM.
, , CO.
J. Bally, T. -
ll7kYll. it. Mont., 0. O'Beirne, J. L.
Fawcett, H. O'Brien, Sir P.

!Mt (uurt.

(>I3BORNE, MAT 8.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ae-
companied by Princess Louise ; sad her Majesty, scam.
psaied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove
out this morning, and called on Lady Cowell.
Prises Leopoldi also went oat, attended by Mr. Duck-
worth.

WINDSOR CASTLE.

The Queen, accompanied by Prinoess Louise Prince
Leopold, and Princessiteatrloe, left Osborne this Louise,
at three o'clock, and arrived at Windsor Castle at half-
pest six.

Her Majesty crossed over to Gosport in the royal
yacht Alberta, Captain the Prince of Leiningen,

. - .
The suite in attendance °outdated of the Countess of
Gainaborough, the Hon. Mary Laseslles, Sir T. M. Bid-
dulph, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Mr. Duckworth, Mr. Sill,
and the Master of the Household.

The Hon. Florence Seymour has arrived at the Castle as
Maid of Honour in Waiting.
Viscount Stmthallan and Colonel the Hon. C. H. Lind-
say have also arrived at the Castle as Lord and Groom in
Waiting to her Majesty.

The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday, attended by
Major Teesdale.

The Princess of Walee drove out, attended by the lion.
Mrs. Stoner.

In 'the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales had a
dinner party. The company included his Excellency the
Russian Ambassador, his Excellency the French Ambassa-
dor, the Duke of Richmond, Duke and Duchess of St.
Albans, the Duke • nd Duchess of Sutherland, the Countess
of Westmoreland, the Earl and Countess of Leicester, the
Earl and Countess of Dudley, his Excellency M. and Ma.
dame Van de Weyer, Viscount Hamilton, Lord Henry
Gordon Lennox, Major-General Lord Henry Percy, Right
Hon. B. and Mrs. Disraeli, Colonel Hon. A. Harclinge,
Hon. Mrs. Stonor, Liantenant-General Sir Fertwic' k Wil-
liams, Major-General Hastings Doyle, Mr. Christopher
Sykes, Dr. Quin, General Sir William Knollys, and Major
Teesdale.

Cainikair COCNCIL.—A cabinet ctiuncil is ap-
pointed to be held this afternoon at the First
Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Down-
ing-stieet.

We understand that Ascot Races will be graced
with the presence of their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales, who will occupy Windsor Castle
and go thence in state to the course.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Christian, with their suite, attended the House of Lords
on Thursday, and afterwards honoured Sir Augustus
Clifford with their tympany is his apartments.
The Duke of Edinburgh may be expected in
England about the 24th inst.

The Right Hon. W. E. Glac',atone, M.P., and
Mrs. Gladstone left town last evening for Escrick Hall,
Yorkshire, in order to attend the faneral of the Dowager
Lady Wenlock.

Sir Watkin Wynn entertained a distinguished
party of guests at Wynnatay during the Chester races.
The following were amongst the number:—Prince Salty-
koff, the Earl of Portsmouth, the Earl of Coventry, Earl
Vane, Viscount Comberniere, Viscount Canterbury, Sir R.
Bulkeley, Hon. Admiral Row, Colonel Mark Wood, Cap-
tain Bulkeley, Captain Wingfield, Mr. Drake, Mr. Alex-
ander Chaplin, Mr. Leek*, Itc.

The Duke of Somerset lately sold some land in
the neighbourhood of Devizes, in Wiltshire. It was
divided into 57 lots. One person purchased 20,0001.
worth. Some pasture land sold for 1001. an sere.
On the 29th, Mr. Fawcett will move " that, in
the opinion of this house, catholic., preebyterians, and
other inhabitants of Ireland, will not be placed in a posi-
tion of equality, in reference to university education, with
members of the established church, until all religions
disabilities are removed from the fellowships, soholarships,
and other honours and emoluments of Trinity College,
Dublin. That this house, in order to give more complete
effect to the foregoing resolution, is of opinion that an
executive oommission should be appointed, whose duty it
should be so to re-arrange the existing revenues of Trinity
College, Dublin, that it may be enabled satisfactorily to
fulfil the functions of a naticeal institution."

Mr. Moulton, the aeuior wrangler of this ye*,
hu bays the (Ambridge ledepondepit), obtained a fellow-
ship at Christ's College. From the meat elution' to
fellowships in that emdety, there is an evident &dm to
obtain the best teaching power they can, toe at the pre-
mat time they have two senior wranglers fellows, Mr.
Morton and Mr. Moulton, neither of whom were educated
at the college.

From the fifty-three candidates who aspire to the
honour of the Fellowship, the Council of the Royal
society has selected the following as the fifteen
whom they recommend the Society to sleet, via. :
J. Bell, H. C. Bastian, M.D., LW:daunt-Colonel J.
Cameron, R E., Prof. R. B. Clifton, N. W. Crofton,
J. B. Davis, M.D., P. M. Duman, M.D., P. Orissa, A. G.
V. Masson" Romr•Arimird'A. O. Hoy, ftssrAimirel

°mummy, J. P. Pettigrew, ED., E. J. Stone, Rev. H.
'Dristraan, and W. S. W. Vans. The eleaties hi
anionnoad to he held on the 4th. et Jun*.

fh; chapel iq Bantle= Coast Pekoe bas been
sesisiza, and.% Werke asoommodations improved by the
deemeeval of the okidaphineed high pews. I '
The first grand 'lower show at the Botanic Gar-
,4lollls is liesent's.park will be held on Wedamday, Nay
77. The Wednesday musks' promenades have ahead,'
`asemeaced, The Friday lectures will begin next wee,
May lb.
JAape, Theas4 is to be sold by public aticklA
• gad" Folienleonsalard, en Tweedy week, tie
"T'be'Dre saki if the War in Abyssinia would we be
• seeit *keine for ay ens to make, as sasnageribait
prier et the Theatre ? The prams
isa3•oooterbuilding was built
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MTH, MAT 9.
In yesterday's sitting of the Lower House of the
Diet the treaty of navigation with England and the
treaty of commerce with the Zollverein were in-
troduced.

To-day a oonferenoe will take plaoe between the
ministers and some of the leading men in the house
of Count Andramy on the question of the Landwehr.
General Klapka and General Perczel have been in-
vited to be present.

(sir Arum7c

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Closing Prices :—Gold, 1391. Sterling exchange
on London, UN. 5-20 United States Bonds,
1882, 1081; ditto 1885, 107/ ; 10-40 ditto, 1031.
Illinois, 1451 ; Erie, 69. Cotton : Middling
Upland, 311. Petroleum, standard white, 31.
Flour, extra state, 10 dole. 10c. Cern, old mixed,
1 dol. 21c.

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