The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-27 00:00:00

mar to spread theca throughout the length and breadth of
the Tod
_di It may be long Wore this glorious result can
be obtained, and the peele mode by whioh It is to be
acktoved may be different. We shall have no right to make
comp Lints dour progress be slow; but we shall have great
meson to complain if the slowness of the pragrsr arises from
our remissness in making effort. to send fnsth men for the
week. Them will be no want of man to go and preach the
Gomel. It may be this emergenoy Is sent to rouse the slum-
bring energke of many young men now studying Divinity
in our Univsrsities, if it be trail that the dangers et the
outbreak have summoned many young men to enlist who
before held back when then we. no such call. Ito it will be
with the church. As formerly there wee a difficulty in
procuring naimionaries in quiescent times, coo shall now hero
men willing and ready to devote themselves to the work, If
only this and Macleod societies win find them Mid to ad-
vance their Master's cause in that unhappy land. I beg to
move the first resolution. Tho right reverend prelate n-
omad his seat amid loud cheers. . .

Mt. Psitos, 11CP.,;;;;Iedthe resolution.
Marrolotion having poised unanimously,
The Bishop of Oarottit moved the following resolution :
" Thst the proposal of the Society to establish minions in
the goesidential and other principal cities, with a view to
beteg the truths of Christianity before tho ;Wads of the
mei as well as the lower clones of India, is deserving of
the art cordial approbation and encouragement; and that
It Is Issinble to promote, by every available oceans, the edu-
cation, training, and ordination of the wore advanced native
ceadideiss SW the work of the ministry among their own
onaleressa." Since he (the Bishop of Oxford) had been in
the room, a letter had been put into his hand, eddressed
by the lliahop of Diadem to the secretory of the society,
in which be saya,speaking of the sufferings of the oilasionaries
"Tee Sr sloven clergy whom I know, most of them with wives
and faro airs-ogst the Awn ; two wanking iniaskos of
the Society for tho Propagation of the Gospel at Cawspow
sod Delhi—the lest the moat promising I have known--
annihilated ; the missionaries, their wives and families, reor-
dered by ,ermine; the churches, minion-boner school.,
and calechieti honer destroyed; the catechists, echoob
swietere, and the whole body of native Christians, cut off."
It woe not, therefore, a war of race against race, but of faith
senior faith. "Row wonderful are the doings of Almighty
God in permitting all this; but Re death all things well."
And agsts :—" Oh, it will be a fertile soil which has been
watered with the precious blood of so many martyrs—men,
too, as I can testify, who counted not their lives deer to
themselves for the canoe of Christ; and if, sat believe to be
the ease, their deaths will produce a glorious effect In the
harvest of souls that will be reaped from it, the object for
which they lived and died will be gemmed. Surely many a
noble youth from our nnivessities will spring forth to be
• baptised for the dead,' to succeed to the ranks of the de-
parted, to enter into their labours, and to reap the reward of
the convereione which, through God's merry, shall follow their
toils, their trials, and their deaths." Already had this pro-
phoy Loon fulfilled, for he had heard since he came into the
room of two young own of rank and promise in the univer-
sity who had volunteered to go Girlhood take up the standard
of the Redeemer that had dropped from the bends of these
martyrs. (Hear, bear.) The right rev. prelate concluded
by huoindiug the meeting of the bright destiny that awaited
this country if oho did her duty, and took advantage of It as
thy evangeliecr of India.
View Chanoellor W. Paws Woon, in seconding the reso-
lution, observed that he wee aware It was enperfluens for
him to address the meeting after the stirring appeals they
had already baud, but he thought it might be as well that a
lawyer like himself should appear there and join with the
clergy in confessing their shortcomings—tostifying their
hearty repentance and their desire to 'vine it by • real and
an earnestness which, though it could never atone for might
some degree. retrieve the time and the opportunities which
had been so misspent. (Hear, hear) Thoy had heard/tom
the Bishop of Oxford that it was owing to a cowardly fear
of toeing the advantages of our commercial position in
India that the cross of Christ had been thus kept in abey-
ance in that land. He could not see that there was say fear
on the part of Englishmen in announcing that they were
Christians in any other sense, but it appeared there bad been
a fear of loping those worldly advantar s for which they had
shown themaelves trilling to barter their highest privJeges.
(Hear, hear.) The right rev. prelate had referred to those
who in Jerusalem dented the Lord lest the Romans should

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come sad take their nation, end had shown that it wm by that
identical sin that the Remain, were brought upon them.
And so he (the ViosChancellor) believed that it wee our
sinful suppression of Christian truth in India that had
brought upon ue these dire calamities. (Hear, hear.)
The motion was put and curried unanimoudy.
The Biehop of Br. Aura moved • vote of thanks to the
Archbishop for presiding, which waa seconded by Mr. COT-
TON. and carried ; end
Mr. H o o tc IKa having annormed that in oonvequenee of a
%number of persons having gone away, the room not
liege among la to aocosnundate them, another meeting
w be held, of width notice would be advertised, the
meeting operated.

DIXNBR OP THE JIIIROHANT COMPANY
(EDINBUR011).

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On Wednesday last the members of this company
dined together in the Men bent Hall, Hunter-muse. Mr.
CHARLEN LAWAON, old Master, occupied the chair; and
Mr. James Richardson, new Master, acted as croupier.
Among those present were—Sir Wm. Johnston, Messrs.
Adam Black, MX., Charles Cowan, 11.1', Robert Cheru-
bs', ite.
After the usual routine toasts
The CHAIIMAN reposed "Both houses of parliament,
coupled with the healthy of the members for the city, Mr.
Adam Black and Mr. Charles Cowan." He pointed to the
unanimity between sovereign and people, which was secured
by our glorious constitution, where the mutual consent of
sovereign and people, cominuoicated through the two hones
of parliament, was required to every important act in the
state. Ile hved that parliament might long retied the
hearts and wishes of that people towards their sovereign.
Mr. Lite ex, in returning thank., after adverting to certain
local and other matters, said, " With regard to India, I be-
lieve much, very muck, requires to be done—abuses enor-
mous and inveterate to bo removed, and improvements in
every deportment to be introduced. As every man Is bound
to use such talents and opportunities as Ood has given him
for the good of others, so I believe the seise responsibility
devolves upon communities of men or nations. The Bret
subject that will engage the attention of parliament will be
our banking and currency affairs. On this question, I fear,
I shall be comidered hardly orthodox by the majority of my
fellow-Meet)" who consider what they call the Scotch
system the brae ideal of banking.* By the Scotch system I
believe is meant that which existed previous to 1841, when
Sir Robert Peel's act came into operation. The great boast
of this system of joint-stock banking was that the notes and
the depneita were always paid, even if the bank stopped;
but it hoe been peeved that there may be great boss notwith-
standing—only it is not the depooiters or noteholders, but
the unloppy shereholdere that puffer, and wide devastation
may be epreacl through many families by the redacts
conduct of a bank. It to to the generally pendent manage.
meat of the Scotch bankers rather than to the old system
that we are indebted for the security we have enjoyed."
Mr. COWAN in returning thanks, thus alluded to the 00nl•
crisis:—ltmeredal was nefortunate, he said, that this im-
portant subject—the currency—war so mystified by the
abstruse terms of political technicality, and so repulses in
aspect to the uninitiated. A friend of his, a Scotch county
member, replied the other day, when he asked him whether
he had given any study to this great question, "Oh, yes; I
know something about it, and that io how to overdrew my
banker's account." Of course that was in jokiebut it showed
that the prevailing tendency was to pass slightly over thin
vitally important matter. Ile had always regarded the act
of 1844 as applying to the currency of England, and of 1845
as applying to the currency of Scotland, as most uncalled for
and injurious changes. He could conceive nothing more
absurd than the restrictions of the act of 1844 upon the cur-
rency of a country, the commerce of which had made such
enormous strider with every succeeding year. It was like
an unnatural parent, who gave his son a suit of clothes when
be was tan, and vetoed him any expense in Won whoa he
came to be Mem or twenty years oil Mr. Cowan then
quoted a number of statistics from Porter's " Progress of the
British Nation," to show how largely the trade and com-
merce of Britain had increased. He noticed, as a cheering
feature in the present crisis, the feet that the value of stock
was greatly higher jest now than during the panto of 1847.
Both members were received with much enthusiasm.

ST. MAlteg, WIITTECIIATEL.—Great improve-
!mots have lately teen, end are about to be made in this
church. The chancel le lighted by five lancet., and these
have recently been filled with stained glass, the eat being
&bayed by the congregation. The triplet, which la central,
is oompoaed at rich geometrical patterns of opiate, 'soh va-
rying In design ; the ground warts varying also. On these
occur, in the centre one, in medallions, the "Crucifixion"
and the " Ascension ;" north gad south of these the " Nat-
ei,.7 of our Lord" and " Mary et the feet of Jesus." The
windows right and left of the triplet are similar in their com-
pottion, but still varying in their design and colouring, the
subject being the Holy Evaogelots, aignant, to the act of
imeribing the Gamete on scrolls, and their attributes are in-
troduced, 'relent, symbolising impiration. Each window la
enclosed by rich bottom mid along the bottom and running
through the whole is inscribed, " Glory to God in the
highest, pesos on earth, and goodwill towards men." The
channel is to be Sevevut4, and to have ornameetal tablets
containing the Decelogus, &c., introduced. Yr. Warring-
ton, of Connaught-tensor, Hyde-perk, is the artist to whom
tha whole of the week bee bees estrusted.
EQUALISATION or PooILAATE.—The executive
committee of the association for 'scone title object held
their first meeting ix the meson on Wednesday evening lest.
There Iran • tares attendance of the members, who after con-
gratulating themselves on the program the question had
used. daring the last few months throughout the inetropo-
Won distrkta, rewired to carry on • well-arranged system of
agitation by public meeting', and e thorough maven of each
locality. The committee boor tiny a mete of offices at 32,
Fleet-street, and engaged an efficient staff of officers to carry
sort Abair ausaboisi with died.