The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-19 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, J

TSB ORATORY IN KING

Mesta Cherissalsat.)
Father Newman, late of (Inked, hat now of Rome,
is at pelmet segaged is a melee et Interco
at the Oratory, format the Daudet Rooms,
in Bin William-street in the Stread. The object,
=tly, of these ketoses, is to remove tie diffi.
which his femur followers (the " Anglicans."
se he now calls thee) have in following the example
et Ms perversien.
Ths Oratory is a large square room, without any
architectural embellishment. aid badly lighted from
the roof ;at one end is a prerely tat gaudily deco-
rated altar, at the other a large gallery is which there
is an organ; in • recess famed at one side of the
spartmect there is another chapel and an altar lees deco-
rated. Oa the walls in the greater room are scriptural
pieces of little or seartistionerit; whlletenthosisof the
the recess an wisdom figures the sins of life, repre-
senting the Cromlechs, the Virgil!, sad some of the
Saints. The room is fitted up with bombes sad chain
closely packed, sad will hold a few hundred people.
The Oratory is itself is the back pert of the manses ;
the other porticos being used as u plies of residence
for the priests or broth ea of the Order of St Philip
of Neri, at the head of whom is another pervert, Mr.
or Father, Faber. These premium ere. it in ander.
stood, only temporarily oossplsd by the order far
their preiesslosid purposes; it beleg intended, when
funds sea be raised emit a .fresi nit eien be oh-
taitted, to erect a large church and other residential
buildings.
Father Newman's mission being at Birmingham.
he comes thence weekly to London to deliver these
lectures. The days are Thursdays and Fridays, sod
the boor is fixed, ludicimudy perhaps, for the audi-
tory he wishes to draw at 6 o'clock. Admission is
given by tickets. Theis decussate are shown at the
outer doer, which is only half opened, so as to avoid
attraction in the street to a youthful servitor in a
black ecclesiastical costume; on 'storing the inner
door some distance off, up a passage, on the walls of
whiehion are requested "to pray for the soul of
Lady Eiisabeth Throckesorton," the visitor is politely
removed by a similar attendant, who is arrayed in
white over black, and directed to a seat. A consider-
able part of the room is est apart for ladies, who pro-
bably constitute one-third of the audience.
Gradually, am the hour of five approaches,
the room fills—sow a party of elegantly and
fashionably dressed women enter is all the cos&
deuce of rank and position ; then a twopenny post-
man and a bard working mechanic sheepishly follow :
now three or four young temple" then as many hard
faced Irishmen, bowing reverentially to the altar as
they pass ; priests and neophytes of the Romish
persimmon glide gently and noiselessly in from a side
door and take seats in the first rows : concurrently
clergymen of the " Anglican " church enter hastily,
with curious looks and %messy steps, and seek places
as much out of sight as possible, if obtainable under the
gallery. On the whole, however (the ladies, of course,
in their gay dresses and riqoant bonnets, excepted),
the auditory is not a distinguished end scarcely& plea-
sant or agreeable one; there are in it few accomplished
or thoughtful looking gentlemen ; but in their stead
not a little cf dirty looking youthful enthusiasm;
sinister eyed priest', and priggish " Anglicans." To
all appearance there is a preponderance in the
audience of those who pay no obeisance to the altar.
Exactly as five o'clock strikes, in come Father
Newman and another priest; they proceed to the
altar, and after a few words of prayer there, the
former takes his place in a little, plain, low tribune,
somewhat to the right and in a comer of the apart.
mint. The father is a tall, thin, lifeless, =intellee
tut looking person, with a lack lustre eye and a face
of inordinate length. The tribune scarcely reaches to
his waist; and this gives increased length to his tall
figure. The lecture (or full notes) is contained in a
manuscript book, and from it the father reads in a
rapid, unmodulated, and not very distinct tone, hold-
ing the book close to his face, and thereby adding
to the difficulty of hearing and following the dis-
course. In language and in style of thought,
the lectures possess the general chemist-
istim of Father Newman's other writings;
sentences of inordinate length worked out
with a wondrous lucidity ; facility over words
quite extraordinary ; subtlety of distinctions and dif-
terenoes founded very mach on that facility, of the
rarest order ; constant references to the fathers, little
notice of the scriptures, the largest demands on the
belief of his auditory, and the most comprehensive de-
nial of Christianity to all who differ from him. It is
difficult to suppose that lectures so characterised can
achieve their object ; nor do they appear to have much
effect on the auditory. They are as devoid of all
eloquence or rhetoric as they are eminently defective
in logical cogency. They are, in fact, a favourable
specimen of what may be termed Clarrafian
Coolant. They are strictly limited to an hoar ; and on
their conclusion, the organ raises its tone and plays
the auditory to the doors, where stand a string of
handsome carriages and neat broughams.

rNE 19, 1350.

SULTS OP LONDON DUIUNO THE WEIUL
won se everir.amenrs inn]
la the week wenn hint lietardey the deaths ries-
twee I. the asserepethan ellstriets wen 800. Taking the 10
conespeadieg weeks el 1840-9, It mean that the bathe
wen new lower Ikea 730, whin nodded is 11141, wham
distriskoila was Ins en et Meat e an that they nee
is Is 1.000. The average el the ise weeks is 861, sr,
raised Lambdas le Innen of pertinent, 928. Teen
wee, • thereon lest week ea the .ennead
average einsaatin to 131 Is the genie w
epidnie abin d diseases the deaths eauseresed
wen 1031 sad of nodal essepiainto whin It essephise,
small-pee was fatal* 9 abilthee. sad animism to 19, both
still neekbrobly nee the anew II modes was fetal to
20. sad reseigh 30-_, both of whisk an
near thew l .enures. • Popies, oa the ether
bead, SWISMIS to preen seers Wally;, fa Ike feet three weeks
it serried elfeeenesively MI, 39, sad 43 patsees, sad hes mew
rises mbar above the enrage et thew .
weeks, la adoidtb game ben 17 to 09. ..pse:reinadlM
ague aid ere sof reemithest tent ; two of intense slid teas
Hpurpose. Oa the thh et Jon, at 13 Tnenestrest,
ethangtees, the sea eta eseffebtaket, eget two yes
..,died of 'Mien after U hoe& 111...,. Diarrheas and el-
ision woo t tel to ID persons, all inept five havlstobrz
shildrea ; this is not quite egad to OM nubble n
In the sane week of 1147 9 ; is the 'ocarespealleg week ell
W t year 1113 deaths eniened Deb fib aft sooddilats, and at
the was tine 43 wen sand bye/shwa. Lest week 10
weans did after eiffidbirtle, la six of whisk nen puerperal
fever was the aeon of death. Uwe* of the napintery
meas. aieloao M ealossiptka, weer 11.1 I. Pa SSW;
thsit gredneldediee se the beineetwee lowans is ahem
. by the euensevelathed brae but Sts weeks, e:?teel46
ill
118 led, , and The banality of condi
still below the • average ; the nenther it cans
lam weak woe 129. Pin wombs were registered lest week,
who bad reached 90 years of age or upwards. Oa the 10th
of Jen, at 6, Biritennievardens, St. Mary, Merylebone' the
widow of a labourer died from "decay of nature,
." net
hada, Used, if sea Materials, without the earrooseadee
of misters of births or btptisees, eau be credited, is the
extraordinary ace of 110 yens sad 6 stoetlL Her MOM
was Catharine 0 Flaherty , she was • native of Myeloid',
of the county it Mayo, in Inland, and ..00ntinglitts,
Mr. Martin, the regatta) in full possessioe of her
and two days before death could thread a needle without Ike
aid of spectacles." Her en, who lane this sestesset
him, Is • labourer, and is 87 yetn old. A woman, aged 40
yowl, Cod is the Losdon Hospital, to whin she bed bees
brought from Bow, of Whammies of the one frees the
sting of a bee." A yeireosesswo: an was fond dead la • dar-
ds, hob suffocation by a fall seder the *endue.a what the 110SOSSeS 1117 dellailPS SS s "alcoholic fluid."
Fear children were suffocated in bed.

The reading of the barometer at the Royal Observatory,
Orseawieh, was above 30 Is. on Sunday ; the mean reading
of the week was 29 702. The mean unsperaihre el the
week was 68 deg., and rather leer than the amuse of the
same week in semen years. 0a the firm dues days it wee
above the average, sad the excess on Tuesday amounted to
7.8 deg.; on the last three days it was below the average,
sad on Someday it was km than the average of that day by
nearly 13 deg. The wind was generally in the sontlt•weet.
The births defies the week wars 1,260.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
THIS DAY.
MARLBOROUGH-STRE T.
CitAloB Or STBALINO ♦ HONAII AND CAB.—C. ANUS
was charged with stealing a hone and cab.
James Hartland, a cab-driver, stated that, yesterday
Morning, about two o'clock, be had occasion to leave
his horse and cab on the rank, in Oxford-street, for a few
minutes, and on his return he found that some perms
had drivels away with them. He made inquiries
of the other cabmen, sad the information he re-
ceived from them induced him to proceed to the Haymar-
ket, where he saw the prisoner on the boa of his (witness's)
cab, plyieg for hire. Directly the priesser aught sight of
him, he jumped off the cab and ran • +ay. Witham par.
sued him, and g►vs him in charge.
The primmer, in defence, said he was hard up for the want
of bread, and seeing the Complainant's cab unattended, he
thought he might borrow it for an hour or so, in order to
raise a *lulling for his family.
As there are other cases of • similar maws against the
prisoaer, Mr. Bingham remanded him till Monday next.