The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-27 00:00:00

the Manchester Bishopric Bill, this attempt of
the How of lords to sany its views by perpetua-
outage
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misted to the uttermost. And if the question of
more bishops have again to be fought, the sower it is
decided the better; so be it cm this clause, if Dr.
&own= pleases.
The emend for more buboes is a ory fx. greater
power ever the laity by the ft of the churrh
of Inglaad. More Whops maw more power for
the Mersre4, less religious freedom fee the laity of
the church; more persecution of the Jews, leas shwa-
tics for the people ; greater spiseopal interfsranos in
our affairs, len popular control ever thi clergy.
Mere bishops will be followed by more deans,
mere digaitsrues, mare prebendaries, mere molesiss-
timl wealth; and by more of every species at church
Owe which it hes been the tendency of recent lghr-
iation to encourao. More bishops will be followed by
a revival of oonvoostion ; and, if restored, the length
and breadth of the lead will be distracted by theolo-
gieal strife and priestly straggles. Already the
of LONDON is seeking to establish a tribunal
of eodeautic, ; now he mks for more bishops. No,
no, Dr. Bt.cratisur ; the tint, for more bishops is
peeved, and that you will find when the 12th section
of the Boolmisetteal Commission Bill comes to be
considered by the Home of Commons.

lii the realm of Cockayne there ere few pleasanter
spots thaa Greenwish Park. It Is hallowed to all of
I us by peskiest, and to mod of no by unsietion.
Gloriosa are the proven@ from the summit of its
hill; sweet on a summer's day are the shadows of its
ebeenst trees. Sappy to the Londoner are the real-
111100111X11 of hours lounged away pleasantly apes its
velvet sward, the dappled deer browsing by his ride,
and the En of the gnat Babylon' deadened by the
&tense.

Yetie.& Greenwich Park le not what it was.
There were wont to be a hundred shady little covert.
In it which sow hays no existence- a hundred pleas
sant places which are altogether lost to oogaisance.
From pleasant grassy opts on which boyhood remem-
bers to have gambolled, one Is now excluded by a
wall, a pallisade, or an enclosure. Years ago see
might roam throughout, undisturbed by any offidal
and unebooksd by any prohibition. Now-a-days it is
difficult to frequent an walk in the Park without feel-
ing under the special o • nof a keeper or a polioe-
nun ; and it IS really no easy matter to find a way
out without encountenng a formidable notice that any
" trespasser" in this direction will be obnoxious
to the law, or that any one who goes the other way
may have a disagreeable rem:mitre with a spring-gun,
or receive a preening invitation to stop from a too
hospitable man-trap.
The truth is, that the pleasant position of Green-
wich Park, its easy distance from London, and its
general convenience as a place of residence, have be-
come too generally recognised. It is a Rood many
years since the advantages of its poutien were
discovered by royalty. The oonsequence of that dis-
covery was the enclosure of the best-wooded
portion tithe park as private garden-ground for the
Duchess of Baurthwicx and the late Princess
SOPHIA. This appropriation was in some degree
compensated for by the residence of royalty, and the
consequent advantage which accrued to the locality.
Bet this was in the days when these realms were go-
verned by a sovereign. Our present fate is to be e-
-1 vetoed by commissioner'. And when, in imitation
of royalty, the commissioners want to set up their
abodes In the park, and to enclose another of its
well-wooded corners for a pleasure-ground, we are
not surprised to hear of a rebellion, even though it is
a rebellion by all Greenwich, spinet " the Hos-
pital " itself.
The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital have
applied for an act of parFament, which was intro-
duced by Admiral DUNDAB on Monday night, " for
the improvement of the hospital and for other pur-
poses." In anticipation of the passing of this
bill a large piece of land at the north-east
"ogle of the park has been already staked out
for building purposes : end it is understood that it is
intended to erect on this site new houses for the
Greenwich Hospital Commissioners, consisting of the
Paymaster-General, the First Commissioner of Woods
and Forests, GEORGE TIEINET, Esq., Rear-Admiral
Sir H. HART, and Rear-Admiral Sir WATKIN 011 TX
PUL. Little less than three acres of greensward are
proposed to be thus appropriated. Charming villa
residences are designed to be erected : of course at the
expense either of the Greenwich pensioners or the
nation, and the public are to be robbed of a portion
of the park which is oertainly, if not one of the most
frequented, not one of the least agreeable of its
resorts.

Within the last few years there has been a rage for
encroachment upon even the comparative little that
is left of the Greenwich Park of the days of Queen
ELIZABESII. The "ranger's grounds" have almost
imperceptibly increased until they have taken in a
slice large enough for a nobleman; the "keeper's
lodge" has gradually swollen in its rise until it
has become quite a prominent object. The expansion
of Mr. Commissioner TIERNEY'S garden shows that
that gentleman and his family must be ardent
floriculturists : at the top: of the hill a whole lawn
was enclosed some four or five years back to make a
" reservoir" for the hospital; the " Observatory " has
now a little park inside its own walls; at the east side
a great space has been railed off with no apparent
object but to diminish the public means of recreation;
in fact it is estimated that within a very few years
nearly an entire third of the park has been, under
one plausible pretext or other, entirely filched
from do public by these wholesale encroachments.
It is high time they were put • atop to, and the in-
habitants of Greenwich will scarcely Lave a better
opportunity of checitnjr such desecrations than at
this =meat, when a of commissioners are try-
ing to effect a mug littlejob for their private accom-
-1 modatioa and convenience entirely at the cost and
expense of the public.
The very mention of the word " park " causes an
involuntary reference to Whitehall-place. Have the
Commimioners of Woods and Forests anything to do
with this matter P Yes; we understand they have..
The extent to which they are implicated is a point
into which we shall isatitute more minute inquiry. Bat
this we may say in passing—that as an expiring act,
this attempt to enclose Greenwich Park is worthy of
them.

Teased of enduing any portion of Greenwich
Park an effort ought to be made to improve it. Of
its sort then is not a liner park in Europe. In
position it is infinitely more beautiful than St. Ger-
maine, and yet see what the French make of the one
and what the English permit to ►e the other! If the
people of Greenwich only tarn this opportunity to
account, they may secure not only the defeat of the
projected job, but, we really believe, the improve-
ment of the noble demesne adjacent to their town.
And in both objects, we need scarcely say, they shall
have oar willing assistance and co-operation.

KIDDERMINSTER ELECTION.