The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-15 00:00:00

E 88473 AND REVIEWS.

An extraordinary demand for this incriminated
volume set in yesterday morning, consequent upon the pub-
lication of the report of the Depetation to Lambeth Palace
on Wednesday, and the reply of the Archbishop. Up to
the present times 14,000 copies of the work bus bean sold'
The new edition is oompoinal of ri,(X)O copies. A very
Copious polemical literature, consisting chiefly of replies,
more or leas formal, to the ►rguments and allegations con.
tamed in " Essays and Reviews," hey sprung up within the
last week or two. dome of these are very slight produc-
tions, and could only have been produced on the sup.
position that anything on the subplot will be read ;
Nome are reissues of works that have already done good ser-
vice, and a few are distinguished by erudition and logical
power. Some of the most learned and able replies to " Emus
and Reviews" are directed to special points raised in that
volume. Among thews may be mentioned the Rer. .1. 0.
Ousnove's article on °minis Characteristics of Holy Scrip-
ture, written with medal reference to Professor Jowett'e
may. The Rev. Henry Chalk, of Bristol, hu replied to
the Hebrew criticisms in Dr. Rowland Williams's
may. Dr. Heurtley, Margaret Professor, publishes ser-
mons on the Inspiration of the Scriptures, and on the
Atonement. The comprehensive article in the British
quarterly Review is republished in • separate form.
The elder and classical works, as they may be called,
on both side. the question, are again called for—
e. g., Coleridge's Confessions of as Inquiring Spirit,
in which the main question which underlies the present
controversy is treated so thoroughly, on the one hand, nod
Dean Trench's Notes on the Miracles, on the other. The
latter work has numbed a sixth edition. Sermons in which
the authority of the Osnon,s,Lbe inspiration of the Scriptures,
the limits of human reason, sod cognate subjects, are
treated, come upon us like • eying cloud.
The controversy pervades every species of literature,
and does not disdain its humblest forms. The last
number of the cheap popular periodical called " Good
Words," to which some of the most eminent divines of
the established and nonconformist churches are contri-
butors, contain. • paper by Archbishop Whataly, a part of
which is • direct reply to the late Professor Baden Powell's
argument on Miracles. N. chum edition of " Essays and
Reviews " has ea yet Um announced, nor is it likely to be
while the book sells so rapidly at its present high
pries, but the clerical *mats an supplying the deficiency
by reprinting what am deemed the most mischievous parts
of the week, with • very slight drapery in the form of pro-
tests, mittrammss, halm mad so on. It is impossible to
doubt that these ham bean the most effective stimulants
to the enarnsons ads of the volume. Dr. Jelfs pamphlet,
entitled. "Evidence of Unsoundness in the Volume en-
titled ' Essays and Reviews,' being his Speech delivered in
the Jerusalem Chamber on the 26th ult., with long and
atuneross quotations, is • mammary exhibition of the argu-
ment of the Essayists which will be read far and wide.

THE VICAR or BIRSTAL AND HIS EASTER Duet.
—Yesterday, at the Bradford Borough Court, no fewer
than IS pwmoo. were summoned, at the instance of the
Rev. fit. Mold, Vicar of Bintal, in the West Riding, for
the nonpayment of various sums ranging from 2e.
to 9d., " justly due" ea the ieforroation declared
to the said vicar on account of " tithes, offeyingt
obvestimas, moduses, oblations, and compositions
'scarred within the two years last peat. Mr. George
Bromley, parish clerk, and the agent of the vicar, appeared
to support times claims of the Rev. W. M. Heald ; and
Mr. Wainwright, solicitor, appeared on behalf of many of the
defeadanta. Thirty ono, however, had paid the de.
stands upon them since process was served ; of
the reel eo more then six claims were sustained,
twenty fain on amount of informality, in the
egad (Mr. Bromley) sot having made a personal demand
of theme The Gout was crowded with persons
frees the BireW district, and at one part of the inquiry,
Mr. Pelkard„ the priding megistrate, on looking round the
work chinned : There is a great deal of grinning
amend peewee apparently miming from the district
Wibil•Pli these defesdante come, in 000sequenoe of the failure
of thane teem ' • but allow me to tell such persons that
these arse do not fail on account it any defect in the law,
but as essecount of the stupidity of this old man, who acts
as the sent. of the vicar, and that these claims are justly
doe to IM vier. Mr. Bromley. at the close of the inquiry,
couipieleed of having been unjustly used by the niagui-
trate ; but Mr. Pollard replied, that be had acted very
naLuel towards the vicar in not performing his duty more
7.
BCDOOL TOE TEE INDIGENT BLIND, BT. GEORGE'S-
FIELDS. 8031117.-A peers' meeting of the members of
this oorporation wee held at the Laudon Coffee Hoses,
Ludgate-hill, yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock ; Robert
Tubbs, Esq., is the chair. Among those pretest were Vis-
count Oranniore, Sewn. Edmund C. Jellison, Camel Cure,
John Bockett, Marten Hobberden, B. Drew, C. Dorsett,
E. Pepys, F. Mewed, J. Weisser, J. Rohn& Win. Raw-
son, the Rev. J. Emma, sod Dr. Groomes:l. Several
(anteroom were added to the committee, and
visitors and molitose for the coming year were
appointed. The balance-sheet for the past year
was sad audited, and will shortly be pub-
lished. rei wee anneumced that there wen at the primal
UMW meetly 900 Wad pupils being supported and educated
to mites trades in the establishment. The trade of oboe.
inside( was about to be discontinued in the institution, in
coasequeses of its not being considered to be so profitable
as several el the other trades now being taught there. It
was also annenneed that a concert would be given on Wed.
peaky salt, the 201 q instant, at ;t o'clock in the afternoon,
at the inetitutios, when the pupils would perform several
pieces of sacred music. The proceedings terminated with
thattisual vele of thanks to the chairman.

NATIONAL Sooner roR11;0CATION. —A public
westing was summoned for yesterday afternoon, at the
landau Tavern, to celebrate the fiftieth annivenery of the
National Society for promoting the education of the poor
in the principles of the church of England—the Lord Mayor
being announced as the chairman, and the Bishop of
London, the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, Lord R. Cecil, and
Mr. Hubbard, M.P.'s, as amongst those who would speak in
aid of the objects of the society. The hour at which it was
advertised the chair would be taken was 3 o'clock, but at
that hour, except the reporters, there was not a single
pence in the body of the room. In the course of half an
hour two gentlemen came in, but as there was no increase
in the number, one of the secretaries, some time later, made
his appearance on the platform, and intimated that., Waa-
-1 much as the Bishop of London and several other influential
lay and clerical gentlemen who had been expected were
kept away by convocational or parliamentary duties, and as
the audience we nevertheless far lass numerous than the
speaker, who would have to address them, the meeting
would be adjourned to some Mare day, of which due
notice would be_givem
RAILWAY UONITANITS ANDOLIATION. —The usual
monthly meeting of this association was held yester-
day, at the Railway Clearing-house, Bernourolrest ; Mr.
Thompson, M. P., in the chair. The minutes of the lest
waatlag having been confirmed, Mr. Morrison (the secretary)
reed the following rert :—" The committee think it is
expedient to abandon for the present the attempt to frame,
by means of this association, a measure for the amendment
of the law under which railways are rated ; but that the
oddities of one or more members practically acquainted
with the subject, to the select committee on the Parochial
Assimment Bill be proposed to the government by the
eiabwma." The sockwate of the last quarter, ending Dec.
31, aawfamtlig to TR 19e. 3d., were thee laid on the table,
mad else a amount of the expense of the company for the
year Ina ?he ohmisimsa, in moving the adoption of the
amid railway ecespanies laboured under many
grinasee In wiped of {bow rating by the parochial autho-
rities. Is a peat ray perishes the railway rate was often
SOO per osst. pester the the general rate. They bad last
year introduced a bill to remedy this evil, but it did not
enceeed. There was at present a committee sitting for the
parpoes of considering the whole of the parochial swiss-
waits of the country, and be proposed that the subject of
railway rating sheald be brought before it. He bad bees
asked to sit upon that ceretnittee. and if it was the wish ef
the sesocietion be would do so. The report was the to.
mired, sod a reseintion passed requesting the alminman to
sit upon the maunittee referred to.
KXTI.AOIDI NARY AINOrTIT up BRITTON° AT Lrvis-
rom.. —At the meeting of the Mersey Duke and Harbour
Board yesterday (Thursday), Mr. Lockett, the chairman et
She docks and quays committee stated that there was we I
unusually lane gmineity d abippiag at t in the docks'
sad river. There were in like L ivsspooecks 608,058 tow
of shipping ; in the Bisksaheed doclu 13,678 tens ; gad In
the rises, 14,163 teas ; total, 588,406 tons. Mr. &akin
=nlsef the flames committee) said that while the
i tonnage ware large the revenue was also Ws"'
I beteg li pet eat. ignitor it war was Wore at the
some pugthe year.