The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1868.

govt Jinni ut of Bishops. What th..y WO/LW Is• if left
to titeniselves may be judged of from their language
and conduct in Convocathrn. 'Phone you really 144.q1
what the episcopal mind is, when undiluted by
the sdiuisture of secular persons mud interests.
As the air and the sea, when viewed in small
quantities, are apparently colourless, but when
looked at in mass show their real hue, so
the Bench of Bishops massed together
in Convocation come out true-blue. The
strongest argument in favour of relieving
them from their duties in the House of Lords is
do rived from a study of their proceedings in their
own place. What element of wisdom, an impar-
tial person is forced to ask himself, can the
authors of the speeches, the resolutions, and the
votes recorded in the reports of the Upper
house of the Province of Canterbury contri-
Lute to the discussions of the House of
Lolls? Some positive addition to the
poli-
tics] virtue and legislative capacity of that align it
its:.eiiibly is, by pretty general consent, desirable.
But the Bishops do not supply it.. They are a
negative quality. The sign isistot in mist le. written
Li•fort, their names. If the House of L arils were
Dally ViillllB tin bench of Bishops, its quality
would Is' materially improved. Mr. GI. nstos E
has explained that, forecasting, some years ago,
the inevitable disestablishment of the Irish
Chung', he was inclined to favour the continued
presence of the Irish Bishops in the llouse
of Lords, as the representatives of tenure by
merit. No wonder that ho has since dis-
carded the idea. The only wonder is that he
should ever have entertained it. The Bishops are
to a man in different ways meritorious persons.
They have all of them got on in life. They have
made their way in the world—we mean in the
Church. This is a good solid ground for British
respect. Some of them have higher claims to
admiration. Mr. GLADSTONE'S opinion pro-
ceeded, however, on the strange mistake of sup-
posing that different kinds of merit are inter-
changeable ; that men can be admitted to
ad etoulem degrees in the various schools of ex-
cellence; that a good theologian, a popular
preacher, a zealous missionary, needs only to be
moved bodily into the House of Lords, in order to
make him straightway a wise politician. Con-
vocation has shown the wisdom of that article of
the old Radical creed which would have restricted
the Bishops to their spiritual functions, and
have allowed them to devote to religious
and charitable purposes that portion of their
revenues which is now spent upon great establish-
ments in Belgravia or Tyburnia. Surely, a fashion-
able archiepiscopal dinner party in Lambeth Palace
or Grosvenor-place involves to the extent of Mr.
GrxrEß's or Messrs. FORTNCH and MASON'S ac-
counts, a secularisation of the Church property as
complete as if it were sequestered for the endow-
ment of a hospital or a school house. The reve-
nues of the Church, we are told, are the wealth
of the poor. When a Bishop gives a dinner party
to peers and fashionable persons, the poor profit, we
suppose, in some vicarious way by the festivity.
But, returning from this digression, we must re-
peat, that if the sceptical man of the world who
called Convocation into active existence, after a
suspension of its vitality for many generations,
had wished to show the incapacity of Bishops for
politics, and the practical difficulties which
beset the working of Church Establish-
ments, he could not have adapted his
means to his end with more consummate
dexterity. Convocation is little more than a
hunting-ground of heretics. That is the clerical
• substitute for sport. It is the Bishops' Club for
pigeon shooting. Poor Bishop COLENSO is turned
out periodically, like the tame stag at Windsor,
for the purpose of giving the prelates a run, and
the view-halloo of the Bishop of OxFonn and the
eager shouts of bishops, deans, and proctors fill
the air. The Bishop of NALL', is the Aunt
Sally of the clerical gatherings. His bat-
tered image is set up as the mark for
the missiles of his brethren. When the epis-
copal stuff is sent with peculiar force or skill into
the injured countenance of the South African
prelate, the applause is unbounded. No one of
his brothers wishes the Bishop of NATAL to be
treated more gently. The only dispute which
arises is as to the conditions of the game, and
whether particular throwers have played fair. If
it were not for Dr. COLENSO, Convocation would
have neither work nor play.
Perhaps it may raise a smile upon some
right reverend face, if we treat their deli-
berations seriously. The topics which en-
gage them are of a very subtle class, re-
sembling those which occupied scholasticism in its
dotage. How far Bishop COLENBO is, and how
far he is not a Bishop, and where the Bishop in
him ends and the heretic begins; how far the
Church of England is a Church,,and how far it is
an Establishment, and where the Church ends
and the Establishment begins, are the problems
on which they busy themselves with keenest
relish. The Sorbonne was never occupied with
nicer questions.
The conclusion of the Bishops appears to be
that Dr. Counts° is canonically deposed, yet
that his ordinations are valid ; in other words,
that, though spiritually excommunicate, he
can exercise the most stupendous of episcopal
gifts, that of conferring the HOLY GHOST
upon candidates for the priesthood. As regards
the proceedings taken against him, they were
not, the Bishops think, in conformity with law,
but still substantial justice has been done. In
other words, Bishop CoLzuso has had Lynch law,
and that is good enough for him. To turn to
the other problem which we have men-
tioned : the Established Church is, accord-
ing to the Bishop of OXFORD, an Establish-
ment for the purpose of receiving benefits from
the State, and a Church in its right to be uncon-
trolled by it. These satisfactory conclu-
sions having been arrived at, the Upper House
of Convocation finished its work on Wednesday
by passing an address to the QUEEN calling upon
Her MAJESTY, personally, to take measures to pre-
vent the disestablish ment and disendowmont of
the Established Church in Ireland. A hun-
dred and forty-five thousand Irish ladies
have approached the throne with similar
counsels. Do the Bishops recommend a
coup d'tat ? Is Her MAJESTY to govern
without a Parliament, or in spite of it ? The Bishop
of OXFORD would make a decent counterpart of
LAUD ; but Mr. Disa.k.zu would be a poor STRAF-
FORD; and the other conditions for the great his-
toric revival which seems to be contemplated are
wholly wanting.

ALEXANDRA PARK.

Tux two days' racing at Alexandra-park, Mus-
well-hill, and the large number of local and other
visitors which these races have attracted, have di-
rected public attention to a property that is des-
tined to become a not unimportant rival to the
Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Before this week
very few people knew the difference between the
Alexandra Theatre at Highbury and the Alexandra
Pa ace at Wood-green, and now thousands are

L441141(1.5 !peCtlitalllg as to the future of an enter-
prise which Lea taken possession of one of the
most picture que spots in the north of London.
The Alexandra' Palace is the substantial result of
the great Intentational Exhibition of 1862, and
the building and park doubtless represent a
capital of more than half a million of money.
The property is divided into two aoctions —one
the Alexandra Land and Building Company,
whose function is either to erect semi-detached
villas or to cause them to be erected, the other the
Alexandra Palace Company, whose function is to
open and manage a gigantic show that shall
attract the ltitude without demoralising the
neighbourhood Thu first company holds about
three hundred acres of the Muswoll-hill estate
—seine portion of which, like the `• Angel"
at Islington, is, oddly enough, in the parish of
Clerkenwell ; and the second eompany holals about
two hundred acres of ground, which they have
planted ;as a park and garden, and on which they
have elected their palace and laid out their race-
murse. This latter portion of the land is sub-
jeeted to a n•ntal of tort thousand p!)1111113 a
year, which the Alexandra-park Company have to
pay, and this, with a fair interest on the capital
invt sta d in tho park sotd grounds, would raise
the weekly outlay of the company under this head
to something like 7001. a week. The working
expanses (it the company, when the palace is fur-
nished and opened as the directors intend to furnish
and open it next year, may be any antount from 500/.
to 1,000/. per week, according to the entertainments
provided. As some guide, we may state that
the average working expenses of the Crystal
Palace, including everything, are about 1,5001.
per week, against average re.•ceipts of 2,5001. per
week. It is probable that a now " working
company " will be started to lease and manage
the Alexandra Palace and Park, with a capital of
50,0001., or as much more as the enterprise re-
quires to complete it.

THE Diriteo of Flervnee mentions that a priest's
breviary has just been found in • religious house,
with the following Foram,:
Ave color vini clari
Ave sapor sine part
Tua nos hodio inebriari
lliveris putt atia.
Primum potum bibs titian ,
Ad reoundum vide fundum;
Tortium erit sicut primum;
aemper bibs vinum.
exultemns
Vinum bonnie quo& habemua;
Adaquantes condamnomus
In acturuam tristitiam.
Amon .

We give a hasty translation—
Hail ! colour of bright wino,
Flavour beyond reach is thine!
Thou'rt fit, with strength so fine,
To make us drunk to-day.
The first goblet, wholly gobble it;
The one to follow drain it hollow ;
if still athirst drink as at first;
Thus always drink your wine.

WO, drinker, should rejoiee
of good wine to have such choice,
Water-mixers, with ono vo;ca,
Let tie dame for over.

Amen.

The jolly priest, mays the Diritto, Wag evidently
spirituowdy-minded.

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITIES
BILL.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WKDWRSDAY, JULY 1.
Order read, for resuming Adjourned Debate on Amend-
ment proposed to Question (13th May), "That the Bill
be now read a second time ;" and which Amendment
was, to leave out the word "now," and at the end of
the Question to add the words "upon this day six
months:"—(Mr. Walpole:) Question again proposed,
"That the word ' now' stand part of the Question :
Debate resumed :—Question put :—The house divided;
Ayes 198, Noes 140.

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Barry, C. B. Oreville-Nugent,CoL Peel. A. W.
Bass, A. Grosvenor, Copt. Philips, R. N.
Bain, X. T. *rove, T. F.
Bailey, T. Hadileld, 0. porot=W. H.
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Blake, J. A. Bonnier, Sir J. J.
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Bonham-Carter, J. Harris, J. D. Rebow, J. G.
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On the motion for going into committee on
Bale of POlllO/19 and Pharmacy Act Amendment Bill, Lord
Robert Montagu will move that the bill be referred to a
select committee.
Mr. Dillwyn will ask the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Monday whether it is true that negotiations,
contingent upon the passing of the Telegraphs Bill either
in this or the next session of parliament, for the purchase
of their interest in telegraph companies by the govern-
ment, have been entered into by the Poet-oftlce authori-
ties with certain railway and other companies, notwith-
standing that a select committee of this house is now
conducting an inquiry into the whole question of the
expediency of the government's taking up the telegraphs;
and it so, whether he will lay a copy of the suggested
form of agreement upon the table of the house.
Tux Ihisn CHURCH.—The Manchester Church
Defence Association celebrated its first anniversary in the
Free Trade Hall, Manchester by a general meeting on
Tuesday night, and by a breakfast in the same building
yesterday morning. The meeting was numerously at-
tended. The only celebrity present out of a number of
noblemen invited was Lord Oranmore, who spoke both at
the meeting and the breakfast. Mr. Alderman Lamb, the
Rev. Mr. Kearney Mr. H. C. Rakes (of Chester), and
the Rev. 8. Cat. POtter were asnongat.the speakers. The
speeches contained nothing very original or interesting,
being chiefly directed against the devendownient of the
Irish Church and congratulations that "we have a
House of Lords." It was stated at the breakfast, that
6001. would be needed as the sinews of war to defend
the Church, and papers were handed round soliciting
donations, but the result evoked no enthusiasm, as the
amount of promises was not stated. About 150 per-
sons were present. Several speakers mentioned the name
of Mr. H. C. Bailees as a conservative candidate at the
next election for Manchester. Mr. Raikes has unsuocess-
fully contested Devoaport and Chester at past elections.
EAnnow Benoot..—On Tuesday, the 28th of
July, there will be an examination for three scholarships
of Wt. a year each, open to all boys (not members of the
school) who were under 13 years of age on the 14 of
January, 1068. Further particulars will be supplied by
the head. master.
ROYAL NATAL SCHOOL, NEw-Citoss. —At a
mating of the members of this corporation, on Tuesday
last, Admiral Whisk, vice-president, in the chair, Admiral
the Hon. A. Duneomba, M.P., was unanimously elected
Fondant, in the room of Admiral Sir W. Bowles, K.C.8.,
whose advanced age compelled him to relinquish a post
which he had filled for a period of aterly a quarter of •
11114114 e

Eke Court,

WINDSOR C.ISTLK, JULY I.
The Queen, the Princess of Loiningen, and
Princes.' Br %trice, drove nut yestonlay afternoon.
11cr Majesty and the Royal Family went out this
morning.
To-day being the anniversary of the marriage of the
Prince and Princess Louise of 'lease, the choir of St.
George's Chapel sang under their royal highnesses
window at 7 o'clock this morning.
Prince and Princess Louis of fleitse and Princes
Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, the
lion. Lucy Kerr, Baroness Gruncy, Major Von Besse,
Lord Alfred Paget, and Baron von Itabenau, went to
London this afternoon.
The Crown Prince of Denmark and the Prince and
Princess Philippe of Wurtemburg vi.ited the (11,,,0r to-
day, and remained to luncheon.
Lord Skelmerstlitle and Major-General Francl.4 S•ymoar,
C. 11., have succeeded Lord Bagot and Colon 1 the II in.
Augustus Liddell a. Lord and Groom in Wiritinz.
Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel Du Plat have sui,eee 1,1
Lord ( 'ha Tier; Fitrrop and C' A, in,•l 11. I in .i, rii liy
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Equerries in Waiting.

Thu Prince and of W.L1,4 and the C: rowa I': Mr
of Denmark 11r. MI out )ustoir.lay aft •rm:on.
. .

Captain Ellis has sie.,:eeded
as Equerry in Waiting to the Prinis, of Wal •1.
The Iloyal Commission on Military Education hvl a
second meeting at the War-office ye ,terdity. :
Earl de Grey and Ripon (President), Lord East ar, (:,,„,i,
Lord de ibri, Lord Northbrok, Sir C. Russell, Bart.,
Lieutenant-General Sir Duncan Cameron, General L.:Yroy,
Colonel Hay-thorn, Lieutenant-Colonel Chesney, the lLiv.
W. C. Lake, and Lieutenant Holier (Secretary).
Despatches wore scut yesterday from the Colonial-office
to the Governors of the West India Islands, the Aus-
trait= Colonies, the Governor-Oeneral of Canada, and to
the Governor of the Bahamas.