The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-12 00:00:00

LORD JOHN'S POSTAL MOVE.

have a vote for that small, yet perfect
borough, rottleherring-com-Pannyloaf, and In right,
or courtesy, of that privilege, received on Monday
last an eider from oar eloquent member—who hes
not yet —ter the gallery of the Commons.
(Mrs• we aro ia town for a fortnight—
preferred a trip to the hippopotamus ; and as a mar-
ried man, I let her_ go, siert arguing with a woman.)
Well, sir, I was delighted and surprised with oar
admirable premier; for; en the Sunday labour in the
Post.ofilos matter, be cants out as a wit. Nobody, I
mast premise, but =pelt, seemed to detect the new-
born faculty ; but wit than was, and wit of the most
cruel kind, as the unconscious good men who have
laboured to put Sunday in black will learn to their
agony and despair.
There is, however, one comfort ; Lord John is
henceforth a declining man. It is true that wit, like
the gout, comes out with moms men late in life. Bat
in all cases it is an unprofitable faculty ; for dullness
is the staple thing of society ; the stuff of which men
delight to make the high ones of authority, from
prime ministers to lord mayors there being, at
times, mush more lead even in coronets than the
world cares to detect in them. The premier, I re-
peat it, is a declining man. Like a dying dip, he has
sent forth an unusual flash of brightness, and may be
soon expected to go out; not like old Aubrey's ghost,
" with a melodious twang," but leaving a political re-
putation of a somewhat noisome odour. Men who
most complacently bear with the dogmatic dullness
of authority, are apt to turn up contemptuous noses,
when said authority, forgetful of his beet dignity,
plays with a jest. Fireworks were not made for
prime ministers.

As yet, however, Lord John is safe. His waggery
is as yet private and confidential ; he alone is the ac-
cessary of his own joke • unless, indeed, it is shared
by the Privy Council, Who respecting the sacredness
of the official oath, are solemnly bound to eecresy.
With them, the premier's wit " will go no further."
Turning from Lord John, let as endeavour to feel
very acutely for the innocent victims of his cruel hu-

moor. Alai! for Lord Ashley, Mr. Plumptre, and
the other latter-end saints, who think Saint Sunday,
like Saint Stylitter, should enjoy no locomotion ; who
believe and with perfect conscience—that with
Stylites, the Sabbath world are only to approach
heaven by degrees of misery ; every new suffering,
every new privation, affording a step upwards. There
are some Sabbatarians with whom Jacob's ladder is
a ladder of red hot iron ; sackcloth and ashes, not
robes of light, ascending and descending.
The solution of Lord John's mysterious joke, the
waggery contained in his acquiescence of the Poet.
MCA: motion not carried, but jockied, a few nights
since, may
.be found in a certain proverb that says, or
implies—give certain people a etifficiency of cord, and
they will unconscionsty, but effectually, silence them-
selves. Now, sir, Lord John, with a fece running
over with meaning, and an edge to his voice keen
enough to carve a rhinoceros, observed —" what
the government wished to rio was to carry into effect
the orders of that house. It was not for him to say
whether any advantage would be derived from the
arrangement.' Never, Mr. Editor, it the words end
manner of a minister are to mean anything, never did
man—with subtlest interpretation of the above pro-
verb—more heartily invite a body of men into a rope-
yard. " The government, gentlemen, will supply
yarn enough : enter, pray enter, and help yourselves."
Mr. Editor, I ha, e, from Monday last, a deeper
respect for Lord 'Wiley ; I am still prouder of Mr.
Plumptre. In this imperfect world of Queen's taxes,
it is sweet to see innocence—specially in the Ilmse

of Commons. And at the word; of LOrd John, Lord
Ashley—like a full-blown lily—looked more innocent
than ever. The ingenious pouter pigeon that, at the
Z /ological Garden., pecks up pros from amid the
coils of the boa-constrictor—that, when awake, will

eat the silly bird—is not more unconscious of its des-
tiny than was Lord Ashley, listening to the destruc-
tive wit of the enfolding minister. I have seen, too,
a rabbit munching a cabbage-leaf, heedless of the
python slumbering in knots that shall gorge it. To
my fancy, on Monday list, Mr. Plumptre rose into
that rabbit.

Lord Ashley and his whole army of Sabbath
martyrs mean well, no doubt. So did the bear who,
seeing a fly on the cheek of his sleeping master,
hurled a stone at the insect, and so knocked the
master's brains out. Now what I ask of his lord-
ship, as General of the Seventh-day Forces, is simply
this—march on, and don t pity me. Please to let the
fly alone ; even though the fly should be the great
chief of flies. I would rather sleep, hardly knowing
the annoyance of the insect, than be devoured, fur
my relief, by the roaring dragan that—se an elephant
precedes one regiment, and an ostrich another—
doubtless always walks or skims before the Sabbath

And yet this army that wou'd once a week sack-
cloth a city, and powder Sabbath bread into cinder,
have—if we will only let the pious troops alone—the
sweetest intentions. Stopping Sunday mail-trains,
they propose to give all ngland almost two days
holiday a week. Commerce shall cultivate its suburb
garden, turning the key on the counting-house; there
shall be lackadaisical leisure throughout the kingdom.
To do business on a Monday shall he retrospective
desecration of the past Sunday., and to twiddle thumbs
shall be the new piety. "The world is too much
with us," says the poet, and Lord Ashley, in his big
benevolence, proposes to cut off clean the whole of
Monday. His philanthropy is subtraction.
And what says Lord John Russell, the new wag
oracular, mysterious? Giving the Ashley powers all
they desire : " It is not for him to say whether any
advantage will be derived from the arrangement.
Why, no ; for his lordship, with something of pro-
phetic poesy lett within him, for red tape has not
wholly bow-strung his muse ; she yet breathes and
sees a little—his lordship beholds the inevitable reac-
tion. Let Lord Ashley stop the Sunday mails ; let
him, if he can, " hang the heavens with black" en
Sunday to the darkening. of the Monday following;
let him for awhile proclaim the working-day week to
be henceforth only five days, and the day of
rest a day in a horsehair shirt, and after
all there will be a shout through merry
England—all the merrier that John Bull has
wiped his feet. with the Sabbath sackcloth—has taken
off hie girdle of points, and stript for Sunday cricket.
Attempting too much, the S sbbatarians will raise a
storm that shall blind and confound them with their
own ashes; and—ao in another time—it will be well
if the lank hair and tallowy cheeks of real puritan-
ism and compelled hypocrisy, are not crisped into the
" love-locks" of another sort of restoration, and
rouged with another kind of boid-facedness. Are we
to forget that a Praise-God-Barebones was the social
father of a Rochester ?

But Lord John is a prime ministers a poet, and a
historian. He stands, like Cerberus, triple-l.eaded
three separate brains beating under one hat; and
Lord John knows the result, and waggishly allows
the Sabbatatians to begin their campaign.
And Lord Ashley and party are loading the gun
that—well-served and pointed—is to destroy the
stronghold of what they, the pious gunners, condemn
as Sabbath sin. The gun, overcharged, will surely
burst. For my part, I shall care very little if its
recoil knock the gunners themselves into the mud ;
but I can't help having some anxiety for the condition
of the unoffendinq, innocent people, that may suffer
from the " blessed' artillery.
I remain, your obedient. servant,
Ivy Tod. JOHN OAKAPPLE.

CALLS TO Tllll BAIL. LINCOLN'S INN. The
Triaito Term calls to the bar of the Society of Lincoln's
Inn were made yesterday. The attermentioned gentlemen
were admitted:—Robert noustoun, Ooldwin Smith,
M.A. ; James It. Brougham, Esq.; Vincent J. Reynolds,
B.A ; Worsts J. Lyons, M.A.; Charles J. Monk, M.A ;
George 13evan, John R. Baker, M.A.; Renr.
J. 8. Maine, LL D; and Robert H. llolt, Esq. iNNXIi
TenrLe —A further call to the bar of students of the IL'u.
society of the Inner Temple was made yesterday. The fol.
lowing gentlemen were admitted: Charles Telfourd, of
Christ Church College, Oxford, 8.A.; and John Alex Li
Touche, of Trinity College, Dublin, BA. OilA 'eS 15
At a Penaion of the lion. Society of (iray's tan, holden yes-
terday, Felix Charles Frederick Gallet, Esq., was called to
the bar.

ALLIOED DZATH TllBoUtiff ILL•TBBATI&hNT RS-
0111111D11011 POLlt:a•Oyylcllut.—Yeeterdey an inquest was
held before the binumth coroner of Liverpool relutive to the
death of a young rasa, named James Sheridan, who, it was
alleged, had died in consequence of Unripe rec, lead from
polies (Aeon, whilst conveying him to Br Jewell on the pre-
vious Wednesday week. The demmed at that time 'al
d.ronk, sad, refacing to go with the officers quietly. they
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ior7 had Dot retoraOl a verdict when for &BIALA Mooed.

SUBDIVISION OF PARISHES -PROPOSAL TO
ERECT SIX HUNDRED NEW CHURCHES.

The commissioners appointed for the purpose of in-
quiring into the practicability and mode of subdi-
viding into distinct parishes the densely peopled
parishes is England and Wales, in each manner that
the population of each shall sot exceed 4,000 sock,
have issued their second report. The following arts
extracts from the document :.

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In our former report we stated that we "expected to Ise
able, shortly, to lay before your Neje., a general view of the
probable number of new pariah., and Lew i.Gurches required
la all the dioceses in England end Wales." The result of oar
'equity shows that there is an immediate and pressing de•
mad for the erection of about 600 sew churches. It is also
desirable that thew should, in mart eases, have parishes as-
signed to them, and that many districts already famed
should receive a disinctly parochial character. To accom-
plish the erection of thew 600 churches, we believe about
2,000,0001. would be sofiloient, but we consider that a fund
sufficient to provide one•half 01 the cast of those churches
would be enough to place •at the disposal of the Church
Building Commissioners the other halt, together with the
site to be provided by the parties applying fur this pablie

We cionceive that the proposed 600 new churches, some of
which need not be of great capacity or expense, might be
estimated to oast on a average 3;50'1. each, and that the
total amount would sot indeed 2,100,0001. If thee, calcul
lations be correct, end if our expectation be well founded, a
sum of rather more than 1,060,0001. sterling, applicable from
some general fund, would probably effect the great &jinn at
causing the erection of such new churches as at the present
moment appear to be required throughout the whole extent
of England and Wales in parishes of large population. We
have felt it to be our duty to consider whether it would be pos-
sible, without impairing in the slightest degree the efficiency
of the establishment, to derive the whole or any portion of
the sum required from ecclesiastical sources.
In a large number of cases of small livings we find the
right of presentation vested in the Lord Cnaccellur. In
thine cases we conceive, that by a process wcii.h we win
presently describe, the income of the b.neffite might be
greatly improved, and the efficiency of the church propor-
tinnately augmented.
The Lord Chancellor at present admini . be patronage
of no lOU than 754 livings, having an annual value of about
190,0001.; he has likewise the alternate presentation of 23
benefices, of which the annual value it 7,8771 ; making a
total of 777 benefices, with an aggregate annual value of
nearly 200,0001.
The income, however, of a great portiere of these benefices
is very small, too omen to b. desire it° as preferment, and
insufficient to secure the services of a resident patine. We
find, so far as it is in our power to ascertain, that there are
6 of less than 50/. ancual value, 60 above 501., but under
1001, 124 above 1001., but under 1501., and 144 above 1501.,
hut under 2001., making a total of 330 iusuffwiently
endowed. _

It is obvious, that the advowsone of benefices cf this de-
scription can Dave no value as patronage, in the ordinary
'ense of the word. It is difficuA to find persons willing to
undertake the charge of curet which entail more than the
responsibility, but yield less than the salary of a curacy,
Speaking generally, they are not and cannot be sufficiently
erred, and the spiritual interests of their population are
almost necessarily neglected.
We are of opinion that these evils might be greatly efirni-
niabed, so far as the benefices in the gift of the Lord Chan-
cellor are concerned, by offering the right of presentation
to persons interested in the welfare of the popul ition resident
within these cures, on the concitina twat the whole purchase
money, or so much of it a. would ruffle" to rides the annual
value of the benefice to 2001., should lie applied to that pur-
pose. This additional endowment wooed of course increase
the value of the advowson, and the sum which would be
given tor it.
The marked and growing interest felt by the wealthier
dames in the spiritual as well as the temporal welfare of the
people, would, we believe, under the circumstance' and
conditions we have described, induce mall autos& to give
for the advowsons c f these iasuffieiently-entlowed benefices s
sow tar exceeding their mere market value ; and U the ex,
ample so set were, as is not improbable, to be followed to the
extent of selling the next presentation by poblic botlies and
private patrons, a vast number of parishes now almost with-
out religious instruction tor want of an adequate endowment
might be brought within the regular ministrations of the
church. _ _

The direct effect, however, of this pr postal would be to
place nearly 330 cures of mule now in the gilt of the Lord
Chancellor, but which are almost useless for spiritual pur-
poses from the irsutficiency of their endowment, on a toot-
ing to secure to the people residtnt we hill their limits all
the advantages to be derived frum the ministrations of •
resident putor.
The remaining benefices in the gift of the Lnrd Cbaae-lloe
are 447 in number, and vary in value from 200/ to 1,2072.
per annum.
The selection of proper persons to so large a number of
beneficis, a number greats, than has bean entrusted t.) say
prelates of the church, must impose a heavy burden upoa
any one by whom the duty is conscientiously and efficiently
discharged.
. • . . .

We submit, therefore, to ycur Majesty, tEat so many of
these advowsone should graduaLy, and ut the COMM! cf • taw
years, be di.posed ot by ptiva'e tender as would produce a
sum equal to the amount which would to tecess4ry to in-
sure the erection of GOO churches, the Cane( h Building Corn-
minioners being empowered to regulate the weer in which
the advowsons to hew dealt with should be offered to pur-
chasers, in whom the perpetual patronage ot such benefices
shall be vested.

It the annual incline of the 777 benefices be estimated at
209,0004., and the value of the advowsons at trom 'even to
ten years' purchase of the net value, aster making the dsduc-
dons nects•ary to such a Itakuletiou the sum ultimately
raised, were sit the advowsons to be sold, wont': probibly be
more than sufficient for OW objects in omtemplauon, namely,
the augmentation of the smaller bent hies, and ti.e erection
of 600 new churches. . _ .

We consider that, by the adoption of the proposal which
we have ventured to submit to your Majesty, uvt only would
an ample tun t be supplied, without any psrlismentsry grant,
for the erection of 600 new churches in populous perishes
now lamentably deficient in relsgious teaching, but the
ministrations of the ehutch would be rendered wore efficient
in • great number of places where • cnurch or benefice
already exists.
With respect to the attainment of funds for the end ele-
ment of churches, we beg to colt your Majesty's attention to
the report of your Majesty's commissioners for inquiring
into" episcopal and capttular revecues," rum which we ars
led to infer that if their recommendations are carriedvut •
sum sufficient to meet these regain mints may in the course
of a few years be available from the resources of the church
it-elf.
There thus appears to be • reasonable prospect that fa
the course of time the necis ary endowmi atm may be
obtained. We therefore recur to the provhint of the
er c ion of the churches the mu Ives ; sad on this poiet we
are incliesi to hope, that the suggestion we have !Oen
alluded to may be received with favour. It oer..ialy appeal'
that no other course hes yet been painted out which would
•.3 readily and so etfectually supply the present lamentable
deficiency of church accommodation fur your Majesty's
subjects. If this deficiency Cain be 011ie supplied, the pious
liberality of individuels may, in our opioiva, rca °wifely to
expected to make provision for titters wants of the same
kind, which • tanner increase of population may render
necessary.
Signed—T. Ebor, liarrowhy, C. J. London, J. Liekfield,
Ashley, Sidney Herbert, Ederd N. Buxton, H. Nukes,
Jolts Sinclair, W. F. Hook, Thomas Dale, William Cotton,
W. Weldon Champneys, Jilt. W. Woousiivtlei, Joapla
Hallegrave, H. B. Seeley—licury Kinpcote, secretary.

HEALTII OF LONDON DURING THE WRRIL—(Froce
the Registrar-General's Report.)--le the weak ending last
Saturday, the deaths registered in the metropolitan nistricts
were 644; in the previous week the) were only 736. In the
three corresponding get ks of 1847.9, the deaths ranged from
786 to 971; and taking the corresponding week, of 'en
ytan, the 'vers.!. is 861, or raised in the ratio of populition
939. The lamest return therefore shows a decrease en the
average equal to 9.1. With the increasing warmth at the
weather, the mortality trom diwa.ses of the respiratory or-
gans steadily declines. Excluding consumption, the deaths
in this Mass in the last four weeks have been suesewively
145, 136, 10,5, and 94; and daring this period the mean tem-
perature has risen gradually from 47 deg. to 59 deg. In the
same wteke the deaths from consumption have been 124,125.,
103, and 141, showing a sudden increase is the lest, and as
approach to the correctsd average, which is 157. In the
zymotic or epidemic class of diseases, 172 fatal cases are
enumerated, having been in the previous week only 130, and
the average being 201. Small pox carried ofi 9 persons, seaT
latina, 19, and hooping-cou.;h the three epidemics still
showing a decrease on the average. Measles, however,
which destroy. d 26 children, an &meant differing little from
the average, has suddenly increased on she preskus week,
when there were only 12 deaths. Typhus alas exhibits an
increase. for while there were only 26 deaths in the termer
wet k, there were 89 .n the last, which, however, is not
MOM than usual at this period. Diarrtirs and dysentsry
azkasrultoeybecohamveanraumthbeernmd olre3, plre,:aalnednt
2; 2
tOheniuthleth3rerre.
June, the wife of an engineer, sgen 61 years. died at 21,
Chatham-place, Lock's-fields, St. Mary's Newington, of
" vomiting sad purging (12 days i, elhatastion." On the sth
June, at 51, Turamill-street, Clerkenwell, the daughter or a
labourer, aged 13 months, died of "cholera htlitem (12
hours)strse ;"
t, 41exantoidi,on the
Old Town3,lttshe daughter of
r oaftan3S' etteirA:ke
ver„
aged 1 year, died of " English chid. ra (2 slays)." A man,
of 36 years, who is described as having been habitually in-
temperate, died of " delirium tremens, apopl. :** allot ter
fatal case of intemperance is else recorded. Time children
were suffocated in bed. It app. are him the classification of
deaths in public institnrions, that 9S occurred in workhouses,
59 in hoepitals (of which 8 were in military and naval
establishments) and 7in lunatic asylums. The m. an read-
ing of the barometer in the week was 29.878 ; the dails mean
was above 30 in. on the first three days of the week. The
mean temperature was 59 deg. 3 min.; it was shove. the
average of the same week in 7 years on the first four days,
and below it during the rest, the highest in the sun was
shout 104 deg. on Monday, Tuesday. and Wednesday. The
I wind was in the east on the first three days ; it veered to the
south west on the afternoon of Wednesday, and cowl-nod
generally in that direction thvugh the rest of the week.
the births registered last week were 1,338 number
LANDING OF AN ELF.PHANT.—The ship Trafalgar
landed, on Monday last, in the East India Dock., an . lepliant
which bait been purchased fur the Royal Surrey Zoological
(Judges, sad (ia ecomphment e. the hero aft. r whose
achievement the ship was Rained) has been christened
"Nelson."