The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-08 00:00:00

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(THIS DAY.)

MR. GLADSTONE'S RESOLUTIONS AND ?Hi 110ITSZ 0?

Haring shown that all predictions of evil proved
unfounded, and that we ate ones mere in south water,
the times goes on to remark that though the resolutions
have panted, Mr. Gladatou's fluvjenaory Bill has not the
remotest charm of bcooniing law during OIL session. Mr.
Aytoun's resolution, insising that no part of the
secularised fund, of the frfsh establishment shall
be devoted to the Lutheran's of the catholic re-
ligion, was go ill drawn that it dastard 1 aga,nst
the application of any state funds in any way to
such an object ; and a lune of otanftudoet ensue I through
the asisooneeption to which this last phrase gave rise. Mr.
Diarsell, who desmilsed the score as " • quarrel over the
plunder," provoked Mr. Bright's wrath, and most un-
seemly recriminations marked the close of the diatomite.
Liberal members clustered about Mr. Ay•oun, besevohiag
hint to withdraw or slur ha motion. Mr. Mill was celled
to order for turning his beck upon the Chairman in his
eagerness to remonstrate with the refractory Sooschinan,
and it was probably only owing to the abellisenee of the
ministry from taking any part in the division that the
resolution, after asst y altesstiens, was Beady rejected. It
would have ham mega ist the ersdit bells of the hens
and of it, most eminent members if it bad been mood
that the chairman should " report progress" after Mr.
Gladstone's resolutions tad been agreed to.
The Daily .News takes it as obvious that the Maynooth
grant and Regius, Domain, which are partial compensations
for the injustice whisk the Irish chunk inflicts, prac-
tically fall with it. The equal application to all
sesta of the principle of separatioa from the state
now stands upon the record. Mr. Aytoua'a rumlution
to disqualify Roman catholic. alone the Daily Hews fe-
-1 garde as exclusive and Invidious, while Mr. Greene'. amend-
ment was, to say the least, superfluous. In exprewing its
solemn opinion that the protestant establishment of
Ireland, the Itegivat Doman, and the grant to Maynooth
'lull be done away with, the present parliament has made
its views of ecclesiastical policy clear. It must be left
to the next House of Commons, should it sanction the
votes and the incipient legislation of tts predecessor, to
define the purposes to which the revenues thus placed at
I its disposal shall be applied. Meanwhile the situation
created by Mr. Disraeli's unworthy clinging to office,
and which led to mash language at that which passed
between Mr. Bright and Mr. Gladstone on the one side,
and Lord J. Manners and Mr. Disraeli on the other, be-
I comes almost unendurable. The house, recognising that
an end must be put to a perilous crisis, may not wait for
the initiative of ministers, but may feel constrained to
address her Majesty on another subject than that of the
Irish church. Mr. Disraeli is playing a deep and dark
game, sad one which may be dangerous nut to himself or
his party only.
To advise the Queen to veto the intended bill, would,
the Post says. be without a precedent since the reign of
George 1., sad, in the opinion of the late Mr. Hallam,
would be grossly unconstitutional.
The Herald has the deepest sympathy with the Premier
under his troubles. Never was a statesman badgered,
hunted, insulted by his political adversaries as Mr.
Disraeli has been ; never before was political hostility
embittered by a personal enmity so unscrupulous, so
yammer, so malignant, so unworthy of English gentle-
men. But Mr. Disraeli's assailants have carried this
policy too far, and have aroused in his favour all the
generous instincts of the English race.
The Star describes Mr. Bright's speeeh ea the moat
deadly piece of classical denunciation heard in the house
for many years, if, indeed, it was ever paralleled. Par-
liament has now put its hand to the plough, and the
Premier has to declare whether the crown or the peers
shall be encouraged to frustrate its dislamately declared
will.

Letting forward to the Tories of the Suspensory nal
lithe Commons, the Telegraph obeerrse thsA, in the pro-
bable event of the measure being thrown out by the upper
house, the opposition must determine the difficult question
whether they should move a vole of " no confidence," or
accept the situation, and wait for the general election.
A vote of " no confidence," if carried, would be followed
by the resignation of ministers, or by an instant ap-
peal to the present constituencies. Mr. Disraeli's inflo.
epee would probably be exerted in favour of the latter
worse of procedure. On the other hand, should the go-
vernment be allowed to retain aloe, or should it choose
to keep power despite successive defeats, the general oleo-
tion, under the new Reform Acts, might be expected to
take place in November next, and parliament to meet
towards the end of December. If the opposition think it
advisable to facilitate this plan, those best acquainted with
the technicalities of the question are of opinion that no
difficulties stand in the way to prevent the assembling of
the new parliament at the end of the present year.

Tal curacß mzrrnwo AT ST. JAMES% HALL

Several of our contemporaries this morning return to
the meeting of ecclesiastics at St. James's-hell. The
Times is amused by the confident assumption of the
speakers that, given the state Milli have a church, that
church can only be the church of England, and by the whole
portrait of that church, aa it was drawn by the pencil of
noble and episcopal painters. In truth, England no
longer exists as an independent state with legis-
lative functions and political responsibility ; the
state we have to deal with is the United
kingdom of Groat Britain and Ireland. We should all
know what to say if the Irish declared they could no
longer tolerate the establishment of protestant churches
in Great Britain, or if the Scotch foiled it impossible any
longer to endure the establishment of prelacy south of
the Tweed. Had these prelates just awoke from a oen-
tury's retirement in the Sleepy Hollow. they could not
have made greater blunders. For all odesiastical pur-
poses there is a much wider and deeper gulf between
the two British churches than between the Church of
England and that of Rome, and this the Time, pro-
ceeds to illustrate by pointing out that a Scotch Presby-
terian minister would be obliged to submit to »ordination
before adniisaion to an English hoodoo or pulpit, while
the ordination of a Roman catholic priest is accepted.
The Herald is moved by the remark, of some of the
speakers to exclaim anew against the apostacy of Mr.
Gladstone. It he and we, it says, live long enough, we may
find him thirty years hence in another phase of belief, his
old ecoviations returning on him with tenfold strength,
all the mischief he could do, done, past, and eons, doing
penance for it too late in sackcloth and ashes.
Sydney Smith said that he had but one illusion left, and
that was the Archbishop of Canterbury. From the Tele.
graph even that illusion has gone. The meeting at St.
James's-hall has dissipated the last thing left to us in an
unromantic and material world. Instead of a great British
Mikado veiled from sight—instead of an English Grand
llama hid in the recesses of his pale**, we had an Anil-
biahop of Canterbury transformed into an old gentleman
presidingoveran Irish row and " keeping order," Hyberitiee,
by the very free use of a big stick.

The Daily News observes that in the interest of liters.
Owe it is impossible to accept Mr. Disraeli's description
and defence of certain defeats of the literary character •
bat in the interest of Mr. Disraeli himself and under the
charitable feelings the occasion creates, it is possible to
believe them. la the period of Mr. Diwasli's own literary
life Bokensisaim was the weakness of scene literary men.
They sated ea the belief which Mr. Dirraeli has probated,
that " the anther has a peculiar orgaaisatioa." and that
" the life and cams of sash men cannot be regulated by
the ordinary rules et prudence which wisely and properly
are expected to regsdata the seadase of ordinary sass:
Bet literary Behanisalion is new eat at fn' ow 'The
public doss act paircales it, sad as it goes be the
Ilan,ruptay Ocurt or the wockleaum the world simply
Alarm that it dewy* its doom.

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ONE PENN

A " NO POPERY " PETITRIN. r

The following is s copy of a petition presented
by Kr. Hardeastle, and reed by the Clerk at the table of
the House of COMUIOO. : .1
"The ltimb's petition of the undersigned persons asigtm•
Wing for worship at the Primitive Methodist Chapel at
Westhoil, in the con.t r• f guff It

_ ....-..
" That on the 29th of Marsh hat a form of petition eras
sent by the bends of a zues•enger, who brought with it a
message from the Rev. Fleury Albert Goodwin, the Vicar of
Westhall, to Mr. Robert Meadows, ofte of our numir,
that aw:h petition was nainat Popery, but without start
that it was against the eimendownient of the Irish church.
That such petition was doe I by your petitioners sod
others entirely under the impriandon that it was ietended
to present the si read of Popery, awl after havinglead so
signed, was returns al to the said Rev. H. A, Goodwin ;
but that, far frcm wisbin; to assist in keeping up so foul
an establiahreent as the Irish Church, your petitiovug
earnestly pray your h allowable House so at once past an
het for its satire disseSabliodwasat."—Doily News.

A special meeting of the Congregational
of Mutation was held yesterday, to consider reeolitZ
intended to modify the policy of thy bawd in of
the Privy Ceaseil salsa*. The /Mewing
passed by large majority That it io
tam eramitalise a/ the Ossegreptiensl Benid
is
be altered, sad that the rejeellse of aid from
administered by erre:intent far e¢pea
DO longer iDdiapessible to or patios in
the beashis title institution." s

THE ROYAL AORICULTIJRAL SOCIETY. The
meting of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society
on Wednesday (Lord Walsaighain in the chair), received
tbree deputations from towns anxious to provide a date
for the agricultural show of 1869. The first was from
Liverpool, and introduced by Mr. Grams, M.P. Its advo-
cates urged that a met comprising the show ground and
trial ground, and consisting of about 150 norm, would
be very admirably adapted for the pompom. It wee 'bleat
a oils from St. George's Hall, which was the centre of
Liverpool, and the London and North-Western Rel-
way would provide a siding, and it was also adjacent to
and accessible for persons cowing freer Birkenhead, CU-
thins, and Wales. It had upwards of 500,000 population.
The Manchester delegates, through the mayor, stated that
they could provide ample accommodation, end as the land
proposed to be selected belonged to the corporation,
there would be no difficulty about it. They bad • popula-
tion in the neighbourhood which according to the Poor-
kw statistic amounted to 1,600,000 ; so that, only taking
10 per cent of these as visiting the show, it would eve
160,000. No show bad been held at lianehester segos
1841. The third deputation was from Preston, and was
introduced by the Earl of Ellesmere. They effered.the
Moor-park, which belonged to the corporation, and was a
mile and a quarter from the centre of the town. Reh
deputation offered 3,0001. towards the expenses. The
council, after having heard the deputations, and taking
up considerable time in deliberation, *elected Manchestr.
The snow this year will be held at Leicester.
EVANUELICAL ALLIANCE.—Last evening the
members and friends of this society held their annual
.soiree invEreemaisons'-hall, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-
inn-fields, under the presidency of the Earl of Chichester,
who on taking the chair, after tea, exhorted the numerous
company of ladies and gentlemen present to enter upon
the consideration of the vital subjects about to be brought
before them in a temper of mind free from a spirit of con-
troversy. It was of great importance at the present time
to present a clear and united testimony bar revealed reli-
gion, and for the doctrines promulgated pt theßeformation
as far as they are based on the Word of God. By
previous arrangement, therefore, three addresses
were to be delivered with that object. The first
address was then given by the Rev. John Stoughton, who
dwelt u the obligations resting on this nation, And
especially on its Christian churches, to uphold and per-
petuate the principles of the Protestant Reformation ; the
second, by the Rev. Edmund Clay, who urged 'the
necessity for a vigorous and united defence of the revdied
truths of Christianity " in these days of rationalism tnd
Romani:bap tendencies ;" and the thinl by the 11ev. Dr.
Octanua 1t inalow, who made some practical. suggestions
for, be said, the guidance of the friends of Christian union,
" regarding the effective counteraction of Papal and
sceptical errors, and the extension of sound christian
doldrums /waft all assess of the anemunity." The Rea-
esedinp concluded with the usual esespiineetary vets%
CIVIL Szavnrrs AND THE FitaNcHnig. A
numerously attended meeting of the officers connected
with the severalldepartenents of the civil service in Glas-
gow was held in that city, en Wednesday, to petition
parliament in support of Mr. Monk's bill, having for its
object the removal of the disqualifications hitherto so un-
justly Imposed upon the civil servants of the crown, as re-
gards the exercise of the elective franchise enjoyed by all
other claims of her Majony's subjects.
THE LATE BLEW( MAxocuErri's Eriners.—
Yenerday morning the studio of the late Baron Maro-
chetti, at Brampton, was visited by a large number of
persons interested in works of art, an arrangement having
been made that its *entente should be sold by auction by
Mesas. Christie and Manson. The matters sold com-
prised groups, statues, and busts in marble (including the
busts of her Majesty, the. late Prince Consort, his High-
ness Maharajah Dholesp Singh, in costume, the late Duke
of Wellington, Mr. Richard Cobden, and others), early
Italian and other pictures end sketches, and old carved
cabinets. _ _

SALE OF RARE PLANTS.—An interesting sale of
clan= and rare orchids took place yesterday at Mr. fltevetue
Auction-rooms, Ring-street, Covent-garden. The catalogue
comprised 192 lots of rare specimens imported from Assam,
and 30 lots of established orchids. Of the fanner, one
plant alone of the Dendrobium Wardianum species rosined
39/. 18e., and three others under the same head were
bought for 6/. 10s., 71., and 8/., respectively. A vim, fine
specimen of Dendrolaium Falconer!, with growths between
6 and 7 feet long, breaking all over, fetched 35/. 14siu ad
nine other specimens of the same kind realised oee
averaging firoomirsl. to 151. Among
itorDad_r_oleitim
highest
given for specie.
single spec;Lint beingmens were
81. 10s. Among
established orchids a fine Betides Schroederi found a -
chaser for 261.5 a., and one el the Cypripedhun Is vigatam
specimens was sold for 141. 14a. The sale allingffiher
realised 500/.
Tara Dr sn or EDINBIIROH.—Direct communica-
tion' which hive been received from the Duke of Zdin-
burgh fully confirm the favourable repotts which have
been published. His royal highness describes himself as
well and comfortable, and quote recovered. Fortunately,
the ballet, although penetrating to the ninth rib sear
the spine, and taking then a circuitous course around the
body to the position whence it was cut down upon antes-
tanned, seems to have bean a small revolver-bullet, im-
pelled by a light sharp, and to have done the minion=
amount annalist fitai finnan —British MediealJoultal.
THE CONVICT MICHAEL BARRETT. —The iliqthz
into the evidence offered on the part of the defence is
proceeding at Glasgow, and 14 distinct affidavits pore
yesterday transmitted to the Home-office. Five of them
are by persons who me Barrett at the torchlight pram-
sion in Glasgow on the night of the 21st of Noven=lc—
nam.ely, three weeks before the date of the Cl
expionon. These testify to the fan that at thate=mbli!
had short whiskies, and one of them refers to the mart
by which one of his whiskers was singed by a torch. wo
of the affidavits are by persons who saw him frequen in
Glasgow between that date and the and of December, fwd
corroborate the evidence of hie presence at the sleeting at
the Bell Inn on the night of the explosion. Three era to
the effect that co ffu,Y, the Bth day of December, 'five
days before the explosion. Barrett was present Al •
in Glasgow —these latter affidavits lasing
sworneluiter; the father end mother of the child who "Wan
elarinssed, and one of the pests who was present on 'the
occasion. One is by • man who saw him on the 12tirsind
13th of December • on one of these days in oompenjwith
Mullen, the man who, will be recollected was edited
os the trial to have taken Barrett to 11'Nulty's (the dice-
maker} on the 12th, the day before the explosion. 14.
an affidavit by his emplores, which anAbs to his
character, but is otherwise inimaterial, as he was.
.a
palled to discontinue work in the mouth of
to M-health. One is by a man who spent teriVrgir
him as tie "siareing el the 14th Desember pia Oat,
the srpiceica), sag ass by a labasstag area d Mow
quantum= who saw him on the quay se Obagew ask r ae
12th December. The inquiry is irM peessibig and • ad-
ditional evidence will probably be ledesssefsel hp 3in
the presence of sash a sea el beelimaay se to Dia . otc's
presence in Glasgow awing tie Wire period in v
woman to the sleameaki et Kelsey, his sew
Morris, and his indrawn*. Igpal, he wee la Abaco.
it is thought the levessassa wim nee Derma Mart grakeige
Se be thamiWehsW, =nisi kne Alt* ' -
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