The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS; THURSDAY

the positions occupied sines the Reformation by state
and church. While to grant them together with
seek &separates would be ?VA din resat me.r-
rity the olsegy_aad lat berg .of 'ilia church,
trbedesire and dills not#l, of thetaterk 'homage of
eh* preposterous pretensions and aarlarnegg inambor.
dinauon of a eniamity of both clergy and
What, thee; le to be dose? " replies
'Lord Neuox, " most be prepared, i need.Vrere, to
give up their emoluments, and the laity meet be pre-
pared, if seed were, for %messed weif-doW,-to make
op the defirneney so eased." • Aboatithis propping*
there is no mistake : it testes mosesion and a volun-
' lay episeopel Aura, aM V triinkly tat fairly said.
Bet by whom P By a pow, very ognifortably gut-
tered on the taxes of England. Not by any clergy.
man likely to suffer by the resignation of benefices.
Neither was it endorsed by any of the high-
flying ecolesiaities who spoke. They were pre-
pared for everything--almast " for brutal murder
or sudden death ;" but not for resignation. Arehdea-
OM WILBERFORCE lives in the hope that a strong
man is coming to help them ; Mr. KENTON whose
very same is synonymous with dulness, that lhe spi-
rit of Owens 111. will yet infuse itself into she
mind of Queen Vlcronia ; while Dr. Pussy, with a
sniff of Smithfield in his nostrils, trusts that they will
soon have " beacon-tires in England, whose rays will
spread from monotain-top to mountain-top. * But,
amidst all this nonsense and balderdsah, not one word
about resignation of benefices came from a parson,
whilst the chairman suggested a reason for adherence
to the "flesh pots of Egypt" irresistible to the mind
ecclesiastical. "If they left their folds grievous
wolves might enter in and rend the flocks!' What,
make way fur a race of Gotheme P No; never.
No one of sense wishes to see these men leave the
church : all that is desired is that, remaining
therein, they conduct themselves with modera-
tion, decency, toleration, and charity. The disas-
trous consequences of the disruption of &
great tech mastics' establishment, are .to be
seen in Scotland far too clearly, nut to be dreaded in
England. They are to be averted at any sacrifice
save that of subjection to prisetcraft ; and the break-
water which protects us from that invasion is the
suiremacy of the sovereign over the church. That
supremacy is the key-stone of ecclesiastical peace and
tranquillity in Englacd. Withdraw it frcm our
national edifice and society is plunged into a Mael-
strom of ecclesiastical discord and strife.

Two parties there have always been in the church
of England, and two parties there still are—nofertu-
nately as one has gained in wisdom and compre-
hensiveness, the other has lapsed into supernatural
pretension., and is now attempting to give them effect
by intolerance. Time, however, will soften their
hearts and mitigate their asperities if they are treated
with tenderness and respect. And the worst that can
be said of them is that " they know not what
they do."

Tunas is a sad monotony in the virtuous indigna-
tion of the Times. It has but one note. Like an
actor in what is called the " heavy tragedy " line of
business, the Times is as emphatic, as mouthing in
its denunciation of trifles as of grave offences. Its
laboured invective, when compared with its subject
matter, not infrequently reminds one of Dr. Joule-
bON'S sarcastic comparison of the style of a magnilo-
quent writer about no hinge to an eighty pounder
used to blow open the door of a pig-stye.
Even had the opinion of the ATTOBNEY•GZSERAL,
on the application to him to sign the information for
an injunction against the Exhibition building
in Hyde Park been as wrong as it is indu-
bitably right, the laboured invective of the com-
ment in yesterday's Times would have been ludicrous
but for its dullness. To hold up Sir JOIIX ROMILLY
as an unprincipled partisan and a sycophantish cour-
tier, because he dissents from the views of the Times
respecting the eligibility of Hyde-park as the locale
of the Exhibition of 18H is sheer absurdity. Could
we suspect the ATTURNET-GENAIAL of any treason-
able intentions against the constitutional rights of the
people, we might fancy that he had thrown this
temptation in the way of the Times to lead it to ex-
haust its store of hard words on such a trifle, leaving
it none wherewith to visit his serious delinquenov.
The pertinacity with which the Times labours to
represent the temporary imaginary inconvenience of
i:s rearectsble attorney and • le w of his equally captious
neighbours as a national grievance, is a melancholy
sample of human fatuity. The Times vows that" the
comfort and convenience of every Ler.doner are indi-
rectiy affected" by the erection of the building in
Hyde Park. It protests that "private families have
nothing for it but to quit dwellings for which they
are paying an enormous rent, during the progress of
the extlibition." Yet if the writer or prompter of
this pathetic diatribe would only enquire at the next
door, be would learn that redoubled exertions are
making to complete unfinished houses beside him in
order that they may be ready to benefit by the tem-
porary rise of rents.

The; projecud Chancery suit is placed on a level
with HAMPDEN'S resistance of ship money. The
" sufferers " of Knightsbridge and Kensington are
represented as at issue with " th 3 government," and
only able to resist its unconsti*.utional encroachments
by a law plea. The government ! is Mr. COBDEN or
is Lord STANLEY a member of the government? for,
unless our memory deceives us, both the leader of
anti-corn law, and the leader of the pro-corn-law dis-
sentients lrom ministerial policy are among the com-
missioners who have fixed upon Ilydo-park as the
site of the exhibition building.
Sir Jonx Itomn.Lv, we are told, u interposes be-
tween the sufferers and their natural remedy." There
is more truth in this remark than perhaps the writer
is aware of. Nothing could mwe tend to soothe the
exasperated feelings of a law agent, than to find that
out of what annoys him he can make matter for •
lengthened and lucrative law plea. It must be in-
conceivably annoying to see tnis cup of balm for I's
lacerated feelings rudely dashed from his lips.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

HAMBURG, JULY 21.
Letters from Kiel, July 19, say the departments of
war and home affairs hays issued the following noti-
fication relative to the interdiction of commercial
intercourse with Denmark :

' Hostilities towards the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein
having again been commenced on the part of Denmark, the
order prohibiting traffic between the two countries, which,
issued April 7, 1849, was suspended September 4 of the same
year, is hereby re establisted.—(SignedAuxsen, }Lucien.—
Hid, July 18, 1850.
General Willisen's second army report, dated
Head Quarters, Schleswig, July 16, run u follows :
The movement of the army oa the 16th has been com-
pleted according to the announcement of lay former
report. The strong intrenchments of ldstadt and Wiedel-
spang have been occupied by the vanguard, and the whole
army was coaeeatratel &hied them on the 18th. A
bridge has been thrown over Micuade, and a double line
of operatics. thus secured foe the army. Was military
views only in question, ties most advaatagemrs movement
would be an immediate advance upon Ban, so as to de-
stroy the enemy's probable strategetio plan. It appears,
however, more conformable to the desires of the govern-
ment for a peaceable solution of existing differences to sur
render this military advantage. Tee military measures u
yet takes by the duchies cannot be regarded as an eg-
gresgon. Only a small portion of the land, to which we
have a good title, has been occupied, and if the enemy is
honourably disposed to make proposals of reconciliation,
nothing has been dose which can be sada a reason for re-
fraining to take such a step. The great beat is highly un-
favourable to she movement of the troops. The army
nararMallni, in the most satisfactory state of health.

W.M.

We have letters from our own correspondent at
Schleswig, dated the 20th inst. The chief force under
General Willisen was then concentrated at and about
Idatett. The left wing of the force stretches across
the river Treece, which protects the flank from
Danish attack southward ; to the east the &Mei arm
of the sea prevents the approach of the Danes.
Up to the morning of the 20th, the army of the
latter was lying between Oversee and Ansackerhols,
the contending parties being burly two miles asunder;
but the Danes had since moved back to a distance
of nine miles. General William will remain on the
defensive is disposition he now occupies.
Letters from Hamburg, of the 22nd lust., state
that the Hessian steamers were occupied in carry-
ing stores, &c., for the Danish army. A second
Hessian squadron was expected from Oronstadt, and
Sweden was also to send ships. On the 20th, a Hol-
stein steamer took a Danish trader, and brought the
prise Into Travemunds ; the authorities there would
not allow the capture, as the state of Lubeck is neutral
The steamer was attacked coming out of Travemunde
by a Danish faros, but, sooner than 'amender, the asp-
taia lsnded his men, and blew up his ship.

fG, JULY 25, 1850.

GERMANY.

- • -
; tO I PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Ina' 20.
The discoed awistar between the two leading
powers of Germaly appears at the present moment
likely to °bake.* tbe endow proposals now under
consideration at Card. The protectionists, by
grasping at too much, have rendered it probable that
they will gain nothing. By means of their central
office in Frankfort, of their itinerant agents who
traverse all Germany, and is many cases through
officials in their interest, the protectionists are endea-
vouring to raise a feeling in favour of duties so high
as to oorrespootto those lately proposed by Austria.
Tlwy thus are making it impossible for the Prussian
Minister of Commerce to carry out a general increase
of the import duties. Acrordingly, from opposition
to Amen* rather than from principle, that functionary
has signified to the extreme protemionists that their
proposed measures are inadmissible.
The minister, Von der lisydt, in his progress
through the Baltic provinces, is everywhere received
with addresses criticising hie policy, and it is believed
that his return to Berlin will be simultaneous with
his retirement from office.

The Rhenish states represented at Cassel have ex-
pressed themselves very strongly upon the conduct
of the Prussian cabinent in allowing the commercial
'treaty with Belgium to expire without renewal. The
violent a'tackson the iron duties made by the New
Prussian Gareth". in a series of articles which have
been re-printed here in a pamphlet form, and sold by
thousands, have called forth a cloud of petition.
against those dutieP, and it is a fact that the minister
of commerce himself is inclined to give way on this
point.
Letters from Dresden state that the Saxon cham-
bers, both first and second, are constituted and
opened. The legal quorum of the latter is 60 mem-
bers, and the chamber now counts 51. But the
chamber is called to frame a new electoral law, and
according to the old constitution three fourths of the
whole number (57), are neoeseary to psis inch a
measure. The chamber is thus not yet equal to its
task.

A proposal to limit by law the arbitrary issue of
paper mousy within the Union state, is prepared in
the College of Princes. The measure is directed
against the practice of the small states and companies
which issue paper to an extent far beyond ordinmy
safety for redemption.

We have news by telegraph from Berlin, of the
23rd inst. It stems that, as all the governments of
the union have not ratified the Prosso-Danish treaty,
the ratifications will not be exchanged. Prussia
proposes to nee the full ratifying powers of the central
commission.

It has already been stated that Austria has re-
fused the last proposals of Prussia on tte subject of
the confederation, and that it will allow the plenum
to be tranefonned into a small diet as it were.
Herr von Prokeach has, it seems, read a memoir at
Berlin, in which Austria row claims all its old rights.

Hokum, JULY 23.—Voluntary Loan, 106; New State
Loan Four-and-a• Half per Caws, 991 ; National Debt, 861 ;
ennamerei.l hlarino Society's Premium 1061; But Sharer,
99.

VIZNNA, JULY n —Five per Cent. Metalliques, 97;
Feur-and-a-lisle per Cents., ditto, 841 ; Bank Shares, 1,172 ;
Exchange on London, 11.43.