The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, ISMS.

cothisreheti,iYv Its rho st3v.4• of equity which he hat
shown in subscribing a petition for the disestablish-
ins tit of the Church. Tho name which fol-
lows is that of Dr. MONTAGU Be-resit, who fills
now the of which was filled a generation aim's
by the Archbishop Of Corn:it:teas. The steady
and well-proved Liberalism of Dean ELLion% of
Bristol, has not been wanting to the demand. Mr.
CHARLES KINGSLEY has naleemed some re-
cent mistakes, and has exhibited once nor'
the courage and manliness which were habitual
before he became a courtier, a court prettelter, and
a uni‘ersity Bon, by attaching his mono to the'
prnyt r of a petition which excited peers donee:ice
as sacrilegious, and which they endeavour to re-
present as wounding to the GITEEN'S conscience,
and to hint at us u forfeituro of the Royal favour.
The deep and true moral sense of Mr. Kulosiers
master in theology and philosophy has saved Pro-
fessor MAURICE from the meshes which hit
own too subtle morel casuistry is apt sometimes
to entangle him, and lo is name appears on the
list. Professor Jowrer's prof I appreciation
of the ethical side of Christianity, and lois philo-
sophical superiority to clamour, prejudice, and
s'Llispry, mule his signature to the petition 3
undter of course. His friend and ally, Dr.
Trsori.u. the head master of Rugby, is by his
side. 113. name of the biographer of Rotolo:Nom
of Brighton is there also: and Mr. Sroevotto
81333: E displays, not for the first time,
a count ge and an eaniestness worthy
of that which he reverently and affectionately re-
cords. The signature of Mr. F. W. FARRAR, who
unites in some degree the gifts of the author of
" Toni Brown " and the author of the " Science
" of Language" follows that of Mr. LLEWELLYN
DAVIES, the ablest of the younger represen-
tatives of the Cambridge School of Theo-
logy and Philosophy ; and precedes that of the
Rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, to whose
fearless energy unsectarian middle-class education
in London, and other good causes, owe so much.
Archdeacon SANDFORD, of Coventry, who has
given many proofs that he prefers truth and justice
to the supposed interests and real preju-
dices of his order; Professor PLusrrax, of
King's College, the graceful and scholarly
interpreter of SOPROCLES, and himself a pure
and true poet, and a deep theologian, has given
proof that he has learned from the ecclesiastical
history which he teaches the lesson of ecclesias-
tical justice. Mr. FREMANTLE, the chaplain
of the Bishop of LONDON, has shown himself
wiser and more discerning than his episcopal chef ;
the Rector of St. Augustine and St. Faith keeps
alive the hereditary repute for liberality and fair-
ness which belongs to the name of MILMAN
while Mr. HorGUTON, the Rector of Preston on the
Wild Moors, whose contributions to Dr. Sisrrs's
Dictionary have cleared up many dark points with
regard to the natural history of the Bible, represents
the scientific culture of the clergy. These names,
and others scarcely less deserving special comme-
moration, show that the best intellect of the
clergy enters a good appearance in the list of
petitioners : theological learning, philosophy,
scholarship, science, poetry, and imagina-
tive literature, have their representatives.
Some mortification cannot but be felt
by their admirers at the fact that the
names of the Dean of WESTMUSFER and the
Dean of St. Palm's do not acoompany those of
the Dean of CANTERBURY and the Dean of
BRISTOL. Conscientiously we do not doubt, but
acting, we can as little doubt, under
the influence of a conscience misled by ecclesias-
tical prepossessions. Dr. STANLEY and DR. MILMAN
are, for the first time in their lives, actively ten-
dering or withholding their help from a great work
of civil and ecclesiastical justice, and of healing
imperial policy. It is little that they stand aloof
from their party both in Church and State.
They have for the nonce cast aside its principles ;
for the question is not now, as to the mode in
which equality shall be established in Ireland,
but whether equality shall be established or
ascendancy shall be preserved. Dean STANLEY is
practically supporting Mr. NEWDEGATE, Lord
ENNISKILLEN, and the Orange Lodges. Ho pre-
fers the old mumpainate of a plan which every
Liberal politician except Lord GREY has aban-
doned, and which in Ireland is as obsolete as the
custom of tanistry, to the new eumpaimue of dis-
establishment. Happily, even his great influence
and virtues are thrown away in such a cause. The
danger he fears forthe Church in England is unreal.
The existence within its fold of men to whom
simple justice and sound policy are
dearer than oligarchical ascendancy and ec-
clesiastical privilege, is proof of its harmony
with the mind of the nation. Of these
men, the aignataries of the clerical petition
for the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland
are but a sample. The sympathies of many are
with those with whose names, for various reasons,
their own arc not associated.

THE SALE OF POISONS.

WE have already explained the character of the
bill to regulate the sale of poisons and extend the
Pharmacy Act of 1862, which has passed the
House of Lords, and which is now before the
House of Commons. Its promoters seek to
protect the lives of the public by improving the
qualifications of the druggist. But an attempt
was made in the House of Lords to introduce a
clause enforcing the use of a bottle of peculiar
form for various poisons mentioned in the schedule
of the bill, and there is still some agitation in favour
of the plan. We think the idea a foolish one.
Why should peculiar, say three-sided or triangular,
bottles alone be used ? Why not triangular pots,
jars, drawers, cupboards, casks, bags, and boxes ?
Why not pyramidal opium pills and triangular
pestles and mortars ? A man was once killed
through swallowing saltpetre in mistake for
Epsom salts, an accident which would probably
have been prevented had the druggist taken the
article from a triangular compartment and wrapped
it as a three-cornered parcel ; but is every trades-
man who deals in saltpetre to be put to endless
trouble and inconvenience to avoid the possible con-
sequences of such a case of carelessness ? Then how
shall we define the substances for which these vessels
are to lx' employed ? What is a poison ? Powerful
poisons are excellent medicines in natal quan-
tities, and most medicine+ become poisonous when
taken in large quantities, therefore poison relates to
quantity rather than materiel. The quantity which
is poison to a child may be medicine to a man or
poison to the same man under different circum-
stances. So that for the broad purposes of legis-
lation the compounds for which poison-
vessels are to be constructed cannot be defined.
Nor would a schedule of substances to be deemed
poisons for the purposes of theproposed triangular
pot-and-bottle clause remove the difficulty. The
exigencies of trade require that some of the worst
poisons should be omitted from such a schedule.
Hence a dangerous lotion would often be placed
in the safety-bottle and a harmless medicine in a
danger-bottle. The angularity of a vessel would
not, moreover, prevent a druggist, his porter, a
I servant, a nurse, or a patient, from mistaking a

bottle contacting a weak poison from one eontsin-
ing strong, or a poisonous quantity being swal-
loe cd itudesd of a proper dose. As a generatrule,
We believe that invalids would rather not know
that the draughts they arc taking include what is
isniventionally termed poison. it is also un-
do Hirable that every evil-disposed person that
may he attached to a household should be re-
minded by the shape of a bottle that something
dangerous to health, if not life, is always at hand.
To propose that the shape or surface of a bottle
:hunk! preserve us from the consequences of not
n tiding a label, is to propose that the sense of
thud, should supersede that of sight. To supple-
mc nt, if not override, common sense and the
faculties of observation and reflection by media-
Meal contrivances of questionable merit, is a prin-
ciple at once retrogressive and mischievous.

7'111.1 I:11"ER C.IM

Tr. is monotonous r, malt of the great Annual
is.aat-tace lets led influential people, intere4el in
the lTn:v( may of Cambridge, to examine ',kilo-
.( phically into the came of its continued defeat..
The River Cana is deelared to be the pr:mipal
ofta nder. Toa narrow and too shallow for
flicient practice- too full of sharp bends and
tunas for the long light boasts now in use—so
choked un by foul woods and an obnoxious
nand-bank as to make it disagreeable for
pulling and dangerous to the health of
the town—the Cam seems to have de-
generated into a useless unpleasant stream,
placing those rowing on it at a sure and positive
disadvantage with the votaries of the Isis. But
the Cambridge local authorities are determined to
improve their river, and the meeting hold
at St. James's Hall last Saturday showed
that their efforts will be handsomely sup-
ported elsewhere. When a bishop, a judge,
members of parliament, scientific authorities, and
well known advocates concur in proclaiming the
importance of boating and the necessity of en-
couraging it at Cambridge, we have at least evi-
dences of a wide-spread public interest in what
may be called a national sport. On Saturday it
was announced that Mr. HAWILSILAW, the eminent
engineer, has offered his services to secure the im-
provement and purification of the river Cam. Lord
Justice SELWYN, Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, Bishop
SELWYN, and Mr. GEORGE DENMAN all ex-
pn.-4sed their sympathy, and promises of assist-
ance have been received from old Cambridge men
in all parts of the country. Lord Justice SELWYN
said, in disproof of the alarmists who stigmatise
rowing as injurious, that, " although it was 33
" years since his crow had finished at the head of
" the river, yet all the members of it were alive ;"
and the Bishop insisted upon the moral and spiri-
tual advantages to be derived from boating
practice, declaring that, in his own gib he had
been made a more useful man by his Vlulgenee
in the healthful sport. From 2,3001. to 3,0001. are
said to be required to put the Cambridge river
right, and it is proposed to raise this by subscrip-
tion, in order that Mr. Hawasnaw's recommenda-
tions, and the public spirited efforts of the local
committee, may be promptly carried out.

WIIEN Mdlle. SCIENNIDER made her first appear-
ance in this country, she was advised to tone down
some of those startling peculiarities in her acting
which had characterised her performances at the
Theatre des Varietes and the Chatelot in Paris.
As nearly all the crowned and uncrowned heads
in England, to say nothing of the female aristo-
cracy, were present on her opening night,
she made love to the loutish soldier with a little
more delicacy than usual, and omitted to dance
the can-can at the close of the second act. The
delicacy of her acting may or may not have
been appreciated ; but the omission of the now
fashionable improper dance was almost resented
by alarge and distinguished portion of the audience.
She was called on again, but still refused to dance
with more extravagance than any young lady
might exhibit with propriety in a ball-room,
whereupon a loud cry of discontent arose from
the middle of the stalls as the feet of the
actress were barely raised above the footlights.
These and similar demonstrations have encouraged
her to show all her native liveliness at subsequent
representations, and have taught her that
foreigners in England are very much the same as
foreigners at home.

IT is expected that the Duke of ARGYLL, who
resumes the debate in the House of Lords this
evening, will be followed by the Bishop of
OXFORD, after whom Earl RUSSELL will probably
speak. If the Low) CHANCELLOR replies, the
debate may close at once; but another adjourn-
ment is not impossible.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

Kit st deal to lei said against tie iiiiumer, the time, the psr-
uns, and the circuits:Unties. lint such an argument loads
to the perilous conclusion that a multitude of particulars,
quite out of the mimeo of a measure, may he urged
almitist it from time to titno with fatal efficacy, howiivor
:accts./try the sec a=ura may be, and however certain to It,
carried eventually. This takes real legislation, or, rather,
it liould be said, national history, end the coudaet of LI
nation, altogether out of the province of reason and dull-
betation, and consigns it to the haserd of eircumstancet
and the influence of the merest trifles. The functions
their lordships are exercising on this occasion is the veto,
not the revising and correcting power; and upon this
veto the nest step to be taken is by a new body of repm-
emitatives from a newly created constituency. Surely the
wisdom of our hereditary law-givers might hit ou sem-
third course, not quite eo brusque, peremptory. and
defiant. It is quite evident, however, that if the lords tiro
to be utterly committed on this question, so also will the
saw 1101110 of Commons be.
The Post reviews the debate in respect of its legal,
ts,litical, and religious bearings. Admitting that it is
not easy to draw a lino between the conflicting opinion i
held upon those points, our contemporary in riat, that the
pc pie have a perfectly legal right to have the full
Is or fit of their church propyrty, if it be church property,
that it is for the English people, who bold them to
the union, to do them justice. Thu principle on winch
the Fstablii bed Church in Ireland is being vindicated tern
ever be made the afeguard or the bulwark of any public
institution.

FOREIGN

N E W S.

(THIS DAY.)

THE RUSSIAN VICTORY AT BOK IlAitA.
Censith ruble excitement was occa ;toned at. Cal-
cutta by tbe aunouneeinent that the Ras:bile; it.o
defeated the Bokbarians under the walls of the
capital. and slain the Anwer. The Esy/islimaii of
May 23 usierta that tit^ catastrophe has Iss•ri
brought about by the folly of the Ameer himself.
Whether moved by the reimeientationi of the
Sultan of Turkey, or by the warlike prepl,rition4
of Yahoo') Klioosh Beg,i, or by a feeling tlt.at tli •y
bud advanced too quickly and too fur, the Itueiixas
had begun to withdraw their forces fr
and concentrate them on one of their ea:lie c in-
quests, Kliodjend, in the Kbanate of 1(111k:tad.
'lbis HAM 'II tent was, however, 111110 tudonitood by t h
Amer, who seems to have looked upon the r..t ire-
ment of the troop.; at Djizak, and otl•rpla :•••; in hi,
&minions, as a fair oppirtimity of cover:ii 1.:a•
Russian iumm with disgrace, for s •;,:ag
away inNuders to whom the Sat.; were 1., gn
to look for protection and cisip!oymPrit. 11,:ut • 11.•
gave enders which led to the preaellitig of a jehld,
but mum:mine( d of the Ittuv,iart wealcnes.4, Ii lie 4i-
tattd for a while to place himself at the heal of
the outbreak he bud instigated. Whilst a straggle
tnsued in eonmequence between himmdf and
the chiefs of the surrounding tribes, the
Russians halted their battalions, faced about, and
marched upon Bokhara, convinced that they must
either educe the Ameer to a state of vassalage, or

find themselves the centre of a seething sea of
fanaticism. The slightest mistake, the bare sus-
picion of misfortune, would have raised against
them every tribe from the Ores to Orenburgh.
Their course was prompt and decisive, and mot
with a successful result. The blow thus delivered
will, says the Englishman, "echo through every

Mussulman home in Asia."
The Friend of India thinks the death of the
Amcor will not prove to be of much advantage to
the Russians ; but, on the contrary, would not be
surprised should they hereafter be subjected to a
kind of guerilla warfare. The fall of the Aineer
of Bokhara will probably induce a new enemy to
take the field ; and Russia may find herself en-
gaged in active hostilities with Yakoob Koosh
Begs. _ _

THE INAUGURATION OF THE LUTHER
MONUMENT AT WORMS.
The inauguration of the monument which was
uncovered on the 25th instant at Worms, to com-
memorate the great work and to perpetuate the
memory of Martin Luther, attracted groat crowds
to the town. Two days before tho festival 2,500
ecclesiastics, or official delegates, had arrived. The
influx of strangers so far exceeded the anticipations
of the council and the accommodation of the city
that the neighbouring towns of Frankenthal, Os-
thofen, Mayence, Spires, and even Mannheim had
to be called in to supply the overflow. Wed-
nesday was occupied with the official reception of
deputations. On Thursday the bells commenced
to ring at half-past 5; at half-past 8 a procession
was formed at the Magnus Kirche ; at 9 there
were religious services and sermons ; at a quarter
past 11 the procession started from St. Andrew's-
square to the monument ; and at 2 o'clock the
monument was uncovered, in the midst of great
joy and salvoes of artillery. In the afternoon
there was a dinner of 3,000 persons, sermons,
receptions, and a display of Bengal fireworks
over the statues. On Friday the Paulus of Men-
delssohn was given.
The funds for the monument have been in course
of collection for twelve years, and the sum realised
amounts to nearly 13,0001. Amongst the sub-
scribers are 47 crowned heads. The King of
Prussia took the leading part in the ceremony.
The King of Wurtemburg, the Grand Dukes of
Saxe-Weimar and Hesse, Prince William of Baden,
and the Prince Royal of Prussia were also pre-
sent.