The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 29.

Ax able sketch of Manchester from a well-known
writ".., published by us yesterday. introductory to
an account which he proposes giving of the mills
and marvels of the manufacturing distriote, mention
autoog the striking features of Manchester the large
number of Greeks and of Germans inhabiting that
town, engaged in its trade, and acting as Wong links
between England and those countries. A more
startling, or more remarkable proof of the capa-
bilities of the Greeks, as a race, and of their preepec.s
as a nation, could not be given.
It is, however, not merely for these, but for man
other tessans, important that Greeks and English
should well understand and appreziate each other,
and not be led into mutual grudges and enmities by
the csprices, tecdenctes, or vindictiveness of their re-
spective governments. It is well known to every
man, that two ideas presided over those efforts
and interferences of England and of France
which led to the independence of Greece.
The first idea was one of humanity, to put
an end to the internecine war between the Greeks
and Turks. and afford to the former race a land of
repose and security, where those who could not
endure turkish despotism might fly, and might enjoy
the blessings of nationality and independence.
tioited with this immediate am, was certainly
joined in the generous minds of English and French
statesmen a desire that Greece might be endowed
with that vitality, which might render it and its chiefs
worthy successors to the empire of south-eastern
Europe, in case that the Turks, their system, and
their dynasty, should fail in their efforts to develop
the pr sperify, to reconstitute the strength, and main-
tain the independence of that important region. In
saying this, we are confident that no English states-
man, then or now, nurtures any hostility to the Turks,
any wish to expel them from Europe, or any aim
save that of supporting them, and giving them a
fair chance fur maintaining their position and can-
tinning their rule. But, in despite of this, there is
still the chance that the Tanks may not succeed io
keeping their ground in Europe. They are a domi-
nant race, which refuses all amalgamation with the
greater number of their subjects; end this creates
each a permanent source of weakness, that it cannot
be considered unfair to Turkey to entertain fears that
the SULTAN may not always be able to maintain his
position west of the Bosphorus.
Should such a contingency occur, the Greeks are in
the eyes of every French and every English thinking
man the rightful heirs to the lapsed empire, and the
dynasty that has made itself national at Athens will
have in their eyes the first claim to comprise within
its sway the races and the regions that extend to the
Danube.

There was a third party, however, in the
establishment of Greece, which had, and which never
can have such views. Russia joined in promoting
the independence of Greece, out of hatred to Turkey,
out of • desire to weaken it, and out of • nicessity to
have a finger in the pie, a voice and an influence in
that future kingdom, which she did not desire to
•-ead and which she can never desire to see
s-
aggrandu4L If tn. Greeks, thcrefore, their Ring,
er their government, ban the perspicacity of
chilli-en, they would trust to England and to
France and not to Russia for counsel, for sup-
port, and for friendship. Unfortunately, France and
England diff,red as to the best mode of governing
anu developing Greece. England was for a really
eoconitivional government, as the brat fitted for
a maritime, a commercial, and what we
might call • municipal people. M. GUIZOT
and the French opposed this, for no earthly reason
bit doctrine, and littleness, and a paltry desire to
curry favour with Austria. As Engiand leaned to
limit the King's prerogative, and above all his lavish
expenditure, by • genuine constitutional system. of
curse the stupid court, and its foolish and wilful
boy-King dishk.d English counsels. Orlin naturally
preferred Austrian and French policy ; and Rusair,
which always has a wily agent to practise deception,
samiereged him io his obstinacy.
Therefore, let it be clearly understood, that if
England is disliked b 7 the Greek court, as by the
Neapolitan court, it ts for the same honourable
mason, viz., that England has alwo)s coun-
selled the adoption of a liberal and constitutional
government. We will say this much of Lord PAL-
mr.asToNobat he has been to Greece and Italy a
most stanch and consistent supporter of liberal
goceriment, to the length of moderate ccr.stitution-
sham. Our twin make this and its result a crime ti
Lord PauacasroN. They accuse him of weakeoiog
Ragland% influence in every kingdom in Europe. Bat it
Lord Patxtutzroz has done so merely by remaining
true to the liberal principles of the British constitution
and government, he is entitled on this account not to
obl quy, but support.
Toe constitutional leaning and attitude of the Eng-
lish government and its representative at Athens hes
led, as we have seen, to all kinds of contumely being pot
upon us. Notes unanswered; claims not discussed
or disproved, but scouted; denial of justice to persons
solely and evidently because the y were British sub-
jects—ell-A acts as these, indulged in by a foolish
court and government towards a power which
founied the kingdom of Greece, which could have no
care or desire but for its prong-rimy and greatness,
and which recommended constitutional freedom as

the best path to that prosperity and greatness—sash
conduct as this deserved, we do not say the precise
mode of retslistion that was adopted (for we blame
that mode) ; but it certainly dots greatly excuse the
seems which it pleased Lord PALMERSTON to triter,
and that Sir WILLIAM PARR= put in execution.
The real question between Greece and England
presented no difficulty. Had the Greek government
replied, as the Tuscan government did the other day,
and referred the dispute to an impartial arbPer, au*
SS the Rtug of SARDINIA, Mr. WYSE would have
accepted such an offer. Bat the Greek government
esesiders itself the champion of absolutism, regards
En4land as the champion of liberalism, and pate itself
under Hamden banners to excite, and prolong, and
fight out this qsarreL
The Mere and other joarnals have supported tie
obstinacy of the Greek meet. Why ? Out of per-
sonal enmity to Lord PALMERSTON, and an eagerness
to seize on every means of humbling him ' • and out
of, at the same time, a very disgraceful desire to
give those special patrons of the rams, Count Nes-
tir.t.aoos and Prince BERWARTZENDIRO, a triumph
over oar foreign secretary.
Now, for oar part, we me not age penny for Lord
PALMERsToN. But we feel that be has been led into
this @ragman' with the Greek, Austrian, Russian,
and Italian courts solely from his liberalism. And,
moreover, we feel, that the quarrel, as it now geode,
is not only the cause of constitutionals pinet ab-
solutist government, and of Ragland against
Rama, but of British dignity and d the
interests of British subjects and commercial men
against a power determined to thwart England, and
to do no justice by Englishmen. We cannot, there-
fore, rejoice with the Tones at seeing England
thwarted in her present efforts, because the faller*
may work harm to this se that member of the oath.
net. The motto of the Imes is, Perish the liberty
and independence of Europe, and may ever
Hellman be kicked and robbed, provided we ma ewe
Lord PALMERSTON.
Baron Gaoe went to Athens with such offers es se
Greek minister, actuated by purely Greek motives or
itt.-rre.o, could reject. Frame was to examine the
claims, and all it required was, that Ormee would
promisee to abide by the award. But no—a speedy
ternsmatioa of the quarrel did not suit the Russian
envoy, or M. Titouvr.nex, or M. Lomas, or
the ranee. What these people
_went is seer
sot war with Ragland, bat with Lord Petargasvos;
and to carry ea this as long. as inveterately and

as effeetsally
of Russia. and

What we.
lishmen will
Waal. and it
no
easony
as England dm i England t.
wards °mem hes hem hitherto to wish her aonstito-
tinsel and free. For this aot very rash or interested
hope sad snood England his incurred the obloquy
of the Great omit, sad the Beglich government have
retslisted is a way that we sow sincerely regret.
Bat the °reek court becmght this on itself. ALd it
would be against BeglmA rights, dignity, and in-
terests to recoil, soil her fair demssds have bces
ceseplied with.

THE cue of the Reversed Mooftwoutre AMU,
Perpetual Curate of Bedford, in the parish of Leigh,
in the county of Lancaster, tried at the Liverpool
Moises, on Wednesday, is a very apt and timely
illustration of the ecclesiastical objects aimed at by
Bishop Pau.Parrs and his followers.
It is that of a clergyman relining toiletry a young
'couple who had strictly fulfilled all the requirements
of modern legislation as to sense, nominally on the
premix* that dosses hod Rot been confirmed, but sob-
stantially, became the partite preferred 'iv*: the
notices out of chuck rather than have the banns
published in chink. And the consequences of his
refusal are, that their child has been bastardised, and
they are now living in a state of sin. " Asyou have
been a.ked by the guardians, let the guardians marry
you," was the irrererend reply of the priestly bigot to
a formal request by the parties that he would obey
the law of the land.
It is difficult to say whether the folly or the wick-
edness of such conduct is the greater. Here have we
the perpetual curate of Bedford repelling in his small
way, just as Bishop Partroxre would in his greater
sails if be had got the power, two persons from the
&arch. The man, it is true, neither knew his cate-
chism nor had been confirmed ; bat his ignorance
mast people will think, was just the reason why the
church should look after him, was exactly the motive
why it should not repulse him. It is bet a few years
since the church had a monopoly of marriages in
England, since there was no marrying except through
her intervention; and load was her complaints, when
the law broke up her monopoly and recognised the
legality of other marriages. Yet here we now have
a clergyman still further narrowing the circle of
church marriages, by excluding from it those who
ate desirous of entering that circle. It was bad
enough to compel people to be married at church who
did not want to have the oeremoay performed there ;
but it is still worse to tarn those away who seek to
be married these.

If the church of England be the national church of
this portion of the realm, its offices ought to be at the
service of every one who sorts them legally. Whe-
ther the seeker be a fit and worthy recipient of its
offices is • matter fu his own responsibility, and
nt,t of the officiating minister. if it be sinful
for a man to be married at church without previous
confirmation, the risk and consequences of the em are

on his, and not on the clergyminhi, head. Sufficient
for the latter is his doty to point the necessity for
previous confirmation. That done, his responsibility,
whatever it may be, is fulfilled. And such will be
the practice of the clergy so long as they are only
officiating ministers in the church. But once allow
them to fancy themselves a Ilse, ific'al priesthood en-
dowed with mystical and supernatural powers, and
the pretensions asserted in this case by Mr. JAM
ii/ follow ; with mach more serious ounseqnencts in
their train.

This it is, we repast, to which the Bishop of
EILTER and his Lliuwers are driving, sod this it is
to which the Bishop of LONDON, after his fashion,
is giving encouragement. An attempt is being
made to introduce into the English church a priest-
hood having preten inns atd claiming the powers of
the Romiab cherub; a priesthood which shell have
the power to refuse regeneration in infant baptism ;
a priesthood which shall have the power to refuse to
marry ; which shall have the power to refuse to bury ;
wlach shall follow as, with its pretensiors and its
refusals, from our more our grave.
Nor, inch s priesthood is not that which the Hoiy
Scriptures cotremplated; it is not that which the
&OA people will endure. Such pretensions, equally
alien to divine revelation and to the English cha-
racter, must not merely be resisted, they must be
quashed in so signal a manner as to prevent their
revival again disturbing society. It will not do to
hare a continual succession of theee outrage., such
as we have recently had to endure. Io this very
parish of Leigh, its vicar is in the habit of dispensing
or refusing the offices of the church, as it he Lai
papal power; and in doing so, he sets his bishop at
defiance. It was but a few months since the incum-
bea of Ackworth in Yorkshire refused to allow the

remain of Miss GULLY to be brought into the parish
church where her father and brothers worshipped
every Sunday, because she had died a Roman Catho-
lic--a refusal which even his bishop condemned
And Bishop PAILPOTTS, in his notorious Letter
to the primate, regrets that the church does
not mire frequently exercise her power to
refuse Christian burial. These are practices that
must be put a stop to. They are practices which,
though nalield by the Plimrcrrrers and encouraged
by the BLOMFIELDS of the church, are renrobated and
cvndemntd by its tiIIINERS and its MUSGRAW.S.
Let the BENNETTS, the DODSWOBTUS, aed the
JAMESES of the establ shment beware They are
planing matters to an extremity. The safety of the
Church of England lies in its comprehensive
character. Deprive it of that character, ar.d
its duration is not worth a couple of years'
purchase. Reduce it to the narrow Amite and
to the exclusive habits of a sect, and it must
be stripped of its national dress and of its national
wealth. If these people will be sectarian and exc!u-
sive, let them be so; but not in the name or on behalf
of the English people. The alternative, then, is the
continuance of the church in its present oemprehen-
sive character, er its cessation to re the church of
England. When Messrs. PHILPOTTS, BENNETT, and
DouswoETE have got a church of their owe, they
may play what pranks in it they please; but they
mast not be allowed to outrage decency in the temple
of the English people.

THE recent changes in the Sandy
of the Poet-office were so obviously matters on which
experience alor.e could enable any candid man to de-
cide, that, neither p;aseesir g the power of seeing into
futurity, nor the vanity of thinking that we must
know better than those whose daily and hourly buil-
ne as is the direction sad superintendence of Post-
ale* affairs, we abstained from involving this
journal in the raging of a cantroverry, where all the
information was on one side, and nothrog but audacity
of language, and recklessness of assertion, were to be
heard on the other. Nor, in now referring to the
subject, do we mean to descend to an arena in which
facts are disregarded, in which truth is not
spoken, and in which the flimsiest misrepresen-
tations are pilmed off, by interested porticoes, under
high sounding names. Our object is merely to rats
the results of the experiment which has been made;
and from this statement the public must learn for
itself how much, or how little, dependence is to be
placed on the speeches, the placards, the letters, and
Sim leading articles of the industrious and imaginative
seettlemen who, from that experiment, aff cted to
anticipate almost the destruction of Christianity itself
in this metropolis.
Toe avowed object of the Poet-office authorities in
these changes, was to augment the amount of rest on
Sundays to Pest-office functionaries, without patting
the pabLe to inconvenience. With this view it wee
resolved to pass what are called " the forward let-
tees" through London on a Sunday ; end, by conse-
quently reducing the business previously transicted
in the country offices on that day, to close them for
its greater part. It was calculated that by employ-
ing at most arms 26 additional hands in the London
Post-office from seven to ten on Sunday morning, and
from five to eight on Sunday evenings, the country
offices generally might be closed on Sundays between
the hours of 10 and 6 o'clock. Stich was the avowed
object of the Post-office authorities ; such the simple
means by which the object was intended to be carried
out.

How this object was at the time of it. announce-
ment mierepreeen ; kow these figure. were booted
at as intimtional de.usions—say, as the merest frauds;
bow allsortsof ontrageousand unchristian designs w, re
uncharitAbly imputed to sseawlices ri at ds were iden-
heel with those proposed by their revilers and calum-
niators, it woald now be profitless to recount. Suf-
fice it to say, that, supplied with tuhes'atements
from a cabal in the Puet-office itself, the opponents of

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Ii tut which'' 116 designs their asibori, or
the here of thshr eppenentr, ere likely to be
realised. And, having taken some trouble in in-
quirieg into the erecting of the changes, we and
their milts to be these.
Previously to the 28th of October last, there were
27 men engaged the greater part of every Sunday in
the Posse. The first duty of these men was,
from the was which arrived on that day, to select
the Mere (" ship Mare as they are called) ad.
Armed is the NO posinsent officer. Bat, es these
letters essdi Set be 'sleeted without going through
all the Mare meleived, s,, with a view to expedit-
log the Monday morning's delivery, these men
also weed all the Sunday's letters. In these
two ditties, and in waiting for, receiving and
sorting the foreign mails that miss*, 27
men were, we repeat, engaged in the Post-office
on Sundays previously to the 28th of October. When
after that date the " forward letters" were peeled
through London on Sundays, 23 additional men were
at first required from 7 to 10 in the mornings, and
from 6 to 8 in the evenings ; leaving them at liberty
dories the rubrical hours of public worship. But, as
by passing the " forward letters" through London
on Sundays, • great part of the sorting previously
made on Sundays to expedite the Monday's delivery
was thereby done, acid the remainder of the sorting
reduced to limits commonable on Monday mornings,
so it was gradually found, when the Sun.
day's machinery began to work with facility,
that the additional number cif hands might be reduced.
No opportunity of reducing the number required on
Sundays has been lost by the Post-G[llos suthorities ;
and for some time past the total number of per-
NM engaged in that establishmert on Stiridays has
been twenty-six. Previously to 28. h Oztober last
the total number so employed wee 27; it is now 26.
• that, so tar from the recent changes baring aug-
mented the number of persons occupied in the Gene-
ral Post-office on Sundays by, as was predicted, some
70 or 80 hands, those changes have actually reduced,
by one man, the number previously required.
Gratifying as this reduction is when compared with
the anticipated increase, the results of the changes of
October in the country are still more gratifying.
There are, probably, about nine thousand permits
in poet-office employment in the provinces of Eng-
land and Wales; and as yet the new system bus
not been extended to Scotland and Ireland. N,w, by
Etsreirizr through London on Sundays the "forward
" the post-office, in all country tower in which
the mail attires early in the morning (in by far the
majority of our towns it does so) are now closed for
the whole of the Sunday after 10 o'clock in the
morning; in some few towns leis favourably
situated in distance from the metropolis, the
pot-offices are open an additional hour on Sundays
end in all country towns there is now only one deli-
very on Sunday. The conseoueuce of this iv, that
inn the 28th of October, 1849, 6,000 of the 10,000
persons employed in the provincial past-effioes of
Englaed and Wales enjoy every Sunday, on en
average, five-and-a-half hours more rest tear) they did
before these changes were made; and that there are
now 250 fewer deliveri-s in the country than th-re
were previously. Of the 3,000 peranus to whom the
measure has brought no relief on Sundays, nearly
2,000 probably are rural mew eager'; and that these
men have not now more rest au Sundays is attri-
butable not to the Post-office autherities, but
to the inhabitants of the district they serve:
For whenever the inhabitants of • district have, with
anything like unanimity, requested that their men.
serger might not be employed on Sundays, the re-
quest has at once been complied with by the Post.
office ; though cases are not wanting in which the
very parties who have obtained this compliance with
their request have subsequently sought and procured
its revocation. Nor is this all; previously to the
28th October there was a Sunday morning's delivery
in the metropolitan soburbe; that delivery has now
ceased within a circle of six miles around the ftenerel
Post-office.

Nor must it for an instant be supposed that these
results spring from the recent eiciwnent. They are
the natural fruits of the policy embodied in the much-
abused minute of February 3, 1819. They are the
contemplated efec•s of the changes recommended
therein, which changes were adopted by the Post-1
rnaster-G_ceral, and received, and still hare, the
approbation of the Treasury.
The design of that minute ern% we repeat, addi-
tional rest to the Post-office on Suldays without in-
, convenieace to the Its effect has beer, add,-
tional rest to the Post-office, with additional convenience
to the public. Gauntry towns have now the full advan-
tage on Mondays of railway conveyance ; and this ad-
vantage hes reduced the nimbi rot I.ersans engaged on
Sundays in the General Post-office by one man, and
has given in the provinces of England and Wales to
6,000 persona nearly six hour: additional rest on
every Sabbath. More complete success it is impos-
sible for any measure to have, though, in truth, it is
only the last of a series of Post-office successes such
as no oth• r department of the state can display, and
as will confer on Mr. HOWLAND HILL a fame the
more enduring and brighter because of temporary
calumnies that have for a moment obscured his repu-
tation, and the selfish oi position that his occasionally
arrested his useful public career.

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