The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-17 00:00:00

LT WOPENCE.

Bellantyno to be "rain; David Macgibbon, pat, to be
lieutenant, 0.07. Maw" gam., to be ensign.
Perthshire Rifle elnataers—lst Compaq—Geary Mon-
eta, Ron., to be captain; WOtlrm Deem, Reg., to be
liestanant; Thomas Watson Greg,akelets.
2nd Cornrow—lobs Dicionm, En., to be_ captain;
Bobigi tigiiikkr, Esq., to be bratansat; Freak Madman,
to be =shim
emended's" signed by ter 11115fs Commissioners of
lisslansmoy at the al Leedom
London Me Volumene Brlgatio •be Capmm..—wgihog
Anderson Rose, William lionbalsy Alin, Willis=
Gardner, Homy Robert Pools. and William Gardner the
William
To bs Lieutenants—Theresa Davies Feviagi_hs
William Carter, end George Simms. To be
Frederick George Pinob, George Raked the younger,
William It and Wiliam MeLedelea. To Ito
dMon Cattalo May. TO be kit-Be rgen
absardas Propose 168yr:ewe.

Amman, Dim 16.—Appournoorrs.— Con-
sardsz G. H. Web (1868) to b. ',speeding ocommutiwt sr
the Coed Gaud, vice Baker, who's period el mobs has art
pima.
Clack D. T. Waugh is appointed secretary's Ark &beard
the Victory, 101,16a-ehip, at Portsmouth.

WOOLWICH, Dir. 16.
SOLDIERS' INbai u in.—General Sir A. J. Law
rime, in forwarding to General Sir It. Dames, C.eausandiet
at Woolwich, a donation of U. in aid of the fends of the
Woolwich Soldier' Institute, writes, I I have keg tats se
bereast in the establishment of addlaP institutes, end ea
happy to bear my testimony to the value of an und
witch tends to elevate the moral and religioneehaLterl
our men, and to place them in the high potation which they
Aught to take sracept our fellow-cuuntrymen. I the
Woolwich Institute will be carried on in a manner wrathy d
Ys ArOtry Regiment, and elation may anmess," •
7.10.1.) AMOZINT AI TIM SISIMIMIUI,I. Sara
nosed William RentAr,-hrthe-entnierot Mews.
Pimlico, contractor. to the Admiralty, expired this day at the
hospital, from the afoul of bjories teete by falling from
a stage whilst employed In repairing the slip ea which the
Bristol sumo vessel is sow being constructed.

CHATHAM, DEC. 16.
Several of the boons adjoining the western wing
of the Royal Marina barracks have been vacated, and 4m
preamble naby the Board of Admiralty, who here exuded
the oecuEdars Waal compenestion, the whole of the ground
estimauWhit dalfoimolkdotated the
outlaemiorgimentoool. and exteneion.of the ter-
k; at in y 476,
Thta sellitheitt Chelsea baud of officers assembled at 81.
Mary's bivalid sitablishmsot, where a number of non-com-
menioned cdScere sad men, of venous regimeets, who had
been lilt to the lavaBd depot on account of their enflames
for farther servire, was marmite', when those who wen
fiaupl to be disabled were ordered to be discharged from the
service on Thursday aut.

PORTSMOUTH, DM.
,Dee, paddle-wheel steam vessel, arrived to- •
deg, with samildarry es board.
The Visilent, 4, stem vessel, receetly arrived from the
Weelliterreatee stades, will be paid-off deutag the early part
Of the sesedag week.
The Imsertallti, 61, screw frigate, is to be docked kw
repels, mad to be teought forward for service. •

,rOLUNTBER ELP.L.S MOTIMENT.

'WEST MIDDLIMIM OATS MA/MLINIPONS).—The
Mof_the West Middlesex (late Marylebons) ride arm
a sassing yeettedayi it head quits; the Fravilloss
' Lard's Cricket-ground. Lord Radetock occupied the obiek,
rid Sir Charles Rowley, Bart., Sir Charted S.
Buts, Illerat.-Catimal. Writ, file. O. Wigrain.Ean
Buntcp, Mr. F. H. BtftmllO, and other trainee
presient, ik report win treselted stating that as imamate r
' majority of thee:umbers ltd decided to change the name of
tip corps to
~ gust Welt Middles', which was confirmed
by the
thy booking eltall be trinsferred from the Mmylebose
Rides" to thp, name of .the Commanding officer for ;begone
being ofthsWeet Mia.Werlltifies. AcommunisetßzuWiereed
from Mr. W; Cue Thanes declining te accept the Inritenuey
of the second 001ipatty, end one trom Mr. 3, W, Bridgman
accepting the offirseof ensign of the second eon:Many. The
following genUemen were appointed •as nenkosafebudeeed
of of the led esenpisy, vise:—Sergsenbt t' •
Salmon, Mr. W, Eirabroch, Mr. Charlet liampoe, and Mr.
Henry }sang. Corporals Mr. Alexander Maorillivray; Mr:
Omega Richardson, Mr. Roger Freedom, sad Mr.. Resting.
Efficiency and Weadock in drill are the tree cdpromottoe from
the ranks. It was resolved to provide drill sergeszta for out-
lyingdhuicts, and to cover the TeenisOcest sad light kwt* r
gm tax evening drill. Lei night, a semeennes with a ree
gaiiiitiou, a general meeting of the Corp was held, to com-
mier the made of appointment of officers snd comment,;
the desirability ot changing the material of the uniform (a
cheviot tweed), ead of adding a shoulder-belt, as elm as to
the propriety of accepting the services of the band which
had volunteered its gratuitous vertices. Thew propositions
were adopted.
INLAND REVENUE.—A general meeting of gentle-
men attached to the different departments of the inland
Ravenna, et Somerset-house, flu been recently held, Mr.
Thomas Sargent, assistant-eacretery, sating as chairman, at
which • resolution was parsed with acclamations authorising
the immediate enrolment of a corps of yonnteees, under the
designation of " The Inland Revenue Volunteer Corps." It
is proposed to establish the corps in connexion with the Civil
Service Rifle Brigid., bat at the same time to be governed by
its awn rules, and equipped, drilled, °Slowed, and folly cep,
nised by its own members. The following gentlemen were
appointed a working committee, with power to add to their
number :—Mr. Britherton, Receiver-General ; Mr. Cor-
bett, Assistant Under Secretary; Mr. Thdbiao, Legacy
Doty-office ; Mr. W. Dalbise, lactnemoffice ; Mr.
Dwelly. Solicitor's-office ; Mr. Gripper, Amisent-Comp-
troller-Genend; Mr. Hawthorne, Assisant Comptroller-
GaDersl; Mr. Hill. Supervisor of Stamping Departments;
Mr. Lery, Special Comniissimeemoillos ; Mr. Rumen, As-
sistant le epeotor-General ; Mr. Sargent, A saistant Secretary;
and Mr. Walpole, Legacy Duty-office. The Board of Inland
Revenue have oboe been plead to approve of the formados
of the corm, and are prepared to aid in caliper it oat by
affording every facility consistently with a recent letter from
the Treasury, copies of watch have been circulated through-
out the department. Mr. F. B. Garnett, of the Itspector-
General'', Office, has been appointed honorary secretary; and
Mr. William Good, of theßeceiver-Generars Office, hono-
rary treasurer. The enrolled niembeta, numbering now
nearly 100, are drilled three times a week, by Mr. William
Ream, of the Legacy Doty Tkpartmenr, and late lieutenant
of the 77th Foot, who acts as honorary adjutant. Captain
Beaus, hie father, late of the 11th Home" who served is
the Crimes, has alas rendered valuable maiatthoe in
exer-
cising the members of the corps.
Tun INNS OF COMM.—The enrolled members of
the oerpe ot the Inns of Court are now considerably above
500, the pester part of whom have programed so seedily
that they are now daily sump d in the platoon mode.. The
novo Is divided into six sompaniee, four of which drill In
the hall or ground of Litwin's• inn, mil the remainder iu the
Temple-gardens or the hall of the Middle Ter"ple, The se-
lection of caber. is about to be considered by the sinking com-
mittee, or rather at a general m. sting of the corps, and the
members look to the occasion with much interest. The
choice of uniform has also to be decided. The attendance of
tho members at drill is ramarkatly steady, and the corps.
both in numbers end theirncy, promisee to become one of
the finest of the many now being raised in the metropolis.

THE MANCHESTER GUARDIANS AND THE AUDl-
von.—At • inestieg of the Manchester Baud or Guardians
on Tuesday, the chewier. auditor, Mr. Robert., of Rechdalse
having repented himcelf to hold tito wand audit of accoprxita
the attendance of his clerk was objected to on the
that be wee neither an officer of the Poor-law Board, nor yet
a ratepayer. The objection, it as stated, we. not to Mr.
Roberta' employing the clerk to =Piet him. but to hie
employing him without specifying what duties he would per-
form, or satietying the guardians that ha was not delegating
to another what he was bound to do himself. The clerk wee
ultimately removed bye policeman, and Mr. Roberts a 4 jounced
the audit until yestereey morning, prof:Ml-tog to write to the
Poor-law Board on rho subject in the meantime. In their
reply, the poor-law commierioners declare themselves unable
to give en opinion aa to any legal redeem the oink may be
entitled to, but they cousider the auditor may edjourn the
moceedings from the board-room of tbe guardians to some
wormiest place In the township of which may hare =-
disturbed possession. At the same lium. they point
oat tbat the audit moat in all subetantial particular*
bo conducted by the auditor personally, the chrk only
acting es an assistant. In sc)ordamm with the above
auggeetlon, Mr. Roberto has adjourned the audit to
his owe (glee to Menehester, Mr. Ricards, the
chairman of the gnardiene, stated yesterday tea kt
the object
of himself and his collesgues was to re= a care for the Court
of Queen's Bench. in order that the precise duties of the
auditor in the matter inirtit be defined. Mr. Roberta said
hie own interest in the office wait not sufficient to justify his
esgagting in litigation. It ie understood that the guardians
will offer no farther resistance beyond protesting ele..Det any
irregularity in the =dittoes proceeding% and calling the
attention of the authorities to it if requited.

ASSOCIATION FOR SUPPRESSING THE PRACTICE OF
FALBELY LABELLING GOODE FOR BALL.—An adjourned
intense (see Azprass, Oar. 29) was he d th. Guild-
hall Cedaw-bonie )asrerd•y, Mr. Charles Brook. jun.,
Ideltbent Mille, near Budderettld, in the cbsa, ~ten the
yule, of the sasocialloa wars adopted, sad an influceiirl com-
mittee, consisting of easanfacturers sad tredtia from the
pried* maaufhaturlng districts sad the mott rettectabla
wholemale houses in London, was appolstiat.

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1011 DON. SATURDAY, DEC 17.

Wn have recently given a number of fasts,
derived from this beet sources, detailing the
musky and recklemmess of priestly rale in the
Banish stave, and the.. no Papal advocate has at-
tempted to excuse er refute. The documents
publi.hed are official, drawn up by the local
agents of the Papal Government, and found in
its archives at Bologna. The first lea letter writtees
by its newly appoioted lay-governor from the small
town of Paenza to his ecclesiastical superior at'
Bologna. It must be remembered that the writer is
himself a civil officer, enjoying the confidence of hie
superior and the Government, and anxious of course
to pat their proceeding. in the mcat favourable light,
lie lean inferior public servant, and would scarcely
be likely to complain of the system unless the ease
were urgent—sinless the evils of its local working
were crying ar.d all but intolerable. lie wills:aurally
also understate the real truth. What Webs tistizoosy
of this cfficial witness? Ile states in effect that then
is no such thing as the administration of justice in
the district of Faeces. If a aims is committed a
number of people are arrested hap-hazard, tortured
till they confess themselves guilty, though in assay
—in a majority of cues, indeed, they are perfectly
innocent, and imprisoned for indefinite periods,
without even being brought to trial. Against this
cruel and reckless system he mildly remonstrates ea
follows :

Moot Ke inrmd Partheasey,—l yesterday paid u entre-
salthary viols te the piths. Ky beers the grieved. I• His
MO Oath alias I Itheil fl pima& Vary km at them no
thaw Mel. Ke•y dgsd sa the Matthias. =thy are at
the illeyseki3a et Qs Sam Geseha, and wry army bele
beta plead biros. • prierativary airwee. emit ost having
de eimaiimikinamt puwn►ir* Pawky Isda irtibuid
•prime Am, prUps eke midmost jusf mow ol e•spiwws.
Same both aressei hew tat weethe. seas ter yam . ems
tenth by halm. This is M spa woad dist bank ea/
yi is s Oat mar at the diretheat erg therilso le the
•rLoritw, sad et the eager asthma the goew•m.r4. Colas
errs ►. eissolted y strlkkag •s yes* it • tee; it Is
ast by me moms dry cm b. led to the lees et the eusthst
sthithiges

He gees on to give a recent illustration of the way
in which justice was administered, ur rafter—under

legal forms—outraged in the district. In consequence
of a crime having been committed in the neighbour-
hood three persons were arrestid on suspicion, and
thes,a• a precautionary measure, twelve more who
it was found, bad no connexion with the first three..
So that,: sa the writer justly puts it, either the
three or tbittwelve must be innocent. Meanwhile
the facades of the arrested were filled with grief, and
would won be reduced to misery, like those of the
ninety-one who had been so long imprisoned
without examination or trial. The result of such •
state of things was not only wide-spread private
misery but universal public discontent. " 'fhe outcry,
the letter says, "is all but universal." Even as
agent of the Papal Government, being new to the
work, feels acutely both the misery and the
seam al. Something ought to be done, but he knows
not what. " Dictate to me," says he to his superior,
*for otherwise I know not how to dry the tears of
" • hundred families who mourn the impri•onment
" of father, husband, or *OD, and these hundred
*. families 'arras,* us misery because those echo were
their support Sr* taken assay." He adds • fact
that is conclusive enough as to the utter neglect into
which the whole administration ofjustice had fallen,
" Looking to the Chancery," he says, "I find a de-
" ploroble void. Above 430 causes have been
"depending four or fin years." This letter was
written six years ago, in July, 1843.
The second document is mare recent, being ex-
tr.ots from the sentence of the Court of the First
Instance at Bologna, on causes heard in June, 1830.
These a v rects prove that flogging, torture, and acts
of arroclowi violence were inflicted on persons
against whom there was no kind of evidence, in
many canes no ground even of suspicion. Thom
tortures were inflicted to make them confess, and
thus rave their cruel and reckless tormentor' the
trouble of further inquiry. The judges of this
court at Bologna are laymen, and in their judicial
sentence they formally "deplore the many violent and
" ferocious acts by which confession of crime was
" suggested to and exacted from numbers of per-
" sons, with enormoos abase and open viola ion of
" the existing !awe." Against many of these there

was really no evidence at all, except their poverty ,
sad the forced confusion they had sableqsantly
retracted. The judges, referring to these breed
' confessions, justly conclude " that every argamant
" drawn from such an impure source is worthier."
This is but a specimen from official sources of the way
m which justice is administered in the Papal Staten.
We ask the oraton of the Irish Crusade again
whether they really think this a good system of
government, and if they would like to live under
it P Here is the true character of the priestly
government they laud—cruel and cowardly
to • degree that has made it an abomination
'in Italy and a sandal to Europe. The advocates of
each a system must deal with the facts of the case.
Let them honestly say they think it perfectly tight
1 that people should be arrested without any thugs
being made against them, tortured into a false eon-
fission of guilt, and then be imprisoned for years
without trial and examination. If they frankly
justify these things on the ground of the Poem's
infallibility let them say so, and we shall at Wet
understand the position—we shall knowthat in their
view international law, common justice, even
humanity itself are to be sacrificed to the interests
of the Papacy ; that all rights,public and private, are
to be openly violated in order to keep the Sovereign
Pontiff on a tottering throne. But until the facts of
the case are in some way met, until they are denied
or explained away, the attempt to defend the Papal
Government on the ordinary principles of justice and
morality is simply an outrage on common thorny
and an insult to common sense.

The investigation, by order of the BISHOP, of the
grounds of scandal and evil report alleged against
the Bev. JAMBI, Boswell., incumbent of St. Philip's,
Stepoey, hu disclosed an amount of deliberate, self-
punned, and persistent wickedness happily without
parallel in the experience of the present generation.
We are not about to repeat bare the revolting story
told on Thursday at Doctors' Commons; those who
care to know the details have already read them in
the report, or can do so. The inquiry before
the Commissioners was disciplinary in its origin;
its consequences, therefore, directly affect the
defendant only in his professional character. In its
conduct, moreover, we miss some of the fosters* of
an ordinary English trial. Bat the proceedings were
public; the defendant was represented, and not the
shadow of an attempt was made to rebut the damning
evidence produced against him. If we are to believe
the concurrent and uncoctradicted testimony of the
witnesses for the prosecution, Mr. Boswell, a mar.
tied clergyman, invaded the family of a deceased
brother clergyman with the burst of purposes, con-
cealing his married state by repeotel lying, and
made its tairest member his prey and spoil by
means of promises which it was impossible for him to
fulfil. At Margate he told several of the friends of
Mims YO/LATH that he was a widower, and dared to
preach to a congregation coccentiog charity and
love, when he had most shamefully violated his duty
to her whom he had sworn at the altar to love and
cherish, and while he was steadily engaged is ruining
another under pretence of love. At Newport he was
received by the brother of his victim as her future hus-
band on his own declaration that he was a widower,
while he impudently appealed to his position as a
clergyman as • guarantee of his good faith, and
profaned Holy Scripture in quoting its phrases to
give sanction to his false stories. He even had the
audacity to visit the Bev. ;Chancellor WILLIAns in
company with Miss YoRATU, to hold a conversa-
tion with him on the subject of a marriage with that
unfortunate young lady, to fix the wedding day, and
to preach in Baasaley Church. Ths ostentation of
his pretended courtship of Miss TORATH while his
neglected invalid wife was keeping her school at
Islington, marks the character of the man
beyond the power of a thousand epithets. The
mewl of this infamous conduct—the consummation
of Mr. Bomwett's guilt, the atter ruin of his victim
—was certain. Nor were the aggravated circum-
stances which fixed public attention on the case when
it was first brought to light less consequent. Had
only human frailty led the parties into unhallowed
relations, en honest attempt to repair the wrong
done to society, to the Church, and to Miss YORAM,
might bare been possible. But there can be no
doubt that it was the fixed intention of the defendant
to persevere in the coarse on which he had entered.
The base threat by which he tried to silence
the natural inquiries of the young ladj's brother,
and the impudence of his letter to the BISHOP, show
that he wee determined to maintain himself to the
last against those who wished to check his career of
sin and hypoerisy.
Looking at the facility with which Mr. Bots-
we/J. maintained improper relations with Miss
YoaAru, not only away from his incumbency at
Margate and Newport, bat even in his own parish,
seating her in the rector's pew, and receiving her
after service in his vestry without impeachment,
we see that but for the slight and apparently acci-
dental circumstances leading to his detection, this
bold and hardened man might be even now usurping
holy functions and reasoning before unsuspecting
congregations of righteousness, temperance, and
judgment to come, and reminding mothers that
children are " dear little trinity." Most, it not all,
of the mischief which he was able to commit might
have been averted had his family relationships been
more under the eye of his people. London
is so large that, as far as the people oh St. Philip's
were able to know anything of her, Mrs. Boxerebb
might as well have lived at Brighton as at Islington.
The Church makes mazy great sacrifices in order to
satisfy the wise preferences of Englishmen which
esquire the marriage of the clergy, and the congre-
gation ought to have be means of knowing something
of the minister's family life. This Stepney sandal
will lung be remembered ; but we should beware of
allowing it too muck influence in the judgments we
unconsciously form of the clergy. As it is not by
the devotedness of a Bishop Sebwre that we estimate
the piety of the profession, so neither should we
measure its failings by the conduct of a BONWELL.
!The common-sense way of judging of the clergy is to
look at the rule, and not be led away by the excep-
tion, whether splendid or infamous. When we are
shocked by the conduct of the clergy, we are
greatly shocked; yet, considering their numbers,
how rarely does thin happen.

VACANCIES, APPfatirysiiii,,AND PROMO-
rioas IN TtlB CIVIL inn=

War-office.—Mr. Georg* Alfred Jolly boa been
appointed • temporary nark in the militory Mote department.
and relwyed eat cortilloste of succoodul mamination Mr.
D. F. F. Richordeon eaa boon +minted • temporary clerk,
sad NoeA b. examisalioe. The Adottralty—Mr. Fraoct•
jvkfr Permed Todd has bees swotted to a temporary
otamphip, mod pawed Ma emmonattose General Remater-
akp—kr. Frederick Bement be. been appointed a clerk in
I images, end pried his examination. IwDockyards...
mom Joke Marl and Peter Cornish. leading melt, be,,
boo prompted to be brepeetere of shipwrights at Woolwook
Dmkyard. Cleamor—Mr. Albert Walker. clerk In Its
szemiser's race. hes loess amistod • osporaimarary sleek
t...b ten eootrollerlpinentr • e London ; Mr. Joan Clad-
in. re boar. boot appideted • Modem oohs, s 4 o,,pmmoutti
Mr. Joon J. Madiessio has been spudded a clerk .t Holt.
tlepool ; Mr. /Iraq d. Mastoid hes keen promoted from
0ft...n(1 to trot clomi clerk to the Lepel Qttnys Depsetimept.
Londt.n ; Mr, William Soot him been promoted nom 11%64
to woad Hama dark in ditto; Mr. John N. Feeninge has
loon promoted trim fourth to third slam sleek is ditto ; Mr.
Gomm' &Ulnae boos promoted from filth to fourth doss
clerk in ditto ; Mr. George B. Skinner hill here promoted from
math W dltb clasp dark In &maw Bautte.