The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-21 00:00:00

[The meeting was proceeding when our report left I

The clergy of Cumberland and Westmoreland
met yesterday under the presidency of Chancellor Burton,
and pulled resolutions in favour of a continuance of the
connection between church and state, and declaring that
the disestablishment of the Irishohurch would be a serious
blow to the reformed faith in the United Kingdom. The
Dean of Carlisle, in seconding one of the resolutions,
remarked that, while ho had to lament having inherited
the gout from bis ancestors, he had to thank them for the
inheritance of church and state principles.

The Bishop of Salisbury is sufficiently recovered
from illness to resume his confirmation tour.

The ceremony of presenting the prizes and certi- 1
ficates of honour to the students of the medical school
attached to the St. Mary's Hospital was performed yesterday
by the Right Hon. R. Lows, M.P., in the presence of the
Dean, the professorial staff, and a large assemblage of
ladies and gentlemen friends of the students.
THE REFORM LEAGUE AND THE MINISTERIAL
CIUSL4.— At the meeting of the council of the Reform !
League, held last night at Adelphi-terrace (Mr. Beetles in
the chair), the chairman congratulated the council upon
the present aspect of political affairs—upon the Scotch re-
formers in the house having secured for Scotland pure and
simple household suffrage unfettered by the odious rate-
paying clauses which still deformed the English Reform
Act. He did not think the idea of the house rescinding
the vote on Monday night was worthy of a moment's con-
sideration. Ile expressed a hope that the citizens
of London would not allow themselves any longer to be
misrepresented by the Lord Mayor, but assemble in their
own Guildhall to vidicnto London from the grave reproach
of being the enemy of religious freedom and equality.
(Cheers.) On the motion of Mr. Odger, seconded by Mr.
Davis, the following resolution was unanimously carried :
"That a subcommittee be appointed to take steps to secure
a meeting in the Guildhall in support of Mr. Gladetone's
Suspensory Bill, and to ascertain whether the Lord M.yor
has correctly represented the opinions of the citizens of
Landon on the subject of religious freedom."
Iltris CLASS l'o•ruaLs ANO DRAWINGS. —A col-
lection of modern pictures and water-colour drawings, by
eminent English and foreign artists, was yesterday dis-
posed of at the gallery of Messrs. Foster, in fall-mall.
The whole realised nearly 3,000 f.
PREVALENCE 01 SMALLPDX IN ST. PANCRAS.
Yesterday a report was presented to the St. Pancras
vestry by Dr. Hillier, medical officer of health, in which
be stated that during the past month three deaths from
arnallpox uccurred ill the parish, all in our, small distriet
near G. ay's.' •ruaa, where there had been a prevalence
of smallpox fur nearly two mouths past, especially in one
court of 13 houses occupied by about ISO persons. He
also states that in niauy cases the parents refuse to allow
their children to he sent to the hospital, and the healthy
are allowed to associate freely with the patients. The
tianitioy officers have no appliances for purifying the bed-
ding and clothes med by the sick, lied the arrangements
even for washing linen are in houses of this description of
the most wretched :1111.1 unsatisfactory character. No
action was taken by the vestry in the matter.
Tit UN belt riiitit AT LIVERPOOL.—From 8 to 11
°Mock on Tuesday night, Liverpool. Birkenhead, and the
...ljacent districts were visited by one of the most fearful
thunderstorms ever experienced in the locality. The in-
cegint thunder and lightning were accon.panied by a
perfect 'kluge of hail and rain, and as it wus high water
at the time the sewers could not discharge their contents,
Rod, a. a natural consequence, many of the lower paste of
Liverpool were flooded. No serious casualties are re-
ported, but a man while walking from l'rentoe to Tnin-
inere, near Birkenhead, was knocked down and seriously
bruised. An *reedit,. fell in the river close alongside a
ship, walls were knocked down at the Everton barracks,
and at Osten, and in Menzies-street. Liverpool, a large
bole was made in the roadway, and a number of "square
sets- with which it is paved were ground to powder.

ISOAT ACCIDENT ON THE HUMBY.K.-- on Saturday
afternoon three men bad a marvellous escape from being
drowned in the Humber by the capsizing of • sailing-boat.
Atmut o'clock Mr. J. Hunter was on the Hurt.berbank
near to the Dairycoates junction, when his attention was
drawn by two ladies to a boat upset, sum, had mile out
from the slime lie could then see three men in the water,
stiiiggling for life, two holding on to the bottom of the
boat, and the other implanting himself on an oar,
and could distinctly hear them imploring the Lord to
save them. He fu-4 ran to the railway pointinnan's
house, in hopes of hearing front him where • boat
could be procured, and found there wee none nearer
than Hull. Mr. Hunter then went to the North-
Enstern Rajiv.), Plant-office, and the superintendent
I lespaschtil an engine with him to the terminus at Hull.
From thence he went to the Minerva l'ier, hailed
a Custom-house boat, and after telling the crew of the cir-
cumstances they started off to the rescue, pulling hard
against the receding tide. They arrived simultaneously
with n passing sloop,the Emily. Mr. Wi 111 l iughatn. master.
The teen, whoop names have not transpired, were put to
bed on board the sloop in an exhausted state, they having
Lean in the water over three qu.erters of en hour. They
soon t eem teed and were landed the sante evening at the
Victoria Dock basin.—loattre Ihreld.
A HI Kits Ne'era IN A DILF.MMA.-011 Thursday
vetting a boy named Elijah Taylor, who was keeping sheep
in a meadow belonging to Mr. Kerridge, farmer, of Watley,
ascended the trunk of an old tree, with the the intention of
getting a starling's nest out of a hole. Having climbed
about twenty feet, the boy thrust his arm into the fissure
up to the elbow, bat en trying to withdraw it, be found
it win tightly wedged in, and his etroggles to exit lest.
bites, If rinsed the limb to swell PO much that its with-
drawal became gradually more difficult. He bung there
for about three-quarten of an hour, clinging with the
other arm to the tree in a most unpleasant position. till
his companions fetched several men, who brought a ladder
and ascended the tree. After spending some time in
sawing hod chopping, they at length succeeded in making
the hole wide enough to enable the boy to withdraw his
arm, without having sustained any material injury.—
Bury and Nondok Pod.