The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-16 00:00:00

THE CASE Or THZ HARVEY BIRCH.

The New York Poet, seeeired by to-day's matel
rye :—" l 4s of the most hrotiful of the packet ships red;
mail from thin port—a pride and basset of oar oommereleli
manes—the Harvey Birch, belonging to gr. J. H. Brower,
of Sorb-skeet, has fallen ► victim to the piratical ler
of the rebels. Returning to this port from Havre, is
ballast, after a prosperous outward she
seised by the Asszaship Nashville,
water's edge. There are reasons,
should sot particularly comminierate
loss; but be that as it may, the circumstances
excite many reflections. Her crew, - '
sailors, prosecuting an boot and 1
wire seised by the lawless rovers, put
had been criminal* and in that
carried off to a foreign port.
" Whether the Nashville professes
mistimed vessel of war, or a privateer,
probability is that 1611 is neither, and
like a pirate, on bee own reposelbility.
be nominally, the outrage is the same ;
that has yet been inflicted upon
country, sad the honour as well
citizens. New York must feel
wrong to bar very heart. Seldom
history es a commercial metropolis
dared to question her right to nevi
which is the source of her wealth UK
the seas of the world foreign powers
ledge the emblems of her enteritis, t
the most frirodly relations with her
glad to do all in their power to fc
zonuserce. But these rebels do not .
merrestmen, sink them in the great
their rem to the indignities which -'
for Gloom*

Mr. Musey, M.P., will publish
concluding volume of his History at El
Reign of George ILL, in the course of the emu; og spring.
Mr. Adderley will shortly publish a letter to Mr.
Disraeli, on the present relations of England with this
colonies.

The Dublin Evening Mail announces the death
Lord Riven&le, the aged Biahop of Killaloe, who had bi
in a dangerous state of health for some time. He was b<

in 1784, oonsecrated Bishop of Killeloe in 1839, and Imo
needed his brother William, an third Baron Riveradaba in
1848.

A puiene judgeship in India has been offered
to Mr. li'Mahon, M.P. for Wexford, and declined. The
appointment is worth 5,0001. a year, with 1,5C31. for an
outfit, but the locality, Agra, is extremely ill-suited to
Europeans until they have been acclimatised by early and
lose residence.

The Let occasion on which the people of Eng•
land were called upon to put themselves into mourning fix
the death of a Prince Consort was just 153 years ago, Prinoi
. .

George of Denmark, the consort of Quee• Anne, having
died on the 28th of Oct., 1708 ; but the easy end placable
prince was socially and politically very much of a cipher.
The Morning Post remarks :—" A sad new year
awaits us. A cowl and • nation in mourning, no royal
marriages, • melancholy opening of the Great International
Exhibition when he who was its prime mover and very soul
baa departed ; • sad new year when we are suffering from
so dreadful • chastisement of Provident's."

The Bombay Gazette says that a monster train,
consisting of 77 cerrisges, was run from Surat to &rods,
the day before the fah. held on the Dussera festival. When
it pared over the Tapia) and Nutted& Iron Bridges, the
passengers offend to the rivers micoanuta in such large

quantities that the waters for the time seemed quite
covered with them. It is saki that this shower of cocoa-
nuts was offered that the rivers, over which such monster
trains were to pas, might not open " their wide mouths a • •
swallow up the human freight."
DEA= OP PRINCIPAL CUNNINGILAIL —The free
church of Scotland have sustained a serious loss in the death
of Dr. William Cunningham, Principal of the New College,
Edinburgh, which took place early on Saturday morning,
after an illness of ten days, terminating in pleurisy. Dr.
Cunningham was recognised * one of the leaders of the
great woledeatical secession from the Scotch establishmen
in 1843 having taken a prominent pert in the conflict.
debate in the church courts that preceded that event. Af
the "disruption," as it was called, Dr. Cunningham, w
had previously been minister of Trinity College Church.
Edinburgh, wee appointed Professor of Church History
Divinity in the New College then instituted, and iu IS 47, o•
the death of Dr. Chalmers, be was chosen to fill the *lice
principal. The deceased clergyman has long been
*one of the alibi* theologians in Scotland. He was a•
stanch defender of the Calvinistic divinity, and admitted'.
possessed great logical power and critical acumen. 1/.
speeches possessed a sort of stern, argumentive force that
bad the effect of eloquence upon the bearer, and it was Mfg
cult to say whether they were more impressive or oonviocing.
His last great effort on the platform was a speech at UM-
burgh about a year ago on the Carlini's cue, which
puerally manic t as the most lucid exposition and a•
defence of the views Dow maintained by the free church*
opposition to the civil courts on the question of ecc
tied discipline. Dr. Cunningham, who was a native
Berwickshire, died in his 56th year. About two yeaGN sga
on showing indications of failing health, some friends pro,
posed to unite in subscribing to a testimony of persona
esteem for him, and in a few days the suni of 7.0001.
raised for that purpose. The rev. doctor was chosen mode
rater of the free church assembly in 1859.
THIS SPRCIAL SUNDAY EVENING Nene!, fis.
Yesterday evening Exeter-hall was thrown open for
first time this winter for a special service. The ball
well fills 1, and a sermon was preached by the Rev. William
Brook, on the duty of British Christians in relation to th
Amenca arida. At St. James's-ball there were two service'
that in the diem* being conducted by, the Rev. tewm
Hall LL.B., Minister of Surrey Chapel ; and that io th
evening by the Rev. William Chalmers, Preshyte
Yielder of Marylebone. At the Victoria Theatre the
was a special service *inducted by Mr. C. M. Rushy.
" Surrey Chapel evangelist ;" and at the Surrey Theatre
sermon WU preached by th Rev. Daniel Hatteras, of Rut
ney. Special religious services were also held yesterday I
the Standard Theatre, Shoreditch • the Pavilion Theatre.
Whited** ; and Sadler's-wells Thewtre. It is armour",
that St. Martin's-ball, Long-acre, will be opened fora spec
service next Sunday.
Yesterday morning the Rev. Dr. Thomson a'i'l
the Rev. Thomas Staley, designate Bishops of Gloom&
and Bristol and Honolulu. were consecrated in the chile'
of Lambeth Palace, in the presence of the Archbishop
Canterbury, the Bishops of London and Oxford, the do
trio clergy, sada very crowded congregation.

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