The Express. — London, England, 1853-02-04 00:00:00

FARISII OF 'EL-TITHES. Yesterday a public vestry wan held in the pariah church of II ritechapel, un the requisition of several of the Tar p : din, for the purpose of considering the question of the ...the' claime 1 by the rector, the Rev. Mr. Chamsoneys, i g..l ....Aug such reps regarding the same as might be requisite; Mr. LIWKIINCR, one of the church vuaj!ll4. Hi the chair. Mr. Sunnis:a, one of the requisitionists, said that the present 'meeting bad been convened in COOktplenee of • vlaita f.r tithes, now, for the first time during several years, soeaht to be enforced against the reluctant parishioners. Tb? taw. of the excellent rector of the pariah, the Rev. Champneys, against whom he did not wish to speak in the brut thin spectfully, had been put forward in the bill uhith had btu filed in Chancery fur the purpose of corn row( pliant of these tithes, but Mr. Clionionejo, nut umbi. g to create dimitaion amongst the different parties and sects iu has pariah, bad publicly stated that he would rather 'coign h.. living than introduce law and all-feehug amongst the parishioner.. It was sail, therefore, that although his owe was used, he disavowed all knowledge of tn, proceedings, and that they were iu reality row..ea.eed t, Br:lreton? College, to whom the ed emas./ of the pari-h belonged. He thought that this was • worthy determinate in on the part of the rector, and if he hail been rut forward I-y otheis, he hoped elan' the rev. a. 'Altman would adhere to Ids resolution. ▪ y were now in this poitian, that seven of the parish ins. had been sers..l wits b.lls in Chancery fur a year's tithes, amounting to or IGs., and he understood that me of these irdivi lush had no notice given or demand wade ore them p.cvisnas to the receipt of these Chancery bolls. (clear.) One of thew, a member of the Jewish per mission. bad been screed on Lis Saliaath with the bill. (near) These persons not well knowing via it to do, and 6.4 trightene , t by the prospect of a Chanzery suit, pail the many and IL costs each. (Hear.) Having succeeded thus tar, Sweaty uthca s —and be, Mr. Simmons, was one of • twi nty—Wert ettaeked, and had bills served upon ti ne ) This was a case, therefore, in which all Th. rout eq. r. wo re concerned, and it was their duty to • iorward on 1 resist by all the legitimate wan. a their power this unjust demand and or pn,..no on th.: part of the motor or the college. (limn ) The h• v. Mr. Champneys' name was also at the head of •• c. Camases, bills, and after hi. deeleratioe it I .cry strange to sse his name thus used iu order to awn that of his parishioners, who objtcted to tithes aA re• . ted his Olisietratinn., to make these payments. (User. heat) Jr rua proposed the ant resolution, esteeming the vas:aunt indignation of 'he meeting at the proceedings s e,.,a- brl been instate eel a„ hint the parishioners by the • after the public deereration of the reel and also espreriag lately sympathy with the parishioners who had rue. 4,iiags taken against Chin. Ile said that be quite eeccurred in what had been said respecting the excel:int dinette of the rector of the rends of Whatehopel, hut as w e rev. gentleman permitted his name to be made use of by ti. "liege, and to appear in the legal proms:digs a r rale-• the parishioners, it must be assumed that it was he who these at. ps against them. Here wore persons who gave the rev. gent,. man an trouble and who sought for no spirve-1 mainstrations p'aced in the purgatory of Chancery h.cm-e they refused to comply with an urjust demand. Whit could be more oppressive than such conduct 1 (Ile lie hoped the rate-payers of the parish generally wv I n 4dt this claim. (Hear.) Mr On rawnuusecondod the motion. LIDOLS bore te►timony to the exemplary lionduet of the niter, who, he undervtoorl, ' , rent the whole of what he received from the palish on the poor. (gear) But he, as &member •ii tic Sco:ch church, would nut in future pay what the collector oemandial of him, but only what he could be legally compelled to ply. lie was sure that if the thous of the rector were put fairly before the rate-payers, not one of them would refuse to pay his dues, or even to double them, it nase•:ir) - . Bat 111 matters stood at present, men ...old bold to their strict rights, and he hoped that (celiac pervaded all the pariehivners. (Hear.) Ile thought it but ftic ti Mr. Chumpneys to ask if a requisition signed by WO of the parishioners had not been presented to him, requesting him net to leave the parish, and to allow his name to be used by the college for the purpose of pro iscutirg them proeseihogv ? rItIRMAN said, that after the declaration made by the rector, that he would resign rather then plunge the' yari.hioners into law, he and the other churchwardens. ' (vapid, riug that it would be a great hardship and lom if Mr. Chaniputys were to leave the parish, seat round a re qui.iti,a, which was signed by a large number of the parishioners—he could not ray how many exactly—re questing him, that rather than resign, he would allow his name to be used, if the college were determined to try the question of right •o tithes. After a long consideration, the rev. gentleman replied that he would accede to the request made to him. Mr. °nen said, that he had a few days since received a letbr from the rector in which he said, "Being canvineed that my leaving would in no way tend to a settlement of the question, 1 felt it to be my duty to comply with the requottion, and not to stand in the way of a permanent decisimi " He (Mr. Otter) did not think that this was quite in harmony with his public declaration. The 1t,,. Mr. Bt.sca (a dissenting clergyman) said it was clear from the evidence of the Reetor himself, given before a parliamentary committee in 1842, that the parish of Whitechapel was not liable to tithe, for he said that his " income was derived partly from fees ia the church, and pariy from t h e tithe, or, more pro:serly, the EAster offerings from the par.shioners." Agaio, when iu 1819 he Intro duced a bill into parliament Inc the purpose of c , mmuting his alleged rights for 1,0001. a year to be charged on the poor Lite, that bill, after a most searching investigation, was rejected by the Ensue of Commons (Hear, bear.) On that occasion also the cpininn of Mr. Eagle, an eminent authority on the questi• n of tithes, was taken, and he ad vised the parishioners that the rector had no title to the customary tithes claimed by him from the inhabitants gene rally. (Hear, hear. For himself, he was so clear of the illegality of the demand that, come what would, ha would resist it whenever made, and he had no doubt he would do so successfully. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was then put and carried with but one dissentient Mr BLACK then moved that a committee be appointed to consider of the best means to be pursued to resist the claims now set up. Mr. MuAg, one of the seven who had been served with the order of the Court of Chancery, seconded the motion. lie believed it would turn cut to be true that these tithes were imposed at a hole-and-caner meeting of a few parish ioner+ under the late rector. The rector was promised Niel. a year by the college when he came amongst them, bat if he got all the tithes that were now claimed, the amount would be double SON. He had been served with co !mice previous to tho receipt of the bill in Chancery. (Ileer, hear.) The rector had been placed in a false poet- LA, sod he hoped these who put him there would be able to eel him out of it with clean hands. The motion was pat and carried unanimously, and a Com nine., consisting of Messrs. Evans, Offor, Simmons, Bleak, Bates, &c., wvs appointed. Mr. PoWILL moved the next resolution, expensing the ferret and shame of the vestry at the destruction of the old eellieton books by:a former rector, and proposing that a neuvs:be sect to the present rector for the oldest cottontail boils now in his possession for the use of the pariah. He believed that the date of the oldest collection book 11011 is sentence was 1730, and ho did not expect that the ruble would refuse the request made to him. He raked re demand for tithes not because of any objection he Ind to them, but because he believed the rector had no legal dedna 8 P" h is. HI Kid the Sty, prendeman, with whom sod with whine good noels in the pansh he win acquainted, of this his determination ; and Mr. Clusaspneys said that if he were in his position, and held the same opinions, he would get ia the same way. (Rear, hear.) Mr. CCL•IitiOCIII secon ded the motion, which was car ried anaahnously. Mr. CiU.ll.. in proposing a resolution in fawns' of the adoption of the voluntary principle as the beet mob of fissuring peace, said that he could not agree in all that MI been said with respect to the rector of the parioh, lbw, diet baring made a public declaration that he would ll nther than allow law and strife to b e introduced intort pariah in rennexion with his name, be found the awn 61 the rev. gentleman at the head of those in whose olowepoit medlars were taken. (Hear.) It seemed to him that HMO liai great equivocation in such conduct. Kr. Bern seconded tbe resolution. He would advise theta on no account to let the power which they evidently possessed to escape from them, for though it might he true that the present rector was en estimable man, even the inhers of the Established Church themselves did not w how soon they might have quite a different character piv.ed over them. They should take warning by the can of From sad Rochester, and keep the power when they he I a: in theirosin hands, resoluion parsed unanininesly. Oa the motion of Mr. Dacca, seconded by Mr. WALK the n solutions were ordered to he advertised la the bully Sere, Times, and AkrAing Adrertissr. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro ceedings. Da. CEIIMINO ON TIIE CASE OF THE Lin night Dr. Cumming delivered a lecture on the cam of the Madisi, to a crowded auditory, at the Caledonian Church, Hunoway. The rev. gentleman improved the °c astle° to point that moral which he has already developed 14 hi , newspaper letters —that the persecution of the Diadiai, sad all such similar cues constantly occurring in Italy, if, the logical consequences of the canonical law of the church of Rune, which insists upon the persecution and extirpation of hereties as • primary seclesiaetieal duty. St MAAELE9OI4E BASE FOR SAVISIDS. —The teenty•third annual g I meeting of this institution wee oa Thursday, the 3rd of thia month, at the affirm, No. .3, Welbeek-street, Carendish.strest, the Rev. John Hume Skrf. D.D., in the chair. It appeared from the several re 18,rts read .to the meeting, that the progrem of the bank daring the p as t year b ad been of a satisfactory deseriptsoa, soles. than 2,504 new d eposits having been mule in the r.h !km ; 23,774 deposit accounts remained open on the of November last, of which 17,284 held balances aye- IL "44 los the n 2L 7d. each. The sum iu the hands of government on the 20th of November, 1862, 55 per re ev,pt ham National Debt Office, !signed by Sir A. Spew Bin, and laid before the meeting, war 36 11. 5 261. 121 - ; Sain the hands of the treasurer, Sir Claude Edward Scott, !n , whom acknowledgment was likewise produced. ..1/41. 18s. ; i n t h e hands of the actuary, IU. 3s. ; the okaaee due t^ &imitate at that date, as per balance-sheets 3 64,fil a. 10'.9d.; surpl us , 8301. 1:31. 7d. The seceder to depositors has since risen to 375,8311. 4a. 7d. REWARDS FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS. Yesterday, a meeting of the general committee of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was held at the offices in the Adelphi. Capt. S. ELLllltra in the chair. We also observed present Cols Blan•hard, C. 8., Capt. Halsted, Capt. E. A. Inglefield, R.N., Capt. Jerningbam, R.N., Capt. NPRardy, R.N.. Capt. Roll, R.N., Major Palmer Capt. Perrott, Capt. Washington, R N., and C a pt. Ward, the Impactor of Life Boat* to the institution. Mr. Laws. (the secretary) having read the minutes of the previous meeting, the following rewards were ordered to he granted for saving life from : The silver medal of the institution to be presented to Mr. Arthur Brooks, chief boatman, and John Sims, boatman, of the Diusgenese coast-guard station ; the thanks of the committee on vellum to Thomas Sampson, E.g., and • reward of 51. lOs. to several other parties, fur the valuable assistance they had rendered to the crew and passengers of the Derision emigrant ship, Louise Einelie, which corns on shore at the above place during the late hurricane on the 27th December. A communication having been established between the wreck and the shore, lines were attached to two circular life• buoys which were un board the ship. The men, women, and children having been then forcibly secured to the life-buoys, were thus drawn on shore through the surf. At this time the sea was flying over the brig's maintopaail, which was set. Within an hour alter the vessel came on shore the masts weal by the board, her decks fell in, and she immediately began to break up. The I first receding tide swept away 43 souls who were left on boartl. The two life-buoys having by this time become disabled and unfit fir further use, the preservation of the 39 other persons was mainly owing to the coolness and gallantry of Mr. Brooks. Sims, the coast-guard man. had also displayed much coutage on the occasion ; so ou account of one of the life buoys breaking, to which was secured one of the emi grants, who was observed to sink, he rushed into the surf to his rescue; eia other men then formed a chain (by joining hand.) from the beach ; Sims, and the emigrant whom he held hroily iu his g rasp, were thus drawn together on shore. On reaching the land he however, from eshaw.tion, be came inseruible. When the life buoys had become dis abled, valuable aid was rendered by Thomas Sampson, Esq., who desisted with his horse in bringing a hawser over the beach from a distance, and by means of which mail) , lives were saved. Lieut. Hopkins, R.N. was of opinion, that had Carte'. life buoys hee used on the occasion they would aot have broken, and that many more lives would, in all pro !Ability, have beer saved. Those used at t(is titre had a l hollow spate in the middle, more then an inch in diameter, and appeared to lie only kept together by the canvas which covered them. Mr. Carts bad pronounced them to be cruel imitutiuns of his invention. The thanks of tie committee, on vellum, were presented to Mr. Hugh branch pilot, at litliosugyr, Car• ovrironshire, and a .eward of 41. lOs. to be divided between Wrote:land his boat's crew for saving a part of the crew, consisting of 11 persons, of the barque Juno, of Russia, which was wrecked in Carnarvon Bay on the 27th Decern lier. The @east the time was running mountains high, awl it was entirely on aceour.t of the gallantry and perseverance displayed by Mr. Williams and his brave men that the ship wrecked crew were rescued from their perilous position. The ship's gig had pr, viously made two or three attempts to return to the wreck, but the heavy sea had upset it, and the two men in her had a narrow escape from being drowned. The silver medal of the institution was voted to Mr. W. Bridle, master of the Primrose, who was upset frein a boat on a late occasion at Lynse Regis, in attempting logo to the assistsnee of the crew and passengers of the emigrant barque Heroine, when four of his e.imrades unhappily perished in their laudable endeavours. The committee had at a pre vious meeting voted 291. 10s., in aid of the subscriptions made for their widows and orphans, and for other services rendered by other parties on the occasion. A reward of 11. 10s. was granted t i two coast guardmen at Carrick Hill, county Dublin, for having attempted with their punt to rescue the crew of the brig Annie, of Work ington, which was wrecked near the above pl ace on the 25th ult. The men had launched their punt under ex tremely dangerous circumstances, and had nearly succeeded in reaching the wreck, when one of them was struck by a heavy sea, disabled, and nearly washed overboard. The shipwrecked crew were fortunately . subsequently saved by Dennet'a rocks which had been immediately brought to the spot through the promptitude of Captain Irwin, R.N., to whom the committee presented their thanks. The sum of his. was voted to a poor man on the coast of Donegal, in consideration of his intrepidity in rushing into the surf to save the muter and mate of the sloop Lovely, of Inverness, which WAS wrecked near Inniaman Island, ou the 29th December last. A reward of 3L was granted to a boat's crew on the coast of Carnarvon, for rescuing the crew of nine persons of the Russian brig Die Krone, bound from Wilmington to Liverpool, on the 4th ult., when she went to pieces soon after in Carnarvon Bay. The thanks of the committee on vellum were presented to Mr. W. Stevenson, mister of the schooner Steerwell, of Bill Quay, in consideration of his humane and prompt con duct on the 26th December, in bearing down to the sada lance of the crew of the John White, who was observed to have a flag of distress tlying, and to be in a sinking state on Whitby Bar ; the vessel foundered in lees than oue hour after her crew were taken off. The silver medal of the institution was presented to John Craddock, COMOlllaiioll coast guard boatman at Stouehaven, in appreciation of his gallant services to the crew of the screw Christiana, of Arbroath, wrecked near the above place during a heavy gale on the 26th November last. In order to save the new it was necessary Cu swim to a rock at some distance Irom the main body of the rocks. This Craddock did, followed by others, and, having succeeded in establishing a communication with the wreck by means of ropes, the shipwrecked men were hauled oa shore. The thanks of the committee were also voted to Lieut. Kennedy, R.N., chief officer of Cushendeen coast guard station, and a reward of 31. to his boat's crew for their gal lant conduct on the occasion of the wreck of the schooner Suspense, of Glasgow, on the 16th alt. There seemed every probability of the crew perishing, when the lieutenant with his brave men put off in his boat, against the remonstrances of many persons on the beach. He however persevered, and fortunately succeeded in taking the crew (four in num ber) off the bowsprit and in bringing them Gately on shore, amidst the acclamations of the people ou the beach. Lieut. Kennedy had had the silver medal of the institution pre sented to him for a previous act of gallantry. It was stated that very favourable accounts continued to be received of the new lifeboats on Mr. Peake's design, and that that placed at North Sunderland Mad saved the lives of some shipwrecked men on a recent occasion ; and it was also said that the institution bad several of these boats now building for various point. on the coast. It was reported that the past year had been moat disastrous for shipwrecks, and that hundreds of poor fellows had met with • watery grave. FATAL EXPLOSION LN GLASGOW. On Tuesday forenoon, a part of the buildings of the Greenvale Chemical Works, Duke-street, belonging to Kean. Long and Barclay, exploded with a loud testes. It was at first believed in the neighbourhood that the steam-engine boiler had bunt, but it was men aseertained that the seedisat had ciesenod hem the liplike of • quantity of highly explosive ma xi& used in the manufacture of mnpron mania. As swam of exaggerated gutturalism's sionleted in the Asia, sogarding this melancholy essualty, we have made W=lr inquiry u to the rams sad the 'wormy of the may be relied on. Botwee• the hours of nine and Ism Ale* the mit imam of lb* worken wen at break ing. bet wail bid readout beaded Is box matches, and mead to the beads' tithe smapseitim is the dipping shop. This pords• of the weeks is et use storey, aed so - large that bennen slaty and seventy Made are usually employed in it. The tompadies is composed of pones, phosphorus, and other asipholte hisr•dients, and is melted is a tin vessel, whisk NMI le an iron pot heated by steam. A man of the same of Yam was either stirring it, or wee about to do so, whsa it exploded, with • report so loud as to be heard at • somiderable distance. This wu a few minutes before tin eisek. The tin vessel was blown to pima with gnat vieisess, lb• ttspasata of which seriously lacerated its seas, legs. mod eine parts of the body of Yates ; but, was uninjured by the fiery con tests. tee he were scorched, but not so severely es to moss any particular uneasiness. Two boys, whose names we could sot learn, from their having but recently intend the works, wen not so fortunate. Not only were they scorched by the explosion, but they were frightfully lacerated by the shattered fragments of Means plates, several pieces o f which were forced into their bodies. The proprietors had immediately several surgeons in attendance, who, after doing everything that could be done in the circumstances, ordered the two boys to be taken to the Infirmary. One of the boys expired on entering the Infirmary, and the other is in a condition so dangerous that faint hopes are entertained of his reeovery. Yates was conveyed to his own residence, and though he is much injured he is not considered to be in danger. The lesser effects of the explosion were considerable damage to the dipping shop, which may be said to have been blown up, • portion of the roof being completely displaced, and the windows blown out with great violence. All the furniture of the shop, such se dipping plates, tables, dc., were de stroyed, and the fragments driven in all directions. Such was the force of the explosion, that • quantity of the com position was blown tight over • two storey building-- North BrituA Mail. GOLDNER'S PRESERVED MEATS FOR THE NAVY. —By a letter received from an *facer who visited her Ma jesty's ship Plover, in Behring's Straits, on the Arctic search for Sir John Franklin, we learn that a survey was held on board that ship by Captain Frederick, of the Am phitrite, and other officers, when many thousands of pounds weight of the preserved meats, in Goldner's canisters, were condemned as unfit for human food, and were thrown into the sea We challenge official contradiction of this. — Ply mouth Moil. . . IRON Etvzmvirs.—Workmen are paving Howard react, Boston, United States, with east iron. The pave ment is composed of circular boxes of cast iron, about 12 inches in diameter, and five Inches in height, divided into li:compartments, so small as not to admit the hoof of a a hone. These ewes will be filled with gravel ; but some other ►ubstances, such as a composition of asphaltum and sand or gravel, may be found more suitable. The surface of the pavement is grooved, to prevent horses from slipping, and on the outer edge of each box are keys which fit into the edges of the surrounding boxes—thus binding the I whole firmly together. The thickness of the outer rim and the inner division is about an inch. The street will be covered with a net-work of iron, filled in with a substance to produce a smooth and durable surface. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1853 MIL COBDEN, M.P., AT HOLMFIRTH. Iday, when I w as i n H nddenfield, I went over • warehouse there, and saw every kind of chock and pattern for pante ' loons and waistcoats. But these thiugs, as I am informed, did not come from Holinfirth ; for here you have been sticking too much to the old style of drah kersep, and that sort of thing. (Applause and loud laughter.) Now, gen tlemen, believe ner it will never do to persist in going on in the old beaten trick when the world is bent upon going out of it. (Hear, hear.) The world is obstinate, and not only obstinate, but capricious; and if you do not follow it in its changes and requirements, and that very quickly, it will be of no use dreaming of remaining in business with I any success in these times.. (Hear, hear.) Well, then, gentlemen, that being ii , bear in mind the next fact—that there is no one so obstinate in resisting change as the ignorant man. (Hear, hear.) Eduiate the man, and he is as pliant and as plastic as possible, and most readily accommodates himself to the charges of eir.umstance in the world around him. So long, however, as men are ignorant, they will not change ; they will turn upon you I o n e sly—" It did for our fathers and grandfathers, and it shall do fur us." (Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, this society not only gives youth an e n c ouragement i n t h e pur suit of knowledge, and stimulates their minds with motives for seeking further knowledge, but it expands and elevate* their ideas, and stimulates them to ascertain in their respec tive callings what is wanted in the world in the way of novelty. In this way the world's craving for variety may be satisfied by ourselves. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I have heard since I came into this room something about persons who are opposed to these institutions. Well, I listened very attentively to the speakers who dwelt upon that topic, as I wanted to find out who these people were, end where they sprung from. (Hear, hear.) I wondered what Feet or denomination this person could be long to who felt ir.elined to brand these institutions and tho.e who belonged to or supported them with a sort of infidelity. I was really curious to discover the man who could now be found to quarrel with these institutions. I felt curious to see the religious sect which held such a doctrine. But really we have had one reverend gentleman after another praising these institutions, and denouncing this objector to them, until at last, I believe, we have had to night the adhesion and active support of representatives of every religious denomination that is to be found amongst us. (.. Hear, hear," and anpleuse.) And from the first of these reverend gentlemen I heard as liberal a sentiment as ever posed from the lips of any loan breathing. (Hear, hear.) Ile said that if the mum could only afford the time and money, he wished that every poor man's child were as well educated as the children of the richest. (Applause.) No body can deny that such a state of things would be a blessing, not only to the poor, but to eve limy in the country, from the highest to the humblest. (Hear, hear.) It h is; I know, been objected, that the poor may be too much educated. Why, gentlemen, you may just as well be afraid of all the poor riding about n their coaches and four, or playing the piano, as fear that they will be too well edit cated. (Hear, hear.) Admitting that it would be unwise to educate the poor so well as the rich are educated—ad mitting it, for argument's sake—there are too great and I fear wholly insuperable obstacles to that state of things ever arriving: the one is the want of time, the other the want of means. (Hear.) So long as these obstacles exist the rich need be in no fear that the poor will he better educated than tl.ey are. (Hear, hear.) I remember wait ing with a person holding this doctrine in Manchester about 16 years ago, where I and others were engaged in the work of starting the Manchester Athens= I was em ployed in waiting upon the principal merchant., manufac turers, and tradesmen of the tewn, asking for subscriptions towards establishing the Athenaeum. One gentlemen met me with this objection—" I think the people are • good deal too much educated already. I don't think we shall be safe if they are to be educated any more ; and our property will be in danger if this goes on." (A laugh.) %Well, I met him by putting to him this question—. Will you tell me in whet period of the world's history you would rather have lived than the present, in order to have had ycur vast fortune safer than it is now ?" Well, he could not answer me. (Hear, hear.) I urged him to point out the period lie would have selected—" Would you have pre ferred the last reign or the reign before, or the reign of George 1., or the reign of Queen Anne, or that of Queen Elisabeth, in order to have lived in greater security both as regents your persin and property 1" (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Why he could not tell me. (Hear, hear.) And so I answered my own question by saying—.. You would be much safer if you lived 30 or 40 years hence ; but not if you were to go back to any time however remote." (Applause.) This is the tendency of these institutions ; and yet peo ple are to be found who charge against them that they produce disaffection, disloyalty, and revolution. Now disloyalty and revolution come to the people from mis goverement ; and misgovernment is more likely to be attempted upon an ignorant than upon an educated people. We have been well told that "oppression makes wise men mad." (Hear, hear.) And I remember this being very well applied by a man who was lecturing upon the Corn Laws at Bury—a man perhaps not highly educated, yet by no means destitute of shrewdness. The lecturer said— "' oppression maks wise men mad.' If It maks wise men mad', what men it do wi' fooils then ?" (Laughter and loud applause.) I think, gentlemen, you will agree with the inference which the leceirer left his auditory to draw, that whatever effect misgovernment or oppression had upon wise men, it must produce worse and more disastrous effecta when the ignorant and the fools come to deal with it. (Ap please.) Therefore, you cannot do a worse thing than to encourage ignorance. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, will you allow nes to offer a practical remark upon a subject which I think is of some interest and some importance. While your chairman and secretary were. stating the course of instruction given at your institution, I think, I missed any allusion to iastruction in geography. Now, I would suggest to those gentlemen who have taken so great an interest in this society, that geography and maps be added. You may ge t some capital large outline maps from the School Society. I wish you to instruct your youth in geography. Yen know there is just now a great mania for emigration ; and people are losing their fnends —not losing them altoether, because from the increased fa cilities in travelling you may easily go to the other side of the world, and yet hope to come back to see your friends and relations again. Now, it is a sad thing when a youth has a friend who has gone to Australia If he should want to follow bins, that he should have no idea where to find him. Bat if he knew a little of geography he could put his finger on the map and tell exactly where to find him. It is also • serious disadvantage to a person who desires to emigrate. The other day I heard of a man who wanted to go to the diggings at Victoria, and booked himself to Syuney. When he got there he found himself several hun dred miles from the end of his journey, and had to ship himself again several h un d re d miles arther. AU this would have been avoided had he been taught geography. These are days in which geography is all-important. As I tame along to-day I was reading • Scotch newspaper, the Dusuiss Advertiser, and found this expensive idea alluded to in these words—" When all the world over are beginning to think less and lee of themselves as subjects of this or that government, and more and more of them selves u citizens of the world. The printing press, first of all, then the steam-engine, and more recently the electric telegraph, have mightily conduced to this still progressive change. The literature of one nation is now the literature of all nations; • voyage round the world in only a pleasure trip ; London converses with Paris lit • moment of time. By books, by travelling, or by electric communication, we know, see, or speak with all mankind. We are more neighbourly with the antipodes now therewith Europe • cen time age, and the state of the continent is better known to us to-day than was that of this kingdom to our grandfathers." This urges the people to strive after • higher state of edu cation than was attained in former times; for as all are now interested in what is going on in Melbourne, in the United States and in Canada, and as we make the great topics of conversation, the triumphed' steam and naviga tion, men are not for society in the present day odes, they have a more enlarged knowledge of all these things than their fathers had. Take the meehanie ; he reads that in New York there is a new invention being applied, called the caloric engine, by which it is proposed to propel ships without steam engines or boilers. But when an uneducated man reads about these things in New York, it is to him just the same as if he read about something going on in the moon; he does not know whether the people there are black or white. In fact, an American went to a respec table inn in York, the son being told that he was from America, the landlady in surprise said, " You are from America! dear me, I always thought they were black." (Laughter.) And there are many people, dare say, who do really suppose that the Americans are black. This arises from neglect in not teaching people geography. I want to see the mass of the people read these things to which I have alluded with advantage. The people have read of these things is your news-room. I am glad to hear of this new feature, the news-room, and have no doubt but it will be one of the most attractive features in your institution. (Hear, hear.) This has been found to be the ease in other places. For many years these institutions could not have a news-room, because they were objected to by influential parties as being political. But there is nothing less political than • news-room, if the newspapers admitted are fairly selected, because they will have papers of all kinds. (Hear, hear.) You will find that people will resort to news-rooms, not to read the leading articles ; for, with all respect for the talented writers for the public press, I regard the leaders as of far less importance than the article@ of news in the paper. Take a newspaper up, and you will find news brought from all parts of the world. Nineteen-twentieths of the whole paper consists of news, and only one-twentieth part of original articles or leaden; therefore with all respect to the editors of these newspapers, I believe these original articles, so far as guidance end direction are con cerned, are the least useful and interesting parts of their papers ; facts and intelligence being more *ought after by readers. There are far more newspapers in America than here ; but they have less political influence ; people there go to see what is the last news from Europe, 'brought in by the last steam-boat which has arrived. I wish, there fore, that people could be disabused of the idea that the reading of newspapers can be of the least injury to these who like to read a newspaper for the ;appose which most of us like it for. There is one other point upon which I wished to have made a remark. Somebody mentioned to me when I came into the room that you had made an ap ' plication to parliament for grants of parliamentary papers. (Hear, hear.) We publish, as many of you know, every year, • mass of parliamentary papers. I am afraid that a great deal of these papers, in the ease of nineteen twentieths of the members of parliament to whom they are open, go very speedily to the bu'ter-shop, not being much read or used. It has been asked that these papers should be given to societies of this kind. (Hear, hear.) Now, I have presented petitions to this effect to parliament, and I ' think one from this institution in favour of granting you these papers. My own impression is, that if the statistical department of the Board of Trade would analyse all these papers, and give us at the end of the session a good digest of them in a ample form, it , HOLMFIRTH, Fan. 3. Lost evening the annual Soiree of the Holmfirth Mechanics Institution took place, when Mr. Cobden, M.P.. for the first time addressed the inhabitants of this obscure but important nook of Yorkshire. About WO persons took tea together iu the Wesleyan School Itoom, and after wards adjourned to the Town Hall, where the speeches were delivered. The assembly included all the leading in habitants of the neighbourhood, toaether with ministers belonging to the Church of England, the Independents, the Wesleyan., and the Unitarians. Mr. J (AIN limos, President of the Institution, officiated u Chairman. Mr. WIMPINNY, the Secretary, gave • detailed account of the state of the institution, which ha said had suffered greatly by the dreadful calamity of las: year, when the bursting of the Bilberry reservoir caused such a destruction of life and property. FIJI' some time the 'Tat' of the di ',eters were paralysed, but the institution was beginniog to gain strength again, and the number of members was now greater than before the flood of bat February. More suitable rooms have also been fitted up in the centre of the town, with a news room attached ; and, with the continued aid of the influential inhabitants, it was hoped that the in stitution would be placed upon a sounder footing than it had ever yet been. Mr. Conutoe, M.P., on being called upon, rose to address the meeting, and was received with loud and vociferous cheering. lie spoke as follows: —Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen,—When I heard you, sir, speak of war, I could not help feeling how much better it would be if we could have some one to fight with here, for where there is perfect unanimity, where there is nobody to oppose us ex cept that phantom which has been conjured up that there is somebody opposed to education, it tenders it exceedingly difficult for those who have to address you to engage your attenzion and interest your feelings. And my difficulty is much increased to-night in hissing to follow a successi - m of speakers who, I will say, without fiaWry, have equalled any speakers that I have ever listened to at • meeting of this kind—(hear, hear)—speakers who have given you practical arguments, cogent reasoning, and strong declama tion. Now, gentlemen, shall I confess the truth to you, and tell you • secret. I am • very bad hand indeed at speaking—bad at all times, but especially bad when I have nothing to prove, nothing to disprove, and nobody to op- POW. Everything here is admitted, and we are all of one mind. Sometimes in_ the House of Commons—confessing secret. again —where I feel myself obliged to somelhing on questions before the house, and where there it not muc h occasion to speak, my friend Bright, who perhaps site beside me, sometimes says to me, as an indication that I wenn(' something to excite me, Would you not like somebody to kick you now ?" (Laughter and applause. ) Members of parliament — again secrets—(laughter ; —members M parliament call these anniversaries of me chauies' institutes at which they are obliged to give their attendance, political treadmills—(loud laughter)— , becawe they say, " You are obliged to go, you are ' laid hold of and forcibly imprisoned, and when you are there you are always obliged to move to a certain ate-, and Lou must nut step out of it." (Hear, hear, and applause.) ow, gentlemen, I will act say I am here by coercion, be cause my friends around me will bear testimony that I am • willing and a delighted visitor here, but still there is something in the simile of a " political treadmill" alter all, because when I came into this room filled by constituents and friends, and probably by men who sy with my views on general public questions, one feels naturally du posed to talk about those things which would be likely meat to interest my audience, and those topics on which their thoughts and feelings may be often running. But lam forbidden, and I would he the last to infringe on those rules laid down by these societies. If there be one man in this ball who differs from me in political opinions, even if there be but one, he shall find me respect his opinions by the observance of that strict neutrality which we all claim and afford at meetings of mechanics' institutions. Now gentlemen, I come here to Holmfirth for the first time in my life, not for the last time I hope—(applause)—hut I came I must say, vary much attracted by the painful fame to which you attained during the last year, about which I read so much, and had the opportunity of seeing a great deal that was done, to meet and mitigate your awful cala mity. I naturally felt that as your society here might have suffered from that calamity to which your whole dis trict had been subjected, that it was the duty of every one who possessed any connexion, whether political or other wise, with this locality, to be here to-night to aid your institution on its entering upon another year of its use fulness. (Hear, hear, and applause.) And now let me tell you that Holmfirth has acquired a great reputation from what has befallen it. Towns sumetimes are celebrated for calamities as well as celebrated for great blessings and distinctions of another kind : Lisbon, for instance, is never spoken of except in association with the dreadful earth quake of the last century, and Holmfirth is now urually spoken of in connexion with the fearful calamity which last year betel it. You have become a marked pl.ce, the couatry are interested in you. A great portiun of the benevolent population have interested themselves fur the benefit of Holmfirth, and, I must say, I think that the outpouring of hearty benevolence and philanthropy dis played last year in all parts of the kingdom on the occa sion of your suffering, was such as was calculated to raise, not only our countrymen, but humanity itself, in one's estima tion. (Applause.) And lam bound to admit also that the great probity, and moderation, and strict integrity with which you have ndminietered t he relief awarded to yuu, and the way in which you have made a return of a large propor tion of that whish had been contributed, stands unparalleled in the annals of philanthropy. (Applause.) I have said to day already I wish you had been more generous towards yourselves with what you had to dispose of. I wish you had not only contributed relief for past sufferings, but had anticipated a little the distress which may hang about you in consequence of last year's misfortune. However, if you have lost something in money, you have gained immensely in character and reputetion, and I think that is quite equal to the cash. (Loud applause.) Now, I have heard some thing to-night of the particular detai ls of your institution. I understand you number 150 members. It is not so many as it ought to have been, and it is not so many, I think, as you will have if we meet again next year. But, considering the populatior, and comparing you with other towns which I will not mention, and bearing in mind the circumstances under which you are situated, I do not think we have any right to complain on the present occasion. (Applause.) But recollecting the advantages of your position, and hear ing all that I have heard of the benefit to be derived from your institution, I do hope next year will mark an increase in your numbers. (Hear, bear.) A great deal has been said, to exhort young people to belong to this institution. I do not see • good many young people, but those who are bald and like myself grey a little, are in considerable num ben before me. Now, I should like the people to try the Chinese mode of regulating family matters. In China, if boys are found idling in the streets and picking and steal ing, they do not do as we do, take these young, untutored, sad unreasoning creatures before the magistrates, but take them home to their parents and apply the bamboo to the soles of the _parents' feet. (Laughter.) Now, though I would not indict corporeal punishment, I think we should lay it at the door of the parents to be obliged to send their sons and daughters to an institution such as this. For what ars the advantages they confer ? I have heard the programme of your education hers, and it is almost equal to what used to be given is the public schools and in dot-date bonding schools. Yon may learn almost anything here. Where are the excuses for being igao rant when Is. 3d. • quarter, or 3d. per week, gives you the advantage of all this variety of instruction ? (Applause.) Now, this being so, how is it brought to bear on the prospects of this people ? I cannot see how any maa can have • chance of being anything twenty years hence except a navigator er • ploughman, except he has learnt reading, writing, and arithmetic, because the standard required for superior employments shuts out all who have not got superior instruction. I have been engaged in getting employments for persons, and whether I have applied to a railway company or the London police, I have exposionced the greatest difficulty in trying to serve those people who had not got the education fitting them for the employment ; so that putting it on the ground of self-interest, tt a; .pears to be the pre-eminent interest of parents to see that their children are educated, in order that they may get some respectable employment and Isere you have instruction made especially suita bib to I the callings of the different parties who attend this insti tution. (Hear, hear.) It has been stated that you have received • number of models for drawing famished by the Board of Trade, or by the Committee of the Council on Education, in L ondon.: I think to have made a supply of models of this kind from • central society is very good. I an not the friend of centralisation myself with reference to anything which implies management, bat to bring to a centre in Manchester, Leeds, or London, these models of art, or to offer what are considered the best rules and arrangements, and to diffuse those models and rules throughout the country as a means to enable localities to Improve by them in the best way they can—that, I think, is unexceptionable and to be commended. These models are sent from the Board of Trade, but I think I heard the remark, that along with those models there came from the Society of Arts information and Instruction as to manufacturers' patterns, or something of that sort. Now, I have no faith in that. I have no faith in your learning anything connected with your parti cular branches of manufacture from the Society of Arts— whether you shall have stripes or checks, botanical forms, hieroglyphics, or Chinese fi gures; whet her you shall have roses or lilies. The Society of Arts cannot teach you these things half so well as Mr. Schwann, or those who buy them from you. (Hear, hear.) You would never think of going to London for designs for your patterns; but you will get the best models of art—get these beautiful flowers which I see around me on the walls, and the best bouquets of flowers, and let your boys with pencils and paper, or with slates, as the cheapest material, draw the outline of them. Never mind the colour ;if • boy can do the form, he may afterwards paint it any colour, for it will always be beautiful if he can get the form accurately. Then with re gard to the human head. If you have a model of Apollo, for instance, whether a statue or a drawing, let the youth take a pencil or pen and copy the outline, and then he will eventuall become a draughtsman, and will draw well. Now, it Is notorious that we are very much behind in art. I had a letter the other day from a gentleman, • large agricultural implement manufacturer, who asked if I knew any Frenchman—he wanted some one as a designer —as a draughtsman, and he asked me if I knew any Frenchman for that purpose. Now, he wanted • Frenchman. That is a scandal that he should think of asking me to recom mend a foreigner to do work of this kind. You must make use of the models of art you get from London, and your youth must be trained In the beautiful in design. Now, you want something of this sort in Holmfirth. Holm firth, I fear, has rather been going back, because you have adhered a little too much to the old style of things. To- world be a great deal more useful than the mass of blue books which are now given to us. Every member in the house claims a right to move for any return he thinks proper. For instance, there is a curious men interested in the malt trade, wants to know the number of quarters of malt made in the year, perhaps he has got a bet upon it, or it may be on the hop trade, and ea on. We generally give these returns. Now, I have never yet moved for any return except when I intended to found a motion upon it, for these returns have to be furnished at the cost of great labour and ripens°, more than people are generally aware of. (Rear.) But as the type has to be set up for these books, it would only require • little more paper, which would make but little difference iu the cost, you shall have my vote and interest in favour of granting you a supply of these papers printed by parliament. (Applause.) And now, gentlemen, in conclusion, I must again say I came here without at all hoping to give you any information u to your proceedings, or any stimulus in the prosecution of your objects ; I came here rather from a pleasing sense of duty, and to show you that my feelings were with you in this good cause ; and 1 assure you you may now or here. after command my best services in promoting in every way I can the prove: ity of the liolinfirth Mechanics' Institu tion. (Loud cheers.) The meeting was also addressed by the Rev. R. E. Leech, incumbent of the place ; the Rev R. Cuthbertson, of (7leck heaton; Rev. J. Macfarlane, of Holmfirth; Rev. J. Owen, of New Mill ; and other ministers and gentlemen. On the motion of Mr. Isaac BEARDAALL, seconded by Mr. Josuu• Motintiovez, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Cobden for his attendance on the occasion. Mr. CoituEn acknowledged the compliment, which he said had been paid to him in ton flattering terms, as he did not claim to be the dist orally new truth, but only a bumble teacher along with many more of the great truths discovered by others. After votes of thacks to the other visit irs and speakers, and to the chairman, the meeting broke up a little after 10 o'clock. On Wednesday Mr. Cobden was entertained to dinner at Hogg House, the residence of Isaac Beardeell, Esq., where he was met by a select party of iris friends and admirers. On the way to Haag House he had to puss the large manu factory of Mr. Beardsell, at Smithy-place, and here he was stopped to receive an address from the workmen. The fol lowing is the address presented to the hon. member, end the receipt of which he acknowledged in suitable terms: " To Ittensun COUDEN, ESQ., M.P. We, the undersigned workmen engaged in the woollen ' manufacture at the works at Smithy Place Mill, in the West Rid* of the county of York, beg to congratulate you upon your first visit to this n. ighbourhood—a district which has, we are proud to state, always maintained a leading position in promoting the success of those great principles with which your name has been so long and honourably identified. As working men we feel that a debt of gratitude is due we can repay for your untiring labours to effect a repeal of the corn laws. That this was pre-eminently a working man's question, and therefore no man of the pre sent age has earned so truly the title of the working man's friend. In the advocacy of the principles of peace and mutual goodwill amongst nations, we feel also you are I , serving best our interest, as in any, even remote prospect of war, all the ramifications of trade would at once be de. ranged, and our interests be the first to suffer. That although in the advocacy of these principles you are ahead of the spirit of the age in which we live, yet we believe they are prin ciples which must ultimately prevail, and thus do further honour to your name and exertions. We hail with e e greater:pleasure this your first vi-it to our neighbourhood, as the object of your being amongst us this day is to honour with your presence and to encourage with your support an institution, the chief aim of which is to promote the moral, social, and intellectual improvement of the working classes. Throughout the course of an avive and peculiarly useful life, we have seen with inestimable pleasure your unwearied efforts to promote our interests; we therefore take this op portunity of thus publicly expressing the sense of our grate ful acknowledgments of your unceasing efforts on our be half. That an allwise and gracious Providence may still watch over you and yours, and conttnue to protect a life so eminently useful, is our present and sincere prayer." CATHOLIC TESTIMONY TO THE MADIAI. The following declaration has been sent from Flo rence by Mr. M. D. Hill : " The undersigned Sister Rosa Felice Mosul, a professed nun in the Convent of the Visitation di Santa Maria di Masan in Val di Nievole, called the Stlesiane, and who until the end of the year 1817, the time at which she en tered the monastery, bore the name of Annunsiate, daugh ter of Mariano Massei of the Bathe of Lucca, and was for some time ale) called Assunre, declare., as the strict truth, that she knew, before she entered the convent, Rua Pulini ard Francesco Medial, now husband and wife, and living in Florence, having lived with the former u fellow-servant in different foreign families for the space of about two yeses—that is to say, from 1844 to 1846 (salvo more). She declares that she has always con sidered them, judging by their actions, honest, true, and charitable in the highest degree; that, as to religion, it certainly was evident to her, even at that time, that Rosa Pulini belonged to au heterodox communion ; but the manner both of Rosa and of Medial was always marked with the greatest and most scrupulous respect fur the religious opinions of others; that she never knew or suspected that they went about diffusing opinions or books contrary is the Roman catholic apostolic faith, or insulting by sign, word, or deed its ministers or objects of worship ; and much leas that they attempted by these or any other means to make proselytes to their own religious communion. That certainly they never did or attempted to do this with her ; that, on the contrary, as to Itosa Pulini, now Rosa Medial'', she can bear testimony to some facts which plainly demonstrate the tolerance and respect which she professed for the holy catholic religion, and they are as follows : "1. First, on an occasion when some members of a pro testant family, in whose service she, Annunziata Massei, now Sister Rosa Felice, had been at T one Luserna, refused to provide meagre food for her on fast days, Rosa Pulini not only expressed disapprobation, but represented to the head of the family that he ought not, in justice and hu• manity, to do violence to the religious opinions of the said Annunciata, and impose upon her the painful necessity of either transgressing the precepts of her faith, or of provid ing at her own expense the meagre food enjoined by the ca tholic church. " 2. In the second place, when Massei, who bad been for some time in that family in the capacity of nursemaid, received warning at Torre Luseroa, for no other reason (at least, sawu supposed), than for her strict observance of the precepts of her religion, especially in attending the catholic church, Rosa Madiai defended her before her employers, maintaining the liberty of conscience and the principle of religious toleration. To these remonstrancea her employers partly yielded, retaining Memel in their service, although no longer as nursemaid, but in an inferior situation, as ge neral servant. Rosa Medial, who did not consider that Mused ought to be either sent away or reduced to a lower position, expostulated again, but without effect. 3. In the third place, when Annunsiata, now Sister Rosa Felice, was in the service with another protestant family, who lodged in the house of the Madiai, and by which family she was provided only with meat food, she begged the Mailisi to let her dine at their table, and %hue enable her to obey the precept to fast, which the Madiai willingly consented to, had her to dine with them on fast days, and provided meagre food for her during the whole time that she, Annunciate, lived in that family. "In conclusion, she, Sister Rosa Felice Muse!, declares that, after the intimate acquaintance she bas had with the Medial, she can distinctly and conscientiously . testify that she considers them to be incapable of failing in that due reepect which every well-educated person, although be longing to a different faith, ought to show towards the catholic religion and form of worship. " This is the spontaneous and conscientious declaration of the said Sister Rosa Felice, given in the presence of her reverend Mother Superior In the aforesaid convent, and which she sends, written and duly signed by the same Mother Superior, to be used for all honourable purposes, not excluding the producing it on the trial. " I, Sister Rosa Felice Maud, declare the above to be perfectly true. " I, Sister Anna Maria Bartoli, Superior of the Monas tery of the Viaitatlon of Santa Maria di Massa in Val di Nievole, certify that the Sister Rosa Felice Maud has freely and spontaneously given and signed this testimony in my presence. " The undersigned Pietro Forti, Bishop of Facia, certi fies that the above is a free and spontaneous declaration, and that the two signatures, Mufti and Bartoli, are genuine in their respective rank as nuns professed in the Monastery di Massa in Val di Nievole, called the Salesians. " And in faith , " Paton, Bishop of Panic" Tait ALLEGBD MURDER AT BRIXTON. The police officers, in searching the house of the its Mr. Jones, believed to have been murdered by his hoe. keeper, Elisabeth Vickers, found the will of the deeessed, from which it appears that the property amounts to 3,0001., and that, after bequeathing two hundred a piece to two of his nephews, .1001. to • third, and 3001. to Mr. David Key, his medical adviser, he left the residue, with his furniture, to his housekeeper, Elisabeth Vickers—at present in cu stody ; so that, after paying the funeral and other expenses, eke would be entitled to over 2,0001. The reports of the inquest having disclosed that Caro line Vickers was • legatee, Let Monday's post brought • letter addressed to her (now in the hands of the police), of which the following is a copy : " Coventry, January 29.—Madam,—I have taken the Liberty of writing these few lines hoping that It will not give any offence. I have applied to you Aae lam In want of • good domesticated Wife, and no doubt has you have loot your Muter No doubt but what yo u should Like a good home and a good partner and If you think any thing about It Please to let me know by the return of Post and Please to let me know Particular I mentioned that hie to' ask you your age To Se If they will correspond with mine foe My Age Ais 40 Though I have seen you once or twigs And you Perhaps dont know Me But it you answer this immediately you will Soon Je me If you are not engaged with any one. I Remain your. Respectfully, C. H Coventry " My address his this Mr. H— cutler Street Coventry Warwickshire." WELLINGTON'S FUNERAL CAL—It is understood that Viscount Combermere, as Constable of the Tower, has received her Majesty's commands to prepare forthwith a suitable place for the reception of the funeral car open which the remains of the late lamented Duke of Welling ton were conveyed to their last resting-place. It is intended that the car shall be exhibited to the public without unne 'scary restriction. SPORTING. TATTERS AL L'B.—TituRFDAY. NOTTINGHAM TWOYEAR•OLD STAKES. 3 to 1 apt Mr. J. Osborue's bridesmaid 3 to 1 Jewess NOTTINGHAM SPRING HANDICAP. 4 to 1 mist Mr. J. Osborne's Bold Davie sto 1 Mr. Mason's The Bishop LIVERPOOL STEKPLECH A SE. 8 to 1 apt Mr. Muon's Miu Mowbray Bto 1 Mr. Mason's Oscar 12 to 1 Captain Little's Half-and Half 14 to 1 Mr. Darnett's Sir Peter Laurie (t) METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 6 to 1 agst Mr. T. l'arr's Contentment 20 to 1 Lord Waterford's Redmond O'Hanlen 20 to 1 Mr. W. E. Miluer's Grapeshot 20 to 1 Mr. J. R. Cowley's Limped° 25 to 1 Mr. Kimberley's SnJwdon Dunhill (t) 25 to 1 Mr. Lumley's Maria Very little baldness wee done on the above makes, and the quotations remained nearly the tame as on Monday. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 4 to 1 mast Duke of Bedford's Sitti4trOurt; NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 10 to 1 agst Mr. T. Parr's Contentment (taken) CHESTER CrP. 20 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Lady Er. Iyn (t nod aft oil) 20 to 1 Mr. T. I'3We Contentm, at (t) 21 to 1 Mr. T. Parei Tritla (t and aft offered) 40 to 1 Captain Key's Little J ack (:t0 to 1 t freely) `i to 45 Mr. Oahaldrston's Mountain Deer (t) 50 to I lb. C. Spence's St. 2diehot I(t and 48 off) Contentment was backed free:y at 9•i to 1, at the close was decidedly first favourite. Little Jack was also in force at an improvement, but the bctt:ng generally Was DEIIiY. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's West • Australian (t and aft off) 15 to 1 Duke of Richmond's Pharos (t) 15 to 1 Mr. Powney's Ciness (t to 2000 15 to 1 Duke of Bedfora's Sittin;hourne (t to 1500 16 to 1 Baron 11.1thschilil's Orestes 20 to 1 Mr. Whieldun's Bursthorpo 3.5 to 1 Mr. Parr's Contentment (W to 1 t freely) West Australian, Cineas, Pharos and Sittingbourne were very strong in the mark e t, Cinliriel on the other hsed, although not quoted, looking unhealthy." Of the outside lot Contentment alone had any Irk ,ls. LINCOLN STEEPLE CEA4IL—Mr. Osborne's Abd-el-kadtr and Mr. Cr. Bourke's Carrig are scratched. INTELLIGE3 NEWMARKET CH WE EXTRA. tAVEN MEETING. Tuzs ACCEPTANCES FOR TNEi Age. it lb Weathergage 4 9 0 Newininster 5 8 8 Augur 4 8 0 Prime Minister 5 8 0 Confessor Homebrewed 4 7 12 Lucio Po .elle 4 7 8 Conmore 4 7 7 Attack Kohinoor Little Savage 4 7 4 The Bishop Sankt 4 7 0 Antigone Herbert Babette Pelion Hamblctoaiau Constantine Spark Madrid Michaelmas Maid 3 6 4 Tested 4 6 3 Surprise Brother to St. UAY. : MASAN): ET HANDICAP. Fabian 3 8 2 Ap. at lb Charley Termagant 4 6 2 Peacock 1 Grapeshot Preventim Ethelbut Tavistock Nl's% Emma Eliza Knavery 3 3 7 Polly Tittle Tattle Jack the Glatt: Killrr T 3 5 4 Gavotte Danford.% Taltounl 3 5 3 Contentment 3 5 3 Anne l'..ge 3 5 2 Shropshire Luse Tobolski Sister to C .racara 3 .5 U Mola , se • Doublethoug 3 5 0 Net, a The rest pay .5 sops. each. 'I) PYTCHLEY HUNT GREAT NOILTIIAMrTONSHIIIIII MEL Age. st.lb. La , ly Harriett 4 5 13 Lady Blanel.c 4 612 Happy Joo Charley Cotton Lady Termagant 4 5 8 Gosgip 3 5 8 Polly The Dandy 3 5 3 Charity 11,11 Tinker 3 4 13 Hobby II orse. 3 4 13 Postulant Jacqueline Llanforda Angelo I)ubchick 3 4 10 Latnpedo 3 4 9 Nerve Illalaas 3 4 7 Tubokki Chatfwas 3 4 3 6 sore. each. NORTHAMPTON AN MEE' ACCEPTANCES YOU TUE C Age. st:lb.. Kingston 4 813 Newminster Joe Miller Confessor King of Trumps 4 719 Lucio Muscovite Attack 4 7 6 Gholab Singh Lindrick Trifle Alp Harrier The Bishop 4 6 n Sweetheart G 6 7 Tremble 4 6 6 Hambletonian 4 6 6 May Day 5 6 4 Maria King of Troy 4 6 2 Madeline 4 6 0 Defiance 3 6 13 The rest pay NOTTINGHAM ACCEPTANCES FOE. TUB N( Ago. st. lb. Bardolph Mayday Humphrey 6 7 Little Davie Prestige Psyche 6 3 The Bishop 4 3 Ricardus de Pig burns rower 5 7 Chilton 'RING MEETING. INGIIAU Age. xt.lb. Llonforda Bold D.kvio 3 6 11 Lady 6.krult Ann Page b f by Liverpool Junior out of Fair Louisa 3 6 7 Pride ch f by I ri>la Bird- catcher out of Orace Darling.. 3 6 7 FYLDE STEEPLECHASES. NOMINATIONS FOE TES FYLDE °NAND HANDICAE.-• Shinrone, aged ; Vainhope, aged ; Great %Vestern, aged ; Ploughboy, aged ; British Yeoman, aged ; Abd-el-Kader, aged ; Daphne, 6yn ; Little Charley, aged ; Talisman, aged ; Carrig, aged. NOMINATIONS YOH THE INNKEEPERS' HANDICAP PLATE. —11•11110ny, b yrs ; Royal Blue, age I ; Tom of Tuam, 6 yrs ; Widow Machree, aged ; Ploughboy, aged ; Clatter box, aged ; Lady Wilton, aged ; Poll, aged ; Cribb', aged ; The Screw ; Freshwater, aged ; Heroine, aged ; Uncle Tom, aged ; Lightfoot, 6yn ; Johnnie Barrie, aged. NOMINATIONS POE THE FEES 11ANDICAP.—Flighyagsd ; Cabin Boy, aged; Miss Purden, 4 yrs ; Lady Wilton, aged ; Clattarlxix, aged ; Knight of St. Patrick, 6 yrs ; Frisk, aged ; Freshwater, aged ; Widow Machree, aged; Crabby, age d; Blucher, 6 rs; Nelly Brown, aged ; Light foot, 6 yr, ; Pride of the North, aged bin by the Gimes, aged. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. 0270 RD, FEB. 3.—lna congregation holden this morning, the following degrees were conferred, viz.—Muter of Arts: Henry Tadway, Trinity College, grand com pounder; Rev. Francis Think W. Coaington, fellow, Hen. Wadham, scholar, Corpus Chriati College ; Rev. AM*/ Lennox Peel, fellow, All Souls College ; Ralph John Cow ard, %menus College; Rev. Benjamin Hallam, SL John's College; William Fry Buchanan, Enter College; John Esereet, Worcester College; George Henry Bengoagh, Oriel College ; John Hodgson Iles, Lincoln College. Ba chelor of Arts : Henry Dewint Barrup, Pembroke College; Thomas Le Neven, St. Mary Hall; Osmund Hering, St. Mary Hall ; Martin Howy Irving, scholar, Balliol College ; George Edward Martin, post muter, Merton College. ADMIRALTY. FEB. 3 .—APPOINTSIENTB.—Surgeon, J. A. Corbett, to Eapiegle. Paymaster, J. Hay, to Odin. Clerk, J. F. Bignall, to Iloratio. Assistant-surgeon, G. H. Edwards, to Eepsegle. W. H. Haswell and C. D. Disport to be clerks' assistants. Gunner, D. Colinburn to Duke of Wellington. Boatswains, H. lunn, to Espi4le ; and S. Ackwortb, to Mille of Wellington. Carpenters, T. ailing lon, to Eepiegle ; and J. F. Earl, to Duke of Wellington. NEW ADMIRALTY AGENTS.—Lieut. Barrow, R.N., hes bee' appointed an Admiralty agent on the Southamp ton station. Lleuts. Payne and Reid, R.N., went out in the Parana on Wednesday to the West Indies, to fill to the vacancies of Admiralty agents on that station ormasioned by the yellow fever. MARYPORT AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—The half yearly report of the directors of this company has beet boned. Under the head of " Revenue," the first page con tains • tabular statement,. exhibiting, in • concise form, a comparison of traffic derived from the various soirees of revenue for the half years ending December 31, 1851 and 1852. In the year 1851 the number of passengers amounted to 75,023, which, with the other traffic, produced a revenue of 18,4171. 17s. 10d. In the year 1151 the number of pas sengers were 81,28.5, producing, with the other turns, 18,6961. 17s. Ild. and showing a net increase for the year '62 of 2791. Os. 11. The report goes on to state that the result of the past half year is encouraging—showing, with only one exception, a steady proares.ive development of traffic. The gross income is 18,6961. 17s. 11d., being in excess of the six months - ending 31st of December, 1831, and this, notwithstanding a decrease of 5431. 18s. 2d. In the receipts derivable from coals and coke. The directors refer to the report of 18.51 as to the expectations formed of the experiments then in course of operation in respect to reduced fares and day tickets, aided by excursion trains. They are of opinion the present haltyear's account confirms the soundness of their views, indicating, as it doe., an increase of 6,262 plasen gets, and 3701. 14s. 4d. in amount. The gross expenditure is 14,6041. 17s. Id. Appended to the report is a statement of accounts. The total receipts for the half year ending December SI, 1852, amount to 18,6961. 17s. lid.; the ex penditure, including " interest on mortgage loans, &c.," to 15,6041. 171. Id. ' showing a balance avail a bl e f or t h e pur pose of dividend of 4,0921. Os. 10d. The " share and loaa account" gives the amount of share capital at 342,2571. 10s.; unpaid, 1,1881.; amount received on shares and loans, 341,0 0 91. 10s. ; the mortgage loans amount to 106,3841. ; total share and loan capital, 447,483!. 10s. The balance of accounts owing by the company is 4,9751. 9s. led. Balance of reserve fund, 141/. 3s. 11d. Th e c a pit a l account s h ows a balance of 0, 7981.11 e. Ild. • '• si •41 ••• ••• , • r • • •••• • • ♦M i •~~ I