The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-04 00:00:00

a — publicity for the vote of the soldiers, which is ma required for that of the private citizens. At this moment (3 o'clock) the cuirusiers an re turning along the Boulevards from the Rue Bt. Danis. This is a symptom of restored quiet. The artillery is now (at a quarter to six) returning from the eastern fsubourgs along the boulevards to she Place de la Concorde, a sign that no apprehen tion is entertained of serious disturbance. Victor liugo's house has been invaded by soldiers and searched by the police, lie is concealed, and up to the present time his hiding-place has not been discovered. The shops along the Boulevards, eastward of the Boulevard des habeas, hare been closed since three. Beyond the Boulevard BonneNouvelle all circulation Is stopped by the troops. All the Associations Fraternelles in the working quarters have been closed. Great numbers of arrests have been made in the following way. The principal streets are cleared by cavalry; the people naturally take refuge in the bye streets ; but here sergens de ville lie in wait, and when three or tour enter the bhop together, pounce en them. _ _ During the delivery of the usual lecture this morn ing at the Ecole de 3lcelecine, considerable excite ment was manifested among the assembled stu dents, which eventually resolved itself into the familiar cry of '‘ ire la Itepublique." It being found impossible to restore tranquillity, by any other means, re...istance was sent tor, and on the arrival of a strong body of soldiers the mast re fractory students, who v cry mustered in strong num bers, were arrested, and the building immediately occupied by the military. It was then in timated to the remainder of the students that it would be advisable to disperse. The hint was promptly adopted, and the building was immediately closed. The excitement, however, was not closed quite so speedily, fur the open space in front of the school was the scene of a somewhat noisy dellunstmtion, which lasted a considerable time. It did not appear, how ever, that there was any definite object in these proceedings, except that of cheering the republic. This is the first manifestation of political excitement which seems to have token iu the scholastic regions of the Quartier Latin. The following decree has been posted up to-day : Considering that the ~vtrrignty resides in the unis.rsa lity of the citizens, and Cast no fraction of the people can attribute to it,elf the exerei.e Ciereof; Considering the laws and decrees which have hitherto regulated the lONIC of aim .al to the people, and particu larly the decrees of the ritli Fructillor, year 11., the 24th anal 25th Frimaire, in the y. ar 8 of the republic, the decree of the tfitii Flom), year Wand the Sewage. Consul& of the 28th Flfi:eal, year 12; The Pr...idea% of the It. public decrees as follows: Art. I. T;ic French people ore solemnly convoked in their respettise ilistricts for the 11th of this present month of Deamlar, to accept or nj..ct the following plesiseite The Freiali people will., the inaintennnee of the authority Of Louie , Napoleon Bonaparte, and delegates to hint the powers necessary to frame a t7onstitution on the bases pro posed in his proclamation of the 2il December. Art. 2. All Frenchmen aged 27, and enjoying their civil and political rights, oro called upon to vote. They must justify their being inscribed on the electoral lists, in conformity with the law of the 15th Mardi, 1819, or having fulfilled the conditions required by the said law since tho f or mation of the lists. Art. 3. On receipt of tho preacnt decree, the morn of each eanlllllllllV will open two retri.ten, one of acceptation, andtheotht r of non-acceptation of the re'tisciie. The 4 • art•u registers le states that the , e registe or. to be closed on the 2lth December. The other article.; of the there° point out the mode of taking the volts and summing them up. It is dated fonm the 1.1)14e, and signed, Louts NAPOLZOM 110NAMILTI. Countersigned by the Minister of the Interior, De Muumr. This morning Louis Napoleon and a numerous staff left the Elysee. He was received with acclamation by the crowd and by the troops stationed in the Fan- bourg St. Hoeori•. Thence the President went to the Place de la Concorde, where he passed iu review the troops, who were ranged there in order of battle, and who saluted him with cries of "Vivo Napoleon." Ile then traversed the gardens of the Tuileries to ♦isit the staff of the army of Paris, crossed the Seine by the Pont National, and re%ieved the troops stationed on the quays. lie afterwards visited the Invalides, and throughout has perambulations was received with rims and acclamations. Soon after noon he returned to the Elysee. Tho 'Nlinister of War was received in a similar manner. In the af ternoon Napoleon again perambulated the Boule vards, and received the same reception as before. lie also reviewed the division of cavalry stationed in the Champs Elysir, by whom ho was received with ab solute enthwiiasm. An occasional correspondent writes as follow.: PARIS, Dte, 2. Your regular correspondent will have informed you of the President's coup if flat, and sent you his. proclamations. They came upon the people this morning like a thunder-clap. It is about the only moment for a twelvemonth when such demonstra tions could have surprised them. The apparent issue between Louis Napoleon and the Assembly was considered a ruse. The divisions existing between the various sections of the monarchical party were looked upon as temporary , ; and the opinion was gaining ground that before 32 they would all termi nate in a general fusion against the republicans, and in favour of Napoleon. This opinion was not without basis. But meanwhile the President, stung by the recent treatment he has received from the Assembly, and knowing that at beet ho would be considered by his prospective allies as a parcenu and pretender —to be endured fur the mo ment only . as a stepping-stone to legitimacy, Or Orlcanism, has been actively and insidiously engaged in preparing the way for the bold and skilful movement of this morning. He has outwitted them all. One by one, for months past, he has been removing the obstacles to his imperial progress, until now, having surrounded himself with a merely nominal ministry, placed a general at the head of the army of Paris whom he can use ii discretion, and replaced M. earlier by the most supple of Prefects, he was prepared to strike at the only remaining and in dependent power—the National Assembly—without fear of opposition. Had the coup debut been di rected against the peopk, all France would have been in arms against him in a moment, and his fate, if not his grave, would have been sealed before sunset. But having directed it against an Assembly which is looked upon with universal suspicion, and whieh is especially detested by the republicans for having deceived and betrayed them, he is, alas, almost sure of success. It was a master stroke. The republicans, nevertheless, will not come to his support, tor they have no faith either in his honesty or ability ; but, on the other hand, they will not come to tic support of the Assembly. The mass of the people, quieted by his bold ap pealto the unlimited suffrage which his decree has . restored to them, will wait the day appointed the expression of their opinion with anxiety but without fear. That when that day arrives he will receive their votes, is by no means certain. The common opinion in Paris is, that he is ill not. Such, at any rate, is the writer's opinion. But who can tell what a fort night may bring forth in this country of revo lutions ? --- Whether, meanwhile, there will be bloodshed, is also a problem. At this moment (4 p.m.) all is calm. The centre of interest is the National Assembly. Crowds of people are gathered in the vicinity, but their aspect is peaceable and even good-natured. For the most part they speak of the crisis as a comedy. The Place lie It Concorde and the quays thence to the Pont National (on the left bank of the Seine), are filled with soldiers, and forbidden to the public; so, also, are the gardens of the Tuileries, the Place de la Greve (in front of the Hotel de Ville), and all the environs of the public offices. The whole metropolis appears stupifled, but not alarmed. The Luxembourg and its gardens are de serted. Groups of people gather round every spot where the proclamations are posted,but none of them appear much excited. They read the significant de crees as they would read a playbill. All business is at a stand. Nobody knows who's who, or what's what. Everybody has grown wonderfully cautious. People sip their coffee in silence. The servants are all knowing and diplomatic. The appearance of the soldiers is most amusing ; they seem like men just reco- veredfromtheennui. No one of them says sword about the crisis. They have big loaves of bread strapped to their knapsacks, and look as if preparing for a jelly winter encampment. Many of them are mak mg their pipes, and I have just seen two of the municipal guards performing 'private waltz within gunshot of the 'Paris. The indifference of the people is frightful. The President is at the National Assembly with his eye upon " another place." Ile has shown himself two or three times, and been greeted with mixed cries of " Vive Napoleon" and " Vice la Repub lique." Many of the representatives are said to have left town to wake up the interior. I could give more particulars, butthey will be sent to you by others. M. lupin attempted in vain to get up a meeting of the representatives at his house, and, failing in this, he signed a protest against the proceedings of Louis Napoleon. That attempt having failed, about 200 deputies assembled at the Mairie of the 10th arrondissement, which is very socialist. General Lauriston turned out the 10th Legion of National Guards to protect them, but General Magnan sent a strong force of Chasseurs to surround the Mairie. The National Guards shouted " Vice l'Aasemblee," but the cry had a very slight echo in the crowd. The deputies began to discuss, and finished by de claring Louis Napoleon to have committed high trea son, and appointed General Oudinot to be Com mander-in-chief of the Army of Paris and the National Guards. General Oudinot was present. M. Berryer put on a tri-coloured scarf, and attempted to harangue the people. He was little listened to, and cries were uttered of "No Berrver—he is only the lagemis of Henry the Fifth." 'When M. Berryer announced that General Oudinot had been appointed to the com mand of the army, there was a loud cry of "No Oudinot, he is the man of Rome." The whole affair appearing to be a failure, the deputies attempted to effect a retreat, but they were not permitted to go quietly away; the chasseurs took them into custody. The National Guards, finding that they could not effect a reaction, went quietly home. M. Michel (do &urges) harangued the people in the Boulevard. His reception was a mixed one, and he has since been arrested. At six o'clock four French regiments entered Paris. Two of them were Carabineers devoted to the President. The Boulevards were next cleared, and cannon was sent to the fauhourgs. Other regi ments have been sent for by telegraph. At four o'clock Louis Napoleon reviewed division of the army. lie was enthusiastically received by the troops, and well received by the people on the Boule vards. General Lauriston's 10th Legion of National Guards has been dissolved. -- - PORTUGAL. (By ineettle Telegraph.) SOUTHAMPTON, WRDNEWAY nowt The Montrose has just arrived. lier dates are, Gibraltar, Nov. 2b ; Lisbon, 29th. The Janus sailed finm Gibraltar on the 24th ult. to arrange with the English Consul about the ransom of the British seamen captured by the Moors ; two out of the five prisoners have died, and 1,000 dollars is the price demanded to ransom the three survivors. The French squadron left Cadiz on the 24th. The squadron will tirst make a demonstration at Sallee, and then proceed to Mogadore and Tangiers, to re dress the complaints of the French Consul. The Spanish government steamer Fernando Catolico, from Havannalt, which was supposed to be lost, had arrived at Cadiz. Her Majesty's ships Hogue and Dauntless were to proceed from Lisbon to Tangiers to protect British interests there, should the French bombard the town. According to an analysis of the return of the election of the Lower Chamber, Saldanha will have a working majority. His great difficulty will be with the Chamber of Peers, a large number of the members of which are creatures of Count Thomar. Some most valuable and elaborate statistics re specting Portuguese commerce have been published. Mr. Hirlop's railway projects have been rejected by the Portuguese government. Exchange, .50l; dis. on Lisbon bank notes, SPAIN. In the sitting of the Chamber on the 27th, after three hours of debate upon the budget, General Prim brought forward a resolution demanding that the go vernment should lay before the chambers the papers concerning the state of siege of Catalonia. The general made a very energetic speech, in which he enume rated unheard of atrocities on the part of the autho rities in Catalonia. Since the year 1813, 113 Catalonians have been shot without the intervention of any kind of tribunal, and without being allowed religious consolation; 89 were transported with out ceremony, or imprisoned in citadels. The mother of the Carlist chief Bartiarda has been im prisoned, and her property taken, for having eon. mated her son, who was subsequently shot. The general declared also a fact that seemed to take the chamber by surprise. Ile said that the feudal contribution paid for exemption of what the French law called droit de ciskee, is still enforced by im prisonment in many parts of the Catalonian moun tains. One poor woman imprisoned on this ground had died of hunger in her cell. The general, accord ing to the custom of the chamber, made a long digression upon the concordat, and declared that whatever the government said or did, it would not be put into execution. lie then energetically pro nounced himself in favour of liberty of conscience, and said that there could be no real freedom in the country without a national guard. On his con science ho believed that if the people rose against the present government they would do what was right. The general was then called to order by the Presi dent, but without showing the least concern, the general cried in a loud voice, " Ministers of Queen Labelle 11., your conduct is such, that if circum stances arise in the neighbouring republic that may put into peril the monarchy of Spain, the Catalo nians to a man will rather support the republic than a monarchy under which they are so infamously misgoverned. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1851. ITALY. ROME, Nov. 24. Arrests continue to be made of individuals sus pected of propagating disaffection in the army, for the ecclesiastical authorities are extremely uneasy at finding that the republicans have so many partisans there. It is even said that the whole regiment of dragoons will be disbanded in consequence of the discovery of Massinian proclamations amongst the soldiers. It is certain that fifty officers, who had been sus pended from their duty by decrees of the council of censure, but whose political misdemeanours were considered so slight as to allow of their being re placed in active service at the beginning of next year, are now definitively dismissed ; his holiness having decided that it was better even to allow them some small retiring pension than re-admit men of traitorous disposition into his army. This is a very natural proceeding on the part of a weak, despotic, and sus picious government; on the other hand, it is perfectly natural also that the soldiers should regret the re publican period, during which they were better paid sad clothed, esteemed by their fellow-citizens and lot ground down by the insulting presence of French and Austrian occupants. They even preferred the hard fighting they were then obliged to go through to the rigorous ecclesiastical surveillance and perpetual church service to which they are now sub jected by the new system of chaplains. Three young men were beheaded at Macerala on the 15th of this month. They were accused of having been the originators of an attempt to assassinate a priest in the year 1849; and by inserting the words, " through party spirit," their j udges rendered the offence punishable by death. My accounts from Ancona represent the Austrian general in command there as of so severe and despotic a character that many of his own officers are thoroughly disgusted with him, and eager to quit the place, and even his aide-de-camp has requested permission to leave. In fact there is quite a breach in the camp. General Pfanzelter dreams of nothing but plots and counter plots. The few Hungarian officers under him are suspected of disaffection, and every Italian is set down as a Carbonaro. The execution of the railway lines in the papal states is becoming at any rate more penal° by the deposition of the million of dollars in the hands of the Nuncio at Paris, which was required of the con tractors by the Roman government. This deposition is said to have been effected. The municipality of Rome recently attempted to bring back the prices of comestibles in this city to the tariff current before tho revolution, as silver is now only at about 4 per I cent. premium, whereas it was 20 or 30 per cent. when the dealers raised their prices, as they had then some show of reason in doing. The real non-entity of the municipality was, however, fully demonstrated by the veto of tho government authorities, who inter fered in this purely civic question, and" decided that prices are to remain as they are. GER MANY. BERLIN, Nov. 30. The Austrian cabinet is making all haste to con stitute its new tariff the base of commercial negotia tions about to take place, not only in Prussia, but throughout. Germany. You have heard already of the efforts of the Saxon government to bring Aus tria into the congress of the Zollverein states to be held in Berlin in February next; and it is now an nounced that on the 2nd of January a commercial conference of all the German states is to be convoked at Vienna for the express purpose of bringing about a union between the Zollverein, the Steuerverein and Austria. In this proposition the treaty of the ith September seems to be entirely ignored. The conferences have been fixed at so early a date, expressly in order nut to notice it ; for, supposing that within the next month the Prussian and the nano verian chambers should express their approbation of the September treaty, yet there would be no time to come to an unduatanding with the members of the Zollverein, with respect to modifications of the tariff on the junction of the Zoll with the Steuerverein, as the Vienna conferences will intervene with the cha racter of a renewal of the deliberations broken off at Frankfort. Besides, the Diet on the ith of Novem ber called upon all the German governments distinctly to express their opinions touching the) Zull union pro posed at Dresden, and only slightly altered afterwards in the technical committee. ?urther, it is well known that Austria would not at Frankfort give any tbrmal recognition to the September treaty. It re mains now to be seen whether the German states in general will send representatives to the Vienna conferences. Certainly such conferences as these should not be held within the Austrian territory, where public opinion has no native independent organ, and all the north German journals are prohi bited, and where, consequently, the Austrian project could not receive a fair open discussion. Should success crown the newly redoubled efforts Prince Schwarzenburg is now making to substitute for the existing Zollverein one which would com prehend all Germany, and thus be placed under the superintendence of the Bund, in which Austria has uncontested ascendancy, it is certain that Prussia's position in Germany would bo gone, only to be re gained, if at all, by an appeal to the people, or to revolution, to avoid which all kinds of danger have been incurred. The arrival hero of M. Kleuze, director of the customs in Hanover. gives occasion to the most con tradictory statements relative to the disposition of the new ministry of Hanover touching the treaty. While the Pritat'an Gazette repeats with vehemence that the new government hus given the strongest assurances of its intention to uphold the treaty, the llottoreriati Oazette advocates boldly the Austro- German Customs union. The Chambers here are still occupied with formal business, such as the nomination of committees, and the like. In opening the Oldenburg Diet, on the 27th ult., the minister, ltoessing, after alluding to the aboli tion of the "fundamental German rights," which, he said, would have but little importance in Olden burg, and to measures to be taken against the abuse of the freedom of the press, made mention very em phatically of the treaty of 7th September between Prussia and Hanover, to which, he said, Oldenburg had been invited " by Hanover" to become a party. Negotiations to that effect were now going on, which would be shortly communicated to the chambers. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PARIS BOURSE. For Aeooant. 1%111.5,17w. 3. i F ur l' Moog. (Opeolnit Merest ; Lowed CVW4I3C. ..---• ---'..—.- ••••, >t Cents. .er Ceuta. rat Opts. ... K (Mats. ischange on iortrloo :at siert . , 13 25 ; 90 day% 95 •1. ." SM.. S Ital. ank m........- I ar-..1-.. u. -.- per QOM 41. do. New . 3 per Omits. izettange m Lati4On :at Welt, 33 23 ; dot. 23 21. Belgian, S. Mu...—. 991 llostey. Naptts Ittlates Money. Do. 3. 13.3 ]tomes Loan, 1331 ... 73 Do. Pisani:at u. Cent... 79 33... Bank nitres Pure, Dec. 3.—Versaille and Orleans, 067 50; Pang and kb 900 ; Mantillas and Avignon, 102 Centro, 427 50 ; Orleans and Bard Paris and Straatioarg, eeo ; Tamil I (left bank), 20250; Paris oar, 636 33 ; Roam and Mare, 30; Steasbaurg and Bak, 143 , balm, 376 3.3 ; Nottbarn, 136 73; and Nantes. 237 30. (By Eleatik Telegraph.) ANTWERP, DEC: 3.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 69; do. Ardoins, 151. Three per Cent. Interior, 351. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., —. Exchange on London, 25.171. BRUSSELS, DEC. 3.—Belgian Five per Cents., 98 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 88 ; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 49. Exchange on London, 25.171. VIENNA, DEC. 2.—Five per Cent. Met4liques 92. Exchange on London, 12.44 ; on Paris, 1521. HAMBURG, DEC. 2.—Three per Cents. Interior, 331 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Russian, —. Exchange on London, three months, 13.51; at get, 13.7. FRANKFORT, DEC. 2.—Five per Cent. Mkal liques, 71. Three per Cent. Intenor Exchange on London, 1191. BERLIN, DEC. 2.—Voluntary Loan, 1021. Na tional Debt, 89. Four-and-a-Half per . Cents., Russia, Exchange on London, 6.23; ditto Hamburg, 1511; ditto St. Petersburg, 106 ; ditto Vienna, 79Z. ABIBTERMLII, DEC. 2.—Five per Cent. Metal liques, 681 ; Five per Cent. Ardoins, 161 ; Three per Cents. Interior, 351; Russian Four-and-a -ll& per Cents., 1001; Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Integrals, 38 1-16. Exchange on London, 11.821. CITY ASSOCIATION FOlt THE RELIEF OF THE POOL —Yesterday evening, the annual meeting of this associa tion was held at the London Coffee-howls, Ludgate-hill. Mr. Alderman Wilson in the chair. The secretary, Mr. Deputy Lott, read the report. It commenced with an allu sion to the early commencement of inclement weather as commending the association to the liberal and immediate suppert of the public. Whatever tended to render the of the poor man comfortable did good to his family as well alto hinuelf, and promoted the general welfare of society. During the last year, the association bad supplied for the dwelliqp of the poor 24,081 cwt.. of coals at the cost of 6d. per cwt. The laismesdheets showed that the amount of subscriptions mid donalfeas was less by above 801. than in the pm/aft year, bets greater sum was expended in the purging ersoals, and mmesquently a larger qquantity of feel diettibated to the pow. By • sante' ataafioa to the waddle etthe charity, tho 01111Mial• bad loson modsloi to continue the delivery of soils free olf 'lsp stir perftme to the abodes of the poor within the CHF lo , and at a very trifling charge, beyond it. The report essweluded with an expression of regret at the loss of the maimence of the Rev. Dr. Harding, through his elevation to the Bishopric of Bombay, and an appeal to others to imitate bislate exertions. I From the balance sheet it appeared, on the credit side, that the sale of coals from January 6 to March 31, 1851, amounted to 6011. 154. 64., and the subscriptions and don ations daring the year to 9891.145. Bd. The disbursements were: expenditure on 1,155 tons of coals, 1,1361. 84. 9d.; adver•dm, printing, sac., 8.. 4d.; Poundage to tor, 451. 14s. Dd. ; gratuity to secretary, ill. 10e. ; wages and petty expenses, 2631. los. Id. ; balance at the banker's, na 13s. 10d. On the motion of the chairman the report and accounts were adopted unanimously, and after the usual formal r solutions had been agreed to, the meeting ad journed to the Ent week in December nest year. DEATH FROX NEGLIGENCE OF A CABMAN. Last evening, Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at St. Bar tholomew's Hospital, on Taw of the body of Thomas Johnson, whose death wee occasioned by the negligent driving of Henry Macey, a cabman. On the 4th of No- vember last, about 12 o'clock at night, the deceased was in a gig with Mr. Stagg, who was driving the same down the Borough-road, when they suddenly saw a hack ney cab rushing towards them at a pace of twelve mile, an hour, the cabdriver whipping the horse violently all the time. The gig was about eight feet from the kerb! , and was on its right side. The cabman drove the vehicle between the gig and the kerbstone, and the shaft of the cab ran into the shoulder of the . gig hone; both *halls were broken off the gig, and its two occupants were thrown into the road. Deceased then told some of the bystanders that he had his leg broken. He was removed to the hospital, where he gradually sank and expired on the 16th of November. At the time of the accident Henry Maxey, the cabman, was taken to the police sta tion, and was there considered by the officers to be much the worse for liquor, but as there was no charge made against him he was set at liberty. However, as there was afterwards considered to be blame attached to him he was apprehended and lodged in 011topur-street Compter on the 24th ult. The 'jury, after 15 minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict of "Manslaughter" against Henry Marcy. VW Court. OSBORNE, Dye. 3. The Queen and Prince. and the younger branches of the Royal Family, walked in the gardens yesterday. The Earl of Listowel, Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Lieut -Colonel F. H. Seymour, Equerry to Prince Albert, arrived in the afternoon from Hanover, where they had proceeded to attend the funeral ceremony of the late King on the part of her Majesty and his llo) al Highness. They bad the honour of being included in the royal dinner party, and remained at Osborne. The Michas of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir Georg e Co u p er , l e ft her residence Frog more, near Windsor, ye s t er d a y morn i ng f or h er Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Finance Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in I&31, had a meeting yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Major O'Connor had an interview with Earl Grey yester day at the Colonial-office. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence, in Down ing -street. Mr. John F. South, President of the Royal Coliege of Surgeons, and Mr. Cesar Hawkins, Vice-President of the College, had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the home office. NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL ASSOCIATION. An aggregate public meeting of the friends of this scheme was held at the Corn Exchange, on Monday even ing, which drew together • great number of all classes of the community. We have already given in the Daily News a report of the council meeting which preceded this demon stration, with the names of the leading member* of the council who attended that meeting. The attendance at the evening meeting included the following gentlemen :—A. HEXRY. M.P., President of the Association, in the chair ; Right lion. T. M. Gibson, M.P. ; R. Cobden, M.P. ; R. N. Philips, Thos. Ashton, Geo. Combo and Jas. Simpeen, Edinburg; Rev. W. F. Walker, Oldham; Rev. Win. McKerron, Rev. Dr. Davidson, Rev. Dr. Beard, Rev. J. A. Baynes, M.A., Nottingham ; Rev. F. Tucker, Rev. J. Rbys Jones li daisy, Geo. Wilder, James Kershaw, jun.; William Cochrane ' Liverpool ; William Heaton and James Hole Leeds ; H. K. Spark, Darlington; James Simpson, Fothillbank ; Saha Schwabe; Ed. Shaw cross; H. J. Leppoc ; Aldermen Moss ' Oldham; Alderman Bradford; Alderman Harvey ; S. A. Meyer; S. Pope; John King, jun.; R. M. Shipman; William M'Cartney ; F. Taylor ; S. P. Robinson ; W. F. Iloyland ; Dr. Braid; Dr. Urges; Dr. Watts; Dr. Bowman; T. Swanwick ; William M'Call ; William Yates; T. Salterthwaite ; It. Ashden ; It. W. Smiles, Secretary of the Association; Anurew Hall ; Benjamin Lyddall ; William Shuttleworth ; F. Edinundson ; Oldbrook lid4kell, Warrington ; Benjamin Glover, Bury; A. Ireland, &c., &c. The Chairman having addressed the meeting on opening the proceedings, Mr. M. GIBSON, M.P., said—Before giving in my adhe sion to the National Public School Association system, I would say that I do so without in the slightest degree desiring to nisparage the pant efforts of those who, in the main, un doubt:lly, actuated by religious motive,, have, by voluntary subscriptions, given what education the county has, up to this time, among tho poorer classes enjoyed. They all de serve—thaugh we may differ from the principles upon which many of the schools have been establislied—those who origin.ted the Sunday-school system—those who, in after time, supported the different societies for tl,e purpose of addingto that Sunday-school system a day-school system — all deserve the thanks of every man who appreciates the value of knowledge being spread through the community, because these different societies have sprung , up front the efforts of generous, of moral, and of religious-minded men, ' who have, from their private means, supplied those funds which ought to have been supplied, and which I hope will be supplied for the future, Wins the joint cu-operation of tho whole country, and be levied in the form of a just and equable rate upon all property. (Cheers.) But if wo are to consider the question in this new aspect, of levying an equable rate on property fur the support of free schools, we then are, of necessity, compelled to consider, whether the schooling is separated front that sectarian, that partial cha- The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) arrived in town yesterday evening from his seat, liowood-park, Wilts. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Canada, from the Lord High Commibsioner of the lonian Islands, and also from the Governor of St. Helena. A Cabinet Council was held to-day at the Foreign office at two o'clock. VISIT OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT TO O,;BORNE. The Duchess •t Kent, attended by Colonel Casper and Lady Mary Dawson, arrived at Southampton, ou her way to Osborne, yesterday, is the royal carrileze, by the train that reached that town at half-pa 4 one in the afternoon. The royal carriage proceeded into the Southampton Dock, in which the royal Fairy yacht was lying to convey her royal highness down Southampton Water. Colonel Hen derson, a director of the South Western Railway Company, and his sun, Commander Crispin, of the Fairy yacht. Cap tain Peacock, and Mr. Levy, of the Southampton Docks, and Mr. Watkins, the Southampton Railway Superinten dent, were at the docks to receive her Royal Highness when she alighted from the railway carriage. lier Royal Highness will return from Osborne to Frogmoreon the lUth instant. rector, ;inch 'of necessity was iu the only sceiooliug that count be given in those schools which were supported by re- EDUCATIONAL MEETING AT MANCIIESTER.—The ligious bodies, and principally for religious motives. If we National Public School Association's demonstrations on arc reduced to the necessity of considering that point, I Monday were followed by a great meeting on the following come to . the conclusion , i that we must adopt the system of (Tuesday) evening, in the Free Trade Hall, of the friends . . seearating secu.ar from religious instruction ; nut laying down any primp . le of this sort, that education of the Manchester and Salford Education Society (called the local, or dental scheme). The hall was not filled, but will . be complete without the child . receiving religious . it was a very large and respectable meeting, and on the teaching—nut laying down any amen amotei or (moue platform were the Bishop of Manchester and upwards of as that ; but simply laying down the principle that 30 of the clergy, besides a great number of influential mer- in these rate-supported sihovls, we will only give that per chants, manufacturers, and other townsmen. The great thin oU°n of education which all men can agree to receive in pressure of ether news prevents us from giving common , ing a lengthened from one system of teaching , - a d one descrietion notice of the proceedings. of schoolmasters . (Hear, hear.) Tet n ainly do find anion,; the PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY. Yesterday a guar- bishops and archbishops, sod the clergy, any thing but terly court of the governors of this institution took place at unanimity upon this point. What is a poor perplex.e l churchman to do, under all those circumstacee, bishops the London Tavern, Bishopsgute street (Mr. It. Ricardo in and archbishops contradicting each other oute the very the chair), when it was reported that there were 90 lads in rector of the parish in which he lives telling hint that the the farm school at Itedhill, and resolutions were passed National Public School Association scheme, which agreeing to the admission of a few ad litioael inmates. has been condemned in many parts for being an THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. —Last evening the final arrangements for the reception of the irreligious scheme, he prefers on religious grenade to the local scheme ? But what must be his perplexity cattle and other stock enter e d fur exhibition at the ensuing when, after being abused in the strongest language for sue show of the Smithfield Club were completed. Some few of porting Boman catholic institutions—whether rightly or the specimens have already arrived, b u t it i s understood wrongly he may have acted, upon that question I will not that them contributed by his Royal Highness Prince Albert now will not leave the Flemish farm at Windsor until Friday or dwell--but how perplexing it is to find the very men who have been abusing persons for giviag support to Saturday. It is stated unofficially that an entry has been Roman catholic educational institutions themselves peti made in the name of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ; but from the secrecy observed by the officials of the tioning parliament to tax them, in order to support Roman catholic schools, and disseminate this very idolatrous reli club, a positive assertion cannot be made oa the subject. Pion which they are so constantly abusing. (Cheers.) Up to last night, a very large proportion of the agricultural • There we have Mr. Hugh Stowell. (Laughter.) I have implements intended Tar exhibition haul already arrived, no doubt that he has signed the petition in support of the three o'clock this day (Thursday) being the late s t hour at local scheme, and what does that petition pray ? That the which any specimens in that department will be received. l eg i s l a t ure will tax him directly by a rate, ter the avowed 'Uhe cattle, sheep, extra stock, &c., still be received up to purpose of supporting, among other schools, Boman catholic six o'clock on Saturday evening. The arrangements alto- sc h oo l s . W e ll, I must leave it to him to explain these ap • gether will afford a very touch increased space for the ac commodation of the public as well as the animals. parent anomalies. The hon. gentleman then proceeded, at considerable length, to examine the merits of the CONVICTION OF A SI'IRIT ItECTIFIEE, PENALTY various systems of education, and concluded by moving 6001.—Yesterday, before the Commissioners of Inland the following resolution .—" That any system os free in- Revenue, Themes Greenhon, of 16, St. John-street, Clerk- struetion established in this country, and =detained at the remade wholesale spirit dealer and rectifier, was charged on public cost, can only be accordant with justice, and prove an ineirmation containing four counts, anal levels, pe- 'satisfactory in its operations, by providing secular instrue nalties to the amount of 1,400/. The first count charged Son only.' The boa. member sat down amidst cordial him with using a false certificate for the receipt of spirits, applasee. so that the accounts made by the revenue officers might be The Rev. J. A. BAYNES, Nottingham, seconded the frustrated ; secondly, with having is his possession spirits motion. Controverting the position of the voluntaryists, unaccompanied by a legal permit ; thirdly, with having, as he said, if any one would go out to inquire, and come back a rectifier, an illegal excess of spirits in his stock; and, to say there was education enough in the country, he fourthly, with having deposited spirits with intent to de- would say that they had gone out only as Nelson delta the fraud the revenue of the duty chargeable thereon. 'The Baltic , looking tor the signal of retreat with one eye blind facts were proved by the evidence of the revenue officers, and the other abut. (Laughter.) Chance charity was nut one of whom stated that a permit for eight gallons had enough to do the work, and did not do it; it was too fitful been changed to SO. Mr. Commissioner Stephen/ten said an d too i rregu l ar . this a ss a very serious °fleece, especially as the defendant GEORGE COMBE, Esq., was received with loud np had been formerly convicted in penalties amounting to plause. He staid, I shall confine myself to offering a few 1,4001., which, on petitions stating his contrition and a remarks on the question of what is secular education— promise not to offend again, were mitigated to 2501. The (hear, hear)—about which we hear 60 much. At present, court should, therefore, now give a judgment against him and practically, as relates to the people, it means reading, final and conclusive, and which would be immediately retitle , a little arithmetic, and the catechism. This is the levied, in the sum of 6001., with the forfeiture of the spirits that had been seised. generS idea which is understood of the secular instruction that should be given ; and that this is all that is needed to DESTRUCTION OF THE NORTH SHIELDS THEATRE be given to the people. Now, it appears to me, th a t we BY Fl Within the space of two hours, on Tuesday must enlarge our notions of secular instruction prodigiously morning, the North Shields Theatre was entirely destroyed beyond this point. (Applause.) Reading means knowledge by fire. The fire was discovered shortly after midnight, of words; but words do not convey Heir own meaning. and by two o'clock the building and " properties " were They don't convey instruction unless the mind has been one mass of ruins. But for the exertions of the fire bri- informed concerning the things which they indicate, be gade and the military, a large block of buildings in the those things material object', their ngencies and rela same street would have met a similar fate. The loss to Mr. tons or be they thoughts and emotious of the mind ; Earthy, the manager and the proprietor of the building, so that if you teach children merely words, you de nut will exceed 1,0001. ra i se up their mental faculties, anal you don't thereby MELANCHOLY Loss OF LIFE IN BATTERSEA- educate them. Yeu provide them merely with tho means of rnetnt.—Yesterday an inquest was held by Mr. W. Carter, acquiring education from some other quarter, and at some at the board-room of the Wandsworth Union, on the body other time. This is so trite an observation that it is perhaps of Harriet Frances Rennet, aged 32, a milliner carrying on scarcely necessary to elucidate it. But allow me to mention business, with the aid of several assistants, in Clarence- that in the Highlands of Scotland, where we have about place, Clapham-read.—Samuel Crowder, a plasterer, de- 400,000 Celts who, at one time, did not understand the posed that on Monday morning, about half-past 7 o'clock, English language, it was reckoned necessary fur the master he was going along the _path by the river side which leads to teach them English, and they taught them Englieh, and from the watcrworks to Battersea ; and when about half way how did they do so ? They taught them to spell, to pro be saw a man, about:6o yards above him e lstop, anal when he flounce, and to read the words; but it never occurred to them got to the spot, the man showed him a fur muff and a that words did not convey their own meaning, and did nut lady's handkerchief lying on the bank. There was a ditch tell them the signification of th e wor d s is t h e G ae li c lan on the right side, and about 20 feet higher up he saw the guage. They therefore read English as Milton's daughters body of a woman lying in the ditch. She laid on her back. are said to have read Greek, pronouncing the sounds, which All her body was under water, with the exception of part Milton understood, but they did not. Now, this strange of her head, her face being covered with water frozen. anomaly went on for nearly half a century, and it was dn. She had no cap nor bonnet on, and he saw no part of covered and its consequences brought to fight only within her dress. He left the other man with the body, and these twenty-five years, by mr deceased friend the late Sir went after a policeman. He had since examined the oppo- George Stewart Mackenzie. He was at the examination of site bank, and found that the deceased had evidently made the Highland school in tho parish in which his property is great and desperate struggles to reach the top of the bank, situated, and he made the children read Shakspere, and which was on that side six feet from the water. The water Milt on , an d a ll th e E ng li s h c l ass i cs i n the collection -book, was about two and a half feet deep, and the grass and earth with wonderful fluency. But he had the impression that of the bank were much disturbed by the poor creature's there was no meaning in the minds of the children attached efforts to release herself from her dreadful situation. Police- to the words that they so cleverly pronounced. And be constable Richard Mayne, 192 V, deposed to receiving in- brought this to the test by addressing them in English, and formation from the last witness, and went to the spot. After putting some simple questions to them about the meaning. seeing to the disposal of the body he returned to the ditch, The schoolmaster turned round astonished, and said, "Sir and with a rope recovered the remainder of the deceased's George, you need not take the trouble to put these questions, clothing, she having only on her person when taken out of because the children do not understand the words yen the water her boots, a red plaid silk dress, the skirt being address to them." " What!" said Sir George, " do they torn away, stockings, and stays. He found the skirt, not understand what lam now saying to them ?" Not a the bonnet, and a tartan Scotch plaid petticoat, syllable," was the answer of the schoolmaster. "Do they and a cashmere shawl, embedded in the mud, not undontand the meaning of the words in this panel and in her ears were two rings set with stones, and in her which they have read ?" " Not in the least." Sir George pocket two keys, one • door-key, and a note merely relating turned round—the presbytery of the district were present as to holiness. There were no marks of violence apparent the auditors and examinators of the school—and ho turned either on her head, face, or neck, and he considered her round to them and said, " Gentlemen, is this possible ?" dress and other garments, as they had been torn away at They hung their heads, or shrugged their shoulders, and the gather., had arisen from her treading whilst endea- said, " Why, Sir George, this was never previously brought vowing to save herself. Maria Wright, the wife of John under our observation." Now I should like to know what Wright, hying at Clifton-villas, Surrey-lane, deposed that their observation was directed to when such a system of she was returning home about half-past eight o'clock teaching followed. That this is a correct representation of on Sunday night with her husband when they met the the state of things in the north of Scotland, I had a striking deceased, who was walking towards Battersea-bridge, and illustration in my own case. I hired a highland servant she asked the way to She did riot know such w h o s p o k e English remarkably well. He fell sick, and he a place b name before, but understood it was a near sent a friend to supply his place • and although that man way to the Clapham-road. She walked with them was some few years older, I found he did not understand to the Rising Sun when they pointed out a path to the de- English. He did not understand what I said to him. ceased by which she could get into tho Wandsworth-road. When my servant cams back I said, "How does it happen The deceased was perfectly self-possessed, and wished them that your friend does not unnderstand English ?" " Why," good night. She heard nothing of her again till she heard says he, " sir, he was educated five or six years before the she was found dead in a ditch near the Balloon gardens, change took place at the time when they taught them to and no doubt, owing to the dense fog, she bad, instead of read English, and did not tell them tho meaning of it. keeping the straight road, turned down a path at the corner (Laughter.) I had the good fortune," he said, "to come of the almshouses, which would lead her to the fatal spot. after the change took place, and that is the reason why Police constable Ontiy, 190 V, and Potter, a policeman in lam able to speak it." Now, gentlemen, this anecdote plain clothes, proved meeting the demand In the Battersea- goes a great deal deeper. It goes to the merits bridge-read walking with two young men whom they well of the question of secular ed uca ti on . I say take knew, their attention was called to her, and she statedshehad a child, and make him read the most beautiful plu ton her way, and wanted to go to Nine Elms, so that she might sages in the English language ; he can attach no mean get into the Wandsworth-road. They accompanied her, and in/ to any word which goes beyond the ideas which he had the young men as far as Weller's Farm, Battersea-flelde, received of things, and of feelings, and of intellectual per where they went in at a gateway. Potter then showed his oeptions. You must give the words a meaning before they light, and asked why they were there, and they said they can benefit the child ; and that is the reason, in my opinion, had lost their way. The shorter man, whose name he did why we have been educating, and educating, and educating, not know, bat whom the deceased said she perfectly knew, and so little progress has been made in real intelligence, in was walking away with deceased's muff, when Potter the power of grappling with the difficulties of the world, fetched him back and restored it to her. Oatfield, the among many ofo ur poorer population. They have never under taller man then left, and the shorter man proceeded towards stood the fell meaning of the words which they have been Nine Elms. The deceased said she would soon overtake taught. Heading was a monotonous, dry, and listless task, the man, and he would see her home. They saw no more and when they retired from the school th ey forgot it ; and of her.—Ann Chandler, widow and inmate of the union, the real education was the practical sensewhichthey learned deposed that she had washed deceased's body and found in the coarse of their intercourse with society. Those of many severe braises, particularly on her feet. She toperfor minds acquired by Insensible degrees a knowledge proved the had not been violated.—The Coroner then of the meaning of the words, and were able to promote summed up the evidence, leaving it to the jury to decide what verdict they would return.—The court was cleared. their own advancement ; but the great mass of our pollute iioll about which we are so much interested, has remained, The jury were nearly an hoar and a half in deliberation, anewill for ever remain, untrained, and incapable of ad examining fresh evidence, and recalling witnesses, and ulti mating themselves and their position in society, until mately returned a verdict of " Accidental drowning." we reform our system of education. (Applause.) OMNIBUS FARES.—The advantages reaped by the The speaker having illustrated this principle by metropolitan public in the matter of omnibus fares con- several interesting instances, concluded as follows : tines to be manifested, several further reductions in the Instead of the education which we propose being goalless fares of the omnibuses on different lines of road having education, as has been said, you must come to that before taken place for the first time ; the most remarkable instance yea can have a godly secular education. You must come being that the London Conveyance and Paddington Ann- to teach the structure of the universe and its relations to elation companies have announced that passengers may man, and yon must teach it as a demonstration of the will travel by any cos of the omnibuses on the Oxford-street ,of God, as the rule of duty and of conduct, of practical line of rood gm ens and two penny fares between the Ede- , guidance to man. And you must teach his religious sea -1 ware-road sad Fscriegdon-street, a circumstance entirely Bluetits to reverence tho institutions, and to rise p t in unprecedented. ' devotional emotion' et thankfulness and gratitude to hat Superior Being who has bestowed such a beautiful and admirable world upon us, and has given us a body and mind capable of turning it to account, and enjoying it and subduing it as his rational and responsible crea ture. (Loud applause.) There is no motion entrusted to me. I have again to express the great delight with which I have heard the proceedings of this evening, and the utmost confidence I have that this cause mast succeed. In Scot land we are looking to you—l mean that portion of Seat land which has escaped from the trammels of an ancient theology, that portion of the people who have begun to think—the working men of Edinburgh, of Glasgow, of Aberdeen, and of Paisley. They have ;met, and they have considered the subject, and they approve of your scheme, sea they have petitions parliament in favour of the canto principles, and they bid you God speed. And in my coun try, which has hitherto been celebrated for education (but it 1s a delusion ; Scotland is a miserably educated nation, when you come to look at edu cation in its proper sense), in my country we are looking to you. I stand here aft the advocate of educe tion,-1 have been advocating it fur thirty years. I never expected to live to see it so far advanced; and now should it not be carried before I am called to close my ac count, I shall die with the most thorough confidence that you will work out the secular education in which the reli gious sentiment will do its own part, and which will prove a blessing to humanity. And it would be the commencement of the real civilisation of England. As yet it appears to me wo arc in a transitive condition. We are not yet out of the dark ages. If we were we should hsve fewer of these contentions ; but this is the day which is to arise to greater and greater glory, and to bring unspeakable blessing to this Wand, and make it worthy of the fame which it has hi therto enjoyed, and (lithe plate which it holds in Europe. (Prolonged applause.) Mr. COBDEN, M.P., who was loudly applauded, said, We are hardly arrived at that point in this great struggle in which we can venture to say that see will define what the particular kind of secular education shall be which shall be enjoyed in the schools which are to be erected, or to Ire maintained out of the public rates. But when that limo shell come, I am quite sure that a great deal of that know ledge appertaining to our own nature, and to our own design and object iu this world, as described by our friend Mr. Combo, will undoubtedly lona a part of the secular colueetion of this country—(applause) —as a part, anal only a part of that education, combined, as it will be, with the religious instruction. But we have yet to settle this question—shall we have any educes lion at all in this country, such as is enjoyed in almost every other civilised country—l mean an educa tion supported by all, and free to all. (Applause.) New that is the question. I hold anything . else hut that to be short of the real end and object of this controversy. Shall there be a system of education supported by all, and *museums to all ? Well, you arc going to settle that ques tion, as you have settled so many other important topics in Manchester. For Ido not coined from myself that upon the local contest in which you are now engaged will de pend the kind of education which is likely to be adopted iu this country. The application which is about to ho made to parliament for a private bill eruboalying a scheme fur giving to Mauclaester and Salford a local system of education, a system confined to those two boroughs, will, if it be adopted, I have no doubt in the worlol, be made a model fur the adoption of all other localities similarly cir cumstanced—l mean manufacturing districts, and our great commercial centres, and that whatever may Ins adopted as the act of parliament for Manchester, will, as in the Muni cipal Computations Act, become a general ant under winch other places may put theme-lees, just as they now apply for the benefit of a charter under the Municipal Corporations Act. I have no doubt of that; and therefore you ore en gaged in a struggle of vast importance, not only to your /VIM, but to the whole community. Scotland, as Mr. Combo say s, leis its eyes upon yen. Too rest of the country is equally an:created iu what you ere now doles. I du not want the National Public School AA:exhalant to think that at pre sent their important duties lie elsewhere. Their duties lio her at house ; and my opinion is, that if their exertions am not centred here, in Manchester and &lend, we shall fail to do our duty iu this crisis of the controversy. Now what is the question at issue between the National Public School Association, which would apply their scheme to alaacheeter and Salford, and the Manchester and Salford Aesucietion, who applies merely for a local hill? Why, think tho whole deference between you may be traced to that lone-standing sad almost solo difficulty in the way of a national system of education is this country—l mean the religious difficulty. The real question es hichyou are now disputing is this — shalt tho educati o n be ono in which the secular shall be separate froth the religious element, or shall it be one where the teacher iu your schools shall be paid out of a public rate to teach all kinds of religion, at the expease of all sorts of people ? (Applause.) hat is the difference, I mean that is the source of all your differences; because if you removed the religious difficulty, I du not think that people is Manchester would be at all disputing as to whether there should be more or less of self-govern ment in your scheme. I believe that the members of the Manchester and Salford Scheme Association would he just as much inclined to preserve the municipal self-governmeat of Manchester as you would he; but they remove a part of the administration, anal control, and diecretiou ' in their school business to London, simply anal solel y because they think by that they am going to erre ape the religious difficulty which lies in their way. And it is DOS a 111/cation whether the schoolrounts that ere ling in existence shall be used for giving both secular and reli gious instruction, because by the plan which has been adupted by this society this morning at a conference which met this morning, it is now the rule of this society—it is a plan which we propose to adopt as a part of our bill for par liament, that all schools belonging to separate churches or chapels which may be allipueed to give education, subject to inspection, insuring that the secular instruction shall be good in quality, may receive payment per head Mr all the scholars educated in those &chorea just in the same way as it is proposed in the Manchester mid Salford plau, only there is a stipulation, there is a safeguard, that there shall be no payment made to those teachers for reli gious instruction ; that the religious instruction shall be given apart nod at reiterate lima, and that it be distinctly understood that out of the public rates there shall be no payment made fur iastructiou in religion. Well, then let it uo longer be said that by the plan which we propose we are going to sacrifice the existing schools. We propose to take authority for buying existing schools, or for renting existing schools, and we now propose, in addition, by the revolution of this morning, to do precisely what th e Manch es t er an d &Ilford Society proposes to no—that is, to pay for the in structiou of children in secular kirowledge, in all schools belonging to t h e churches or chapels where they may ho disposed to give us the guarantee by inspection that th e y are giving a proper se cular education. Well, then, the question between this association and the rival association is simply reduced to this:—they insist that in all schools religious education shall be given at the expense of the whole community. Well, now, that involves one or two difficulties and objections, which I think are insupereble. In the first place; why, what a reflection it is anon rho office of religious teacher ;—they may, " We will make schoolmasters the teachers of religion." Da they pro pose that schoolmasters shall graduate in a course of divinity in order to bo qualified for that instruction Why, how they discount and d a trade their own profession, in making a schoolmaster, who is never taught divinity at all, on equality . with clergymen, and calling upon him to give religious restriction. (Applause.) But it involves a greater difficulty than that; and here is my objection to the principle which requires absolutely and without exception the religious instruction to be given in the school. It involves this grand and insuperab le difficul and injustice, that by that m eans y ou exc l u d e from cleans schools many of those whose parents have been rated to the maintenance of those schools. Now, in the first place, I find in the local bill US drawn up here, I find that in all school' to be built out of the borough rate levied upon all the property of this borough, the read ing of the Rely Scriptures in the authorised version shalt be a part of the daily instruction of tho scholars. Well, now, everybody will remember that I took my stand against the exclusion of the Bible from any schools, when we were settling our points of faith as a secular association. I said, " I never will be a party to any scheme that attempts to lay down in an act of parliament this monstrous, arrogant, and dictatorial doctrine that a parish or community shall not, if it please, introduce the Bible into its schools. , ' I made my stand against that, and said I never would put my bend to any such doctrine ; but, at the same time, lam just is pre pared to take my stand against any system which levies taxes upon Jews and Roman catholics, which sends the tax gatherer round to their houses, and as calls upon them to contribute to the wheal rate, and then insert a clause like that which says they and their children shall derive no ad vantage from those schools. (Applause.) Now, I ask those gentlemen, have they any scheme by which they propose to exempt those parties from paying the taxes, whom they exclude by this clause in their bill? Well, then, I ask them if they are prepared to carry us back, not only into a worse state of int o l e r ence ana l bigotry than any that exists on the continent of Europe at the present time in any protestant country, but actually to the times when, in towns like Frankfort in olden limes, Jews were shut up and set apart in the town, and made to live in certain streets, and be locked up at home at night long before Christians were required to be in their domiciles. Why, it is a worse treatment to the Jews than they received in those countries where they were thus per secuted. You educate Christians out of Jewish money, and you deny them the right of having education themselves for their children. (Bear, hear.) What would be said— now just put a parallel case—if, after levying a rate for lighting the town and supplying it with water, you com pelled the Jews to live in some street by themselves, where there was neither a gas lamp nor yet a water pipe carried? (Loud cheers.) And I won't say merely the Jews, but the Roman catholica ; because you absolutely prohibit the Roman catholic from entering those schools, if you mean what you say in the close of this You say " the authorised version or the Bible," nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandth part of which is verbatim the same as the Roman catholic version ; but it contains two or three passages, in which I yet never could perceive any very material difference of meaning, and by retaining those passages, by making that the test, nail thereby striking at a point of conscience in those who object to that version of the Bible, you prohibit them as much as though you put a policeman at the door, and said " No Roman catholic shall enter here." (Cheers.) Well, I say it is impartible that such a thing as that can continue perma nently the friends of the other seca nt joumag jp the principle u t :n i d7 h t c h r ; s gov h ern d ra ili en: lty of try upon making the schools doe mut 'oval, but je wh et ic p ii rin i c s i n p o les w . w w,: w t h . re is di ly.......T ffi in cu a l t t co y o u l : n e f iy ouL i th e:p s - t t o calls a n a t l e nl itself t a t agreeing bin a the recognisedt s o l o g u h et own slightest t de gr e et state tams f at the same time they have air Male/ fro stand which the church formerly that they ow a scholar to eater other k the r: • • j 0 1 . t .. CO 1,41