The Express. — London, England, 1847-01-02 00:00:00

NEW WORK BY MICHAEL ANGLIA TITMARSII. Ilipu ready, to be ecedatied in Monthly Perla price la. each, with numerous Illagratioal ea Meei and ITA.NIIY FAIR: PEN & PENCIL SKETCHES OF ENGLISH SOCIETY. By W. M.THACIIILT. Author of " The iriah Sketch Boot ;" " Journey from Corehiti to Card Cairo ;" of " Jelfare• Diary," and the &oh Expel'," in rogiach," Ske. Bilis and Adeestirementa will be received at the Office daring the watt. Leedom: Publiehed at the "Pan=e" Oaks, lid, Fieet-am t o ot; J. NNW" Edinburgh. J. Ilttrad, Gleagow; J. WOtatillan, 1:1 EA " SCIENe'- .LTH, .b.:I)UCATION, and _ _ iCE.— POPVIAR LI:MURES an the Structure, Actions, and tees various parts of the ADMAN FROIEst 1, 5, and 7, e.g., Daily, , Mr. LEACH. Them Lectures will be ilhuitrtted by a splendid ena meled wee model of the Venus di Medici aid suitable diagrams. Lake are recthectially invited to attend, as the stricteet care has been Islets to avoid offence, even to the mast eengtive. 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The Are commenced on SATURDAY, Deemer 26; and, with this new, the Lessee W reek arcancernents with the original LANTLIM ETHI OPIAN SERENADER.; in conjunetiou with the accented Tenser Family (poninvely their hist appearance, in consequence of 14dr provincial engagement-1, of the retiree. , age of 4,6, and 3 Nor'. who have had the h cow of answering at met of the Nubllity'e portage, mid iodine precocious talent he been the theme of universal =tin op,. s. The Wonders of Creation, illustrated by the Gis , de. Commence at 3 o'clock precisely. Adam/eon, to. LEX! RE ROYAL, A DELPHI. Glorious curistreas Allllollsment -Unequalled--•• Navel an Grand.— W of the new splendid Romande Drama of " Colomba, the Careen Sister." The wonder of the age, the celebrated " Entord dame*" sad the rorignifloent Fairy spectacle, "The Phantom Devesa"—Till•n EVENING. t h e Romantic Drama of O)LOMIIA, Se OORSICAN SISTER—With the celebrated Enertilationist; Mr. I.U*, and his three Poplin, who will exhibit their wonderful JIM( OrdNASTR2I;ES. — And 'llll, rtuorrult DANCERS, or the Who Bride. (Rene, Madame Waite. FRENCH PLAYS.—rEitLErs FAREWELL BENEFIT, WEDNESDAY NEXT.—Mons. Perlet respectfidly ennonneee that his Farewell hear lt will take place nu Wednerday, January 6, when be will have the honour of appearing for that night ohly, Is Moliere'seeiebrated commie ot L'AVARE, which will he pro. awneS on that occezion, with other attractive entertainments. -Roue End Stall. at Mitchell'. Royal Library, 31, Old Bundatreet, and at 1,. Box-Mike of the tufttre, EiNTOMIMES.—PRIVATE BOXES at Drury lane, itsrmsrket, Princess's, Adelphi, Lyeettm, and all the Theatres, either for large or mall Werth; to be KM on the mast ramonabk terms, at AN Library, 167, New Bond-street- Private Poses and Sells for the French Kays and Ethiopian Sere nade; at the St. leafs'. Theatre; also, Family Tickets for the Wore= ANDREWS' Library, 167, New Bond-weer (Opining the Illarawlos Howl). Iht Oppress• MAILS. lb, overland trails for Gibraltar, Malin,Oxee, the lonian Wands, MtAden, Ceylan, !long-Kate, and China, ria Sontnampton, made up on the evening of the 2ad January (the day). The mail fur Briti)l7 North America, Bermuda, and the United State*, will be made up on the evening of the 4th January. The mails for the Bravila, the Hirer Plate, Monte Vale% l'ernam bow, Bahia, Ma leis. an.l Buenos Ayres, will be dispatched on the evening of the 4th January. The overland closed m tile, vie Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, rgypt. Aden, Ceylon, India, Hoeg Kong, ete., will be made up ou the evening of the 7th Januar, Me mails for Vigo, OpOrto, Leh." Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the worm** of the 7th January. The mule for New South Wake. Van Diemen'. land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the Slet January. TO CORRESPONDENTS. •.• kivertidementa intended for rA, Express, Loudon evening paper, moat be at the Office by Two o'clock m the day of publication. mcii WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tan DAT. —Burning, 26 Mill. past 2; Aftmaann, 41 mia. past 2. Talloatow—llaming, 7 min. past 3; Afternoon, 26 mM. past 3. LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 2. ME must be but a careless observer of men and manners who, possessed of any intimate acquaintance with the rural classes, has not noticed a deep and growing feeling of alienation between landowners ar.d tenant-farmers. With much affectation of pa tronage and encouragement on the one side, there co mists a thorough determination to keep the tenantry dependent; while, on the other hand, much apparent servility covers in the tenants minds utter distrust of the landlord. It is not uncommon to hear from land owners some such expressions as " Tenants must be kept in their places ;" or " I would not let my tenants run riot in that way; or " What have farmers to do with sporting or politics?" or something else in which the opinion of the farmer is likely to differ from that of his landlord ; while at the market-table or in the genuine farmers' club—not the make-belief agricultural russociations which figure in the news --sketches of individual landlords , and not TuTirre s--sketches of the class of landowners, are given with somewhat free touches. It was the percep tion of this which led Mr. COBDEN to say, after one of his earliest missions of agitation into the rural districts, " the landowners talk of us (the League) as their enemies ; butthey will find their enemies are the tenants of their own farms." And when the evils to tenant-farmers of yearly holdings, of the absurdly restrictive agreements under which they occupy, of the annoyance often occasioned by the interference of the landlord or his steward, and, though last, scarcely levet, the losses sustained by game, and the irritation mused by gamekeepers and game watchers, hostility is scarcely too strong a term for the feeling with which the great body of the tenantry regard the land owners. Of course the main source of this feeling on the part of farmers is the insecurity of their tenures and the burthensome character of the conditions on which they hold their farms, for .that goes to their very means of livelihood. But no inconsiderable part of the feeling is caused by game preservation. Indeed. disputes engendered by game have often first die tamed to the tenant the perilous condition in which the insecurity of his tenure has placed him. And game is a subject on which landlords, who preserve, not to be open to the ordinary influences appear reason and justice. Nor is this surprising; for the practice of reserving a power to pre serve wild animals to any extent upon land which has been let to a farmer for cultivation, is con trary to every principle of reason and justice. To become or to continue to be a game preserver, im plies therefore the pre-determination on the part of a landlord to disregard such considerations where they clash with his own selfish amusement. Thus we find, that an offence given by a tenant or agent, in the matter of game, is commonly resented by landlords with a degree of vindictiveness alto unintelligible to those unacquainted with the alto nether noes of the game-laws. And this anxiety for the ferrtion of game is not seldom a principal motive e t ping tenants in a state of dependence. Of all these matters innumerable illustrations may be found in the evidence of the game-law committee. There is, however, in the Mark-lane Express of last Monday, a letter which is so much in point, that some peerages of it demand a more general circula tion. It appears that the late Col. RCM - IBM/ONE, the member for West Suffolk, towards the latter part of his life, began to understand the feelings respecting game entm toiniAl amongst his iuialeonstitueany ; and that he made his land-agent and tenant, Mr. F. W. Dertyorr, the medium of communi cating to the constituency at large the change which had come ove: the honourable member's views on the subject of same. Those who know wilt of Suffolk are aware that this was a startling shaage, for Colonel ROBIIBROOKE had long been a algid game preserver. The rnetZtod taken by the late amentier for disclosing his new, and. to the tenantry of West Suffolk, most acceptable opinions about game, is tits stated by Mr. Dermot • few evenings previous to the period to which I allude, I lei My lust furrning walk with my Into Ismente4 employer, Hallaael Ruabbrooke. Having perambulated his Ism so bag ms his nevem affliction mould allow him, we tuned, so yea acv weal INNeom, into the church walk, which, having peed in ioq aft, the dinner bell had rung, diaeursing Padnell 11041•10, both of a public and private nature, he bog 'obis warp aflakeion wont d allow him, we turi.ed, sa --- 7 • r. educatioo and even it rm. CUUI2II.IIIIA Rs saw .... MI ger sisal suntan, into the church walk, which, furrier luxuries, and rendering Labuan a ~curs& of Sin- with , . td . t t ,; in naming sins have used *he Dutch to •al dto —' mei lan r the dinner hell had rung, damming gsPore, ve aro , tie, an out compromme, co la y agree, eaves o a • w- • • , the Wank-lea Aso proeedfatal to private eine 27th eset, having dint ith Anissun Duperron the association l''" vine"' to prevent . 46°•• • ( M e has commeoixd ins career. His tailary ou,.nno. a of id members the power of promoting in this way the Juncti I year, independent of as much more in the shape of aim isalosis, both of • public and private nature, lie open the port of Malacca. Be it to; even if the Dutch ?m ai m t a w, o f his wen f a ith Karr ••eet those et hie yen meant rather to honour old services, than to remognise ot it, although shifted into Yort Beaufort fur a changed act. Om THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1847. turned round and said—" Now, Denton, I think I have said all I have to say to you, except on one subject—Gana. Inat have you to say won game?" I replied that I had no n port to make of tor...plaint from the tenauts, nor did I think there was more game on the manor then than there ought to be. " Now," he said, " I do desire that you watch strictly the progress of the increase of these animals, and do not suffer the mischief to be done before you it form me, as heretofore; and I not only wish you to do so, but to take any opportunity you may have to convey to my constituents my feelings on this alibied, Now FIBCOBIII A PUBLIC ONB. I consider the excessive preservation of ground game ripe , Melly a great injury to the occupiers, and one which ought, in times like these, to be materially mitigated, if not abo lished. I am determined my tenants shall not be injured by hurt as, it would be fair rivalry. But they cannot hurt without at the same time affording opportunities of advantage and profit, of which English traders well know how to avail themselves. Whether our merchandise be placed under the pro tection of the British or of the Dutch flag and whether the British or the Dutch government defray the ex pense.) of the establishment, does not in the least affect the main point, provided our merchants and their goods be admitted on the same footing as the Dutch, agreeably to the decree of the governor-general of Netherlands India. We are fully aware that to British exertion and to British capital Macassar will, in a great measure, owe an ire "stance, which we may confidently predict, but Englis .. en will cheerfully contribute toils prospe rity if they are allowed a fair proportion of the advan tages which will accrue therefrom. Let it also be observed, that if the measure alluded to be favourable to our commerce, it will no less benefit our Dutch neighbours; for though gifted with the same prudence as their forefathers, they seem to have lost part of the enterprising spirit that distinguished them, and we know by . experience that as matters stand, some British pioneers will be very useful in opening and macadamising new roads to European commerce. The l)utch are a shrewd nation ; they have, no doubt, discovered this, and the English will not object to allow them a share in the concern after the business may . have been set ageing. Their profit will be bit a f air remuneration for the general benefit accruing from the adoption of a system which will be found ultimately advantageous to both countries ; for, let it not be forgoten that from the measure now taken by the government of NetherLandslndia, a total change of system must follow. No exclusions, no monopolies, can exist for any length of time in the vicinity of a free port. Not the whole British navy would be able to enforce them in the thousands of islands of the Archi pelago. One great step having been taken, all the rest will follow in due course, and we may assert that especially in this point of view, we bail a measure which more than any other will contribute to blend the interests of the two nations, and to establish their relations on a footing of mutual good will, so highly beneficial to both parties. them." Mr. DENTON, both as a land agent and a farmer, was naturally pleased with these sentiments; and he probably accepted them in a more natural, and less in a political sense than they were intended. Knowing as we do something of game preservers and political landowners, we have no doubt that Mr. DENTON mis took his mission, for instead of retailing his employer's sayings about game amongst the West Suffolk con -1 stituency, he forthwith, in the honest zeal of his heart, began to speak against the thing, and deli vered an anti-game lecture to the West Suffolk Agri cultural Association. He says he had joined that 1 society, at its formation, from the impression that the evening meetings would afford opportunity for " the promulgation of any information which individuals, from their peculiar situations, might possess, and 1 which others were unable to obtain ;" and he adds : Impressed with this idea, and feeling it was the duty of every member of the association to afford all the informs. tion in his power, for the general benefit, I have at various times introduced subjects fur the consideration of the society ,• and having spent thirty-five years of my life in the midst of excessire game preserves, and seen with sorrow the evils arising from the system, I took the liberty, at one of our meetings, to introduce that subject to the notice of the mem bers. But although I can most solemnly declare that, neither on that subject nor on any other which I have introduced to the notice of the society, Dave I entertained other than a hearty desire to benefit the owner as much as the occupier at the soil. But Colonel RESIBIROOKE dying, the estate and the " excessive game preserves" descended to his son, who happens not to have his eye upon the constituency of West Suffolk. The result was the dismissal of Mr. DENTON from his stewardship. He had lectured against game "not wisely but too well." His oppor tunities of acquiring an acquaintance with the system were so well known as to give weight to his expres sion of disapproval. His position as a land-agent, too, added force to his exposition. In a word, he had obeyed his late employer's injunctions too literally ; probably, as we have said, he misinterpreted those injunctions. lie did not understand that it was in "a parliamentary sense" only that "excessive pre servation" was to be "mitigated if not abolished." Landlords are apt to consider, on public occasions when such considerations are convenient, that what they may have promised to have done has been done, without any very rigid scrutiny of the precise manner in which their promises have been performed. Game keepers usually understand the spirit of such injunc tions far better than Mr. DENTON seems to have done, for they preserve not less diligently than before, and quiet their employer's conscience by strenuous decla rations that " there is no game to hurt the tenants." Now there is one test, and one only, by which ten ants, agents, and others, may try whether a professing landlord, who has discovered that game has " become a public question," does really intend to "mitigate, if not abolish, excessive preservation ;" it is this, will he, or will he not, absolutely give up the game to the tenants? No man who reserves to himself the right to the game seriously intends to give up preserving. This is a point to which tenants, when engaging a farm, should pay especial attention. But to return to Mr. DF.NTON'S letter. Ho tells the Editor, and, through him, the agricultural reading public, that nut only has he been dismissed from his stewardship, bat is to be turned out of his farm also. We give his own statement: His son had not been in possession of his estate three months ere I received six days' notice to quit the situation I had held as his father's steward for twenty-seven years, dur ing which time, I will defy him or any one connected with hint to substantiate against me a charge of dereliction of duty, or want of honest zeal in the cause of his father and his family. I soon after received six months' notice to quit a farm I had held seven years under his father, upon the improvement of which I had expended all the savings of my past life, and a considerable sum bequeathed to me ty my friends, a taros portion of which investment I was com pelled to leave' for the benefit of others. And this treat ment, sir, I received avowedly as a punishment for having had the temerity to introduce that most important subject of game to the notice of the West Suffolk Agricultural Aaso elation. The ejection from the farm, at all events, seems to be one of those acts which go far to justify the feel ings we have noticed as extending amongst the te nantry. Here is another lesson to farmers that there is no safety without a lease. And the following ex planation of the motives influencing Mr. DENTON'S landlord confirms the opinion that proprietors gene rally do not like an independent tenantry: It may be said, sir, that this is a solitary case, arising out of peculiarity of character in the individual ; but when I hear that young man justifying his conduct by stating that he had been taunted by his friends for suffering his tenants to speak upon such subjects at such meetings—that he has been taunted by his friends for suffering his tenants to write letters to the p .pens upon subjects relating to the affaini of agriculture—that he has suffered them to run riot, and has wei dam properly in hand--when I hear him thus justifying magestsful acts, I am led to believe he is far from being alone Ea a desire to put down discussion upon any subject not exaetl7 agreeable to them at these meetings, and that ' the majority of the aristocratic supporters of these meetings do not like that the truth should be spoken at all timer, even r though intended for their improvement and benefit. Land agents are commonly accused by farmers, and with some reason, for not bringing to their employers attention all the difficulties under which tenants labour from the present system of managing landed property; but the above letter will show that land agents have a difficult part to sustain. Before agri cultural improvements can be generally carried out, landowners must be themselves improved. They must shake off their own prejudices before they can expect tenants to apply to husbandry the same spirit of enterprise, through which our commerce and manu factures have made such gigantic strides. That there is room for progress in agriculture nearly equal to that which has taken place in other arts, they, who understand it beet, will the most readily admit. WE have received en account of the half-yearly ex amination of the teachers in training under the Nvional Board of Education in Dublin, and are glad to find that the course includes a good system of in dustrial training, especially in the principles of agri culture, as applied to the present state of Ireland. At the same time, there has been placed in our hands, a Dublin paper, containing a letter from the Mr. MtGeer., whose stolid mistake of Doctor TODD'S clever jeu-d'exprit, for a real letter from the Pope, created such amazement in Exeter-hall, and such amusement everywhere elite, some few years ago. Archbishop WIIATELY having, by anticipation, an swered M'Gnee's accusation, that the national system excludes the bible from the course of education pre scribed by the board, we cannot do better than quote the words of that acute and estimable prelate : The other book, which is commonly called the bible, is, of all books, the most valuable work you can study. I say com monly called the bible, because it is right you should recol lect that it is not, strictly speaking, the bible, but a transla Lion of the bible—a most excellent translation certainly, made by very learned, able, and pious men. bat who were not inspired, nor pretended to be inspired. T4l* should al ways bear in mind, therefore, that the bible, properly so called, is the very book, written in the ancient languages, by the inspired authors themselves. It is a very common mistake with many persons to speak of the authorised ver sion of the scriptures Rs the standard of oar faith. Now, what is the fact, and one that every teacher belonging to the Church of England ought to know ? Why, that the articles of our church were composed • long time before the autho rised version of the scriptures now in use was translated. And for what was it authorised ? It was fir being " publicly read in churches ;" not as the standard of doctrine. For, in truth, the framers of our thirty-nine articles, when they spoke of making holy scripture the sole standard of our church, and the only infallible authority, meant no translation at all, but (that which alone can be strictly termed holy scripture) the very books as they were written by the inspired authors. This important fact, of which you cannot be too frequently reminded, is often over looked by those who clamour for the daily, and even the compulsory use of the authorised version of the scriptures, by all sects and denominations, and who have maligned the commissioners of education because they compiled the "Scripture Lessons" for the use of the children attending the national schools. Now these extracts are only a trans. lation, and a faithful translation too, agreeing with the ori ginal; and yet they have been opposed and abused, and by the members of more than one religious body, as if the title of scripture did not belong to them as much as to any other translation. One may meet with people professing great seal for the scripture, who yet would rather see thousands upon thousands of their countrymen live and die totally without any scriptural knowledge at all than they should read in any but the authorised version. This is likely—if anything can—to foster the prejudices which some have en deavoured to raise against that version as unfaithful. Mr. M'GREE's letter is based on the very patent fallacy that if the reading of scripture is not enforced ' in schools, that scripture is therefore excluded from the course of education. Now it is perfectly noto rious, not only that Roman Catholics, but even very many Protestants—men as sincerely attached to the principles of the Reformation as Mr. ArGilee him self—doubt the propriety of converting the bible into a school-book. They deem that the scriptures should be approached with reverence, caution, and reserve ; with reverence, because of their sacred character; with caution, because of the danger of erroneous in terpretation : and with reserve, because the same nar rative that instructs the matured mind cannot always be equally edifying to childhood, and they fear that a compulsory and indiscriminate use of the scriptures woud tend to lower the character and influence of the sacred volume. Whether these scruples be well or ill founded, it is perfectly obvious that they ought to be respected. And it is a fact that they are respected in all our public stasis for the education of the middle classes. We bow that: Roman Catholics attending the schools qkt by Protestant clergymen in Ireland are not re red to join in prayer or attend bible-lessons; the same distinction between secular and religious in etruction is maintained in England whenever epis copalians and dissenters are found in the seine school. We should be glad to know on what grounds a diffe rent law should be established for the parents of the = and the parents of the wealthy. It was eer not in the New Testament that Mr. gitGwee found the grounds of such an unjust distinction. There are now four thousand schools under the Na tional Board in Ireland, educating more than half a million of pupils. This is a proof that the national system has obtained the confidence of Irish parents : and if it did not posses; such confidence, the system would not merely be worthless, but pernicious. It is a fearful thing to interfere with parental re sponsibility, and remove the control of the youthful mind from the hands of those to whom it has been entrusted by nature and the God of Nature. Yet this Mr. M`Gnee, in very plain broad terms, pro poses to do, and proclaims that each interference is not merely the right, but the duty, of the state. Dors Mr. Wanes know what the state is? Assuredly [ it is not a theocracy, and if not a theocracy, it has neither the duty nor the right to meddle with theology. Ile has confounded two very different things; because the state supports a religion, he in fers that there is a religion of the state. But there an be no special religion of the state, so long as per iling of different religious denominations are mirage to office. WOREE'S argument goes the whole length of maintaining that the East India Company ought not to extend the benefits of education to its Hindoo and Mohammedan subjects except on the condition of the Christian scriptures being used by all the pupils in their schools. We doubt if there are ten sane men in England who would maintain such a proposition : and we only contend, that the same measure of jus tice, conceded by universal consent to the Brahmins and Mussulmans of India, should be continued to the Catholics of Ireland. We should hardly have noticed Mr. *GHEE'S very impotent effusion, did it not seem to intimate an in tention on his part of net isiiing Eitgleau to renew the course of itinerant agitation which he found so e when he was accompanied, some years ago, r a th i ßev. MORTIMER O'Setti‘ww. He had much batter stay at home. Theological rancour does not afford such good leverage for upsetting the Whigs as in times past. The cry of "No Popery," like that of " Wolf," - has been raised a little too often. The intolerance of the MlGuees received a severe, but andesigned rebuke from Mr. CAMBALLIN, who, in the unavoidable absence of Archbishop MURRAY, addressed the Catholic pupils : The board, comprising as it does, members of the various religions communions in the country, while j doing cordially in 'promoting a sound, moral, and secular education, and even II religious education, so far ex all can, without compromise, cordially agree, lessee to each of its members the power of promoting in this way the peculiar tenets of his own faith amo=zst these of hie own Tee establishment of a free port at Macassar by the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, has given rise to a great deal of wonder, suspicion, and congratulation. Some think it a trap, some an act of envy, others a tribute to liberalism and free trade. In truth it is all three. But whatever of rivalry is in it, is a very fair spirit of rivalry ; and one by which, although the Dutch may profit, we shall cer tainly profit too. It has been long since an observation of the Dutch writers, that the inhabitants of Celebes were not, like the Javanese, inclined to agriculture, but irremediably fond of wandering, especially by sea, and of the trading incident to such a life. The Dutch, in the interest of their spice monopoly, and to surround it with mystery, made it always the basis of their treaties with the people of Cefebes, that they should neither trade nor navigate. Such are the conditions of the contract of Bongay. The people of Celebes have ever rebelled against such a law, and their rebellions have abstracted from the Dutch a great part of the gains of their Spice Islands. Governor VAN DER CAPELLEN, however, visited all these islands and establishments himself, and brought back from his visit the conviction that the old system should be reformed. And he did, in agreat measure, reform them ; for instance, abolishing the old laws for the destruction of spice-trees. Duties were taken off native exports and imports, and the results were the quintupling of the revenue in five.yean' time. Of this we are informed by Count HOGENDOUP. The present throwing open of the port of Macassar is but a continuance of 'VAN DER CAPELLEN'S system of reform. It is no doubt also an invitation to the Bugis to frequent Macassar rather than Singa pore, with the promise that they shall find not nn.rely Dutch goods but English Wu. Singapore has great advantage in being on the high-road from India to China ; but the Dutch may say that Macassar is better stationed on `the road between Europe and China. If to this great advantage be joined the fact that the inhabitants of Celebes and of the countries near Macassar, arc the most enter , prising and trading of the Malays, that they are the moat industrious procurers of tre pang and the other luxuries which the Chinese , love - , there is some fear that Mammy may prove a rival to Singapore in the China trade. Our projected settlement at Tabu an is another in the eyes of the Dutch. The facilities whic h w ould then exist for collecting the above-mentioned Chinese luxuries, and rendering Labuan a suocuraal of Sin gapore, have aroused the Dutch to rival us, and to open the port of Malacca. Be it to; even if the Dutch communion ; and so far from sanctioning an irreligious or " godless" 'cheme of education, with which it is sometimes charged, it thus affords opportunities of inculcating the doc trines of religion through the instrumentality of those from whom it ought beet to come—the members of that commu nion to which the teachers respectively belong: while, to hear some people, one would suppose that his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, Archbishop Murray, and the highly respected Presbyterian clergyman, Dr. Henry (whom absence from ill-health today we have also to lament), were in • sort of conspiracy to bring up the youth of Ireland in irreli gion or indifferentism. The same eloquent gentleman pointed attention to smatter generally overlooked, but one of immense im portance, the value of the national schoolmaster, not only as the instructor of the young, but as an example and model to the adult. Will you, national teachers, aid, with all your might, in raising the intellectual as well as moral character of your native land ? You are each united with the board in this effort—each of you has his share of duty to perform it. this great work. Some of you come from parts of the country where the system you are called on to administer is not only not countenanced, but discouraged. Do you not he discou raged or disheartened. In the diatriets referred to, you are specially called on to redouble your exertions, and thereby to demonstrate to the adversaries of the system the excellence of its working under your care. Show even in the humble thatched cabin, dignified with the name of national school-- (because, owing to thise very adversariis, perhaps, no better or more suitable accommodation could be procured) the whitewashed walls—the well-swept floor—the tablets well arranged—the books of free stock in reasonable good order — the entrance to the humble cottage ornamented at your lei sure hour, or. still better, by the usibtance of the children, with a little dower-garden—the children, though in rags, yet clean, orderly, and respectful in their demeanour. This is a subject to which we shall again have occasion to refer, but we can state from our own knowledge, that many of those who were at first oppose d to the Irish National Board of Education, have been won over by observing the effects which the example of most of the trained teachers has produced in the rural districts of Ireland. Not being so far raised above the peasant clans, by salary or station, as to seem hopeless objects of imitation, the comforts they procure by their habits of order, the respect they win by their propriety of demeanour, and the influence they obtain by their superior intel ligence, have excited feelings of emulation around them, and have superinduced habits of industry and economy, which may have been disturbed, but which have not been destroyed, even by the preasure of that distress with which the mystenous dispensations of Providence have afflicted Ireland. The Express from France, with Thursday's p apers, arrived in due course. The contents are as fol low : The Journal des Dibals replies at some length to the attacks of La Presse, accusing it of inconsistency : We are accused of being caught in the flagrant act of con tradiction, says the Darras, because, having approved the Spanish marriages, we show our regret at the breach which those marriages have caused in the relations between France and England. If we thought the English alliance of such importance, we are told that we ought not to have contracted those marriages. Why not? We approved of them, and still approve of them, with all our soul. The annihilation of Cracow, which you have blamed, at least with your lips, does that prevent you from advocating an alliance with the most powerful of the northern powers ? The irritation telt in England on account of the Spanish marriages, seems to us most unjust and unaocountable, and that is why we think it cannot last. In a question purely French, our government followed se purely French line of policy. England has lost nothing by it. Our position in Spain is the same as it was before those marriages, which, we repeat it, hurt only the self.love of some indi viduals or their projects of aggrandisement. It is not the house of Brunswick which sits on the throne of Charles Quint for the last hundred and fifty years. The Spanish marriages have made no change in politics in general. We advocated the English alliance before those marriages, we advocate it after them. The reasons which, for sixteen years, caused us to defend that alliance still exist in all their force; they exist for England as well as for France. We are still of the opinion—we believe more than ever—that an alliance between the two countries is in the interests of both, and a terrible responsibility will fall upon the head of that of the two nations which first breaks asunder the links of such an alliance. Let it not be France at least to take the lead in so disastrous a course. Such are our sentiments, and we are convinced that they are also those of M. Guizot. After upholding the Spanish marriages, as a proof that M. Guizot did not fear to act boldly in contra diction to the wishes of the English government when the interests of France were engaged, thus refuting the accusation of the Opposition, that the French Minister for Foreign Affairs was the organ of English interests in the cabinet, the De6als oon eludes : The Spanish marriages took place without precipitation, without delay, at the day and hour appointed, We will be allowed to say in our turn : We have let pass unmoved the storm of the English press, which burst upon us. We con tented ourselves with calmly maintaining the rights of France ; and shall we to-day embitter the irritation which may still exist in England, and change a quarrel of hurt pride into a subject of international dissension ? God forbid! So °alone a part we leave to others ; they have their own ends in view. Rather let vs seek to calm and enlighten the public mind in England ; we fear not to make an incessant appeal to the good sense and wisdom of the English people. We shall neglect no occasion to point out the weighty rea sons for France and England to remain united for the main tenance of peace and the welfare of humanity; and we are certain that by thus doing, we give a proof of true patriotism, of independence, and of dignity. The state of the Bank of France was the general topic of conversation on the Bourse on Wednesday. It was asserted that the sums withdrawn on Tuesday exceeded 11 millions, and those on 24 Mondai l, millions. The head of one of the principal ban •in houses has left for London to negotiate the means ffor providing for the pressing wants of the moment, fhe bank has declared to all depositors of effects in gold and silver that it could not keep them as pledges, and that they must be withdrawn immediately. It was reported that the house which is said to traffic noel on the Bourse in railway shares and loans, was myth hurt at the notice, and having at the present moment deposits at the bank for more than 11 millions, has endeavoured to negotiate in Belgium the means se complying with the request. Thus, the hopes of a better state of things have vanished, and tho fisiodal crisis is worse than ever. The Constitutionnel quotes at length the prow in the speech of M. Thiers on the 27th May last, in which, after examining the financial state of the country, he energetically blamed the facility with l which the government granted credits beyond the financial resources of the country. It is but a sorry satisfaction, says that journal, to gay when the evil has arrived, that we foretold it. It were much bitter to be a false prophet than to see predictions come true at the expense of the country. According to some of the journals the royal speech will contain an allusion to the incorporation of Cracow. This would give a new character to the pro testation of M. Ouizot. The members of the diplomatic body met in Paris on Thursday, to deliberate whether or not in the address to his Majesty they were to felicitate the King on the marriage of the Duke of Montpensier, and it was decided that the proposition of M. Guizot, not to felicitate his Majesty on the marriage, should be rejected. In consequence, Lord Normanby will abstain from being present at the presentation of the address to morrow, New Year's day, at the Tuileries ; but we are assured that he has the intention of paying his respects individually. Lady Normanby has arrived at Paris. The Bey of Tunis arrived on the 25th ult. at Toulon, and was to embark on the following day. From the Ist of January the price of bread at Faris will be increased 2 centimes per kilogramme. ad- I COLONIAL. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. By the Samamng, we have letters and papers from Cape Town to the 24th, from Graham's Town and Port Elizabeth to the 17th, and from Fort Cox to the sth October. Tue SEAT or WA i.—lt was understood that the Go vernor bad marched to form a camp at or near the mouth of the Buffalo river. On the 19th of October the Sir Edward Ryan, carrying 110 mules and horses, with a corresponding number of light waggons, was despatched tress Simon's Buy. It was to be towed all the way to Algoa Bay by . H.M.S. Thunderbolt. The arrival of the Deputy-Com missary-General Palmer at Port Elizabeth (in H.M.S. In flexible on the 11th of October), somewhat lightened the gloom spread over the Eastern districts, the disastrous issue of the operations in Kafflrland being mainly attributed to mismanagement in the commissariat department. A rumour that Col. Cloete was to be superseded by one of the field officers who arrived in the same vessel had also given satis faction; and a lively desire was expressed that " other parties" might be superseded by more qualified officers. No movement had been made at head-quarters since the previous despatches were sent off. The Kaffirs continued their marauding apparently without let or molestation. The following diary of a week's outrages may convey to home readers some notion of the state of the frontier Monday, Oct. 12: Information reached Graham's Town of the death of William Cumming, a young man, neer Fort Beaufort, shot while endeavouring to rescue some sheep from a body of Kaffirs.—Tuesday, Oct. 13 : Par ticulate (a vague report had previously arrived) of the driv ing off of a flock of 1,400 sheep, the property of a Dutch far mer, G. Van Rooyen, by Raffles, received at Graham's Town—Thunday, Oct. lo : Information of the murder of Carel Van HeeraCn, in the Tarka district, received at Gra ham's Town. He was on the " trek " with his family to a more secure position. A party of Tambookie Kaffir, fired on his encampment at night without provocation, and shot him. The same day accounts were received of the re-capture of 150 head of cattle, which a band of Kaffirs were driving past Fort Beaufort. Friday, Oct. 16 Information reached Graham's Town of the loos of the whole horses (twelve in number) belonging to the provisional company stationed near Jsiger's Drift, on the Bushman river, by Kaffirs.—Sa turday, 17th Oct : This day was marked by a luring of Job's poets . News from the Tarka of a flock of sheep, sixty head of cattle, and four homes, taken by Kaffir* from tierce farms. News of an attack, by Kaffir., on a merchant travelling in the vicinity of the East Riet river. News of outrages by fifteen Ruffin, near Quagga Vlakte. News from the K aga that all the cattle had been driven off from Maelstrom by Kaffir,. It appears from the Graham's Town Journal that the authorities do not even attempt to keep the high poet road to the north or inland districts open, but make detours to escape plundering parties. No wonder that the same journal states, " It is no exaggeration to say that hundred, of persons would quit Graham's Town, and thousands the immediate fron tier, did they possess the means of removal." The Journal states that 601. has been given as the hire of a singla waggon from Graham's Town to Fort Beaufort. The scarcity of food along the frontier had brought famine prices with it. Oa the 17th October (according to the Gra ham's Town Journal) the prices of absolute necessaries there were—wheat meal with the bran as it comes from the mill, 245. per bushel; beef and mutton of poor quality, 4d. per lb.; potatoes, 7d. per lb.; milk, not to be had vegetables, ditto ; fi re-wood, 4/. 13.. per load (the current price before the war was 10s. (id. to 111. ) At Fort Beaufort the scarcity of food was still more severe than at Graham's Town. Two or three waggons, with provisions, brandy, and tobacco, reached Graham's Town, from the district of George, on the 17th. Their owners stated that abundant supplies would be brought, if the farmers were secured against the impressment of their waggons. The military and commissariat. having in part made insufficient provision for the means of transport, in part by . scandalous neglect of common precanuons, allowed their waggons to be captured, and their beasts of burden to be starved, had gone on the maroude, and were acting as if soldiers alone required provisions, while civilians might be left to starve. Ito' even this system of ienpres , atent did not scent(' the soldier against want. Here is a picture et the state of the army from the private letter of a soseasmisissed officer Toe my Sped that every ass la the Sell h malady looking ter a ir eessiar Yt g As kr we we idle Ask it SY work. It is maw la dire we Int witarel the Add (in April I bans sever Wept wpm a Yd. et tar down assowbernenta on. We are bestaskie le he Stele asked, owe *saw 11% , ; . altzarn out, and 10010 elihmateehtsgS in con =01( lost their all at the mime et the waggons. Is do to he wry seeded at mos ye have had ems waywet weaker ibis last swerdh. die le wiry mestart. die Yr a We hag a party at le sea est le Ws pait eta Metals at 1,010 sea bee easheettY lesd. ad than pew Muse WI hue two yawls era dant a dregs et any lane without their greet lab ens 'they are has the hat asses, is Taathaskla lea den as whim W SY Sea they meet be was. piedy , wed May have ad hid de sea is alma le ewer het have bees spend to all ales. Mrs have piebrasei th P maim lam they bale hes ed. Swiss speed i=lo at .1101 bead ornate. There has bete tee or three Neel et called tin •, black leg," brea tinge% a urn* et gginlnbl aMi l a g have been served out with to prevent siaLsam. Owe ewe et the bladder liss prosedtatal lea gdotte or the th mgt. baying aid of is although Mined inM Rat Deadert toe • c 27 hange of diet. Oar The Bordeaux mail arrived at Paris on Thursday without bringing the journals and correspondence of Madrid. PARIS, Dac. 30. The fourth public meeting of the Association for the Defence of Free Trade (Libre Echange) took place yes terday in the Salle Montesquieu. This demonstration was attended with the same éclat as the preceding one. A con.iiderable number of spectators had assembled, but unforeseen circumstances brought on a change in the programme. The chairman of the association, the Due d'Harcourt, was absent; Mr. Wolowski, who was to have spoken, thought it more prudent not to do bO, on account of his recent rceovely from a sel ere illness; and an attempt to try the powers of a novice in the art of oratory completely failed. It does not seem necessary that every gentleman engaged in a cause of such general interest as that of free trade should be called upon to express himself in a brilliant manner; but what is indispensable is, that the orators should do justice to the question, and should consult both prudence and reason. This is what M. Dunoyer, the president, did not do. M. Dunoyer is one of the veterans of the debates on political economy under the Restora tion, at a time when that science was yet a new ono in France, and when a place in a re presentation might be gained by a pamphlet. In naming this gentleman vice-president, in con junction with M. Aniseon Duperron the association meant rather to honour old serneee:than to recognise I capacity. M. Dunoyer is a member of the Council of ; Tatiana now OODldaia of le. or rt y: f eat, , i r g..C 4 ,4 bierait, a l i nd rai l l, 2 : h ola pu el State and of the Institute; he lives in his functions s o r a" l rits. o d: S of alt cag . m;:l i per P :liern. a Anything esti& from this our as in a retreat, without joining in the movement of assthin tias cormises to get from Fort Beaufoet, as coffee, sugar : the rest of this world, and keeping his knowledge ~ °0 1 ?. sad t°bacc°i the Wi ce. a it •,; d. . : i d a t. a c ,„ ), 2 .. w ;:r 4 p , 1 i,.. same, Is. 3il. • elms; 9i11.; soap, Is. I • • even of facts up to a par with society. lie is thus and even it isitificult to procure those articles at a n y p nee. The to unfit to sustain a debate with the Protectionists ; kie. tUt.d it "rf iri di m e' lt to supply th r ug t b o l ll i tte: being not in the way of knowing the policy which wi no many as froml l o to 30 at each camp without oars ought to be pursued in difficult circumstances. at a: at one time here there used to as many** four and five oxen Bead morning through scarcity of grass, and being bun The following, however, was the theme which M. _ oo rri omo of r i d hy had t o a b sa d d s ems of their wag- Dunoyer chose, with the inexperience of a man iiiisimeisequenoe deficiency named. took upon himself to trace out the future plan ( li the a • placed beyond the current of ideas. He The distri bove bu it ti th en e a da t t te he o u f h in is y l , e as tte far r, maaukunownfollotowsthe writer The rata regiment was as their march from Algae nay towards the of campaign for the association ; but instead Of frontier. The reserve banalioq_ 43th regiment, were in the tfeld, but a programme for the future, it was, in reality, but also 1 a plan for a funeral ceremony. Imagine for a moment Fat odor the now u mc u m c cen t , ~,,..i mp ,d b e t w een I don't know 4 .r :ed . tly a w r hr r e .i the sots =mein ; . . k ere l :titrputsd au a general in the thick of a fight, telling his soldiers, Fort Beaufort. Col. Somerset aDd the Cape Corps wer e b. "that their enemies are too superior in strength and Ibe chtt , ,Prit; We orwa , l ba u ,"::„l7;t r tr ee 'l 1 ',,,, ~,,,I sti e n y o be 01 Hr number ; that heaven is in the favour of the latter; Andrus Stockemtrones division Is broken up, sod the fanners ham sod that they have no hope of success." Hearing this, returned home. There is a fresh Bei . o,d.re: co up ilm i the me 2= would not the troops throw down their arms and the sell each division b L ing repthoe Mc ordered : ordered home. The Fine Old run at once ? Certainly they would. And that is tmetun Gram:nen are in grouters at tkwurort. We are ansioutli the sort of sauce quo pent principle which M. we will be quit.: naked altogether. Dunoyer endeavoured to inculcate. In a loud and I"" A; g ve r r ° tise r " m iu ents c'n' h n a u d tmapmpehar7ilWirne6ethvesuiGinrathhame ik•lsd.Trow's:n distinct voice, the vice-president was heard to de- repels fro the Civil Commivaioncr fur Albany, an dd the Clare, that the free•trade party was in a minority ; Town Clerk of Graham's Town, ling.callin upon the ir milr to that there was nothing now to be hoped either from wnd in Thestatements dignitary n ti ry i r !Ts :ci s only n forreturns and th e u ll from th government or public opinions ; that public opinion did Il ar e ' peciod of t r oe e t r ,.. ‘ not yet demand what theassociation required ; and that begun long before, though government were not ready to the executive would do well to turn a deaf ear to its troop. entering Kaffirland." The war had meet it. Are they going to take advantage of their own demand, so long as public opinion did not press &dosser them. Immediately after this announcement, M. THE " DAILNWS" AT THE CAFE OF Goon Horst,— Dunoyer concluded by urging the association to put - The Graham's T o w n Journal of 17th October gar :"1 he English papers received since our last furnish some further tine its work and not be discouraged. M. Dunoyer ccommentaries on the affuirs of this colony, and which are does not seem to know that an assembly of men, written in a spirit and with an earnestness from wl,ich we anxious to modify the laws of their country, must may augur the most important results. Among ,her ex possess faith in the success of their undertaking. He remarkable Yew, accurac." school of philosophers ; and sounds the note of re- treat at at the moment of action. This speech caused a painful impression, chiefly on the minds of the mem bers of the committee. Several of them thought it their duty to protest. M. Blanqui, who spoke after the chairman, said, that for his part he hoped better things; but it seemed to have been laid down that the speakers were all to wear the funeral veil cast upon them by M. Dunoyer ; and M. Blanqui, the witty and clever speaker, who generally over shoots his mark, became timid to excess. In explaining the objects of the association, which chiefly consist in the repeal of the prohibitive duties, and the reduction of all excessive import duties, he rather diminished than widened the perspective. The audi ence remained consequently cold, forming a great contrast to its usual enthusiasm, and apparently at a loss to understand the universal timidity which seemed to be the order of the day. M. Chevalier followed, and, though not generally eloquent—reading his speeches, rather than speaking he was eloquent on the present occasion. He had chosen a well-defined subject; his ideas were clear, and he obtained decided success. The speaker mentioned, amongst other things, the I anxiety which the manufacturers, who are parti sans of protection, affect to feel for the welfare eif their workmen. Alluding to the organization of the central committee which directs that puty, be said : I do not ask of men who profess soisiseh anxiety for their workmen to increase their salaries, for I know that these depend on complex eon- ditions, which it is out of their power to modify, but they can do much for the moral and intellectual welfare of the labouring classes; and the central eranmittee's orders being obeyed from one end of the kingdom to the other, it need only lift its fingers to eause the adoption of all the reforms required by our age. I would only ask of them whence it happens, that from the resistance of the manufacturers them selves, the law regulating the work of children is not set in activity? Why mechanics' institutes, so common in Englard, are not brought to bear in the great centre of industry ? After NI. Chevalier, M. Horace Say spoke a few words tending to show that the material interests of prohibition were felt even in the heart of the metropolis; that the custom-house officers attributed to themselves the right of search ing houses ; and that even women's bedrooms were not exempt He showed that prohibition favoured a greater fraud even than smuggling, viz. the proceed ing by means of which French manufacturers in putting their mark on foreign produce, secured it from the grasp of the Customs. These simple words were much applauded ; and it becomes daily more evident that the speakers of the association, if they wish to instruct the public, and make proselytes, should eschew theory, and enter more frequently into the detail of facts. It is a plan they will probably adopt at succeeding meetings. 0. INDIA. EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS VIA TRIESTE. (From the Daily News.) Since the combination of the high-priced Journals against the Daily News—a coalition as unwise as it was disgraceful—we have succeeded in almost every instance in anticipating our contemporaries in the pub lication of foreign and colonial news, with the single exception of India intelligence. As respects the Overland Mails, time was of course requisite for the completion of arrangements, and the establishment of agencies necessary to conduct so extended a communication. The new year however, has opened triumphantly for us and oar subscribers, and we have succeeded in beating the Com bined, even with India news. The result is, that we are now enabled, through the indefatigable exertions of Lieut. Waghorn, to present our readers with full de tails of news from India received, ria Trieste, in anticipation of the expresses by way of Marseilles. Hitherto, when our daily contemporaries were fortu nate enough to anticipate us with India news, we have made it an invariable practice to acknowledge the journal from which our information has been de rived. In the present instance we have not been treated with the same honesty. Knowing, from experience, the wholesale practices of pirating from our columns without acknowledgment, we took the precaution, in our first issues, this morning, of altering some few words in the summary of the Bombay Times. Our plan has succeeded. We have yet seen only the second editions of two of the Combined ; and the fact is clear, that they have issued second editions, and copied our India intelligence without having had the decency to acknowledge that they had taken _it from the Daily News. As we have already said, our readers are indebted to the energy and perseverance of Lieut. Waghorn for this anticipation of the India MaiL The latest dates are Calcutta, Nov. 22, and Bombay, Dec. 2:— This mail was brought to Suez by the steamer Victoria, together with the following. parsengers : Mrs. Woodhouse, Mrs. Sutter and child, Mn'. Bell, and child of Capt.Oiberne, Lieut.-Colonel Woodhouse, Rev. G. F. Satter, T. James, Esq., Lieut. G. F. Duke, Lieut. Bell, T. B. Jackson, Esq.. Lieut. G. Itennie, Dr. Joaquim Pinto de Mayathas, and M. Jacina di Silva Baptister. The following is the summary of the Bombay Times: The past fortnight has proved rather barren of intelligence. The insurrection in Cashmere is now fairly over : the Sheikh Eaten-alp-DERN surrendered himself into our hands on the 31st of October, and troops advancing on the lately disturbed country were immediately ordered to return to quarters. Sir JOHN LITTLER'S force commenced their retrograde movement on the 4th, and reached Lahore on the 12th—the General himself having quitted them on the march, and proceeded to Loodhiana. The troops sent from Femzepore to occupy for a time the Seikh capital, moved out on the 9th, and took their way in the direction of the Sutle . j. The brigade of Colonel Wheeler were at Sealkotc the Jullundar Doab on the 10th. The Mooltan mis understandings seem fully arranged, and there appears every reason to believe that the provi sions of the treaty of Umritsir will be satisfactorily carried out, and our army within our own domi nions by January, 1847 ; a triumphant answer to the cenaurers of the pacific policy now for the first time tried in India, and likely to be gloriously saccesefuL Scinde continues quiet. Rumours are rife of the immediate retirement of Sir C. Napier from office. According to one account he will quit Kurra chee on the 12th December ; according to another, he will extend his stay till March : no one expects that he will remain till the approach of the hot season. The rumour mentioned in our last, that the messengers bearing letters to her eon from the mother of Meer Shandad had been pursued, arrested, and stripped of their despatches, by order of the governor, after he had given them a safe conduct to Surat, proves authentic. This most extraordinary pro oeeding is supposed to have been resorted to with a view of discovering some matters in the letters of a parent which might criminate the son, and help to eke out that singular species of justification of the conquest of Scinde supposed to be contained in the blackening of the character of the Ameers ! The climate within the Delta continued cool and healthy, but at Sukkur considerable sickness pre vailed. Three companies of artillery, one regiment of cavalry, and five of infantry, are about to be with drawn from the coun leaving still behind a force of about 15,000 men. When the expedition. 13,000 strong, moved on Bahawulpore in February, nine thousand were sent from Bombay to join them, or supply their places : none of these have hitherto been withdrawn. The Bengal force which returned to Upper India, were about six thousand five hun dred strong. The local corps having been doubled, left a force, which still remains, on the Indus, of nearly twenty-four thousand men. By the pro posed reduction of betwixt seven and eight thousand it will still remain sixteen thousand strong. At this it stood when the parliamentary returns, showing that the country cost us nearly a million a year, were made up : from November, 1845, to Novem ber, 1846, the military charges must have been nearly doubled : the balance required to be drawn from India will now once me... fall back to about a million a year. The Fir....per Cent. Loan, which this fearful drain has created, is filling up slowly, and one of six per cent. is talked of. The late ministry are said to have been favourable to the restoration of the Ameers. The Whigs are restrained from this by the order of the Duke of Wellington, who backs out Lord Ellenbo rough and the Napiers in all things : and =ken parliament interfere, a few years hence the finances of India 7.ey nirr.i•li an excuse for the increase, as they did in 1842 for the impos i tion of the income tax. The Governor-General had by latest se counts reached Loodhiana on his way to the 'aline der Doab. The Commander-in-Chief had not yet gaitted — The Governor of Madras was ea his way back from Bangalore to the Neil hills. The Governor of Bombay has re turn 3 to the presidency; as also has Sir T. McMahon. At the recommendation of the Court of Nizamut Adawlut, the Deputy Governor of Bengal has remitted the fine and imprisonment ordered to be inflicted on the Editorof the MoslntoinChronicle by the Commissioner of the Tenasserim Provinces. The new minister at Hyderabad, in the Nizam's dominions, has given much satisfaction by the manner in which he has commenced his career. His salary is 30,0001. a year, independent of as much more in the shape of I