The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-03 00:00:00

OPENLNO OF THE MANCI LIBRARY. !'ER FREE VW opening of the Manchester Free Public Li ..., ha. been looked forward to with • good goal a Li t. awl it will not be • natter of surprise Wit m oat saii.ty was manifested by the public to be mown ne accenon. The ceremony took place in the in which are stored the volumes design= ii r;r q u re,uce, ',blast the distinguished visitor In. im brig to Like part in the proceedings were received in roes of corresponding proportions on the first floor, aratsming the books , which form the public lending ',b u ry. At twenty minutes past li o'clock, when the n and gentlemen invited to take part ic the pro stoLeo hid tales their seats in the upper room, there 1 ,,f, nearly a thousand .. persons present, • great portion g a i w o were Lilies. Nir John Potter presided, and ton ig„, E cr noblemen . and gentlemen took their seats em f side of the chsir 7 the Ea rl of Sh•ftestsury, the gad et Wilton, ti.e Bishop of Manchester, Sir Edward Dai laws,t,ir " , trith,.i. Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. Thac ks. ht. Mr. John bright, M.l'., Mr. Man M V.. the Res. I)r. Vaughan, Mr. Wil bus M , Mr. Jim. Kershaw, M.P., Mr. Joseph firth, Fon, M • and Mr. F. Ikiu, Mayor of Manchester. Ag A ro the lIIMC didinguidisil ladies present were the of Wilton 3101 the lion. Misses Egerton. Tbe t'liAlliMAN, in opining the proceedings, prefaced by resdiug a report which gives an interesting gad socciart history of du, origin of this excellent urroßr. Your committee, es aoreething the completion of gum labours, leil it Is be their duty to submit to the sub. account of the origin, object. and history eg lb , ',orrery, now about to be inaugura ted ae one of din • et eut , lse iiistitutio34 of Manchester. la the SOF litres 1 . ..0. a eulegript.en Cu. set on foot in this teen do she rat library and museum, to be par nit t ot,. nte all elasers of the public. But, as it nee g,s oteret el' the rrognoters to provide means fee the modal culture and moral elevation of the artisans end wi l„. a ople ebo form so tarn and important an element a wee laid down as the fundamental built dd. - Ate nie tank it sionilu ir.c.cle a free lending library— ., insteu•ers, it 6 la her ed, hitherto without en imple in Ibis cancel. In eepport of this object, twenty-six et ea: t e .i.u-tewitsnien subscribed, either for them es:se. or for their respective gems, the sum of Ica: ,oh. Forty-three other subscriptions were obtained, mime?, with tl . e berm. r, an aggregate subscription of Th e us, re s er, of Manchester, who, at the outset, Ind reit:iced an tamest di sire to promot e the undertaking, Verrall .onoibuted the ens of 2,0001. from a fund which thy h.... 1 a , their disposal for purposes strictly pubic. • beildine is whit .t you are now assembled had early beta muted out is eat eel %purl to the contemplated pur low and as leae'y to he it; sins .1 on very moderate terms. It !ad bs. a orientally built by the working classes, with ea. atlas "And. rib:* eseeeding Om., but, under the (ht.. come tin:SalOalICCS. those interested were willing b 2..p0w of it tor 1.Z. , J/., or little more probably than a !nob of as actual cwt. sir Oswald Mosley owned a chief gat upon it of Kt. 6. per amino', which was estimated by ine.t.at person. • be worth *2l years purchase, or about Osweld Mosley, how. yes., on being informed of ge ▪ purpose to whit h it wan intended to devote the building, nrnseed hi. cordial approval, and stated, most liberally, ex hr , fin eld Yalu. the thief riot at only 20 years' pur chase ;1.434), and should further testify his goodwill to le proud!" retior.ing one-half of the purchase money, as sestribahon is the fund. Sir Oswald Mosley, therefore, me: he regarded sea moat gcnereus supporter of this in intaen. Oa these terms the purchase, both of the building sal the freehold. eas . &cud in the autumn of 18k 0 ; and B. lams esp. nil-1, including the neeeseary law charges, seated to 2.11'1. Addition 11 subscriptions have sines hr a obtained, amounting to 2,011/. As. 10d. and making, ir..h the MIL of . 1 ,1 . 44/. previously subscribed, a total, on di Met Mi . .. of 9,423:. Os. 10d. A voluntary sub tcriptioa basing 1090 been set on foot amongst the working Loos, a motion./ men's committee was formed, and ulti. Imlay a atom of about 8904. was raised by the contributions .ginore than 20.0ilit peewee employed in various industrial mt.blishm. tee. sad residing is all parts of the town. The first Mberiptim list was thus increased to 10,1234. 9s. 10d. The tetal cspenditure in the repairs, alterations, and fur. aidtaur of the buildine • amounts to 4,8161. Co. 2d. thus moiety. Repairs and alterations to the budding generally, ; gas fittings, 2011. 84. 3d. ; warming and vesti bular apparitutt .1211. Ins. 4d. ; shelves and furniture, LIIN. fie. 6,1 ; street paving, 241. 17s. 14.• total. 4,8161. fa 21. The total cost, therefore, of toe building in Its pm ere; state, with its fittings and furniture, is 6,9631. 6.. W. Meat of Arlen" already provided will accommodate thea...ooo to 7,10110 additional volumes, and by merely inner. in their morber,withour making any addition tothe building ray alteration of simian', the number of volumes now in t: ..DfaU Wight be doubled, or even trebled, if requisite. T... amber of veluasee ultimately purchased was 18,(128'. it. that aifitreaat , cost, in the condition in which you now o• them, wesl,l4il., or about 4e. 74. parr volume an dm c , rae.. In addition to the books thus acquired, WI t....xtt hoe been presented to the library. Of them, Ili s. ones have been contributed by literary, 'dentine., IR • sesieties; lc, by various public departments; $l4 h ockeellers and publishon : and 2.3.5 S by private dens uiclode many very valuable works, but hitherto the tijonty of the books presented have been suitable rather hr the library of circulation than for that of reference. The timber of presented volumes which has been placed in the haling library is about 2,1100; and to these have bees added aSut 3.360 obtained by purchase; the entire somber= ant available (or circulation being 3,305. Of then, lee to the clam theolegy and philosophy ; 2,187 to t legislation, polities, and commerce; 3101_1e 1M make s eel aaa physical sciences and the arm ;emus tis liters hr. and the collective works of writers mi;osaionossitiosts. 0: the 2,181 volumes in the class history, Mean ON MIS* of !chats history and biotraphy ; and 617 an ninneives of y ures and travels. The collection thus mennienend by rur committee will, they trust, be speedily sad 111.11111110. • extended. The number of volumes at preama eser tamed in the library of reference is 16,013, and lbsy Twin elawilled thus:—Theology and philosophy, NB elediallit ,littory. 6.707 volumes ; legislation, ;Belida,. and amain. 4 volume; sciences sad arts, 1,310 vehimas; Ilkissere lad polvgrephy, 4,626 volumes; total, MIAS 1111111111& It will be isfaciently obvious that, in what they bale Ow he bra enabled to accomplish, you ammittee Dave Due Yid • feandation upon whisk Mom must band. Bet only is a library of 16,0811 volumes, however uefi selectid, very inadequate to Met the demands which may fairly be calculated spa is • town like lisschestet ; but some of the classes whisk have been saw aerated are, In a marked degree, and el aweessity, weaker than others. Your committee felt that to matter theft r► stroted means over too wide a surface Mold have bees a ran method of producing • result eves still len orkike• ton. Hence they have preferred to aim at the hen ilea ef • truly valaabl, collection in certain laireelma digare. meets, and is others to be for the resist aserrat with what was indispenu'de, rather than to sabilvide their sew in more equal proportion. It will boa bees lama hos the preceding enumeration that the hat tavaleial dam in the library of reference is that el hYluuy . The 1,707 volumes of which that class at aaslsb a» ass composed --I.'nivereal history, 1 2 1" uhf. - Ancient lumen, VI vols.; British and stank= Intery and Mietephy, 3,`571 vols. ; foreign hien, rai Te Ursiphy, 111 vols.; voyages and travels, 1,614 ye. ,707 -- The report then proceeds to point ost tLe Lbrary in the esrtotts seasons, NA Maillia en lb& lows "The entire coat of the two libraries (all till= depirtmeats of which have now been noticed) bit to 4,A21. ; and your committee believe that hailitenpil Mae arid similar condition have rarely if soot bus oell• 'Med ea terms so moderate. Mot the_ eimillOng in Mr department. as also in that el Ile baildier a tilegl i t teed. d what was at first ft r ormlnardsouble to m a ke renewed efforts _ 11111110111ip bor... In order to effect this object le my Ann* when it was found to be absolutely necessary tipllal mo l o rk ft" tb's who had subscribed so liberally at •e et the mintaking. Aced here your cocamftba Mielli mm t a ill PIO geed their grateful sense of the milts* time diced by your excellent treasurer, Mr. Allfidi In the spirited exertions of that amillemas plat toramittee mainly owe the large success of their renewed lineal to the test supporters of this iriatilmtlis. The list at seticd sulseriptions now amounts to Mama 2,3001., and an 11 4.bbeeel MINI Dot exceeding ,5001. will maim to dear el ee• ry liability. It hail been always mennaplated that the u. cor te porat nten ga or l o n f els h es e te k r .n u e Li t bilri ustees for i tti tel p t ab i lr tad accordingly, in the month of July last, the subjoin Vasbrought before the town council by liir John Potter, the dustman o' your committee. The council determined, es the of their committee for general panne; ea re volt the mayor to take a poll of the bariene ea the IE-4 iqo of maintaining the library al one of the ant in.titutimis of the borough, under the p he 1; sod 11 Viet., is. re% an act introduced to pediment by Hr. Ewart and Mr. Bretherton, and commonly Mom is the Public Libraries Act of WO. This act provides that la cam isothirde of the rotas given shall be is lamer sf its adi.ption, the town council may either wens ee take se n at any lands or hvildinge for the purpose of h 1114 museum. or either of them, et allirZl a ee adapt soy building or buildings for enchrimms and 111111. rice the lime in repair ; and ma from time ume prank loth Avo n e, furniture, fuel, lighting, std dim notten on the appiint such idlieere and fervents es any be MOW Imy for the lilllll mina and useful occupant* sail min mat, I I all the inhabitants, of the institution thee eon tlahed, free of sty charge whatever. T s mart the mid. tate .20,11401,m the council is empowered to levy with en ▪ pad of the hoe.nsth rate, sueh sums of money as may imts lone to tim e he ae ..dui, provided always that the *lois mount of rate so keied shall not in any ono year timed not halfpenny in the pound on the annual ea bee of lbe property rateable to the borough rate. The gia thus I "ltt•t.d was taken on the 20th of August, ma the amml. r of votes r‘corded in favour of the adoptie* at the let we, and against its adoption, 40. AM pen bmm.te a believe that, however striking this 110118111111 rosy appear, that majority would Mew MeV 17 . s tn.nner still more remarkable, were an seenet lu pared of the proportion of the borough ememma *loch is borne by those who voted for the inpanies M he tate. It will be for the town council to togintlit droombiehotti the oreersary annual exoendittam• 101 the • 4 “d Pennine ender which the institution nail .".mit.l7eenetitisted, when the property shall have ben Irst , terred to the rorporation, and the mammon* vested it the comma; hut your committee would ill *Wham Gen duty were they to resign their moon Inagnient with nt trending their deep conviction that the Oa le whs.. aim under which the library is now to he leentelna Fe" links ...Laminable alteration and amendment, I. oar to the M ainmast, by oases d fe*MOD ef say rich whisk as bit astisthithry lo Ihth oftelthunity. Tha act, la its present fear, purlieu Or the mime or hire et loads sad buildings ; for the ;lemur of smirks ; for dr procuring of Sates., funiture, and fed I but mhos no provision, whatever for the paeohele of bean vemdis town opened, to en* huildiegt fee Illmosie leisallalea, without stiat as to mosoittsg• ur red WIWI than the Wait of the rate ; bat it doss or tsar dim II the ono book an the shelves, or one spinosa 0) the ewes. The grimmer Man sat. if unanordsd. ia this cam h• the ithalor_ elen our librey eandethe • • very large proportion of ealetalds publisodons whisk an still I. proems. If we providon he moth the their asminuatiso. what you &heady perm wM bees* leelr worth ' Ism. Nor ma any library be of PIM tis a sanity unless its books ia all tmenr ow mg by thentent Warm as as to be la ears degree Id ellta the spit ispeanat le an ne eat miens Year tannates bmet, tbarefem. that earner sad slat es of public opiates will go hese to the re, and that some oeseber of the Home of Dom• will immediately ardor a been ea the podia by tetra • bin for the eillosteei eseatseet of the ge question. With ea stogy**, position for Mere parlour of books, with a Ilbed spirit of eaassgament, and a continued interest in the petesperity of the institution on the part of those who age successfully launched it, year summits. ass' Soft OM the free library will prove to be she et the salt yelaebb ad *Sarum benefits which have been eshost ea M sad district. The lending library will, it Is help.. be Se mesas of carrying the beat works of our best authors be the homes and amides of the artisan Red the team, worker; whilst the library of reference will afford to the Mailers of every class an impulse towards consecutive sad thoughtful reading, and will encourage the pursuits it stadia* the results of which, under favourable aireasastanom may extend the bosuidaries of humus , and malth r the inetreasents of natio.] civilisation. Isw byt"and pictures, the foundation of 'AY has hut= eosin bution s of two e mi mess guintpoldlibmet Is iwadea, aid of some of our fellow-towsamme, meaty rev be provided for the cultivation of a taste OM OM* delightful arts which at once charm the eye and Psi* the wind. And all these advantages—whatever the adult it which they may hereafter be will mainly owe to the far-seeta7l 9 = l . tr . = sued liberality, and the indefatigable penevemase et so %Sur who. presidency it bas berra the pelves. eyelet easamitte• to begin and to end its labours, sad Ste teed be regarded as emphatically the founder of the istltatiem Tear eanosittee feel that any record of their penesilges, assuming to be historical, would indeed be tamely sod im potently concluded without this public Ppm*a of their personal feelings of deep respect towards their distleigaisird chairman, who, having long served this consamaity in he highest offices, has now achieved a still greater and ISM **during claim to grateful esteem, in the establishment of an institution which bids fair to benefit not alone those whe Pa at once profit by its &chantey*, but (how also who will come atter tnem.—lty order of the committee, EDWARD EDWAKDs, Librarian." In the mars of his address the CHAIRMAN pointed to a Pusher et kabsosely bound volumes presented by his loyal bares Priam Albert, amidst loud cheers, and Ogee • meg from Col. Phippo, which sccompasied them. Se sulaird by making a formal tender of the library, ledailea the title-deeds of the building, to the Cot poratilla. The Mayor of MANCHESTER, on behalf of the cor poration, in trust for the people received the gift, is a suit able reply. The Right Hon. the Earl of SHAFTESBURY said— Sir John l'otter, ladies and gentlemeo,—ln rising to propose the first resolution, I must defend my self against the very probable charge that, as a stranger, unconnected with your great city, I meanie te obtrude =pelf on the notice of this meeting. But you, Sir John Putter, know very well that the directors of the insti tution assigned to me the honour, and 1 undertook it most cheerfully, because, though not connected with this city, I am not uninterested in your welfare ; and many of the former events of my life have given me • deep and hat ing desire for the honour and prosperity of the city of Man chester (Cheers.) Now, the resolution which lam called upon to move 'apeman That this meeting witnesses with great satisfaction the opening ceremony of the Mow chest. Free Library, and desires to express its entire coal. dene that this noble institution will effect great and last• iag good to the community for generations to come." (Cheers.) Sir, there will be as ditheelty is Orrin your concurrence in this mosherifisi. ad there will 110 a little difficulty in showing dr blander sad the wield at large the local benefits*. Sleds hem this institute. Bat we must go further then heal beadle; and allow mile ahemve that, in these days Wet sad eneitseaset, in *redeye of novel projects and lasoky,ta theme degestandoesed intercourse. when sae Mast ems sdeet, you are preparing thereby on satkises a mieYdlbst neigkt ' otherwise arise; eat la estliai aa ezeire SS say be ind tated, and k . yr, ewe a pigeon vetoing' splits tior., you MMt that the Mee gee ef memenese is to make the imitations it the essay wahoervisat le iht 'kids dem eat tan he civilised.' subservient to as toad and mud asathontion of the whole fauf moolthed. Tao have headed this great ad &does iaelitudsa, large, liberal, and cosmopolite, and bin egElnift 1 as;, may God prosper It for the purpose he PIM It was intended sad may you, in the pursuit of wealth, mils the duties of commerce, in the expo*e of every virtu', la the mints apes of every sound and great principle—may you, I say, thereby sanctify the possession and enjoyment of year riches, sad may you enjoy for yourselves, and harmk to then that NUMB after you, the atiseaship of • greedgel 04, whoa insebeate are princes, and who.. WY= era Se beamerable et the earth. (Cheers.) I PP the beerge proposing the reshaties which I have read le yea. (Lad Omni.) Sir EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, is eseendls the propositioa, raid: This library is a new, am en during, sad a Maly conservative link—(hear, Iterne)— between your wealth and their labour, betwees the manufacturer awl the operative, for every time that the operative did one Into this library be will feel that you have invited luesesdpi to be the impartial arbiter be tween all the deem of property and all the rights of labeer st e.) Gentlemen, the other day I naked the later of the United States what was Ihe SO. fa America ; and be told me, eilkee to enp ii =iss. list a poor rate in emus of the less wee at Wavy se it min this sonstry ; but be said that the beset rote, and the moat general, was ▪ rate for the pesos ef edesedies—(beer, hear)—and that, said be, is a note we near midis at, because it ie in ode anion that so ISt Ihe Ostler Meer safety. Bet, gentles men,, dasellea See ad anti when we leave school. Ids oaths lebtb ametimal, to she week stains, sad libraries are thegebeaems of grevamp sea. I do feel a meet east's eat I may ray a selsma, interest in the use • may be mete of this eV*, moss. I sell it en seed, Sr bogie see wassas, Stellstor war or la self- Mhos* ; eat pair ge doe prlastglee Mtvelry eee as ap plicable tithe sides new as they Ise le the kw& of old—to dein/ the meek, a raid the egremer, a nits holiday Soh easege, glee te maim weds sada bens the . nue se Om Sloe to tibia the Matent Seed pl lobes le Ws up Seamen, = igneer. Ckelinge. abates, Sale may be to rev tap lad hi mileh oder the ids et di Se et hamlets which yea have as *heed, asae it me sea sengssturs ; bet yen of ties psalm gesereden ton nobly Sae year duty, ad may slay leave the =di te des awe thee yea hew dud. beds the soneamod ems ' sad miss d this aims mad lita the ME mall= that - beast era peak that tied ear emboad eat eenv fort sus di sips. Tor home Ithe mhos of ewe *My labour yea how spool tits pip did sold whia, Se the di vlien 'fear stallia. gem leek es the of mil heist telhe piste , of an aide teo, withell am say to tame Makate dam Ws Mary SD MI heft eat meats—l may way to thorn, almost la the very raids wllli abaft that pima aradaiee— Sat Yea hid bare ow. use dim We ger of oat Ile hems , Sat Ildfo• _ The resoletia we serried with lead Outwits. Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, who was received with the meet cordial cheering, rid—Sir John Potter, bike, sad c elemea,—l have helm se mach In the IeML within the a= t, of rely* syea the weeds ef Ohm pm*, thet gaits • mead mammies to be bees isymmisat sol=mer er . I mese yes , I feel at this moment in of sidle, Into the leagenge ef my bind Who addremed yes last ; and from the wee fetes of bilik I mere adm the yessegter. trou(11 lamth.) For this reseeth sod may ethses ; I ail ble me with •my therlsgsesh Weed. Myopia the iseeletim with which I hem the beams Is be imilmited. Its. pats* , s isal=mesh"dela.Y thatl ceamst de btu than IS le y at ewe :—"Tltst as, In this Mediation, spiel gimlets& bee been made fir the within duets, by mem of a fres _ this meet lag shortage the wart is iter il let the teak am seeds available will prove • memo ed &OW, sad ingsweemeat in the cottages, the garrets. sad fellers of the palest of our people." (Cheers) Lake and gentlemen, what I shall say cm tetra sable* be two very brief leads, I would beg to observe, thee I ham bees mode happy, sine* I have bum bin, by tke selesien of a :problem which hat keg yerylemeil me. I have seen so many reformism medals newmegers, parliamen tary debates, sad elsewhere, to "t he Masishester that 1 have long bed • masidsrable amid le knew what that phrase might mean, sad when the liaaabutsr sehirol might be. (Ca es and Meg= My metnrei curi,tity on this head has ass bees hind ,bY the contradictory accounts I hive rerriVtd r. speedy{ that sclins,l ; some great authorities assuring me that it was a very good one, some that it wee a very bad one ; wane that it was very broad and enmprebensive, some that it was very narrow and limited ; some that it was "all cant," and same that it was all cotton. (Cheers and laughter.) Now, ladies and gentlemen, I have solved this difficulty by Ending here to-day that the Manchester school is a great free school, bent on carrying instruction to the poorest hearths. (Cheers.) It is this great free school, inviting the humblest workman to come in and to be a student —this great free school, munificently endowed by volun tary subscriptions, in an incredibly short space of time— starting upon its glorious NSW with twenty thousand volumes of books—knowing as sect, no party, and no die. tinction ,• nothing hat the yetis want and the public good. (Cheers.) newsier*, Indies and gentlemen, this building slat represses es me the Measherser eased. I have long bee& Is my eghere, a maims shale he the di ff usion of kaewledge emeao4ldwisse end steads' of wen—(cheers) —because I do lisisca, with all the strength and might with which I em gegieble of believing anything, that the more a man knows Me mere amply, and with the more faithful spirit, he NON beak to the fountain of all know ledge and takes to his Bart the great and sacred precept, "On earth peace, geed-will towards men." And well THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1852. ass' I am that that prompt will An h sad hie*, above the boating of hemmess, the veer et w igker lbesb. the "Me m•ehismad Sorsa et water, serf hs MN mad spied dearly f , this wavy shads et this tits bade Imes sod used the imellstisa fs (ammo Lam Imes I hem mast phis. is samieg remiutha Sidi I hem a/seraig read up ma. a t. disenng.) Mr. W. M. THACIBRAY, who waa mash sheered, saki—la rising to esesed this nsolutioa, Sir John Potter, lediei. gstiestes. you will see that my trouble indeed le but smell. Mk* Smits is so good, and the advocate that yea ham heard nom it has addressed you with an 'le gumes is noble audios Iroarastlnieg, that it is useless for m. to do segthieg mem than to mond kiln with all my aesil to Ism the ens Is the Muds of this great fury. W% Win, emwg the many sanitary SE metal reams ell* me, aria interested in the pub• be welfare is sow sides" be posh forward, the great men ages of books will set le megiiMed sad we MS to this, as MI6 as we look to mi. gross ks & le Mgt* or tester, far hoorditiag oar pow. II lissits de mall% and Asir, sad as sele—if books do esYslles, ad saliva., mad fortify—if they do make sons bus. . M us. or toseb us to forgot or le endure it—if they do some la se hamlets Ms Of happy traghter—if they do being kith in us dist posse sad that below of goodwill at whisk Mr. Dicke= she bet now, which embody who mods Ms books must ham felt has NM ham asse—(iiiessE—wardy we will sidgemige these isedisable blomimp to the poorest of oar bleeds, hat will try, with all oar might, to die,.. .. their cheap bet precious benefits ewe all. (If the stineated mahatma, of owes it is sot mg limilmem to speak, sr .ems sly wish is pommel ft be 111 ImrosMr. These who leas Ow eds estad sit this mid city, or of this empire, are aware that they are is the habit et debating the greatest literary and political goodie's sines( themselves; that they have kimono to think sod bloat to aptek mesh greater than that of sew was whe may be obliged , bk• myself, to appear for a messent beim you; they have their poets and their philosophise ; their OSIMOOdOW in very_ much changed from that of a hundred pare ago, when, ff you remember, Hammitt repremented the idle mossisis es occupied with "Men Plarmiers." mid they'd mashosie as having arrived at venlig the history et MS pod appear tie* who was mode Lord Mayor of Loads. The mambo nisi or our dope bays get their Carlyle' to mad, their Dickens an the shelf, mad their Balsa by the side st them. (Cheers.) It is now to the very pis to the esp► dilly poor, that this meson we have before we applies; and I am sure you will use your endeavour* to set the sr. pose for which it is intended, and to ears 7 the matials of your volumes among the cottages, the garret., sad the anus. lam aware, gentlemen, that in such a vast col ladies, the sort of works which I am in the habit at writing can but occupy a very small spew. I knew that air novels are but what we may call tarts kr the= whereas history is breed, and science is bread, and and spiritual truth are that upon which they mast be I.E. Bir JAMES STEPHEN, introduced as the Prager of Modern History at Cambridge, said the resolution he had been called on to propose was the following That as in this institution special provision has been made for the working-c l ause, by moms of a free lending library, • .. this meeting cherishes the earnest hops that the books this made available,will prove a source of pleasure and im provement in his cottages, the garrets, and the cellars of the poorest of our people." At Cambridge, as everywhere else when educated men are brought together. Manchester is a name of deep, and even of awful, significance ; feet here is the metropolis of that Titanic industry, on the continued mucosa of which England has deliberately pledged her station and her authority among the nation@ of the world. (Cheers.) Here are daily exhibited, la the light et day, miracles which no scepticism disputee—the minas wrought by mechanism and by capital, in the hands of • skilful, an energetic, and a united population. Here is the mainspring of that mighty commerce by which we are united in the bond, of peace to every kindred, tongue, and people of this earth. Here is the theatre of that domestic union where meet in friendly concert, or in generous rivalry, manual labourers from each of the three kingdoms of our gracious sovereign —intellectual labourer, from every field of science which is tributary to art - spirit ual labourers from each of the churches which collectively constitute the church universal. Here is the sphere of the great and tie. mendous experiment how physical force in its most fursid able aspect may be brought into a glad subjection to moral force in its gentlest audits kindliest forms. Assuming, with but little pretension, to assume, the character of the temporary and monetary representative of that idles tams net elf Warning, you will perhaps permit sae to offer ease aka sclastion es Se the wog is wbiels library nay be assetjudisiously ailestod tad empte r, if we W new among us that sententious eggs of soden Greece who declared that a great book was • peat evil, he would =sly emend kis nada farther, sal say that a great was a gnaws Ole MK AM deabden such collec tions are not without their iassanalann. It may be ad mitted that they tend to a desultory, discursive, and idle mss el books ; that, as John Bunyan might perhaps say, they deter many a student from climbing the hill of diffi 'sky, leaning on the prickly staff of self denial, that he may gather ripe fruits on the summit, and induce him to hater in the valley below, where, by turning over count- less leaves, he may gather a few sweet but barren lowers. But which is that of all the blessings we perms of which some similar abuse is not pos sible 1 In Utopia they manage these nip better ; but is this world on which we live we andbegia taking WWI as they are if we would improve Mass. A nd doubt las a ezpenence assures us that this nide *saber will be flak by a large majority of pease waft astiestroe beismargeLestime ; looking not foe Wain bet aeseedes. you will c:ierish a bye ea et these who eider this temple of learning by these pads of delight, MY will, at least, lad their way to the shone of wisdom. And nee if it eheahl be otherwien ia earedbig to your pew igh a t tlencitione the mesas set kmosat and Intellectual yes will have esidereed ea then sea ismatimable advestage. (Applause.) But there will be ether visitors in this ebenber ; there will be persons oaselm. kre to satiate that imeniegainable envies of the soul al lees for exact kandsdp es MA, sad of aspeshuisive prin • deka. 'heir wadies will be nutritive, _beam it will be systaiiteds. sad nasseative sad assimaileded by meditation to the posed aver of inn own thoughts and mental babiteden stared shiest. yea will leaks to poodebiasaberthe worthiness than to the member T u be heat it any be felt. Bat than atipus !theory late the two libraries of entertaining stusetel lreowledge, b truly vanadgef the nobleness slice purpose. This teem dada issr be, and will M, a palpable and visible neensalny on the Oat of Fawn Baosa—that text, I km. la ablate &dans that Se smug divides of beam brake le ad whisk is do dged hen the due fladdee et all awl, the sat et kassisig I plessephy bag silk le the ressam, pate, to the haagiastioo, end o n y to the kikory. Now, with regard le , there Ile Wang will& all emei . Divine Idlssephy will seem* ides et her 3ke prio misuse k this Pak, when they by when the dish. at blebs is he be math will be able to and thsenelves of the mem& id disbud Wasp et this kisses, and et my end. isk awl key Inked Mead. the president ef the ladepea dad Osibge ef kis bland. firs Asti y the fel- Issmlllmme sad nesdatos b sot te man r no to offer as to the dries 235 et heels regarding henna 111. Nliber will I aelmpt te say ask respecting ileesslea division, whin is poetry ; for win she empressherself k vase er ia prose, whether the daft sore the charades of the etas drama, or the sanione. the fain yoke ids, sr , y bre bees te eney aseetunihr amyskag_ par, n a iad. meld or • ilsees; sad I Awl, When than b lee sae Wee peak tele mai eel =impala an eneelleat sate. Wee el the wed* eftbot kind whin it wadi be art &- doable topiedien I sier ky sae who nod ad, awe Of bey Main Pra swabs% filksbale k what =met seek weeks wadi asset My sagleyd. Meer beer.) We are lieng.ik al • to when it islet pwMlej le say man to trWisid the this, whisk it maybe is Ids power eastabahni z Zle advanaket of ea* eldeste sek. On onesdiesekeise end ateasQiskedua l ltex4 Oki seassedel et pods the letie elnee et the ikon sesie nliPa t i ride lasseestag mer r f a te di pzeler noes Siege teddy kat we asompildneat of the payiesy el that time, when " men *tall no to sad be sia the - earth, sad knowledge shall be kenesed "—and. therefore, that we I are appending a great irks ad setembegbe of beam spTo appaash sue • ebb es salediegbe la • right it behaves is all lode ear best Tea hew dew yen beet; you have keeled this Maple of kindalp be the midst of a milleedle. when sew, as we IMebawd so nosily, we maid with nigh em t r pann sad hap, bat when oilseed dreanstaano Nam me to eseal al* en! Markt Maw The Mks, however is ht Oa bonds ell Bin whe sans as all ; bisdasse la wish the or with the panat duty. As the settle brash, addressed yea said pesemun la sane way to repeat his weeds, °Prwith inferior authority, would say " key God bless institution, and reward those by whose humanity it was devised, and by whose liberality it has bees eroded." (Great cheering. , Mr. R. MOHCKTON MILNES, M.P., said—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, —lt will require very little from me to add to the interest ing and suggestive speech you have had from the professor of history in the University of Cam bridge. I heard that speech with especial interest, as being myself a son of that same great institution. I, too, hare been In Arcadia. And if I have been re-called by his words to some other associations, I think that you will allow me to express them to you as freely as yea allowed him. I, too, ladies and gentlemen, welly as time 20 niagnill ccat lihrarles.to which our friend the learned professor has made allu.lon ; and I also remember how very few people there were la reed them. (" Hear, bear,' and laughter.) I remember how many piles of books I have there wen resting In dust upon the walls, which I could hue wished, and heartily desired to see, in the hands of the poorest of OUT fellow-men. (lien, hear.) I have remembered. ton, not without shame, how many of the class to which I belong possess magnificent repositories of books, from which hardly a volume ever deecenda from the shelves. (Laughter.) I therefore will take another line of congratu lation from that which has been offered to you. You have been congratulated, and justly so, on your own munifieseee and liberality and sound judgment in raising this imam. tion, in purchasing this noble building, in tilling then shelves as they are filled ; but let me congratulate yea on having a population which can read them. (Cheers.) Let mo congratulate you that the por poises of the library aro not limited to your own libe rality, but that they preach at once with a trumpet voice the intelligence of even the poorer people of Manchester. It u, therefore, gentlemen, that I congratulate you on the must oc casion, and 1 would say that it is an object of congratulation not only to you, but to me, and to every member of the legislature, and to all the people of tla our common country. Ob, gentlemen, it is not for the te expound to you the evils and tho pe rils of conveyed . It le not for me to tell you what would be the i errj e tte peat population that seethes around me at the pausal moment, supposing they were not Instinct with► that intelligens* which will eatable them to maks use of your liberality, and derive those Messily's. which your beaelicenc• plsoes before them—(hear, beer)— Bir Julio Potter, I would say that I trout this advantage— i• feet, I know that it will be fully appreciated. (Hear, hear.) For ft I. Indeed one of the proudest sources of satis tastiest to the Englislusen to think that this intelligence whisk you have here, as it were, imbedded is not confined to say clam of the ounatunity. It is from districts like this of yours that has come forth that impression which hu now become, u it were, a part of the popular creed of this coon- try—that it is in the education, the sound education of the people of this miner, that the prosperity of this country is to be found. (Chun.) The Earl of WILTON seconded the evolution, which was " That in the free reference library this meeting hails wit i trent=re a provision for the wants of the gebelert the of every class, and in most branches anemias % 111161111110, sad art ; and gives its firm expectation that by a esatiaeasee of popular aid this department of the institution will long be a centre of intellectual improve ment" The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., then rue and said—The resolution which the committee have placed in my hands is one which to my mind appears to be not very necessary for the objects of the meeting, and for the BUCOVIIS of this institution, be cause it merely asks the town council of Manchester to do their duty with regard to it. It is as follows : " That in transferring to the corporation of Manchester their farewell offering, as embodied in the free library, the contributors express their fullest confidence that the trust reposed In the municipal body will be fulfilled so as to realise the :most sanguine expectations of its founders." But when this resolution was put into my hands it was hinted to me by a gentleman very likely to know that I had better my very little about the corporation—(" hear, hear," and laughter)—that, in point of fact, there were persons who took an exaggerated, and, perhaps, unfair view of what it is p • there were others who felt the corpora tion rather as the instrument for the levying of the local taxation. (Laughter.) Well, but let every man bear this in mind, that all persons who have examined the condition of Manchester some few years ago, and know its condition sow, believe that there is not, as I believe there is not, a corporation in the United Kingdom that within the last ten years has done so much for the permanent advantage of the town with which it is connected as the corporation of Manchester. (Cheers.) And although the burden of rates, as we all feel, is not inconsiderable, let us at any rate, if we cannot get rid of the rates, look at the bright side of the question, and see the advantages which wo derive from their expenditure. The council, as you have heard, hare not the power to Increase this library. I doubt if it has the power to the extent which the founders of the library intend, even to conserve the library in the position in which it now is before you. The Libr,ries Act, as you are aware, is a very . inefficient and incomplete measure, and I was in the House of Commons when it passed, and if it were not keeping the meeting with what hardly belongs to it, I could describe some of the difficulties which Mr. Ewan and Mr. Brotherton, who were the parents of this act, had in pass ing it through the House of Commons. And it is an extra ordinary fact that the opposition to this bill came almost entirely from that side of the house which is composed of country gentlemen, a great portion of them having had, no doubt, an education at one of our greet universities. These gentlemen opposed this act on the ground, and I hope by this time they have found it was not a very judicious ground, that there were certain borough in certain agricul tural districts that were incorporated, and that it would not be a judicious and proper thing to add to the burdens on land by passing a bill of this nature. Now I am quite sun that it is not for any class to say that those connected with agriculture, or those connected with manufacturer, can dispense with each instruction as this library affords to the people. lam sure it would be better for this country, better for every manufacturing labourer, and every agricultural labourer—every manufacturing ca pitalist, and every farmer, if they were well read and well instructed in all those branches which are accessible in this library to the population of Mancherer ; and I hope that wh this question may come before the House of Com mons, we aball dud on that side of the house which has now the government in its hands, a ready and cordial agreement with regard to the objects and advantages of institutions such as this. _ _ WM. BROWN, Esq., M.T., seconded the motion, and it was carried unanimously. Mr. CHAS. KNIGHT moved :—" That the promoters and friends of this institution most earnestly desire that the example saw given may be followed by the establishment of similewilinrios in the populous cities and towns of the United ikeellows, and that the effect of this new feature in our salsa sassemy will be manifested in the growing in. 6.12 Yd Improvement of the English nation." .111LICIN, Mayor of Nottingham, seconded the MOON& Mr. P. CUNNINGHAM moved :—" That, in common with many friends of suelsisititstions this meeting regrets We the est of psetkinest uselor wlah this library wilt be ectobeelsi IMO* eseado M peovielso for the purchase of boa. Mt of l& rats, sod tenses do Pis detect may be we. marled by ugly legislative sesslement, especially as the penny rate will be amply sndiallek in large towns, for this and every other pargese of One libraries.' Mr. ASPINAL TURN pit mended the motion. Dr. VAUGHAN moved, " That onr warmed thanks are due, and are cordially tendered, to the distinguished noble men and geotlemen, who have oome from a distance to sanction, by their presence, an event so interesting to every lover of literature, and to all who desire to strengthen the influences which conduce to the elevation sad happiness of mankind." The MAYOR haying taken the chair, The Bishop of MANCHESTEIt moved, n That this as eemblage cannot separate without offering its most frateful acknowledgments to 81r Joha Potter, for his deep interest and unremitting exertions le behalf of this institution, from his purchase of this MOAN/ n tilke pumas time ; and for his valuable advisee is &einem ei the committee ; ea its representative= the emeentioa ; owl es the president of The The reeeedlees oeiefiel about three o'clock. Me. Meiske. UM. el Manchester, and the Earl of Mutlfrisbeery wen te sigma oar evening meeting. A MAR To DItAW I—ln the beginning of the last 1 1 ==mers bens in 1710—there was a string nun Topliam, who attained great popularity. Re wag bred am a carpenter, but his taste led him to tarn pabli ma, sad he became halt of the Red Lion, near Um dog la Idoortelds, a situation chosen for the sake of the gymnastic emenhee of which the ring la Meerilelds was the theatre. Turban idled la be pablicAsenee Winne, but smageled as a mate, 'beaded teem, and exhibited his Malaga %town& He hamedbie booms ever a turnpilurpte ; M elestimst his arm oat ondegagened a pewter quest is bit imam se tamh it bad Irma made of egg. _shell. asrepad byte at an inn in Derby,he named tbabilehea Crime kennel his neck after the faddeaufames• Dotty, be Met ay a weightless egin i tat ban, ;ad pat lam, boa and all. ever the wall into asifin , d. Oa booed a West Indiamea be Wormed • sailer a INSSIOSiIt at his ear, break= obeli be as be was in the habit of b peerbr pole. At • ram la the H=rolidi de = mpg& by • me n in a cad. be wast gal Om sort booltweadm oat of the gm& be spite of the dram* et the logos to Avg it on. TVllmpoi, In booms laid a wager that if his age were about a tree,three horses amid not U t bim ikaL froma it. eaparbarsat wee tried, mad the beams whipped, gweemil walk* aside, so that Tomb* mai Bat whet • bee Mew ho was. Ha was the mon to dam I on gala an that three sub men would draw • brew If I meld get them into Drury. Ime.—Dialossa's liortalcit Womb. PonaT.--The aided Bengali poe m ago teat is the " Clausal" of Tiablimaken. It is an epic cab- Intim of the glory sad pram of Mead! or Paravati, and aat ple. the game pleas slang_ Ileagral epics as Milton's " Comas" escaping arms AVM banes. It is &sided' = su ra n t , It oomeameme with • to Ganes% gad Sawa. Them follows an amosani of the amber, of wdeL IM roam shall bare the salegomme. Lobilumbea was the sea of Damns, who lived ga the Lads of • wealthy wardades, don to the city of ilimbebas. The Naga and steed Lam Mow as grief, and died at a petriesdial age. magoecled to the paternal i n z e t e i h geibsei ng Wmemo INS far bilimat. Then it wee UMW was *god et ihe Wad of the govern ment of tbe tilos preelmem ma tyrannised over errata anabolism mad thole depaalest ryets. Yabikankaa wen kma the plate of bb birth, with his wife awl rem be bad to groom Ilia AM Dana& as be beaks, he Ammo imam Ho flenemittbm7L7diess Chaadi, girt allb her Mem had eamo to ad amaimended ft is her Wm. Man he mob% ho isimumbod toso ni el the gummad, sad monad ga liejamsey. Se ism eloped before he swathed Atm. _thl (AY of The him of this plate mativedi Nat with every am* oi favour, and made him batrambr to his only soo t upon a liberal allowases. White "leashing the young idea bow to shoot," Katikankan wrote the 0 Chandi."—Calcutta &mine. DEATH AFT= EATING needay Mr. G. S. Brent bald as et the PAWNS Victoria, Starch-green, wipes the rime who was killed by eating ahmulthree•—• trades er ma' room—neat,' the following eingelu eirenniresen This cue was very peculiar, as its Mary prune. Athasesh As ceased bad bees la the situation Mat months, Nit Wed many yeses is the valeabewaseth se 111111F4101$ then his moor—knew his nese. ad tbseakee le set tlw seebrieeet of " Joheny." Eves se pelithis gem at by age could be made. It appeared framer widows, that on Wednesday a lad, named George Turner, gathered a pint of cbanipignons, which ho cooked at the Victoria, and equally divided be tween himself, an old man of the name of Newton, and deceased, all of whoa partook of them seasoned with pepper and salt. I ly after eating the champig nons, deceased was wind with a violent vomiting, which continued the nest and** following day, when he was con fined to bed ; and Aitken& Mr. Keen, surgeon, was called in, and applied every maid* antidote and remedy, he died in great agony the same sight. Upon making an autopsy, Mr. Keen found the siimech highly isilassed - by the chem• pignons—and which hdthonnatio• 11111111111% death. But Mr. Keen gave it as his oaiales that the Nubs thus would not have proved fatal had set deemed led a wild, dissipated life. Mr. Keen further shamed that the other parties who ate the champignosa were set at all affected. The Coroner observed that in France champignons were eaten in large cinantities. Verdict—" Accidental death." Tue HisrontAN RANKe is now in Brussels con sult:en the archives of the state for fact. relative to French history in the 17th century. iESTER, BUXTON, MATLOCK, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Derby yesterday ; the Hon. O. H. Cavendish, M.P., in the chair. The report stated that 6381. had been received for calls during the half-year ending the 30th of Jens, and 68,0601. on debentures at 4 per cent. interest for the the purchase of the Cromford Canal. On the revenue account the receipts for the half-yew have been 3,3831., and the expanses, in cluding rates and government duty, 2,6911., leering a ba lance of 7921., which, added to the sum of 771., brought forward front the former half-year, makes 8691. to be carried forward to the credit of the no account. The purchase of the Cromford Canal was completed on the 30th Aug. last, on which day this company entered into possession of the property. In the report of the directors to the half-yearly meeting, held on the 6th of September, 18.51, it was an nounced that the directors had concluded the term•of an arrangement with the London and North Western and Mid land companies, jointly, for working this company's under taking (including the canal) for 19 years, from the Ist of January 1852, by which this company would be guannteed an annual amount meal to 21. 10s. per cent. upon their share capital, for the period before named. The image. sent with the two companies was reduced to writing in a memorandum of agreement dated the 3rd of Septem ber 1851, and was to the effect that the arrangements should commence and take effect from the let of Janu ary 1852, for the term of 19 years; that the two compa nies should pay this company an annual sum equal to 21. 10s. per cent. upon their called up capital, amounting t o 421,3001., and 'should also pay the interest on the capital of of the canal, not exceeding 110,0001. The act, which re ceived the royal assent on the 17th of June last, authorises this company, and the London and North Western and Midland Companies, to enter into agreements for leasing, and to laser, this company's line of railway and canal to the two companies for any term not exceeding 99 years. The Lendou and North Western and Midland Compsnies have passed resolutions accepting jointly a lease of the railway and canal upon the terms of the memorandum of agreement of the 3rd of September, 1851." The capital amount showed that 622,0211. had been re- ceived, and 42'J,4071. expended, leaving a balance of 92,8131. On the motion of the Cnataware, the report was adopted. The meeting was then made special to consider the pro position of lease referred to in the report. Mr. Parsons (of London) and Mr. Preston dissented from the agreement; the former, because the period was not 99 instead of 19 years ; the latter, because he dissented from the 21 per cent., and considered etter terms ought to have been made. The CHAILILYAN, on the contrary, speaking as an inde pendent shareholder, contended that the period of 19 years was more advantage ous to them, inasmuch as the act gave them powers to renew a lease at the expiration of that time, when they might be in a position to make hotter . terms. Mr. Famous complained that the great companies would abut up the avenue to Manchester by this route, and, being himself a considerable shareholder, *he was of opinion that the agreement ter 99 years would be far better. Mr. CHAPPELL (one of the directors of this as well as the London and North-Western Company) would have been glad to have accepted the 99 years, speaking for the large company, and he agreed with the chairman that the present agreement was by far more beneficial for the Matlock proprietors._ Mr. PARSONS still argued in support of his own view. Mr. FILIS2O2II moved as an amendment, that the meeting do adjourn, in order that the directors might have an op portunity of making better terms. The CHAIRMAN said that the proposition must either be affirmed or negatived. Mr. PARSONS then complained of the arrangement made with the ether companies with reference to the dividend not being receivable for the last half-year. Explanations were given by the directors, which led Mr. Parsons to say that the statements made, especially ono by Mr. Tootsi , the deputy-chairman, threw a new light upon the matter. lie, however, begged to reiterate his objection to the 19 years' lease in preference to the 99, and would vote against the confirmation of the agreement. The resolution was then put, and only two hands were held up against it. AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. The following aro the report and statement of ac counts to be submitted to the shareholders of this com mast the . 1 : 71 -yearly meeting to be held at Lancaster on Sept.:— " Tte annexed statement of the half-year's revenue cc count will, it is hoped, be considered satisfactory by the proprietors. In th e goods traffic there has been a consi derable increase as compared with its amount in the cones ponding period of last year, u the new arrangement with the London sad North Wes tern Company for the supply of locomotive power °plower terms did not come into opera tion till the commencement of the current half-year, the working expenses have been considerably greater than your directors trust they will be in future years, although these charges =unnecessarily be higher on ham where the gra ' clients are steep than on thou which are more favourably circumstanced in this ragout. All the loans effected or renewed within the past half year have been at reduced rates of interest, and under this head a further saving may be expected, as existing debentures become terminable. On the eat of maintaining the way and works which your directors have now for some little time undertaken, with out the intervention of a contractor, with a view to econo mise in that item, if practicable, consistently with the main object to be kept in view, the stability and good working order of the line, your directors are not prepared to offer any decisive opinion until after • more extended trial, which however they already see the importance of having commenced. It will be perceived that the capital account has been reduced by a further payment on account of the arnount due from the Caledonian Company in respect of the Carlisle joint station. The laying down of the electric telegraph along the whole line from Preston to Carlisle has now been completed, which the directors expect will be a further means of promoting the safe and conve nient working of the railway. Your directors recommend yea le dukes • dividend after the rata of 61 per cent per mem. bombs • balance to be transferred to the account of mut balf-year •f 4,4151. 17s. bd. The directors whose tom dein expires at this meeting are Colonel Lowther and Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Salkeld, one of the auditors, has also to retire ; all however being re-eligible." A summary of the the accounts has been given in our columns. SOMNAMBULISM IN THE COTJIITS.—It hes been stated that the authorities had raised the question whether the practice of somnambulism be legal, by citing several ' somnambulists before the Tribunal of Simple Police, on the charge of swindling. The trial took place yesterday, and it ensued peat curiosity. The accused were nine in number. At their head was the well-known Alexis Didier, and the eisbe ethers were females, named °Mimi* Jousain, Valerie lies in, Henrietta Vaaseur, Heurquin, Chateau alias Tel bee,=Heger Pirso4, and de Fontaine. A commissary of Wilk Trig,. ' amid as public prosecutor. He proved assesel bad put advertisements in the papas, offer lay mem of their art to discover crime, robberies, .sate, to treat maladies, dc., and he quoted Pend Cade to show that such things were under pain of fine and imprisonment. E i te lka Alexia, the assandwary drew attention to a dale eat whisk be led sensed to be published in the mowompers, that ha Md. *sea ate examination of the tilglof a lady of Task Ws el ea le discover that she een robbed of • vaisehle twoodet, and that It had hitiritad at the Mont de Ptil i aad be said that It no somnambulist to make maelation, as the Mal balm that ease artistes of vain, were gene ra, Woo& IL JtitsPeen pink& fisr the accused. He nil Ilea the deems of the Peed Orb which had been zlisdlie not le semielldbee, t quieted teeneelhee wiee /Mere of beim He =detai bu ned to t fhor at sesenamilidl e r ei teageatisse. as in common with the edema ails. Ala? giving • rapid Meta" et Se by Mesmer, in 1772, et its nee= byar, and of the erstrommille le MY* it gave rise, he stated an g i t several embed edentille seen had then admitted its mistime* and ite powerand that in 1831 a commission of the Yam* of and reported that • person in a stale eltesoaaabetim could see and read with his eyes sheik tad os I prediet several months in advance the day and bear steps,* attack.. From this the learned gen doom wont en to maintain that there decidedly was some peat weeny la sesenstians which the present state of sebum Maul net explain; though there was, he mid, MINIS to hope that by perseverance and patient investiga tion it wail be revealed. lie then contended that it weld he =dust to apply the ordinary rule* of judgment le the lenhisma of magnetism, and still more so to punish these as _vulgar frauds. lle a ft erwards pro desisions of the Court of Caseation, by blab b of inferior tribunals condemn had been quashed. He after wards Mob • /SW observations in defence of each of his °lista. With gasped to what had been said of Alexis, he doled the esnatienry of police to do what that person had der —dinner • rebberobbery by the simple examination of a pokey penes. He next produced a certificate front the earisadssin of police of Montaro, declaring that in his WNW and la that of M. de Ranch, Inspector.general of pale, a somnabuliat had, in the month of May last, done see extraordinary things that " it was for the inkiest of misty that the police should always hare 'no st th. If dis. I. dhow', guilty person.." in ecardwirm, M. am said that what ass was that anm.le•i•Di should be regulated to prevent an abusive use being made of It, but that it would be wrong to condemn its professors as swindlers merely because it was • new science, not yet fully explained. The president of the tribunal then au nouneed that he would give judgment on the 7th of October •• • DoNewiEs RACES.—The Electric Telegraph Com pany are making an extension of the telegraph wires from the railway station at Doncaster to the race-course, a dis tance of about a mile-end-a-half, in order to accelerate the transmission to London and other places of the !mules of the different races at the forthcoming meeting. The posts and wires will be put up only temporarily, so that they may be removed after the race week. Communications will be made direct from the round stand on the course, which has been granted by the corporation for the use of the com pany, to the telegraph-offices in London and York—conse quently it may be expected that the result of the approach ing St. Leger will be telegraphed to both those places he fore it can be known in Doncuter,notwithstanding its proximity to the scene of action. It may be mentioned that apart ments have been engaged for the Earl of Derby and a distinguished party or visiton during the race week. Wed- IRELAND. DOBLIN, Syn. 2. It has now become notorious that no large and otherwise respectable gathering of people can take plsoe fu an, part of Ireland, that Lord Eglinton does not seize the opportunity to fly to the spot, and, if possible, make a bit of political capital of the occa sion. In this way he has shown more industry than any of our viceroys; and if he has done nothing else, he has, at least, set the natives a good example of Scotch activity and shrewdness. At the Cork Industrial Exhibition, and the Galway Cattle Show, this may have done well enough ; but the assembled savant at Belfast cannot have found it so agreeable to have their quiet proceedings interrupted by the confusion of a vice regal pageant. Indeed, the con sequences are, that we do not hear a word this morn ing about the opening operations of the British Asso ciation, while whole pages of the'newspapers are most disagreeably . occupied with details of a half mili tary procession which ushered Lord Egiinton into the capital of Ulster, with addresses from the various public bodies, and gracious replies from his excel lency, and with the speeches at the banquet "given, as a matter of course, by the corporution to tho representative of royalty. It is almost needless to say that there was not the slightest appearance of popular fervour wised up with the reception of his excellency. The houses were decorated along the line of streets through which the procession passed, in compliance with a request from the mayor; and everything went off decorously enough, but beyend that nothing could be said fur the vice-regal show, by which the meeting of the British Association was to be thrown into the shade. Among the numerous addresses presented on the occasion, was one from the queen's College, to which his excellency replied in the following terms : Mr. President and Professors of the Queen's Cel:ege, Belhist,—Aruung the many Nattering proofs of friendly fee ling towards me which I have received in Belfast, none afford me higher gratification than the address which you have pruented to me, emana.ing as it does (earn a body of men so learned and estimable; and it is a great additional soi.rce of pleasure to me that your kindness towards myself is coupled with the expression of y o ur loyalty to a Sovereign who so well deserves the attach- meat of every class of her subj. ets. There is no aims more fully . impressed than I am with the conviction that education is the basis of all that is good and great in a nation, and that no people can prosper over whom it dues not shed its beneficent influence. An I, sensible as lam of its neces sity, it has always been my object, in my pleats capacity, to support it by every means in my power. How much more anxiously must I now turn my attention to its en eouragement, when it becomes not only a sacred duty I which I owe to my gracious Sovereign, who has intrusted me with the government of this country, hut when the position which I occupy gives a weight to my example and an influence to my opinions, which may be powerfully exercised in promoting the interests of such an institution. It is my earnest hope that this college will grow in the estimation of the people, as the benefits derived from it Income every day more apparent, and that it will become the centre of intellectual enlightenment, as well as the best promoter of an increased feeling of harmony and good-will among the inhabitants of this country. At the banquet, on Tuesday evening, the chair was filled by S. Graime Fenton, Esq., mayor. In reply to the toast of his health, his excellency said : Mr. Mayor and gentlemen—lt is indeed at all times not an easy task to return thanks for a great favour which one has received; but I find it most peculiarly difficult on this occasion to find adequate terms in which to express my sense of the kindness with which the chairman has pro posed my health, and with which you have united in drinking it, and the warmth of respect with which I was met this day in your town—a respect which would have befitted my royal mistress herself. (Cheers.) I believe there may be some present—at least, I know there are some in this town, who may remember that this is not dm first time that I have visited this great city. Some given years ago I was a participator of your hospitality, and wee received with a kindness second only to that which I have received to-day But I little dreamed that the time would so soon come when I should feel myself identified with your interests, and rejoicing in your prosperity as if it were my own. (Great applause.) Allow me also, however, to call to your recollection this fact, that although, except on that occasion, a stranger to you personally, my family has long be en: known in this part of Ireland, and that it is an old tale how the Montgomeries of Ards, took up their abode among you, and spread themselves over the country. (" Hear," and cheers.) It appear that they found no difficulty in ircorporating themselves among the people of the country of their adoption, and that facility has not been lost in the Scottish portionof the family. (Cheers and laughter.) Since that time, Is hat changes have occurred in this city—changes unsurpassed in any city of the empire. (Loud cheers.) On that occasion I admired the city—l admired the genius of its people, and the evidences of industry which I saw everywhere around me. But bow the scene has changed since then. In the few years that have passed, your population has increased by one-fourth—your commerce and manufactures have greatly improved—the tonnage of your harbour has nearly doubled—your revenue has, of course, proportionately increased—whilst many new important public institutions and buildings have sprung up about you ; and I feel some pride in auowing that a portion of your town bears a name with which I am very familiar. (" hear, hear," and tremendous cheering.) And what has been the reason of this sudden rise in your fortune ? (Hear, hear.) Except the contiguity of large towns in the West of Scotland, there is nothing. (" Hear," and cheers.) There are no natural advantages which should cause you suddenly to spring up as the emblem of industry in Ire land. Your harbour was originally ill adapted for the pur poses of shipping, with a channel circuitous and shallow— bat you have what is far better than that, you have the in domitable energy of a people determined to raise them selves in the scale of creation—(cheers)—and to make for tibesaselves a name among the commercial cities of the em piss. (Continued cheering.) You have the genius of Irish thee combined with the activity and pertinacity of the Scottish character. (Applause.) May I hope that the union of Ireland, for the time, with a Scottish viceroy, may be productive of equal advantage to both. (Cheers.) But yen have what is better still than this—you have a most excellent education provided for all classes, and all per ms& (Cheers.) You have an education which furnishes Gm beet gift that mu can receive—the knowledge that he le an Immortal being, owing reverence and gratitude to his God, and that he ought to love his neighbour u him self, and to o the temporal authorities under which he is rs ptheed—(chee —which teaches him that while he must bei =for another world, be owes in this life a duty to and to his . neighbours. It has occurred to me M read to you a passage from the works of a man at great eminence in ancient timer, who flourished ht the early part of the seventeenth eentury,and with whose views in some respects I am aratified that I am able to coincide—l allude to Sir John Davis, the Attorney-General of James I.—and I am happy to Bee our own Attorney- General here. (Cheers.) Here are his opinions respecting the Irish character and the government befitting Ireland:—" ha which condition of subject they will gladly continue without defection, or adhering to any other lord, or king, so long as they may be protected and justly governed, without op pression on the one side, or impunity on the other. For diem is no nation under the sun that doth love equal and indifferent justice better than the Irish, or will rest better satisfied with the execution thereof, although it be against themselves, so that they may . have the protection and be lie ed the laws, when upon just cause they d 3 desire it." That test I wish to preach to Irishmen —( c heers)—and en this principle do I intend to govern Ireland. I entered upon the government with some doubts, because I was new to office, and because I had heard of the difficulties of the office I was undertaking ; but these difficulties are vanish ing, and I do feel confident that Ireland has already seen its worst day., and that days are in store for her ouch as Belfast can now show through her own industry, unaided as it has hitherto beea by any extraneous influence. (Great cheering .) Lord Nana, Chief Secretary for Ireland, in reply to the toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers," said: I do think the men of Belfast may be truly proud of their achievements, end I believe that ono of the proudest trophies is this, that with those other great works which I have mentioned have arisen educational institutions worthy of the men who founded them, and worthy of the increased population of their town, and the increased intelligence of ha inhabitants. (Cheer.) It is our earnest wish that these great works may progress and flourish, and that each of those here who have been engaged is these works may feel that they will not only be a comfort to themselves, but a beneficent gift to all mankind. (Cheers.) The following account of a murder, supposed to bo an agrarian one, appears in the Dublim Exprest : Strokestown, August 31, 1852. On yesterday err ing, as Andrew Herans, of Tob•r pttrick, steward and confidential man of Alonzo Lawder, kisq. ' of Clontiols, was returning home from the fair of Bellinifeid, be was waylaid by two or three men. and hail h.. skull stove in. This finite occurrence took place at 8 (I'd , ek p m. ; at 11 o'ciock the police force in Strokestown c' ' int. nation : and at 1 all past 11 o'clock, under the skil ful I.lt,tagt , of Constable Themes Fitzgerald, four persons, directly or inelivetly connected with this brutal murder, were hi the hands of the police. Our worthy townsman, 11-nry (Witten Curran. R.M., and Thomas Blakeney, SI., together with Dr. Shanley, were quickly on the spot, to render any assistance in their power, but the vital spark had fled. - I:ftaLimerick Chronicle says : On Sunday last, In the middle of the day, five ruffians, with their faces blackened, broke into several hou , es at Lkinakern, within a short distance of Askcaton, in this county, and succeeded in obtaining 'even !tend of fire-arms. A gentleman and his son followed - the party, but gave up the pursuit on being fired at by the rabbi rs. With reference to the arrest of the priests at Six mile-bridge, the Limerick Chronicle says : There was not the slightest appearance of di-tail . ..lnm or even interest manifested in the proceedings by the iilla e people, and everything passed off Nimbly. A warrant has been issued against John King, a retired revenue boat man, for the part he pursued at Thomongate, when the 31st received thocounty Clare voters, but which could not be executed, as he is gone to England. There are two civil