The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-16 00:00:00

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Lewis( tier* •••=1 elk* Nem* sod bmists Railway (two enta)--The at IL CosieWis —Elm Marsh at Wastakistar—Tmerek et the SeChuneka at it. Testre—b Tall Beam et as Gomm greeebest by Ss Mb* al lit 4 it. rash car** ca %be itairstdm Da — wlik vai camel latsillesass. sal es Ibe Illswe at the 1111.111bant. Trim 03. stemteL gat erproo. OUTGOING MAIL& The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Baranna, N. Honduras, New Orleans, and Mexico, sad including OM lee iamb ire, Sc. uan•de.Niearagua, New Granada, Mad Peru. will be made up to-morrow, Nov. 17. welt mails f r Spas, and Gibraltar will be lode sp to-morrow, Nov. 17. Ths mails for Gibraltar, Malta. Orme*, the lonian bleeds, llopr, Ceylon, India, and China. via Southampton, will ha made up on the moraine of N•iv. 20. The mall. for Brish North America and the United States will be made up ti en Nov. 23. The mails via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon, India, liong.Kong, Me., will be made up on the 'vestal of Nov. 24. The mails for Madeira, the Brszlle, sad Buenos Ayres, will be made up on Des. 4. DION WATER AT LONDON FIZIDOIL Tu. D.l—Monatsc Altman, b. In. To-usasoo—Noralsa. 104. AMMONS. a CU.. LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16. IT is impossible not to consider in some respects a nation, however diversithd in class end creed, as form ing a unit in the eyes of tie Almighty, as a oorjorate mass, of which guilt or innocence, mental apathy or activity, charity cr its contrary, philanthropy . or selfishness, h;gh-mindedners or grovelling tendencies, say tot be predicated. There are judgments fee nations es for met`. It is, therefore, fittinz that at certain times not only individuals or members of a coegregation, but the whole body of a nation should perform a solemn act, deprecatory of ill, or thanks giving for good, besides the general recognition one day in the week. Worship, however, and religious observance have become by degrees so much an act of the will and heart, and so very little an act of form, that compul sion has become impossible and useless. People must be now won to religion, not driven to it. In the olden times the great st d extraordinary solemnities of the church more easily attained universality. Was the cause a great public infliction, there were few of the community not alive to it and ready to provrate themselves in sorrow or in thanks before the throne of mercy. If a holiday wee announced, it was one in which not only the upper classes joined with gladness, bat the lower too, for these, whether serfs or slaves, born to com pelsory or annual labour, enjoyed cessation from task work without the drawbaA of cessation from earning. But in the midst of a conglomerated population of two millions of human beizga, the greater part not merely Livia' on tbe.r daily sweat, but on the money actually paid for old roles and old hali.ta are quite astray, and the pastors as much perplexed as other people. That religion and religious feeling should loss their hold of such a mass, so situated, and with a worship which speaks to the intellect and &muds a mind, which neither dazzles the sense nor app-ale to the eye, but hides itself in the closet—nay, cats up the church itself into so many closets, in order to e.tablish privacy of prayer even in the midst of community of feeling— all this, right and fit as it may be, still raises obstacles to two millions of people (we limit our observations to the metropolis), or • great majority of them, taking the part they ought in a national solemnisation. There can be no questitn, that •laige and heathenish zees of people are growing up amongst us, of men not living by home. industry, or living so precari ously on it, that in thought and in recklessness these casual earners are as dargerous and as immoral as the very thieves on whose confines they touch, aid with whose habits :hey intermingle. Of what nee or virtue in the eye of heaven is the small well-clad portion of London praying in their small and decent churches, whilst myriads of the ragged, the ruffianly, the untaught, the uncured for, roam outside in a state of corrupt and artificial nature, which defies all description or imagination ? Strange to say, en the eve of this our solemn Thanksgiving of yesterday, a sample was shown of the lower stratum of London population. They gathered on Tuesday morning, within a narrow apses, to witness the execution of • guilty pair. Such • crowd of such a class seldom collects, or is allowed to collect. They are too closely hunted and min a = sad indeed all the popular scenes of festivity the metropolis have sec •ssarily been put down, frees the heroes of this awful and festering population that alight upon any spot open to amusement. A erowd of these congregated before the lail, bivouacked through the cold air of night, and, excited by mutual presence end members, gave way to violent and horrid *Agendas at sash a moment of excitement. An 'admit Revell*, who witnessed the scene, has strut* depicted such a gathering, and would eves remove the cause. But would the removal ohmage or reform the population ? That hideous mug chase, and minds, and thoughts would exist, if there bed bees no ere cation and no jail. These did bat esilat thms, draw the curtain, and display their eating sod thinking aloud. It is, perhaps, more meal, that the moralist and the painter of manners should me what his countrymen are, than that the veil of decorum and of gleam should be drawn over a permanent, a self perpetuating, and horrid reality. - Bat the men who assembled there, and so behaved sato shock every human feeling, were still a portion of that English, or of that London community, supposed to offer up the trayer of Thanksgiving for delivery from a fatal pestilence. We repeat it, if we address the Deity, not as lad ividuals, nor as members of a creed, bat as part and Dottiest of a great nation, the Dad count will the good, and the character la ranted by the nature of the majority. It Wards are made to nations in accordance with, or is consideration of, the aggregate merits of its people, such a population as we have described most gully detract from the valise of the whole. And not only in charity and philanthropy, but even in a more mash and patriot.c point of view, the rich should tarn their sagacity and attention to the re moval of that more terrible plague now raging in the capitol, than ever cholera was or an be. Nor will it be enough to preach religious belief to this degraded population. The first argument must be applied to their physical condition, their surety and regularity of life. The Bishop of LOanon said wisely aad well, where there is much filth there is little re ligion. Bat filth means destitution. And we must learn to combat berth by some better means than the blind charity which aggravates it, or the shallow decorum which would thrust it out of eight or varnish it over. Ir the working men of this country possessed the provident forethought, and wholesome stlf-desial which distinguish so many persons of the middle class, there is no doubt their condition might be vastly improved. But it is not to be denied that there are fewer inducements to providence and self restraint operating upon the working than the middle class. The tradesman whore business is on the smallest scale, knows well enough that by itdustry and rigid parsimony, he may increase his capital and extend his trade t but to the working man the objects of saviair are not so directly and immediately profit able. Let a man earairg his 12i., 155., or 20s. a - week, save his 51. or 101. a year, and accumulate his 401., 501., or 601., what is he to do with it ? To cease to live solely by his ialpur and embark in some small way of business, is terFoften a hazeirdons speculation for the working man. Besides, the number of work ! log men who could thus advance themselves in any diatriet, must necessarily be limited, and such an ob jest, thereto*, cannot be offerel to the whole clear. pieblein is how to find means of insesteneot for sail savings, sufficiently at ractive to the working ma to lead him to forego immediate enjoyments. Now, the two objects which most forcibly attract the .fiee intelligent of our working men are the I franchise and the possession of laed. Hitherto both have bea well sigh neettnienble. Tea, pound houses can be occupied, either is Urea as sash boroughs, by a comparative'," aniallinumbespratosk men • %elite they would he frcogrbelotrott franchise Nein the ineeflellitref parishanink_fre e holds smell enough 4fttheir mener Heoce we find the working clue politiciai invariably look ing to a general entranchisement of his whole class by lereettve- e mbedment, and disregarding all effort fen individual enfranchisement. For an induce of the desire of the working class to obtain possession of land, we need only refer to the sageness with which the "national land echelon" was embraced by them, though from the entirely erroneous data on which it was based, it has produced nothing but disappointment and disaster to the subscrthas. Now, the movement to enlarge the county consti tuencies by means of freehold land societies, which was so ably advocated at the Birmingham Conference on Tuesday, is well adapted to meet these two requirements of the working classes. The county franchise is in many respects more convenient to a working man than that of a city or borough ; it is more entirely personal; it dies not depend on a continuous residence in one locality, and is nit so much incumbered by restrictive oonditions as the borough franchise. Having purchased his freehold qualification, a man may remove to any distance, and ascertaining through a friend that he is properly registered, may be prepared to assert his political views with effect at each county election. The p session of a freehold qualification in the county wherein he lives and labourer, rill always be a source of satisfaction to the intelligent workman, and will render him respected by his neighbours. The original plan of the land societies, a, first established in Bir mingham, is simple enough. A number of persons sub scribe to buys piece of land, which, after being divided into lots of the value of about 40s. a year, is allotted amongst so many of the subscribers as the number of lots will run to. The share of each member may or not be paid up at once, but in most cases the shares are paid for by periodical, weekly or monthly, instal ments, and where an allotment has been made to any shareholder, it remains charged to the society as aeouri.y for full payment of the price. No profit is made by the society, so that with the exception of a rateable _proportion of expenses, the allottee obtains his small retailed bit of land at the same rate as the whole piece was pur chased by the society. In Birmingham, where there is a demand for building land, from 201. to 301. thus Lid oat have produced the yearly income of 40s. and upwards to each allottee. But, as Mr. COBDEN truly moan% good cottage sites and the demand for lista elemest always and everywhere be met with. Times societies, however, are available for buying land in quantities and re-selling it in smaller portions in localities where building lots are not required. Them are few places in which a certain number of small lots of ground would not command purchasers, and especially when the price may be paid in a manner so convenient as by small periodical pay ments. In all towns of any ize there are many tradesmen, working men, and others, who could without any great difficulty spare from 2s. to 10s. per week for the accomplishment of an object so desirable as the purchase of a piece of freehold land ; and even in the tillages and rural distr . .cts, there are generally a few industrious men who would gladly acquire land in that way. In many country places the farming labourers pay one shilling a pole as rent of garden ground, which is equal to 81. per acre ; but in most places land may be bought and retailed at from 401. to 601. per acre. Any man who will save 3s. or 4e. a week may, in five or six years, become the absolute and unencumbered owner of an acre of land; and while he is paying off the price, he will be in the actual enjoyment of hie purchase. Apart, therefore, from the franchise, a freehold land society managed with tact and judg ment will become an exct llant agert for distributing land in moderate portions amongst the humbler classes. Can there be anything more likely to im prove the condition of thou classes than to induce them to save for the purpose of buying land? Most village artisans would become land buyers, for they could soon improve their purchases by the erection of dwellings for themselves or to let to others ; and many thrifty labourers would make vigorous efforts to obtain a cottage and garden of their own. In a pad& in the west of England, where the land is very much divided, and where nearly every one, from the parson, the lawyer, and the doc tor, down to the day labourer, is an occo oof land, we met with many instan c es who from mere day labourers, had, througb Yes occupation of small portions ot land, become them- MEWS the owners of freeholds; in two or three instances of rather considerable extent. And it is worthy of remark that in this place, a parliamentary borough, these men have invariably proved staunch, bosoot and independent in their political course. Not that the operations ot a society are necessarily confined to the sale of small portions of land. For Whom a property in a rural parish may be offered for sale, lotions of which would be readily bought by men of some means could they pay the price by in stalments, but they cannot pay at cece t mid it does not snit the purpose of the seller to receive pay ment by instalments. Perhaps, too, it may be au object to sell the property altogether ; it may be mortgaged ; all the purchase money may be wanted to divide amongst the family of a deceased proprietor, or for investment in some business, and a variety of reasons may prevent that sort of parcelling oat the property to snit the local demand ; and in consequence the estate is bought in the lump by some neighbouring lardowner who has already more than be an manage wisely or well. Here, then, the freehold society might step in, pur chase the ropeety ! and resel l it to the local resi dents in such Roruoas, larger or smaller, as might meet their requirements. Besides aiding in the ac quirement of the franchise, these societies may he useful in applying the commercial principle to land. I In order to effect this, each society should con sist of a large number of members, so that the fund' at its command may be sufficiently large to buy a considerable property. Such a plan would require some enlargement of the original scheme, by allow ing the sale of property to persons not members of I the society, and would Include the power ot ma kin g a profit for the society's benefit. of THE NEW MORMON STATE. . . . i di c t , Thaiset lattelErnite fr America include* a noti lotion which is sabiegoesti of reflation as anyihing which has recently trenegfired in IN reglins. The !rewash, of the 13add States belikely t riumeen addidoesell m e mber, AB A alder eireaesetaa,N s without • parallel is modem pitiliCS. For sod, -yeah put the. Beet of the Mormons has been steadily growing in numbers, sad in that consideration which numbers, under the Anwelan coustitadoo, cannot fail to insure.. They plated a conspicucus part during the presidor ey of Mr. Van Soren, and they hare repeatedly bun ei urled by the great political parties in their @huge's' firepower. Neither the vagabond lice nor the unbrroie death of Joe Smith, the original " prophet," sorted materially to discredit this prodigious imposture, end at the present lament Mora iniem is a more acceptable and thriving rietdrine than it has ever been before. It is curlew. though set perhaps surprising , that the Let is ma i nly recruited by emigrants o. whom by far the largest proportion are from this entotry. Proselytism in the States proceeds but slowly in coos prison, and although the settlements of the new religi 'nista wive always been on the outskirts of civilised, 0, set they have never made any converts amongst the aborigines. Nothing can be more remarkable than the superiority, in this /upset, of instinct over education. Steady-going yeomen from Yorkshire and Cumberland pinned their spi ritual and pecuniary trusts, with the utmost implicitness, upon • man whom the unlettered Indians denominated Tshe-wal-lie-ke, which, is an English version, signifies " a great rascal." In the disturbances, however, which ensued upon the incarceration and extinction of the "revelator" Joe Smith, the old settlement of Nuevo° was abandoned, and the last amounts represent this mysterious city es having meet appropriately fallen into the halide of ill. Cabot, who will no doubt acquire from tl e Indians as correct a dodges don as his predecessor, and incur perhaps somewhat similar risks from those Americas citizens who are accustomed to define " theft" rather as the abstraction than the pos e scion of private property. The subsequent migrations of the brotherhood tended towards that extraordinary piece of inland water in the heart of Upper Calitornia termed the Great Solt LA*, which lies to the worth-east of the gold country. Four years ago this district had not a single ealled inhabitant, but so strong are the combined aurae tans of novelty, distance, solitude, false prophecies, and geld, that the central of anon airy hat already a population el 6,000, and a resolution has i sea taken to form the whole region into a " State "—tie be taken and accepted as an integral part of the American Union. In pursuance of this determination, • convention of citizens was summoned to meet at the city of the Great Salt Lek% and there invest themselves with • deflate political sondEntion. Tue con vention met accordingly, and the result wee, the adoption of a memorial to emigres?, and the estehliehment, ad interim, of a provisional state government after the fashion following ; Tire first step was to defies exactly the extent and b mod. ariesof the free and independent government to be established and ordained. These limits are laid down with as much precision es the nature of the Case admitted, but it will pro bably suffice to observe, that the new state appears to occupy the watt-easternmost portion of the territory recently ceded by the government of Mexico, embracing a very large tract, and strembirg westerly to the coat of the Pacific for a small seaboard own St. Diego and St. Fernando. The raw government was then endowed with tripartat powers— legislative, executive, and judicial; comprising a senate of seventeen and a house of thirty-live members, with speaker, clerk, and sarjeant-ateasies, and a gover nor, lieutenant-governor, secretary el date, and tree surer. The Seat General Asiembly met on the 2nd of July and adjourned on the 9th, haying set forth their declaretioa of independence and memorialised Congress for admission into the Unien under the name, style, and title of toe State of Deseret—a designation which imp hee, is Mormon purees. ology, " the honey bee," and is meant to typify the com bined virtue of industry tad love. In reflecting on the affairs of the American continent, the extrwrdinary character of the country, as resulting from the distances between one state and another, cannot fail to s She the mind. The . present instance furnishes a argue' example of this pecultsrity. Supposing that " Deseret " should be admitted into the political fraternity of the Union, in pursuance of its petition, then the capital of this state will bs separated from the seat of federal government by 2,600 miles, being nearly twice the disuenes between Seringapatem and Delhi, and five sixths of the distance between Liverpool and New York. It is, of course, well understood that the constitution of the new state ie virtually based upon Mormoniom, and that its iatemal economy will be characterised by the peculiarities of this creed. Whether such facts will operate as say bar to the political statue now claimed, is • subject of speculation. The Americans are, undoubtedly, not particular to • 'Made or two of doctrine; or , as we should rather say, the general tendency of religon; feeling in the Union is to sub ordinate doctrine altogether to practical developments of Christianity. Yet area the" Nothiogarians" may be stertled at the proposed re cognition of so transparent au imposture as that conducted at Nanvoo. The convention, however, pro ceeded very adroitly in their business. Not only did they avoid any mention of the Wilmot proviso, and every allusion to the disagreeable topic of slavery, but they even suppressed any particular reference to the treed of the state, premising, merely in general terms, that "all men have a natural and inalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences," and expressly ordaining that the General Assembly of the new state "should make uo law reepecting . an establisheneat of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or disturbing any peree n in his religious sentiments, provided he does not disturb others." But, beyond doubt, the moat interesting paint of the question is that operation of popular credulity or superstition which still serves to maintain this prodigious doctrine in practical vitality. Joe Smith lived before the world for years together in** full reality of convicted scoundrelism. rhere was not an atom of mystery or doubt about his whole character, nor did he even cotdescend to the common austerities or hypocrisies of a religious impostor. He drank, swore, and swindled ; drove about with a lum bering waggon in a broad-brimmed hat, crocking his whip, like a courier, and could scarcely stutter an intelligible eli dew to extort the dollars of his followers. Yet year alter year the emigration still sets towards these fanatical sectaries from the pert of Liverpool, and, what is even more extraor dinary, is found to waist, for the most put, of a better ment sort of people—small farmers, tradesmen, and well-to do labohers, with a respectable portion of capital amongst them. Whet can be the explanation of this? BEWAOB MANUAL—The new sewage works at Cardiff gaol, erected according to th e plans of Mr. Moffat, and working on the principle - invented and patented by Mr. W. Biggs, of Westminster, have now commenced operations under that gentleman's directions. A seat and very con venient trathling hes been erected, r which thus operations are carried ore. The apparatus consists of a receiving tank under the door, of a writ, sufficient to contain two days' drainage (thus providing for the Bandar's drainage), two east-iron operating or precipitating tanks, holding oath nacre than 180 cubic feet, one lire task, for the precipitant .1k of lime, and owe mixing teak, from which the aware is dis tributed right or left law the precipitating tanks All there vessels, with the exception of the bate tank, are eh eel, covered, en that no tfanTill CM pass WO Of contandare the apartment in which the operations are carried on. and the displayed foul air is curried %broach tubes to the upper room, where they terminate in what the immure terms& order big apparatus. This corre of a box fitted up with three drawiri, lined with glass, and charged either with muriatie rid or chlorine, as the case may require, in pawing over which a convoluted passage for the vapour is secured, and thou all ammoniseal products (if there should be any) are neutralised and detained, and the purified air allowed so escape into the chimney. The upper room is likewise adapted to the purpose of • drying chamber; hot air being supplied by a peculiar apparatus, so that matter of the most fertilising description, being by be abovenamed prune se parated from water, eats be thus solidified, formed into sakes, completely desolated, and rendered fit to be transmitted, at I an easy rate of carriage, to wherever a demand for it may r exist. Theis works, from the interesting nature of the pro , cones, there carried on, demand the considerwion of ferry ; sanitary board, u well r of the agricultural economist de. i thous rat raise the meet of ear motional reinsure—Moos. adr44aAw• herdei. A DUDLEY WIDDING.-0170 day last week an eldeily couple visited Dadley intending to buy a clock ; after making this purchase they strolled up the town in the direc tion of the upper shush ; on arriving in slabs of the sacred edifies the old Man suddenly exclaimed, " Bet, was the third axing yesterday ?" To which Bet replied, " Why, aye, mos." Upon this asseutormerst the candidate for matrimony replied, " Well, Bet, we man u well goo in and get the job over at must, and save time kike." M the lady a, used to acquiesce ia the practical view of the case, the parties immediately pro. goaded to busker. Bet, looking round, claimed • persoual sequistance with several women who were lounging about, watching,wisk Oolong eye., the swivel of sundry matrienaulal speculators; by some of these women she was attended, e a sort of body-guard, into the vestry, while the " old 'on" (as she endearingly termed the bridegroom in perspective) en tered the church, and walking up to the minister, ejaculated, " Wall, ear, of bin cum to be married, if you plain)." " Oh, indeed," said the minister, " and pray where is the WOlll4ll ?" " The women, suet Whoy, that's Bet—her's baled the vestry door, cur, being dressed. fluid peeped en, ear, and its all right, fike's safe." On sending into the vestry to ascertain the truth of this statement, Bet emu dissoured in the hands of her bcdrgnard, one et whom was busily engaged washing her tate, another sat with shiedon her kale crimping the borders. when • lent her a sc a rf, and waa tastefully arranging its folds upon her shoulders; having completed these risen tisk, " bobbed up her hair," sad made her " toidy kik.," she was led forth triumphantly into the church, on entering which she greeted tie "old an" with a very affectionate** and exclaimed, "Well, here I comes." The minister, after surveying them for some time, tuned to the clerk, and made inquiry if they had been properly asked in church to which the " old an " took upon himself to reply, " Whey, tee, axing be over yesterday, and I axed Bet mare ire a month 'coo. It be all right, stir." The pair were then legally united, and, after this " interesting ceremony " was ended, the minister inquired if the woman could wri te, to which she made answer, " Noo, schools wara't so pops one when of war young ; Wither and mother couldn't afford to send me to learn. But I 'epees the old on don't Mu." They then left the church attended by the body-guard and an 'lathe siutie eked, of aduiren.—Bieminghmes Mercury. Are UNFORTUNATE CHILD.—An inquest was held it Bristol, on the Bth instant., by J. B. Orindon, Esq., on the body of Jobs Walley, aged ten years, who was severely burnt by his clothes taking Ire on the 13th October last, sines which period he had been in the General Hospital, where he died from the injury he had received. Verdied, " Accidental death." The stepmother of the Mosses& in giving her evidence to the jury, said he had been very an animate :—first, he was nearly drowned, and rerouted with difficulty ; then he was melded, and was in the hoop'. tal 17 weeks ; them he was rode over by a horse sad much injured; then, a fortaight before he was burnt, he was drartged some distant* by an ass, sad seriously teased, sad attar *like was bitten by an ass, TEE MILANCBOLT OCCURZINCE AT PLUMB In the seams of the past week sod daring that pn outing it, the ialubitaata of the withal PevenhAll, and the family of Mr. Baker, a retired farmer, were much alarmed at the sud den abuses of Mr. Robert Baker, junior, who oa the 3rd instant left his home, and notwithstanding that every !e -quity was instituted, he was not sees or heard of until oho Bth inst. Mr. Baker was an only son, to whom his father had given up his farm, presenting him with the stock and mops thereon only the day before he was missing. App.- featly in his usual health and spirits, he left his home as Tumidity malting week at half-put 10 o'clock, at the time requesting that his housekeeper would have dinner ready at one o'clock, stating it to be his intention to return at that hour. Belau leaving, he appeared very anxious to kaow the amount of wages required by his housekeeper and although she at fi rst declined talking upon the subjec t she win ultimately compelled to impart the information sought for, whoa he paid her what was then Mae. The muter not coming home to dinner as proposed, and not having been seen or beard of by ant cue, search wee made for him in the course of the evening. but without avail. Day after day pared away, but Mr. Baker did not Taunt, neither did his Mends hear ef him until last Wedassilay, when his body was discovered floating in a pond not far distant from his residence by his brother in-law, who was accidentally passing that way. Life, it is uniecessary to as , was found to be extinct. The body was conveyed to the , and, on examination, presented no marks of violence, that l e aving conjecture to point oat in what manner the unfortunate young man, who was only 33 years ef age, came to his un timely end. It was alleged that the deemed' s pecuniary affairs were is an extremely good condition ; indeed, they Gould not have been otherwise, as he had been started in the world by a kind father, under circumstances col an extremely fmourable character, for, independently of the stock and mops upon the farm which had been gives him only the day before his death, more than 701. in cub was found in the boue. He kilt home, out we have before stated, as half peat 10 in the morning. and in all probability, from the fain of the hands of his watch pointing to five minutes past eleven, when the body was found, not many minute. elapsed before be had seeped to live. An inquest was held on view of the body, en Thursday last, before H. Guy, BK., deputy coroner fu the Libertke of the Dully of Norfolk; and alter hear*, the evidence adduced, the jury return. d the following um. diet: " That the deceased was found drowned, bat bow err by what means tht deceased came into the water, thave weer no evidence to show." Since the 'older of tut fed has been asoertained that the damaged had made to a yens/ lady, whisk were not very favourably rafted.— Ilineinft Bret" THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY BTEpTING, NOVEMBER 16, 1849. :11t Court. • WINDSOR, NOT. lb ' . The Queen and hie Royal Highncsa Prince Albert walked this morning in the Sit pea end Windsor Park. The wwal family•ook their usual airings. The Q seen and Prince Albert and the ladies and gentle men of the royal household attended divine serried, in St, (holies Cbacel this morning. The prayers were mad by the Hon. midair. H. Cast aad the gee. Mr, Neville. The sermon wee poached the Hon. and Nev. Edward Moore, canon in reaMence. • • Divine service was performed at the private chapel in Windsor Castle in the morning and afternoon by the Hon. and RSV. G. Wellesley. Her Hip' Highness the Duchess of Kent attended divine service at the palish church, Windsor, this m The Chevalier Bunsen (Prussian Minister) is expected to arrive at Windsor Castle this day, and will have the horour of joining the royal party at dinner in the evening. The lion. and Rev. Edward and Mrs. Moore will also have the honour of ',dulcet the royal dinner party. Messrs. racks had the honour of submitting to her Ma jesty and his Novel Highness Prints Albert on Wednesday • highly interesting historical relic i beiog tie marriage horn of Francis the Dauphin of Francs and Mary Queen of Scotland, with the date 1569. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. The following boiletin of her Majesty's health was issutd yesterday: The Priory, Thursday, Nov. 15. " The Qaeen Dowager has passed a comfortable night, and her Majesty is considerably refreshed ibis mor M.D. " DAVID DAVIRA, " RICHARD BD.IOHT. M D." Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert and the youthful members of the royal family nave postponed their intended departure of the Court from Winesor Castle to Osborne until the close of next week Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have been staying at Broadlands, Hants, since Saturday last, but are expected to return to town in a few days, when the majority of the metub2rs of the cabinet will meet in L,ndon. The Marquis of Clanricarde is staying on a visit to Viscount ants Viscountess Sydney, at Frognall Ledge, near Footmen. The Marchiesees with the Ladies de Burgh are expected in town early in the ensuing week from the Mar quis of Bristol's marine residence at Brighton, on her way to Welbeek Abbey to visit the Duke of Portland. The Earl and Countess of Clanwilliam and family are passing the autumn at Deal Castle, Kent. The Noble Bul has recently been appointed by the Lord Warden of ate Cinque Ports (the Duke of Wellington) Captain of De►l Castle, in the room of the Marquis of Dalhousie, the Clover nor•Oenersl of India. THE Vicroala REGIA.—On Wednesday, Mr. Pax ton, the eminent horticulturist, had the honour of presenting to the Queen and Priam Alrert, at Winter, a leaf of the gigantic waterlily, from the Bethke river, named after her Bdaje.ty Victoria Begin." The plant has been reared and fhwered by Mt. Paxton, at Chatsworth, in the short space of three months. THE DAY OF THANKSGIVING. We subjoin some further reports of the sermons of some of the dignitaries of the church and most popular preachers in London and its suburbs de livered yesterday : ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. THE BISHOP OF LONDON. A full cathedral service was celebrated at St. Paul's yesterday morning, in the presence of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and some other member, of the corporation. The service commenced, as usual, before 10 o'clock, but even at that early hour a very large congregation had assembled. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of London, who selected as his t. xt the Sth verse of the 107th Psalm:—" Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men." The Right Rev. Prelate commenced his ditcourse with some general remarks on the lamentable absence of a recognition of the providence o' God in the affairs of men, and the manner in which the Almighty frequently reminded mankind of His providential interposition by directing or permitting sfilictions of various kinds. " We have lately," said the right rev. prelate," had a striking illustration of these truths. It has pleased Almighty God to visit us a second time with that fearful disease which has traversed nearly the entire circle of the habitable globe ; untraceable in its origin, undefinable as to its nature; so rapid in its progress that oftentimes its only symptom is death; baffling the reserrehes:of science and the devices of human skill; sweeping aff entire families, desolating a whole neigh bourhood, aid (miss even the thoughtless and the pre. sumptuous to recognise the hand of God. And we did recognise it ; not, indeed, as a nation, so solemnly as we ought to have done, but yet as a Christian people, and as mooch. re of a true church, we did openly and devoutly acknowledge that the chastisement inflicted upon us was not more than we had deserved." • • "As in the rase of the people of Nineveh, Owl repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto as, and he did it not. But was it, as in their ease, because he saw our works, tbst we turned from our evil way ? Let every one of us look to his own conscience for the answer. That the judgments of God which were abroed in the land did awaken in the people of this country,. not merely a deep emo tion of fear, but an awful apprehension of the sovereignty of God and a sincere reliance on his goodness, we trust there is no reason to doubt. The unusual solemnity with which our days of humiliation and intercession were observed ; the general intermission, on such da)s, of business and plea sure ; the voluntary worshippers who thronged our churches; the abundant almsgiving—these indicated, if not that a gene ral sense of sidelines, yet that a general sense of God's provi dence, was commonly felt. Whether the impression made by the awful lesson of the last year has been such as is likely to produce a permanent improvement is known only to Him who judgeth the heart and trieth the reins. Let us hope and pray that it may be deep and lasting. It is a question which is personal to every individual amongst us, for to one of us was the warning sent. Let us not forges, brethren, that it is our own personal feelings and actions which constitute, particle by particle and drop by drop, the sass of virtue or the overflowings of wick edness which stamp the character of the community as that of a godless or a god-fearing people." • • • " Where are your solemn thoughts and pious resolutions now ? Are you seeking to exemplify them in the realities of a Christian life, or have tug melted away, es the shadows of some dark mysterious arum, with the returning brightness of the day, to be replaced by gayer visions of pleasure, or by schemes of ambition or of covetousness? Have your thoughts become more fixed on things carnal since God has spoken to you in suds distinct language of the perishableness of the things of this life ? " • • " The Almighty has other instruments of His wrath besides the fell disease which has just passed away. The sword which we imagine to be sheathed may still be suspended over us by a hair, to fall when the fullness of the appointed time shall come. That we have been hitherto spared while others have been smitten is wholly owing to the free mercy of God, not to our superior merits or stronger claims upon his forbearance. It is, there fore, a subject for special thankfulness, but also for increased vigilance end ears. God has other arrows in His quiver be sides that which has been shot and spent. The " pestilence' that mike* in darkness" and "the sickness that destroyetk at noon day," " the blest and the mildew end the famine," are not the only executioners of God's wrath upon a rebel lions or &wry's" autos. The madness of • people or the foolishness of its rulers may be at once the cause and the consequence of a scourge, and the nation's sin may be made the instrument of its deuiation." • • " At the preeme moment it is fitting that we should employ our thoughts in the consideration of the special mercies which we see come together to acknowledge. I say the special weans ; for it is not one instance only of the divine acad. ness to us as a nation for which our united praises steedd ascend from God's earthly sanctuary to His threes of Miming. Oar deliverance from the fatal •ealedy which has cot off thousands of the inhabitants of this great city ia, indeed, the most prominent topic of thankfulness, and the ON most directly connected with our individual preserve ties. " The most suitable, end we may well believe the most acceptable soda of acknowledging the good ness of God in withdrawing from us the scourge of peeMence and in" and preserving to our use the kindly fa its of the arch, ' will be a larger measure of eheditable sansidoration for the physical evils which afflict oak pone beetlires, sad the potting forth of more strenuous AIM to sewn, se at least to diminish them. Till this shall have bees ewe we eau effect but little for their religious or moral impsoissaant. We atv bound to attempt this, not only bye:Christian regard for our poorer brethren as mem bon the WOO family with ourselves, but as desiring the well-Ming and safety of our country. Let ma endeavour to do away with a state of things which is degrading to them as human beings, still more as children of the church; which not only invites the approach, and aggravates the malMnity, daises's, but weakens all the social and domestic virtue, des Toys all selirespect, removes all the motives to, all the opportunities of, self-improvement. The want of a decent and cleat habitation is one of the chief evils which oppress the poor—an evil continually increasing with the blame of our population, and which steps ought long ago to have bees taken to prevent. Neatness, order, and cum fort are unknown in their miserable, over-crow ded dwel lings; modest reserve is impracticable; delicacy of feeling is destroyed. Cowmen of manners and language is the con sequence of a mode of life which admits of no retirement, no seclusion, no meditation, becomes the habit of childhood, and prepares the mind for vicious intercourse in future years. None of the comforts of home are there, none of its soften ing, purifjing influences. And can we wonder if from such sinks of impurity and immorality come forth, if they are spared by epidemic disease, the scandals and pests of so eiety—the mendicant, the drunkard, and the thief ? It is not less our interest than theirs that our poorer neighbours should enjoy the comforts and decencies of life ; treat they should possess the means, which to so many of tic m are wanting, of being cleanly. quiet, observant of domestic pro priety, having each their own home for their own family, sad @toying, it not many of the meat rte of life, as the term is commonly understood, ; )et at least the blessings from which none ought to be delsa-red, which are common even to the meanest of the brute creation, the pure elements of Mr and water, rho accessary meaae of health and strength. If persons who have a competency of this world's have, for the most part, been exempted, by the good of God, from the scourge or sickness which proved so Mal to the poor, they have surely in that exemption a special ground of charitable exertion for the re. moval of mitigation if the evil. Every one may do soutethit g towards this object in his own parish and neighbiurhood, and imnsb may be dune by the Oohed efforts of associated Christian,. I teed rardly urge se an addi tion.' motive tt e happy remit which follows from every sue .•ewful attempt to hexer the condi•ion of the bumbler closes, namely, that of knitting together the different enders of society, now too widely sepa►ated, in the Minds of Chriatiar. sympathy and love. Let these, then, my brethren, he the substantial evidences of our thankfulness to God for His great mercies vouchaafed to us; .not merely the united acclamations and joyful hallelujah of the assembled church, woe only the sincere tribute of pious hearts both in public and in retirement, but with the sae: Oleo. with which God is well pleased—the offering of ourselves, ear souls and belies. for lii. service, and the doing good is others for the sake of Hint wbo ba'b done all for us." The right rev. prelate con cluded with a solemn exhortation to repentance and to holi ness of life. A collection wu made immediately after the conclusion of the sermon. ST. MARGARETS, WESTMINSTER. DEAN MILMAN. The text selected by the Very Rev. Dean MILMAN for hi, th inksgiving s rmon was Ephesiane, v, 28, " (living thanks always for all things unto God the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ." History and individual ' observation but too plainly taught us Met in human nature, imperfectly disciplined, the principle of fear No much pre vailt over the principle of fortitude, that the infinite bene volence of the Creator seemed scarcely heeded by us, ex PM as those periods when our persevering inaratitude had called down upon us We marked indignation ; and when the heavi nese of our affliction enforced upon our re fl.,c ion the tenderness of the mercies which we had so long slighted. Yet cur gratitude should be as ever present, a. unceasing as the benevolence of the Almighty. The terror which war, or famine, or pestilence naturally inspired in the breast of man was not the lactose due to the Maker, or which merited His mercies; the relig:on which lie require(' from us was the retie - an of love, not of fear. True, never within the preacher's recollection had there been a mot , strikingly spontaneous outburst of religious feeling, a more fervent manifestation of devotion in crowded congregations, who scarcely awaited a summons to present themselves in the house o' flail ; never had the service a of the church been listened to in more reverential silence, with more absoebed interest ; never had the truths of religion appeared to pent). trate more deeply, more searchingly into men's hearts, than during the prevalence of the late pestilence; but the grand question was, whether this religious feeling was to be per manent—whether a sense of God's perpetual presence hod become impressed upon His creatures, rescued by:His mercy from that sfilicti n which had wet2hed co hesvily, more or lass directly, upon so many hundreds of thousands of our fellow-creaturte not more sinks' than our selves? The question was whether the fearful warning which all had so recently and so unmistakeably received, was to remain without effect; whether the Christian p ,pu lation, of late so vividly, so awfully aroused to a sense of its guilt by a sense of its immediate danger, would, now that the danger seemed passed away, revert to its guilt, forgetful of the lesson which had so appalled it. He prayed that this might mot be. ST. GEORGE, BLOOMSBURY. REV. MONTAGUE VILLIERS. This gentleman preached in this church last even- ' ing to en overflowing congregation. The sermon was in aid of the Society for Improving the Dwellings of the Lab, using Poor. Amongst those for whom the prayers of the congregation were desired was her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The rev. gentleman chose for his text the rouge, Psalm 2, verse 11, • &join wish trembling." After noticing the general drilt of the Psalm, ea descriptive, prophetic, sod hortatory, he said be would first consider the puty enjetr.ed. to rejoice: and next its limitation, " with trembling." Toe duty of rejoicing was repeatedly insisted on in Holy Writ. But the rejoicing of the Christian was not to be in creature comforts, ner merely because God's provi dential dielings tell in with the promotion of human happinem, for tne wicked often liour.shed as a error. bay tree. The Christian was only . to rejoice in God ; this wee the only ground of real happiness. for it was suer-during. In the lit Sew weeks God bad plsihly manifested himself as a prayer-hearing God; nay, almost from the very day that a number of Christians had determined on setting apart a day for humiliation, it had seemed as thoutitt God had begun to withdraw his scourge. God was merciful, and this was another source of the Christian's rejoicing. Even sorrow itself was sanctified, and made anoth• r cans • for thankful ness. But why the limitation—" Rejoice with trembling ?" First, lest the absence of fear should produce indifference to national amendment. Too often did it happen that those who had mat earnestl7 called on God in trouble were most ready to forget him in preeperity. Secondly, lest the ab sence of amendment should produce another and yet severer blow. This was the cgs. with God's ancient people ; the Prophet Amos upbraided them with it, and concluded his reproach with the solemn warring, " Prepare to meet thy God, 0 Israel." Two years ago we had humbled ourselves before God ; he had accepted it ; but where was our na tional amendment, either I. public morals or in social con dition ? Had poverty become less squalid, or luxury dimi nished? No; both had increased, and the consequence was they were further then ever from each other. He im plored the audience net to neglect their poorer brethren while dwelling in their comfortable ceited houses ; let the m imitate the example of the Red. emer, and strive to raise the condition, physical as well u spiritual, of the destitute poor of this great metropolis. SCOTCH CHURCH, CROWN-COURT. DR. CUMMING. The Rev. Jodi COMKING, D.D., had announced his in tention of advocating the cause of the City Mission and the nagged School in Wild-street. The rev. doctor selected for his text the 6th verso of the 103rd Psalm—. The Lord executeth righteousnesi and judgment for all that are op pressed." if. read the whole of the Psalm, observing that it mightbo considered the heals of the discouree,but that he should confine himself principally to an exposition of the 6th veil% Every verso in this psalm, he observed, was a magi fog blessing the Lord, who, in his guidons, had uswered the prayers of his people in their depression. The petitiocs of the 91st psalm, used on • former occasion, might now be convertid into grateful acknowledgments. On this day of national thaniugiviog, us he rejoiced to call it, the fact must be recognised that the late epidemic, which swept of 60,000 souls in six weeks, was a providential visitation. It was the most fatal epidemic by which this country had been visited since the great plague, and indicated the period of divine prophecy at which the world had arrived. They also recognised the fact that God bad removed the disease ; and by this public acknowledgment, every christian looked to something beyond seesad causes. Had the seasons or the laws of nature removed the epidemic, let them be praised ; but it was not so. A third fact was recognised that day—that national prayer and thanksgiving was a duty. Our rulers had thus rectified the error of their first omis sion. The Psalmist, in the subsequent verses of this psalm, especially 'aimed the daty of • people being just and generous, merciful and kind to thou who were oppressed. This congregation comprised many masters and heads of offices; it would be extremely hard for their servants to be deprived of their day's wages ; let thaw who were intend ing to do so rather omit contributing on that occasion to the ragged schools and City Mission. Those, on the other hand, who had given their servants not only the opportu nity, but the means of thankfulness, would also, no doubt, be meat forward with their oontributiots to the charities he had named ; they would thus be link just and generous God bad visibly interposed " to execute justice and judgment for the oppressed" on many put occasions—at the protestant reformation—in the extinction of the slave trade—and in the exposure, in the present year, of the horrors of the Popish inquisition at Rome. Our selfish nested of the poor, oar insensibility to the cry of the down-trodden, our apathy and disregard of the fact that thousands lived in dens and places by the side of ditches and pollution—places so graphically described by Mr. Bizaem—might have led to the recant inter position of Providence; and as the great havoc that had been done might be regarded as • beneficent mission from above. The dismiss had first appeared in the subterranean pools of the metropolis, thous radiating its deadly foci from Bethnal-green to Bolgrayseqsarie ; and the dwellers in that region felt they could not be healthful se long as hotbeds of disuse were suffered to exist in Lambeth, Bethnal-green, and elsewhero,_ • proof that the warning wee of divine origin. Tho awful fact had been made patent that two-thirds of the people never attended • plus of worship; and when it had been disclosed that thou places were peopled with the dead more densely below than with the living above, with bet • thin plank between, through which deadly and pestiferous gases exhaled—what wonder that people did not go to churches where there were vaults ? It was now generally known that a man might be poisoned more easily through his lungs than through his stomach; the veil had beta lifted from the subterranean life and death of London; and though the selfish and %dealing might flee from the taintodl ties, the epidemics would follow them, and they would be doomed to a similar fate, as the criminal of old, who had to dreg about with him a dead body wherever he went. God had thus made it patent that the neglect of duty was not only sinful, but dangerous to temporal welfare. Let us then be thankful, not only for the removal of the dime*, but for its visit. If some decided and extensive effort were not made by the exertions of practical benevolence, to improve the condition of the poor, the plague would infallibly return, not merely as a chastisement, but as • consuming and over wbelmingjudgment. The ministry which should undertake and aooomplisk this—whig, tory or radical—would immor talise and hallow its nacv. Bix weeks' devastation of the cholera had slain more than fell at Waterloo; and three months' continuance of the plague, at its greatest virulenoe, would have swept away from the metropolis more than fell beneath the death-dealing cannon in the revolutionary riots of Paris. Towards the great work be had recommended, Individuals could do much. Let those who bad suffered do =colic afilietionsor bereavement be excited to increased be nevolence. Slight cases were often productive of great events. In his own life be could trace almost every one of the relations he held to games sio trifling that they might be compared to the turning of a straw to the right or the left. Doubtless, ethers could do the same. Could that, then, be chews ? Rather let each one adopt the language of the Psalmist, and say—" Bless the Lord, Cmy soul, and forget not all his benefits " The City Mission now emplovedatween 100 andloo lay agents; they were most active in visiting the poorest of the poor; five of them had fallen victims to the cholera, the patients sufferiag from which they had most benevolently visited. The other charity, whom cause he had to plead and to which • smaller portion of the collection would be devoted, was the Ragged School, in Wild-street—a moat deserving institution, which had slready been productive of great POULTRY INDEPENDENT 611Afre REV. T. BINNEY. oue. The independents worshipping at volute Dl hei the City met unitedly at the Poultry c u m. it n.ornieg, for thn purpose of dforing up vh,,,i2,ioriug and thanksgivings. The spacious 'chapel was crowded, several having been compelled to remain le ;rag positions in the staler, and at the entiances d aring tii sere CP. The Rev. T. BINNEY weeded the pilo t lei . livered a dismiroe admirably suited to th e solca",111. He said his fellaw- religionists were th en aseesaliod — " m e. view of presenting their united th a nk sg i v i ngs to Gm "" His gracious interpoeition in their b e h e l t, and to, /h7oLitr fog heard the supplications which, in the hoer v e,'"' they awl ac.dro essd to Him. lo COACCEIGIi uni,,,,,__ devotional tsercisee, and in pursuance of ael vv g."••, ings, he had been selected by his rev. brethr en to vag,„_—'lo few words of exhortation to his beams, in lusegZ'" l ,.l the object for which they had assembled. Though the . 74 public recognised a divine law in every eircumstame g g they did not lurdet trust laws which appertained tell sphere. They believed the the late pestilence sphere. attributable to secomaary causes end fixed physi h ri': They believed it right that they should understand tle ration of these physical laws; and if th e y peeking dig there was any connexion between the ci v about them, or about tlitir dwellings which T ai flll gv ...._ elapsed hat a a:sour:ion with the pestilence, tei r - `,7 1 ,.. foal that this we. God's method of tessertiog ea s ;:., 4 opening their eyes to an intelligent °Mammies v iZ '. laws under which they loved, and that it me Z ' of the methods by which He called upon to put themselvo sin harmony with those lime 134, will this was rea lily granted, they also believed th at Gai grg card epiritual superintendence, provilential g ot ermi; and that another of the lass under whi c h they that God could bear prayer and answer it. Tees. %y o i • . were so interwoven that it was not for u s to say saw % one ended and the ether began ; but, as religiously', ,1, ing under the influence of reigiotte faith, we l on h vg igi l united ; and, without at all aenying the feet of the mai, Or operation of the lower s)stem of law, ee cast oursdr tl i t lore Goa in our (amities and s onetuaries sad off red p m . '. ?, and when we saw that the pestilence hod been rest g. i . roes up and recognised the hand of God ; .1 /: because we had chtnined the thing we 'eked he --',. believed we had vut it because we asked. Te e '''''' lo; ' ettret of our experience when properly looked at vas ty nas. o not that we s ou;d go on, caring nothieg about o lio e,., causes, and thinking that whatever happeioel we callo w again, but taking goad heed of el that God by oormensimi I '.: t aches with respect to placing ourselves in hamlet e el . "so the lower law 'Then, though the neeenity nug ilii again for our supplication, )et we should had, trite Pal to everything connected with our whole befog, „, g it peace and safety have they that love the olivienor g F end that all God has lei:down, as well as the primiplau V which lie g , and we are to walk, " work togete g i; good " and cell fir nothing but praise. Leaving tho ng nerd remarks, which were in harmony win:l4 v ; Mon of their meeting and with their reoigioes ill* he knew nut that he could do better, or more spprorg g * than to select one of those noble, glorious hymen el dig ancient church for meditation—one of Moss along which went so to the heart of humanity, that gm evidently penned for all time, were meant for all vg only in their spirit, but almost in their very letter, gig; 4 seem to have an appropriateness to the habitual Ne n " ~. of man everywhere and always. The rev. giuthanis " read the whole of the 116th Poideo, commentil gra * I 3 verses as he proceeded, and applying the sublime so a k tions et the Psalmist to the thankesiving &demoting a. day. David had, by calling upon the name of the ":" been rescued from "the sorrows of death sal 6 “, pains of hell," and therefore he offered ep ogi 1 . sacrifice of thanksgiving," and promised to his vows in the presence of all the yeeatt" e (the preacher) thought that at this IMOD or njarege i s e i mercies recently v.ucheafed th 3 religious commulitytie '. him ought to present something to God, to God's tame God's servants, to God's ministers—something to be mg k the good of God's church. His brethren were dolisissele tho y appointed him to preach that there ought not totem coil .etion made ; but he ventured toenerve to then lig b thought he ehould speak all the better if there ornate's tion—that he thought he co-uld execs a himself witi gray freedom if they would allow him to say at the led thatoh people should have the opportunity of gionegeonsitia; iodeed he WI ved the people would hardly that us service finished wrhout that opportunity were deli them. lie did not want to force anything out of the* hie/and!, but r. e called upon all of them that had the We/ and the mousy with them to melee a thi g h.gg ov n t k would be a small contribtrion, but it would be gine loth Christian Instruction Society—a society connected width independents, whose circumstances at the present tine is quired aid. He hop d God would increase the semi of d who contributed, and inspire diem with the spirit d tail% Psalm. __ _ . .. _ . _. . . _ . . A liberal collection in aid of the Christin lemuttiaeSi defy was than made, and the strvicee, which were coshil throughout with profound attention upon the pert ohlena audience, terminated. THE EARL OF ELLESMERE AND MECHANICS' Luz. TOTIONB.—MY. Kiwi, the secretary of the Luicashies ni Cheshire Union of Mechanics' Ins' ituions, has received fallowing letter from the Earl of Ellesmere, midi read with interest by ell who are interest, d is theme'', and goo I management of thew institutirm:-. Ws*, Nov. 3, 1849. Sir,—l have to acknowledge you lewd the 2nd, with irs tnclosures, on thesufject of the Isesiot and Cheshire Union of Mechanics' Institutions. It em to me *at so far as the principle' professed by Its Nude can be disseminated and acted upon, they can producer thine but advantage, and that in several puticulus thou. essential towards the productionof stefuleenlisarnettoll so for the prevention of positive mischief. It is estese etsy to draw and observe the line betimes a tiooal occupation and mere amusement I do satirist the latter, though perfectly legitimate in its proper tie and place, a legitimate object of m. chants' indent sad a parasite plant of this kind, if ones eneerspi, very apt to flourish to the prejudice of all other grown I confess, that in another point of view, I Hen buy EA cult to give my support to the institutions in gams I see evidence of • constant tendency to a deprive fee the rule usually professed at their louden"», Ind se , eludes the discussion of religion ant politics. lan sei is ' condition to interfere with or control the um d sane port as in any shape I have once giver; and 1 mum is. dined, in these matters, to give my active oniesetetoth dissemination of any opinions but my own. I flaWs some trifling assistance to one in this county ; Iwe informed the other day by a gentleman that he hod wore walls placarded with the announcement of a Wm s popular repreeentstion.' Now, if I had knows gee which I well knew the contrary, that the lectors wont to be an 'dory of the House of Lords, I should herb stirred myself to show in some shape my utter dieser of the introduction et euoh subjects. limes dolisolt not holiest, and the trees in the garden, of whited • may eat, are really so numerous that there is node. temptation to transgression. A. your union swam inn for the better direction of these societies in them mid! matters, I con only wish helical', and I inclose' to. don of 61.—1 hare the honour to be, sir, you 'leis servant.—(Signed) EOBIITON ELLll6llllllll.—Tta P 4 Esl, Manchester." YINE ARTS EXPOSITION or 1851.—A the influential inhabitants of the town and neighlialoo of Dudley was oonvened by the Mayor, T. FerSay,kt the old Town Hell, on Monday last, in eruption ottj letter from the secretary of the Society of Arts. 111 1 .,, was to receive a deputation commissioned by b ISi Highness Prince Albert and the Society of Arts elle. to explain the nature and purpose of the 'Aides" Ofo works of industry of ell nations, to be held in Imalt 1851, and to ascertain the feeling of the inhabitentsd o ley and the neighbourhood in reference thereto. /WI the meeting was not • large one, it comprised awlo leading and most influential persons of the town's& boarhood, including the clergy, magistrates, Iced g men, merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen, and edit* habitants. The Mayor occupied the chair, and apall o meeting by reading the letterrooefved from the ' mereterle society. He observed that meetings had already barP in London and some of the provincial towns, to pled subject into oonsiderution and that wherever it W o ' named the proposal had been received with the guilt thulium and it was indeed fortunate for • peollivf, science found • home in the palace of their land, In"; more so when, as in this instance, it was not mew speculative theories, but became embodied is tbeetl. teal arts which enhanced personal comf-rt and national prosperity. prosperity. He felt proud as an Engliduroll it was reserved for the Consort of our beloved Qa ll . , furnish a suggestion so important and so giro* with eager anticipation should he await the dell England's transatlantic offspring should joie states of Europe to visit the shorn of car home," to ascertain from among all the of the most refined taste end skin the world ems • nub, upon what nation and upon whom should 10 _,1 1 stowed the " chaplet" of approval. He considered be Ili"; acquainted with the general feeling of the inkstnol l i that borough, and on their behalf he begged to °P .t o gentlemen of the deputation that whatever other owl • might visit they would nowhere receive a war., heartier assurance of loyalty, or a stronger desire ;0 1 7 rate in every project calculated to promote the len Ragland, than from the inhabitants of the banal: r ip Inert of Dudley. The Mayor having read letters I for the non - attendance of Lord Lyttelton, J. , lay, Esq., 11. P., and J. Benbow, Eno s however, were entirely In favour of the 0 1 1 04 .,,, - 40 meeting, introduced Professor Wooderoft as one of auks, who addressed the meeting. His ezplansdo proposed art exhibition for 1861 was t h e sass 0 , already appeared in this paper. Francis Whatnot.]: also of the deputation, then addressed t he after which the usual resolutions were adopted. 4 ,1 ing of a similar character was held on Toombs, Talbot Hotel, Stourbridge, when W. Foster, n i celled to the chair and having opened the A sir appropriate appropriate addre ss, the deputation (Professor and Francis Whishaw, Ese j . severally addressed thr....! at some length , fully explaining the plan of tl.lo jUB undertaking. The tasting was also addressed jamin Richardson, /dr. Akroyd, and by sued men, and the stereotyped resolutions unansmea d 7 0 7,i0 GREENWICH ItiAßßEL—Autong the d go last session was one authorising the comm ission.% ap wick Hospital to make regulations with toll us 1 wick market It seems that in the year 1700, by letters patent, granted to the Earl a 117 - 0 market, and by subsequent acts it was vested w i b ; e s donee of the Hospital. The property so Hospital, and new regulations hive tessellate. .'