The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-07 00:00:00

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Joni pababol. iw lad Sabra Wears. ark. fa. or ai pea. aft tomarma E:0UB DEBILITY=ONSTITUTIONAL 'AIMS: la Bay re Spormatonbel : rata Namara mar Um of Um lliororargo lio Muammar et W. Ilkaraffsa //gib Pareefas. 110 we. ampairlai b ra S panel mombor of ardiel {Wow ifora, Os milk et mar roan praotkal osporimak lose so UN amoroao awe If plasm orbs roar tam Qs masa airoalas orgarroila raft II•• la lb paw Val be fear. Or some mai& lad Soo Ur, onorasia. Ibpromorrao wails %daft lab prooma mel Ow raw to be Moira ha Sole ma/ an mom Maar. pia la: 1111 Vail ICII t Wall; or. Nov to ord e llea d ro m Mo for; el* mile Roar kr Smarm. sad fariamora.• looothor al& Wrfaraor, for mortar balsa. korafraframil 1101 Waft gas affaa. aat9tbk Wald lao laddia• dr man r. larrera : J. Ora. 14 -17 /7raarr•Gooo Foloom= s tr t; Or waren* aim St Rana. IX DO broinana HUICIDI IN ST. haze's PARK. Yostorday wising • ennind sot of solf-deetruction wee .hued by it ma, scats. past naksowis who shot blemlf in • *as tar intik oisonondottes recently ereegod Is as an now dn. horifo Ink *none Morltoronn Emma It owns dna don todlisit 12 o'obek, a lid, onon piss bee So pine new totted, found in donned Inn es ido tpsusli. delosil with blood, thin. wll Ye wee iseseap phoondin • dircbarged pint tying sins ado. Anatemobaynd Is procured th• wee we inn to be Into ask bio town jaw baring bees ampletely not away, an is sips port ed WI fare frightfully nutind. • sweeter beriterg tem _procured he wei conveyed be IL Mar. tia'• Weehisese. Is maid, although there la a decubbonse attached, the porn refused to adroit the body, tell lay the hem, to awry it to the cbunb vaults. To the rend one lb" eecordiegly repaired, bet could only get ewes to the portico, tia the Mone of which the erode was plsced without any cornier to the ==l • beadkerchief over In brad, ths tra ffi c of isuplouly ioopped by Imosinit of poonst b let . = es biarimg et th• elacklai assemso. M no see at dr boodle Wks Ins annolonstl with, dionen, seder In dlrsotin, we egos to Cloderemon Eloopisol, when the Inn* will M MIL Donna eased bls non 45 years of 6 feet 3 inns le Whitt, sassy bon, seedy hair, bald ▪ wed eli th os. No was deemed in a desk green oat-oil neat, nen oistoto teemeirs, black indecent, black be, mil laden einlson ten. Is his pockets were found the debt at • woke, pledged the previous day in Aldenigate asset, kw 2L lOs , a the ems of I. Weekley, Norway etaect, • Ihrthiag, • pair of brews worsted Owes, • kaiki, • labroseebox sad pipe. He wont • dews white shirt with the lattiala A. W. The pistol, which had • plain can not smear heed* wee Wattle barrelled. Information of the occurrence he ben Ibrwarcbd to Mr. Bedford, the coroner. COLLISION AT SOUTHAMPTON —An accident ceasing isKile demi% but unattended with bee of life, oc curred at Southampton ye today morning. The steamship Tyne, Captain (Sawyer, was .laming up the river Delon with the brazil sod River Plate mails, end when but a short dietetic* from the docks the steamship Lady Eglinton, Capt. Bishop, from Dublin, mowed bee at full limed, being Woo destined for the docks. When within 200 yards of the dock bad the Lady Winton came in contact with a sloop tamed the Anthem, of Goole, laden with iron. The eteerner struck IM ober en the port bow, which it stove in to the water's edge, _and forced her along to about 200 yard., and cline to the deekbead when the sloop got clear. Up to this time the Lady Brilintou we. going shoed at a good speed, and beg stern being directed to the jetty at the north side of the deck entrance she ran into it and nearly cut It = basking down a great mass of timber, and the hem mile of a tramway. She was then t b e e a l l t m 4 sad bee stare ems late ormfact with the jetty at the .oath-side of the dock entresies. Oa being moved ahead she wain came la costae. with the aloop,rending her mainsail and rearing away her rigging. No reesonable came can be assigned fur the secident ; and it may be attributed to the desire of the captain to get Into dock before the Tyne. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YUaaelllllx RAILWA T.—A frt./fitful seeldent occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, user Faileworth, in the Mmion cutting on lVedneedey morning. It appears that the platelayers wan . about commencing work shortly after preen o'clock, when one of them, named John Peers, went on the up line to look for his spade. The rooming was dark sod foggy. He wan warned of the approach of the train from Manchester to Oldham, but failed to get out of the way before it was upon him. lie wee literally cut to peon. lie leaves a wife end children to mourn his untimely end. An inquest wee to beheld on the body yesterday (Thursday). GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY PRoTIDENT SO ci irr f.—Tbe seventh ennui bah in aid of this deterring society tech pleas on Wednesday evening lost in the Town ban, Wird. Then were between four and dee hundred peewee peesent, mous whom were the Mayor of Oxford, several membere of the corporation, W. Brunner, Eeq , co roner for Oxford, fro. The directore, with their usual kind sae, pealed epmdel trait,. for the oomaion, end by these =yews conneyed from London, Birmingham, Slough, ‘, and other pieces on the line. RAILWAY TRAIN FOR EGYPTt —The magnificent engines end eartingen conetructed for the Pasha of F.gyot by Meows. Robert ithepherison and Co., are now rapidly ap proaching ecniplettion. The exterior decoration of one of the carriage* Attached to the pavilion engine M nearly complete the tender of the principal military engine is finished and the epectator ran now judge of the gorgeous . if.. t produced by the masterly admixture of three comparatively poor imbue—block, white, and gold. It is impourble to conceive anything more beantiful than the effect prodoced by simply ringing the changes" upon these three colours—ma white upon black, black upon white, gold upon black, gold upon white, Ac. The principal panel in the design to made by the leaves end dowers of the beautiful plant celled the Lily of the Nile, - which seems to have uttered into the ideas of Mr. Wyatt.. a feature is the composition. The lama and dowers of the plant itself are only indicated, but the graceful contour of both leaves sad dowers give. the prevailing tone. It will probably he the beginning of February before the ex terior d e emation Is Bobbed, and the sumptuous fittings°, the carriages ere completed.—Nricoutle Chrone le. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA.— Without anticipeStes the time when we shall bereft abstract of lost nigbi a Nerd Nita Bereld bung up in our news roots, we may at heat mature to hope that the day is not far distant when we shall vendee a sewage from our friends In Chin., end return as alum in twenty-four hours. lithe people of this country are ever expected to feel any particular intereet in the leading events of China and Japan, they mutt bare it fresh and startling from Om forge. Num six weeks old has a certain degree of staleness stout it which is any thing but pleasant to us, or agreeable to our friends In the East ; it is mare particularly row en Englieb palate accus tomed to feed on bat night's debsom. To most people in England China is Smyth. Notre Gem that country a like news from weather world, and until the ret*nt treaties celled the attention of the public to that country and Jame, it required as effort of inkid to leak open new. to old as really to effect the people of =glad. This feeling the telegraph would at eine dispel, gad we should begin to look upon three nation. as • pest sod parcel of the English community. Chit. end Jspen would be within talking distance. Their cipitotta. Isere, sad latseesta, would become hour realitiee instead of imaginary fables. An ace of oppression is Pekin would rvity slat as much interest as an obuoxious bill in the liouoi 01 t'iiiinines; and the movement. of the Roraima on the Hirer A boor would excite nearly as touch attention as the diplomatic heaps at Berlin end Patio. Commercially epeddast, the advantages are the mute as those now resulting hum the useuseiof eontinental telegraphs; end sa our mercan tile tremscbons with the East Jammu, the value of our un interrupted Ilse of telegraph will be mom and mere telt.— CA Nee Tekyreph. PLESsaIfY ADVENTURE Or A STREET MUSICIAN. —A poor boy, who bee loet the me of his lege, but who is ea secomptiehsetmmdcan, and plays skN with silmirable taste end yen Me esesedion, has bean for severed years training a hrellamei alma playing in Liverpool. In the long eetwiner eteenbse sew& of delighted listeners bars been mad m pew b. circle around him, see remain alert nelnenseediW lib beautiful sad expressive airs and ins. pnwimelems. Webers with ;Assure that Miss Burdett Comte bee mks An. yank asdtr Mr are, and Intends to pumas li Emtesen LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. JANUARY 7, 1859. UPPER AND MIDDL.B.CL4BB scilooLmAsr.sits. Yesterday morning a conference of the upper and middie-eime schoolmasters of the United Kingdom wee held in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, the room having been generously placed at their disposal by the Lied Mayor and the corporation of the City of London. In consequence of the illness of hie lordship, who was to have presided, the chair was taken by the Rev. Dr. Moore, F.R.S. The CHAIRMAN, on opening the proceedings, said he accepted with gratitude the honour they had conferred on him to ogling upon Dim to preeide over their deliberations. There we. only one remark which he would venture to make, which was that he hoped they would hear with good temper end attention all the arguments which might be brought tor ward either for or against the resolutions which would be submitted to them. It was too, desirable that, having but one object in view, they should endeavour to keep that object perticolarly before them to the exclusion of all extraneous matter'. (Hear, hear.) Rev. Dr. HuIIPHREYK, of Cheltenham, then read to the conference an address embodying the history of the newest movement among the teachers of the young. The movement dated from the publication is August last of the series rt public examinations originated by the University of Oxford. With that result, not with the punctilio( those examinations themselves, the schoolmaster' of the United Kingdom were very much , disestiaded, and he had been urged gimeny of them to cell the mama conference, in the hope that sum step might be takes to remedy existing evils in school education. Speaking for intimate, he would say that the Board of University Examiners were sots body properly quelitted or adapeall ke the work which they had been appointed to carry out. Utdversity tutors and examiners were not the mein Wed to examine school classes. That was a des cription of examination which could be much better performed by schoolmasters themselves, and he there fore hoped that for the future the university board should in each local centre associate with themselves some of the principal schoolmaster. in the neighbourhood, and thus they would have a union of professional learning and practical experience on the examining board. Such :a union would go fee to remove the want of the tied ewe system in testing the knowledge of the pupils. He thought it unfair to charge the schoolmasters with the failure of the pupils at the Oxford exaniinatione, just se If they bad mot up the elite of their schools to the examination. He knew of many mom In which, on the importunities ef their paean, otheelmasters had to send in the very yams boys, not at 1,21 competent for the examination; mad there were as many eater seer in which the beat boys declined to sub mit totr mosieleisre. A Reboot, however, could never be fairly tented by the insets or demerits of individual pupil., but, to be preperly judged of, should be examined as a whole. Fran a gottni emdwence of echnolinantere, such or was then seemakied, the =twenties would, he was sure, most I willingly take ittieee hr the improvement of their pro- • grammes; awl , la the programme for examinations' of the meat yew, University of Oxford had introduced i sevenit 'brew lie thought that they ought, le develop and render more general and esti.- Asa: examine' ioo., the principled which be appoved.:l bey should also promote the progress et*. war said middle clue education by bringing together the mein of the public schools to compare their wogs and wishes, wed take congeal to assist each other in the great and anxima work in which they were engaged, else they would have government endeavouring to take the task of edocatiagthe young out of their hands; but that was& change to which the people of England, he was sure, would Dever submit. (Hear hear.) But they never would or could make programs unless they proved themselves willing to correct thee, faults and strive to bring about a uniformity of sj stem In all the schools of the kingdom. It was but right, too, that they should claim CI( the educates , • status on a par with that of any one of the learned professions. (Cheers.) Above all they should, so heed maiden, take in,, to rain the character and improve the condition of the amistant muter, by meeting them as the members of one and the same brotherhood. In tencht sion, to show how favourably the project of calling the cm- Branca wee regarded by the prolamine, he would mo tion that the committee bad sent out 1,600 circu lars making an expresaion of opinion upon the subject. Mout 700 of thew had come beck to them. 600 containing favouretile replies and 200 returned by the Post office, se the persons to whom they were addrmeed could not be found. • Rev. Mr. Lo thought Dr. Humphreys had deserved well of the meeting, and without binding themselves to • any of the opinions enunciated in his address, they ought to thank him foe reading it, and he should move that taary I do *). _ Dr. F. HALLS having seconded the motion, it vas unanimously adopted. Dr. WHIT; in moving a resolution to the effect that the confervece regarded with warm admiration and gratitude the liberal spirit shown by the ancient universities In insti tuting the new ...initiation., said that it ehould not be for gotten that fur the Isat 12 years the College of Preceptor. had been acting as the pioneer of thia movement on the part of the universities. ... Mr. Tam e Luton, of Exeter, seconded the resolution be noose he bad from the commencement taken the deepest jute- rest in The sores. re of those examinations, and felt 'cordially grateful to the universities for stepping out of the confined circle within which they had so long acted, and coming out into the broad areas of education to improve the middle deers, who were the stamen sad the backbone of the oate n,. He oonaidered the university middle-class exentinattons as the greatest movement of the present day, and he hoped that nothing would be rid in that Conference which would be calculated to throw cold water upon it became it had some deism. la fact, oratokkalions were disorder of the day, and therefore it became their duty ea 'schoolmasters to re by what means they might be rendered as dirk et an possible. Dv. Arenuese; (of Brighton) supported the resolution. He felt grateful to the UlliVerkliee for what they were doing, but be thought their cis thertior would hare remained with them, were it not that the action of the College of Pre ceptors and other bodies had, by successfully examining hundreds upon hundreds, shown them the polity of their becoming the great middle-clues whielosestme. They did nut thank the universitim for originating a new idea, but fur doing for them toot which they had been long doing fur themselves. . . . . The Cu tutu.% s remarked that the university examinations were in • great massive based upon them instituted by the Society of Art.. Mr. Perk, of Lestherhead, explained that the exam'. nations conducted by the College of Preceptors, and them conducted under the auapioes of the universities, were altogether cliff , vent In character. The college examined the schools of Its own members. whereas the university examina tions were open to all the mhoola of the kingdom. The body of examiner.. too, mrsdifferent ; end he thought it better that those examiners should be univereity fellows end tutors than that schoolmasters should examine the pupils of reboot- maters. There were many advantages ariOng from the board being an independent one—the chief being the confidence which would attach to their decision, it being known that their verdict wee an impartial one. He thought that the university authorities had in every way consulted the intermits of the schoolmasters in the arrange meats which they had made and be could not but admire the precision with which Mr. Sewell had, in drawing up the ethente, anticipated every difficulty end in convenience v.ltch might arise. Indeed, if they were, as a committee, to compare the arrangements which the univer sity had made with those which It might have made, the alterations would be both few end slight. It had been ob jected that the lower limit of age at which boys were ad mitted by the Oxford scheme to examinations wee too low; but it was his opinion that if they died at 16 indeed of at IS, they would not find the persons examined persevering with their own education, so w to qualify themselves for the higher examination ; an d It wee meet de treble that they should have both a little" and a great" good. The resolution having been supported by Dr. Prom Halle, Mr. Board, of Plymouth, and Mr. Maws, of Den mark-hill, wee unanimously adopted. The Cti A IRMA!! then proposed that the conference, while arks owledging the merits of the ancient universities, wee also vensible of the benefits conferred on middle clams education, by the University of London, the Council of lndl; the Civil Serrate Board of Examiner*, the Society of Arta the College of Preceptors, and othen examining bodies. He raid that, looking at the examinations of the Council for India in en educational point of view, it wax impossible to estimate their effect, All the university fellowships and scholarships, and all their mastership, fell into insignificance as stimulants to education, compared with the great sphere of action which those examinational poesimsed. The same was erne with respect to the' civil ellrflOP, and they could not but feel grateful to the government for denud ing itself of its patronage that they might promote the cause of education. When It was said that the University of Oxford for the first time put those examinations before the public an incorect statement was made, for they wero held out to, end accepted by, many schools for a long time tutors the uninveity moved in the matter, and the whole credit of the experiment was due to the Rev. Dr:Temple, the heed master of Rugby, who was one of the Society of Arne board of examiners. Examination, when judiciously wed, woe a powerful stimulus to self-Improvement, but it might be carried too far, and applied to cams where Its Infla mes would be positively pernicious. He altogether depre cated the public examination of very young boys et school, either by Orford or any other central aut hor ity. The preparation for examination always interfered with and interrupted the prooarees of mind that were brought into operation in the acquisition of knowledge. The faculties which were brought Into ploy in preparing for en exami ' nation were chiefly memory, quickness, presence of mind, reekineek anaemic. or 'harpoon, what the Greek. called whilst the (scolds. that ware exercised in the neon of acquiring knowledge were judgment, a spirit of patient investigation, an ability to follow out a long-con tinued train of thought on the same subject, paring over it if you will so call it. Learning habituated the mind to slowness in coming to a conclusion ; examination, on the contrary. leaded to produce quickness. Hence a boy should always deem without thinking about his future examina tion., Nobody would ever thoroughly know any subject who was always asking himself, Am I likely to be asked such a emotion, or, le it probable that such and inch a subject will be examined in at the next examination Professor Cu mermen having seconded the resolution, it wr supported by several 'Team", especially by Mr. Taylor Jame, who warmly advocated the claims of the college pre ceptors, and was unanimonaly agreed to. It was then agreed to meet again at Christmas, an audit committee was appointed to inspect the accounts, a subscrip tion entered into to defray the expenses attending the as sembling of the conference, and a committee appointed to collect practical suggestions from Kboolllllll44lfa, for the im provement of the university examinations, and in reference to other matters in which, in ounnexion with their profession, they might feel a deficiency. This haying concluded the business of the day, a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor for the use of the hall wse pealed, end the proceedings terminated in the usual way. WORKING URNS COLLBGES. The first annual meeting _of the members of the Working Men's Colleges in Manchester mid Belford was held in the Corn Exchange, Manchester, on Wednesday sight. Mr. 0. HEY WOOD occupied the chair, and amongst the gentlemen present ware the Rev. E. D. Maurice and Thames Hughes, Esq. (author of " Tom Brown's School Dap"). Mr. THOMAS HOOMFA, who wits received with great cheering, said he had now been working with /tr. Maurice and others for ten years, and he had never been so wailed teak say work ea with what he had done he outhenien with the Waling Men's College. No work had ever done bins se much good. It had made him folly understand hie rela tion to every other Englishman, had given him hopes for hie country which he did not entertain before, had made him realise many truths of which previously he had osly a glimmering, and had made him feel what England might become when these and kindred institutions had bean in hill bearing during this and the next generation. (Hear, hear.) His attempts at giving instruction in the 'College did not meet with good wooer. His occupation was that of a Chancery banister ; and, on the estab lishment of the College, he undertook to give a course of lectures upon law. His class was never verylarge ; at first it numbered six. They started with the laws of moo nations and clubs, and then went to the law of mechanic,/ institutions and joint-stock companies. Bet the law of joint-stock companies seemed to be too much for the working man and the class dwindled to two. (Laughter.) Then he disc ontinued hie lectures on law, and the council cast about as to what should be done with the loose hand. They saw that there was • feature in the life at the universities for which there was no equivalent at the Working Men's College. At Oxford and Cambridge there were common rooms, a common hall, and • groat deal of racial Ide. So they opened a room where every evening tea we. provided tor the members who liked to avail themselves of it; and it was decreed that once a week be (Mr. Hughes) should attend in that room and hold • eon at amid lea meeting. It had been very successful. Now the membees met in considerable numbers; some brought botanical and some geological specimens which they had Mend during the previous week, and they disowned every question under the sun. (Laughter.) The men of many different claws met one another, and the general effect bed been very much to bind the members together and to make them feel the truth and meaning of the work they were about. He bad spent some time that day in wit ' neselner various protegees connected with the umeulac tuxes of this great city, and he was seurnithed at the ' marvellous way in which order was produced from seem ing confusion. The people of Manchester had shown what orgeniaation would do. They had succeeded in pro ducing wonderfully beautiful articles from the raw material of other climes. That was the work of the lam generation. The work of this was not to perfect raw material, to pro duce wealth, but to perfect men. To some (awn our Where had forgotten this. The people were behindhand in recog nising the relations between clue and clean To make on realise the bond which hinds all together was the work of ours and the next generation. It was • harder but a greater work then any that had been given to the previous ages, and one way of scoomplishing it was by establishing and sup porting Working Men's Colleges. He earnestly urged hie audience to apply themselves to the work with all their hearts and all their mends. Then the time would amoredly come when all divisions between classes would disappear. The 1t.,. Canon Mimeos moved a vote of thanks to the gentlemen from London, which was emended by the Rev. W. Glass m.L, and wield with acclamation. The Rev. Mr. Maumee acknowledged the vote. A vote of thanks we. then given to the chairman, and the poomillsare tionMeted. FAILURE or THE PUBLIC PARK PROJECT IN HVUDISILIMIILD.—At the monthly ineettuis Haddam field Improvement Coniniesioners, W ednesday, the com mittee appointed to make the necessary preliminary Investi gations respecting the purchsae of the Sprlngwood estate, for • public park, presented their report. They had examined the estate, which contained 32 acres of land, valued at 22,4351.; but, while satisfied sate its eligibility for the pur pose of a public park, they were not In a position to recom mend its purchase. Sir Edward and Lady Loclimers, the proprietors of the estate, had offered 2,0001. towards its pur chase, and Sir John Ramsden, proprietor of the town, bad offered to subscribe 3,0001., on condition that the entire pur chase money should be raised by subscription, and also that all parts of the estate should be exchuiively devoted to the purposes of • public park ; but, after due consideration, the committee had oome to the conclusion that the purclase money was much more than they could recommend the com missioners to Invest for the required purpose, inasmuch as they had no reasonable ground for believing that the amount required could be raised. Votes of thmks were poised to Sir Edward and Lady Lechneere and Sir John Ramaden for their liberal offers. It wee also suggested that the teasnt right question should be definitively settled before again taking up the park project, which should be postponed for the present. The report wee ad2pied. 7 lloneliester Guardian, LIMNS' Nlicts.—The following letter hes been addressed to the editor of the .elyr Observer. by Mr. Thomas Carlyle Chelsea, Jan. 2 1869. Dear Sir,—l very much approve your sad Mr. Manse's notion about the Mimes Begg, and I hope you will not fail to get it executed with all the energy and skill that are possible, and with comeepond big success. Could ell the eloquence that will he uttered over the world on the 25th next, er even all the tavern-bills that will be incurred, but convert themselves into solid cash fur those two interesting persona, what a ewe were there of benefit received and of lose avoided to all the parties con. moved! I think at leant the question ought to be everywhere put, pointedly yet with due politeness, whenever in Scotland or elsewhere there is au assemblage of men met to express their admiration, tragic pity, &c., for Burn,, what amount of money they will give to save from indigence these two nieces of Burns? The answer, virtual answer, which this question got in 1842, threw a rather dismal light to me on such asesteblage.; but they ought to be tried again with more direct emphasis ; and very shame will perhaps force them to do something towards saving indigent merit on the one bend, and saving on the other whet is ton truly a fright ful (though eloquent) expenditure of pavement to • certain kostity we have ell heard of.—ln much haste, I remain, yours truly, T. Carlyle." CELEBRATION OF THE BURNS CENTENARY IN LIVTEPOOL.—The arrangements for the soirde musicale and ball in the fit. Georges-hall have been completed by the committee, The soirie is to commence with en oration coin mei:coronet of the great Ayrshire bard, to be succeeded by a concert of Scottish music, chiefly Detected from the songs of Burns. '1 he premeds, if any, are to be devoted to the Cale donian Schoch', tagged school., and Liverpool Infirmary. THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL. A special general court of the governors and member. of this oorporation was held on Wedneeday, at the hell, in Crane-court, Fleet -street, Dr. John Webster, F.R.S., in the chair. 'The object of the meeting was to take into consideration • plan proposed by Probesor Donsidein, the architect and surveyor to the institution, for the erection, under the name of the " Scot tish Corporation Buildings, ' of a new establishment, on a plot of ground at the corner of Chancery-lane and Carey sheet, the price of the freehold land in question being end the out of the erection of the proposed Main top, 12,0001., giving a total of 23,000/. ; providing for that eau a hall, chapel, public offices, mates of chambers, mid other convenience', ' in the Scottish style of architecture. A long dimuseion ensued se to the expediency of appropriating so large• sum out of the total mock of 38,0001, now standing is the name of the corporation, and ultimately the report of the committee, dralaring that it would be inexpedient, was adopted. A resolution wee also adopted appointing a com mittee to consider the charter and bye-lawe, with the view of seceetaining whether the mode of relief should not be so shared sad improved as to suit the requirements of the pee seet Green It is proposed, we understand, at the Bugger don of Major Adair, the hon. meretary of the corporation, to eatablish a "Burns Benevolent Fund," in 0011D111i011 with the foundation. • ••••-. ASYLUM FOR FEMALE ORPBANS.—The quarterly general court of this iwututinn we* held yesterday in the board-room of the Aeylutn, Weeiraineter-nted, Lambeth ; Charles Evans, Esq., in the chair. After the confirmation of the minutes, which referred to the reception of the children elected on the 13th ulk, and the generally favourable results of the centenary commemoration, it was stated that the it... C. B. Dalton, late Rector of Lambeth, who closed the commemoration by an appropriste sermon in the chapel of the institution on Sunday the 111th ult., had very kindly seceded to the wishes of the committee in allowing the sermon to be printed. This in • tew days will be ready for delivery, and it is then intended that It shall be sold for the reseal of this deserving charity. The remaining business having been disposed of, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the court broke up. RAILWAY RATING.—At the Lewes quarter ses sion., held on Tuesday lest, an appeal by the I:south-Boater's Railway Company against • poor'. rata, made for the parish of Battle on the let of July, 18i8, was heard before the ma iterates, after which the rate was quashed, and the parish 'ma adiestpd to pay the come of the company. (Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE. NAVAL AND 1111L17ARY. In addition to the vessels of war now being built at Chatham Dockyard, two line-of-battle ship are ordered to be laid down on the first slips that see vacant. Os* of the new vessels is to be a .crow steamer of 91 guns and 800 horse power. PORTSMOUTH, Jp. 6. The Shannon, M, screw frigate, Captain kronen Marten, acting, woe towed down alongside the Sheer jetty to-day, to be paid off. The Osborne, Admiralty 'team yacht, Master Commander George H. K. Bower, was taken into the ship basin to-day to be dismasted, and taken into deck for repairs, and to be brought forward for the summer servioe. CLIATHAM, 2 46. 6. In accordance with orders received ' from the Hoses Guards, the whole of the troops at this garrison, in cluding the Royal Marines and the Royal Engineers are regularly marched out, once in each week, in heavy march ing order severe! mike into the open country. Daring the march the troops are occasionally halted, and when the nature of the ground permits are formed into line. The dhows accompanying the troops are required to make eying skatakin of the country on the march, and occasionally to write a description of the country tratersid, and its coped ties for encamping an army. BLR 0114.1LE8 NAPIER ON OUE NAVAL Dimwit& The following letter, addressed by Sir Charles Napier to the Right Hun. Sir J. F`s.ld/sem, First Lord of the Admirelry, has been handed to us for publication: "My deer Sir John,—You have no doubt read in the lions an article copied front the Conversations Lest:coo, on the state of the novice of France and England, which is well deserving your attention. That article will show you that on the Continent the prestige of the British navy is very much densaged, if not lost; and it is your duty, as the heed of the naval administration, to endeavour to meters it, and, it you are refused the means of so doing, there cannot be a doubt that you will consider yourself bound in honour to resign—end if there is patriotism amongst your colleagues, they will certainly follow your example. I remember malting the same statement in the Howe of Commons, to which you nodded went. _ "When you came into power you found fault with your predeoemon end gave the country to understand you would tit out • channel fleet and put the navy in a more efficient state. You lave got up • channel squadron of five sail of the line, it la true ; but you are beginning tatiillow the footsteps of your predecomors, and are about paying off the Shannon, which hen only been two years and • halt in com roisaion' and ought now to be in first-rate order, thus indi cating too clearly that the channel squadron is not to be increased; report moreover says that the navy estimates are to be cut down. _ "Parliament will soon meet, and I venture to say in the House of Commons whatever estimates you think proper to propose will be cheerfully voted. It will be no answer to my that there is no money to meet the votes, and the Chan calm of the Et:chequer will not lay on more taxes to rain the needlul. From the position that you occupy you must be aware that enormous sums have been fooled away without any benefit to the service • but the people of England however, forgive that if ;hey see soy hope of amendment, and will willingly vote whatever more le requisite, and submit to pay whatever taxes are necessary, provided the money is judiciously expended. " I have often pointed out our extravagance in the hones and out of the hone, but till lately bets made little imprem ion. The visit to Cherbourg did much good in opening the apes of a great many members of parliament, and ttiat visit (by the paper I have alluded to) has had some effect in open ing the eyes of the people of the Continent also. " It is very properly stated net the value and power of a Best omelets of two points—the materiel end the perammel. " I propose to examine them two questions, and see bow far the statements made by the writer are borne out by facts. " I will follow his example, and pot aside all aimless vessel. and sailing ships of both rations, and oanfine myself entirely to screws. " The writer of the paper Mates that the materiel of the two nations may be considered equal, leaving out of the cal culation our steam gun-boats (which, by the bye, are going to decay). " Sir Charles Wood, in the House of Commons, in 1867, made nearly the same oilskin's ; and since then both nations have been p on their screws as fast ea poi eiblkand converting the beai of their sailing ships. "They will not make good men-of-war; but se the French began that system we have been obliged to follow, and have lately cut aown five theye-deckere and lengthened them. They will be tolerable subetitutte till we have time to get better. ' The people of England and some members of the House of Commons complain of the constant increase of the navy estimates; but they never think that within these few years the invention of steam hes rendered useless the old ships, and we are abeolutely building a new navy altogether ; and, I sue sorry to say, the invention of Armstrong. gun will render melees almost the whole of the naval ar " bat there has been great waste, and that money ham beam injudicictiely spent by our nevi' adminutratiou, there cannot be a doubt ; but • great deal of the expense is owing to the progress of science and the new inventions of Ism 706711. It le stated that the defeats the French met with were more owing to the deficiency of their ship' than to any want of bravery or prototeirmal capacity on the pert of their o®- con. No navel officer ever for a moment doubted the bravery of the French, for we all know that their colours were never struck till at !met a third of their ship: companies were killed end wounded, and the ships wellnigh knocked to pieces. It wee not owing to the deficisecy of their chips either in strength or weight of metal, for they were in general as well built as our own, and superiorly armed, and mealy of them were retained in our eenita and copied by us. " The real mein of our success was owing to the British ships of war being constantly at sea gaining rxpertenoe, and the French ships being almost se contently in harbour, and having no experience at ell, and their Laving lost almost ell the best officers by the Revolution. Au old distinguished Peach Whore once told me that there was no woods we beet them lest war, Decease we were always at sea and they were always in port; but now, he observed, things are cbsaged, as we ere always at see, end our officers are shrine employed. You are less at sea, know nothing about evolu tions, and two-thirds of your officers are unemployed. And It is very well known that towards the end of the wee, when Fresco mat single trigete• to sea, there were no less than tour drawn battles ; they saw what the Americans had done with their Smell navy, and followed their exempts. " The author of the Cbowereatiou gives great credit to the Prince de Jointed!e for the improvement of the French navy. He was brought up under Admiral Leland, one of the best officers in France, and profited by his example and instruc time ; and now we are doing ell we poseibly con to spoil ear Sailor Prince, who may at some lattice time Le at the head of the navy of England. I " What S stated relative to the waste of money and the failure of most of our paddle and of all our iron steamers ia too true. . . .. " Our first attempts at the screw were Dot successful ; such v the Ampbion, Termagant, Dauntless, and Senspateil. Tee four block ship. were very well in their wity, but unlit for the line, and the sooner they are put &aide the better ; ea well ea the four other block ships of 200-bores power, with mama sod yard* reduced as it it was the intention of the projector that they should neither steam nor sail. Lately we have made meat progress, and produced the flees% screw-ships in the world. A. to our eun•boats, there 11 not much to be said, that we built too many of them, and too few mortar Ze a t The gun-boat. did hula or no good at Sweet:am. Our mortar-boan did the work ; and, had there been ea many mortar-boar as there were gun•boata, and only as many gun boats se we had niortar-boate, and good mortars in thew, we Amid not only have destroyed the defences, but we should have destroyed the island. thennelvcs on which the detencee were pieced, and opened &panne fur our luneuf•battle ships into the harbour. I will not compare the French floating batteries with ours, fur I have not men the farIOW ; bet Armstrong's gnus have rendered them melee.. " It is aLo mated that our auccoseful actions were owing to our superior artillery; that is a mistake; we were gene rally opposed to larger ships and bonier metal. It was oar experience at sea, our rapid fire, and superiority of our .its, that gave in the victory. It is true we always Wed at this hull, while the French tired moat at the mum and yards. "They here bow found out their mistake, and aro doing all they can to give their officers and men experience; and, with the exception of gunnery, we scent to be doing all we can to lore our seamanship and experience. " I now come to the personnel. Since the pace the French have mode greet improvements in manning their navy, and we have made little or nom. In France every man following the sea in any capacity whatever, is considered ea owing a certain service to the Mato He may take hie mate rati the roll if he please., and becomes to be • manna; but ea long an he is on the roll he is a servant of the Crown. This system give. France • great advantage over England at the beginning of a war. Besides the conscription, they have their Equipage. de Live, which always gives them a re serve, arid they are in a °audition to man at once 60 or GO mil of the line. "1 will nor call them equal to our British Beacom, but they are far superior to the men we were obliged to pick out of the street. in the Hessian war; though we have been lately told that our 11111d81111312 were above the standard of the Onarda " We had the Coast-guard, it is true ; but amongst them there were many landsmen and other, unfit for service. That is now corrected, and the Coast guard fa to be hammed to 10,000 seamen ; but if they are to be kept constantly on shoe* till war breaks out, they will be found very ranch de teriorated. We have also at last established the Cant Vo lunteers, which we can only consider a a sea militia. The Queen is authorised, by act of parliament, to call out seamen to man the fleet in climes ; but then ere no regulations obliging them to obey the e a , except by impressment, which I believe to be en tirely out of the question. And so it ought to be, he why is a sailor to be the only slave in England P Various improvements have taken piece in the condition of the ma mma ; bat the difficulty we had and still have in P them proves that we hav e no t come u p t o th e i r mar k ;e= is on that account th a t I move d i n par li amen t for aroyal commissioo which has not yet ma d e i ts re p or t. Any one who hoe road that paper from the continent meet agree we are not at present in a wholesome state. I admit than is some exaggeration in the paper alluded to, bat the greater part is toe true ; and it moat have been written some one who has well studied the history of both navies by . Never theless I am of opinion that if our maritime population is well directed we have nothing to fear either from France or from France and Russia combined. 7 I see no difficulty in manning the fleet on an emergeney In a week, provided our peace establishment is kept on • proper footing. ' To accomplish this we ought to have • Channel fleet of at least ten .all of the line manned by thorough seamen. I will suppose each ship to have a crew of 900 men and 100 marines. In the event of wee, one watch should be dis charged into other line-of-battle ships, now ready. Thar would give twenty sail of the line, manned by 480 men each. Add to them 200 marines (which should fotm our garrison in peace, to be replaced by the militia in war), and 160 officers and boys, se4ly obbeinexl, which would give twenty sail of the lice, manned by 800 man. Take 200 men for each ship from the Coast Volunteers, and we should have twenty Daft of the line, without touching the Comet Guard, better manned than the fleet ever was in the great war. " When the Coast-guard we put on • better footing, the late Board of Admiralty, indeed of placing at the different porta the seven sail of the line they had reduced, sent them to deteriorate at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Sheernees, with two or three ship keepers on board, and fitted out at considerable expense a est of useless ships. The present beard, when they came into office, paid off the sailing ships, sod substituted for them nine block ships and one screw frigate. With the eta ption of the frigate Arrogant they are almost useless, and the sooner they are diaposed of the better. Oar first reserve are complete, and ready to be manned in the way I have propused. The second reserve are almost com plete, and deteriorating in our arsenals. They ought to take the place of the block ships, and be much better oared for than they are at present; they would be manned by the Coast Guard and Coast Volunteer,. If suck • plan is fol lowed, we might have thirty sail of the line manned, and armed with Armstrong's guns, at &pithead in • week or ten days. Collect your mortar-boats and gun-boats, and in soother week you would lay any enemy's port in ruins. To do all this would cost very little more than our present epitome It I. so simple, that if the government do not put It In force they ought to be displaced by the Home of Com mas; and I for one will waist to do it.—l remain your obe dient servant, " CliAB. NAPIER." ?RESER VATION OF LIFE PEON SEIFIVRECX. Yesterday, a meeting of the Royal National Life boat lastitntion was held at its home, John-street, Adelphi; THOMAS Citsritste, Esq., F. 11.8., in the chair. There wme alsopsmant:—Admiral Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B. ; Adana Gordan, Deputy blaster of the Twenty-house; Alasander Bootsfear Lg. ; Admiral Calor ; Captain Wash ington, 8.N. , BydrOgrapher of the Admiralty ; Admiral hiclianty ; W. H. Bartow, Esq. ; Captain Lambert Perron; and Captain Ward, R.N., Inspector of Lifeboats to the Mr. Lewm, the St cretary, having read the minutes of the previous meeting, the following rewards were then voted : Nineteen pounds to the crew of the institution's life-boat at Csieter, Norfolk, for putting off late on the night of the 16th ult., and rescuing eleven men from the Portuguese brig Prophet., which was wrecked during a gale of wind on the Booby Sands that day. The service wee attended by great exposers to cold and extreme difficulty in obtaining an early communication with the wreck. 41. to the mew of a lifeboat at Appledore for putting off in bar and rescuing seven men from the brig Felicity, of Mil ford, which, during a strong wind end thick fog, went to pieces on Bidelord bar early on the morning of the 18th ult. The master of the easel We. at first insensible of the danger he was in, but was afterwards induced to Amadeu bis vessel, and on the flowing of the tide she broke up. The lifeboat of the institution stationed at Newcastle, Dundrum Bay, wag reported to have saved the crew of five men belonging to • Preach lugger from Bordeaux, wrecked off Newcastle on the 12th ult. The lifeboat performed this service with much s. Rewards .mooning to 161. were she voted to rlerrO l arm nth and Lytham lifeboats fur putting off, in reply to signals of dietress from ships, with the view of saving life. The Lytham lifeboat was likewise reported to have assisted in bringing the schooner E. D., of !Minot:ob., into port in safety. A reward of 61. was also voted to a bout's crew in consideration of their laudable conduct in rescuing one out of three persons from the smack Catherine Anna, which was wrecked during stormy weather off Maryport. The boat succeeded only in taking off one men on her first trip, but on her second she was too late to save the life of the captain, who, is the meantime, had been washed off the wreck and drowned; another men had come ashore on a piece of the wreck. Had there been a good lifeboat, with an expe rienced crew at Maryport, such •calamity could hardly occur. The silver m edal of the institution and V. were voted to Joins Mom, OWL= in acknowledgment of his gallant con duct in saving, at ibs imminent risk of his own life, one out of two persons who had been thrown out of • small boat off Dungeness. Moss had sprung over the bows of the lugger end secured one man by tying • lope round hint, who was nearly exhausted when brought on board. Moss again, nothing daunted, darted overboard a second time to the rescue of another man, and had actnidly succeeded, by great exertions, in placing him on the bobstay of the logger when • heavy wave washed both of them off. The man unfortu nately sunk this time to ries no more, and the gallant Moss himself only narrowly escaped from 'haring a similar fate. A sum of 41. wee also voted M a boat's crew for saving six persons from the schooner Sealby, of Maryport, which during a heavy gale of wind was wrecked off Inniehofin Island, on the coast of Donegal. The boatmen had put off with much promptitude, and had succeeded in reaciung the crew just in time to save them from a watery grave. 21. was also given to a boat's crew for their creditable and prompt exertions in saving three men belonging to the brig Florence Nightingale's boat's crew, whose boat had been awempod off Arklow during squally weather. A sum of 81. was also voted to a boats' crew of four men for putting off and resetting the crew of three men from the schooner Oaks, of Goole, wrecked daring a heavy gale of wind off Blakeney, on the Norfolk coast. 31. was likewise granted to • boat's crew in consideration of their laudable conduct in rescuing five men from the brig Sampson, cf Waterford, which during stormy and cloudy weather wee wrecked off Bediaaoorty, near Dunn:van. The institution is, it was reported, about to send • new lifeboat to this dangerous locality. Various other rewards were voted in ackuowledgraent of meritorious anima in saving life from wrecks cc different ports of the coast. It was reported that the institution had durinf; the pad month sent new lifeboats and carriages to (3111km:oats, mar Tynerooeth, and to Canmore and Triunore. Fermenta amounting to 7211. &a 32. were ordered to be made for various lifeboats and their equipments. A tabular statement showing the services of the lifebuste of the institution during the peat year was laid before the meeting. The boats bad attended upwards of forty wrecks, and had saved more than one hundred tiers. The society bad paid its lifeboat crews nearly 6001. for their lautMble services on those occasious. . . . vet It was stated that the institution was murb in need of funds to maintain in a state of thorough efltiency its SO lifeboat establishments; that the nomaottre bad been com pelled to draw largely on Its small reserved turd to meet their large outgoings; and that the present lucerne of the society is very inadequate to west its necessarily increasing expenditure. THE BURNING OF THE iNIEROO.--OR the 28th of November, the Tyne, West India packet, whilst in let. 15 N., lon. 31.40 W., &roomed • Bre on board the Melee. She left Csleutta no the 21st of August, with a cargo of reede and jute, and the conflagration which ensued is sup posed to have erica from spontaneous ignition. It broke out in the main bold, and so rapid was the spreading of the Carom that the most etrenuoua exertions of the captain and crow to ',tinge& tittle were rendered entirely abortive. Whilst preparing to abandon the ve.eol in the boats, the ship Oneyfeetber, of New York, bound to San Francisco, hove in eight, and bearing down to the burning vessel rescued the captain, officer', and crew, nitimately.landing them at Per nambuco on the 9th of December. They speak in terms of great preime of the kindness and consideration of the officers and crew of the Grsyfenther. The Tyne brought to South ampton Captain Tate, Mr. Dcnaldeos, chief officer, and 17 of the crew of the Meroo. Tae WEST INDLt MAILS.—The following notice was Waned from the General Poet-oftloe yesterday—viz, Atrato for the mails of the 17th inst.. A mail for Nassau sad &shames will be forwarded by this packet. Letters, &0., in tended to be forwarded in is moat be especially oddment! rid St. Thomas. 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