The Express. — London, England, 1850-04-02 00:00:00

th the origiaal. The maim haws 1 - 4 ass sea s r/carefully followed, aad a Asst per. OW ag is which the Swinges depends, is pre soh as as as ens abet ds _ :•a Oileces asesriptioa. All the leading sharee 01°, morel S have ea iegisiously iairedated sad the urs .t. !„ — lay. e mpty. d so to diitribuNs their as as • ati b e t ill the comic actors stashed to the theatre, 't;;;aese to w it suet he said diet the sagest has sot, es •It e e' to haserously dealt with as it sight lime tosaas was certainly suggestive of a bread awl aina ide, end the v. ritlail graphic MONS &Meted L d id sled scope hir the otec. Th. iSeims ha sa s bees basOly Siastrkiiiia Pki& peo. ~,,tre. but is working Out their ltiest to the pew Ma t g „,i t aine they' has iltpeaded too trimly von *rte ~bith m u old sough to have bon oak vin the days of the Malakte Temp wil je arrangers has, however, bees ails TF co w. mt. swe bete author r by palates, sad la • • limbs' say onsidered lb., most effeadia bee yet bees produced at the May marl**. sures eery great liberties have been takes sad the dietinguieltiag features of sash _ , ..., 415. 0, .,k a u1e to state of the privies day Thus Cedric the ourodseed se •• a figs old /Codfish gliatleesa," thi• .01 kaowa Sanas that nese. Sir eri:bert is • swabs of lb. Middle Teeple ' • oohs a the NOTalalitavattolli "—with a li, ••• , a ▪ d a French s erest. Imam is • dietaberited ,„ aa swats: sole (played by Mrs. - "ad trasiba is a jester who anuses the • at ea: , it a laaasioa, with • series of 'ekes, a t eves Joe Miller luaisilf would has i blashed. • rl v. w ai peose•tid se • Jew elothessaa, who Ms kad wise at eatortialhais prises, hew who ,jat nowasso. sad Use by starts( the work•people I. Sikes. the Jew's daughter Is a ft a g,ik• e the Jew'sadaughter lathe' posa i ib u l a y 4 cou lad kl • „N a rk hair. sad elegiac soap wkh all the skil l • :se et es pp n eu.ger. This last stationed character _ , „ a l by Ms P. Morton, who, albeit " ha" was sot aiaga gtity of the part, contrived to wia the eg appl we. by the charming mass. in sag the lassie eatrusted to her. The • oki:h till to bee shire appeand to be deficient P tyvar oy. at least. the wards were ecli by th e ipa , a aks they iris er . sided. It . missed tole • • fault 5.:3 sat 01. that tik eructing their soap they bad as . Mei Dist admitted of Wag rendered betas ilLioits. however, displayed a thorough know : •hr • shell tyke of the day, sad the pointed • t h e r.t • as. in Lamy inseams, both Issornas • TLe.? ti l d ,q us wal w,th salad. Mr. ._ l a Elf. k Kr. Seliiiks Sir DAN* Bea Conant) NT ' 7), ...! • Icanhoe,lseckdosit (se Wenhito K a l e , • • Mn. itswillian (se Meeet Beed,) . r y z,,e to Reireens,) seines ad their awn is " e l date* see enrisi norall• The *MI nee nenniel, ing et ita SINS the Gahm were ie. FILINCESS'S. eLestre esitribeled its quota to the Easter 7. , !1:1, in the Misr w • new extra's/sem, called o f the Maw, or the (sorcerer of Candabar." " a . te it pie;ee of this description, lea simple' ono, ; s, r `ver.isated ie. slew words. Mahone, the p regrer , X! W la Ire with hie slave, Nerti/Ao (Mies LOW.; N tad idiom he bas from childhood confined to bie gig. Ate sitars' cot hie peer a, hat primate's to bottoms •.., scd be priers her with a charm which, a . ,a he remains true to her, giro her a greater -.•• than himself ; Tot the possession of this rum . a .-4 with the coachtion. that dike declares her love to m ..:,?•!e charm diralver, she again becomes subject , err the saner. r, sod becomes at ones old and TLa At Gm (Mr. 11. T. Crayon), who is bound a, a_ fby ark to merry his mosin who bad hoes .tees child, depostehee AbonifeWie, the Grand Vary Ir. Yaw), is 'earth of her. Aboaarii I t o tae ,Matt Of his mission , asa i s ant Ges:nert, one of N.) ida's compani. Da. T- • . I:ecoa • info mud from another quer in that . 0 ,....a.d he goes to Carthame. to 'sponse tr .'cm leerier Neritsa is the garden of roles he •hlk tee, and she declares her lose for him ; the wearer bad threatened, she suddenly ~ .! sad Oaer pit, and is car:icd by the power of ho. ~z , • rare two thousand feet under the Ind an Ocean, ..t.aes her d.rab. Tree spirit of the sorcerer then 1 - . en .47. by means of his cabalistic book, lea ts :keened of diwoleiag the power of the charm. Is to us:sands the Nuitan's nuptials with °wi os the point et completion, when Neraihes te, easel ?coaled power diouchants herself, becomes ••.d is pr•elumed the Sultnn's Lride and the Ite becoming ne wife of her Arai te• r-,./ I "use r . The piece wee got up for stage elects f• we of these were very striking, the machinery er,u au the first time of acting, end the facility with wt.; tr.:stoma:ions were effected drew forth the 1-- to- :f a wsl filled house. LYCEUM. -.** tale of 14 on and iphigenia," as re • free the Wit of Garrick by Mr. Planet& was last Li;: I i. 74.411 is this theatre with decided sumer, ▪ -• t- be a favourite entertainment for the hell , wi• eaceedingly simple and pl , asing rrgondes, who is an enchantress, or c rut ;mos to one, is April fool encash to • s rings to her bow in the persons of it.ond ss.4 a ,untrymas Merlin, and a kidnapped ~, a young gentleman of great innocence, and !...t••1 thst the sharpest arrows of love are blunt • • -.• _Verlui heels's,' aware that the young • t 7. •r• as maail share of Urganda'r affection, and in a ••• halos, gives that lady her choice. She It. pror.ounces the phroptiecy that Cytison's • •-. t,e wound, and immediately takes wee -1..•••:, *core fultilmeat With the aid of his magic • • t• .ztrvinees a Silvia, Iphigenis, a noble maid of tt• !madame, but hitherto commas boy, and there qtat•lr , .to d with stupid eyes itsl ppm nsutb, t. 1.4 taseArled surprise. 7ht Lam, of .kilris rift, n the heart which was so *Wil y., :5 L a art of Urganda; and the P. pbian boy finds t to his weapon. The metamorphosis is emu :: '?'r, boy is sow (to nee a cant phrase) " wide avl tel . .. his with the most gentlemanlike Jodi!- rep , :y to the queries of Urlando; for though self rn would Wad her er •to tie MN, Fatima, her model zr said. Li•naturedly keeps admonishing her that Ma dump ia the boy's manner la to be to his love of another. This 1. worm •- rryetiele, who determines to twang ed . rival, and piirg Cymon • Italf holiday, she • ." Ahmed to track ku stew and endeavour to diseover •:.•nnoeaawrJta nay M. Fatima gladly undertakes the atauirl an: Cr./vide, now invokes the aid of Rene lce • • ••• •, !!.,teed, and Deopear, for the purpose of 's tett crusade spinet her rival. The shepherds:4 l Z *AP N•fria; the shepherdesses ace all jealous, sad, ••• - s•-: to Lave h er banished frees the country, • 1 ! suit reaplaicts before Dow, a justice of to 7 -see with more of Squire Hawthorn than of L•ri (.. , sties in hi. compositiun. The shepherds, mean -1:-•• busy in =Aim their proposals for the fair Silvia tot , : Gat old mother Dorcas, sad an attractive scene for ate ;ma* is the side hose. Gems, while Siam, (Mr. L'l't 475 his ,:aims before the deaf old lady (Mr. Frank Brutus.. hoses baits( heard the plaintiff Daphae, is so cam.: by her attrattituis that he deternunes to ship O the 4 r • no to &Ashy Bay. The old proverb prevails, Jts story is good loth the other is told"; for no Me shinning Silria brought before hs worship utt her beauty ILCUPIII her pardon. The work of ..s. 51, however, is not complete. The wrathy ms sada' to witness an li:tactics's between ' saTI he. the letterr "ma; the Kul of Tomfoolery madardlod Aer Pcihos, when lore dwells anima the roma " • deteramod Is aanoy Lis/sods to the tut, sad just t.A ?. al . in herself grim barrios got Saida Into her power, For. 'to sad* waste to Psphoe, sat restores the lovers 6411 . r. Tim ',Wag up of thus is highly credit ihs Vomit maaagessest. Mies Masson, who sup .- • diameter el Silvio, sale • eitoseisfal delus/. Mr. "t" , Mathsers, April U. First, List of Tomfoolery, I "%a u Chorea, interpreted each route to the mitoses. 1,1 of the canals he, Miss Jolisat oourge,who played • sad Mr. Marley (who coasted Deems), were kiidly t ‘'..l; AM ease Nona to eeknowloilgetheemplimest. THE ADELPHI. I . '" entertainments selected at the Adelphi Theatre ' ••,• t, thoug's varied, ;instated aotbiaß novel—with " ' 7.i of a vaudeville styled " Playing Pint Piddle" onygoiag public, the threephoet the everting et Douglas J d's drama "The Mother's C* lll. "My Precious Betsy," sad " Tom Noddy's familiar Rust the public be with the marks of • • ,: •• -tatpieter,es also with the style la which they have r. •'"bbeuedly sad efeetively prodeeed, that say i t "'• ..1 . , 1 swam would be superfluous. The vaudeville, * leg sight pat epos the rugs tor the • -• 111 , ay be eharsateriesd as a pretty Mid. of Pesach omit life ia IGh2 —de. •,, — ;•kr math same for ephemeral favour cm semis mesas • u %?•asese, as also as the tact and taste of the this en say intrinsic merit whisk it peetemea. • ;41..7 a the plat—if sash it eau be said le hele.4l as bath as two eateries dm • ad the USN le 4 do Chateau Chatty and r Lre e ssis nerimeadle. the 4 The charm:tan la the were seresised very • hy Mutant Wises an Ass llmpeisis Loral, Is 11. et.eti the trinaspl et amis. them* be a Web „ -"at Ivan that in wire& It wee aesemplitheded ad . 1..L'1 Xr Timotheue," who, it is et " Mina ,—ra to th e s ki. a," whilst his t vi • lb .ugh Madams Gime% • . *I gap,, *Aintree the triumph by the M. t• • 'el. "'ion the muds to the semi likeett t ,.. 4 met m which there iv neither wit eat week 1 04 at. lady. Indeed Um musks of the Owe •w•• ,t a . sad limey maw's. sad " Inn ' q . • inp,rior laelodid to ream it aitreadis OD abtkilled in ths Meissen. All Mai Mad NustArt we amnia, rendered belh_ei , M.vs E flardine.aa D e a s y g to, • th• JaW41144101 i Mt. P. B. id, as the tt• , sad Mr. Lambert, as Soolist (die whilst the scenery, "Mated by Messrs Pitt and + L I r•n• ume were rich, actuate, sad entirely in t:r ICs piece wet admirably pet um Ms stags ; bet kr the cat.in many expremerd daaPPlabaggalle, •• vials% the greater number remote pow .. Jam.^ k.. i . THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1850. STRAND. Althoogh the &ear pregnant* of this little theatre isel.dad se snotty, k peeeemed M lateatatrable ettrasotes r the shape ef pine whisk have already boos hyourattly reeeleed, sad asthenia who hare ben lay kens ea wisest the meet mar a the day. "The Tsar el theield" has bees sow lobes the polar thr seas time, yet we. he Walls Ay the Use t o t ar Indented slit the reads Nth emnellal Vie ethoopiesee were " Di Pia Olsagegn "ad" Oa es the Lone, bet et whin ban abaft ben bathos the nab. bus k They beelloreni obsery aesamilia dot psal they p m pnested is lzt usa M may ed onited inorlanat, w wowed to gin oaths esthketlea. It ahead she be theand is joethe te the ahnogeasst that the theatre has bees re.tod away Ilha rem* sad that • an masa sad sot dem ~Addy V lad misted, him bees aided. Tie bine. sad hes aerate have heat rendered ornisedhoo. ather Wynn. ante of • Paths obstester othelsk shish thew that the mssbees math= se roma teethe 111111111111fte• of the pada SADLER'S WELLS. Tbri performances at this theatre laat night were of the Toast abarestor, the only novelty essulaing of ea aim ing ininloda eathitd, " A Village Tess." The play was " Mosbeth." which was prodaced fee the mend time this swan. Kr. Phelps sustained the principal sharactor with as ability end sleet manestly entlt him to be seasliarei one of the best Ilbslispeariaa representation mew apes tb• stage. Es leased ensideir able power inn the lapandosed mesas, partieslorly in the third art. Mae Olyna played Lady Mis-Arth, sal inked mad tiresesel the r admirably: but la the onead MS WIN evidently delielent in that phydeal amok whirl the warmest, of and a part so par• dash* requires. la the !Anima sad some of tho Mar MOM the 11.1811 with jadgalet 8•61 diwriial .ll.lo.l•lllol4,4lWWWW, a viper botanist the part. Ord Kieedwf. At the fall of the curtain r e rsallea abarerten were badly ealled for, and mad. maid load applause. The now interlude sal llM ia Loaria% fares of "M.P." concluded the per frarnearee. Ile hem wee well boxes, pit, sad tallary—but the mama did net bona* isoranniesily great soul she woad pries reanieseed. SURREY. The performances at this theatre opened with a romantic drama, in three no., by the author of " The flu oretary," " Tbe Adveaturer, or Plots La Spain." It missists of the attempts of Piquilkt Alikigis (Mr. Cies wick), an adventurer, to discover Ms real lather. He is thrown into most awkward sitaatinas, sad at length becomes mime aicieter of Spain, having obtained the object of his wish.,. This ploy wee followed, for the smoggiest of the holiday folks, by a burlesque celled " The Them Felucca." The story tares spas the attempt of three primes to mem the daughter of a king et no very gnus mental pretatirom from a souls evil genius who detains her in a fortified dwelling no ens knows where. Two of the primes fail is their attempt, hot PT keg? Faithful being as sisted by a fairy, ultimately delivers the primer, acd, as is usual, receives her hand in return. This novelty shown& in plitical repartees, all taking the liberal side, MU* were wall received by the audience. It may he eampared to the introductory Mlles of a e antotaisie wifkost the subsequent changes into the pantomimicel cha• reefers. We saw.' particul.rly notice the last scene of the abode of the Fairy Court on the Like of Gems, the brilliancy of which has seldom bean exceeded on any stage. ASTLEYS. Mr. Batty's Barter Lovelty is entitled the " Four Sons of Aymos ; or the Days of Charlemagne." The plot of the piece may be thus told. A swain Count Mauve (Mr. Crowther) hula, assassinated Came Arnow, suer the belief that the count had married a lady as whom his (Count Masigia) affections were placed, is animated by the most bitter tulips of hatred towards the four Pons whom the count hal left behind his, and determines, by y means in hie power, to lease their &erection. The better to offset his (inject, he consults a neausanser, who informs him the. neither E.rth, Air, Fire, or Water, can conquer the foie eons of Arson, but that they OM alone be subdued by the influence of certain passion* which have power over them. Riciterd, ft* eldest son (Mr. G. Belem) is given to gaming; Mooed (Mr. N. T. Heckel, the second son, is en. tirely under the effect of the tender passion of love ; Raul dUr. Ltwrence). the third eon of the count, is given to rinking ; sad Renaud, the fourth and last son, is of a most quarrelsome and warlike disposition. The peculiar pas. eons existing is the minds of the four sons of Cowrie Arms are brought into active operation throsoh the agency of the four demon', of Loos, of It'or, of Gaming, and of Irene, who act under the orders of Count Masegis. Exactly twenty years after the day upon which the mutter of the four sons of the Count ka4 married their father she summons them to her presence, and informs them that there is a certain lady named Welts (Miss E. Lovedsy), who, although she is living as a poison girl, is actually the &whirr of the great Emperor Charle magne, aid makes her sons swear that they will restore her to her father. To this they agree, and the wife of twee Ayreow then aouustosieatas to her sons the fact that she is an immortal spirit who had assumed the human form for the space of twenty years only, and that that time having expired she mot return to her immortal state, which she dies aesordingly. However, before she deparu this world, she gives each of her sons a ring, which is to have the effect of protecting them aesinst the attacks of Count Mosixis, who employs espernatsral limey to further his designs. Tot four eons of Agin** tun pro ceed to the Valley of Aosee, where they dinover Odette, with whom, we should state, Coast Roland bed previously fallen in love, not knowing her to be toe daughter of the Emperor. After encountering several difficulties thrown in their way by Count Maui., and rescuing Odette Iran beiag sold as a slave in the market at Bagdad, whither she had been conveyed by the maohinetions of the Count, two of the son cf Aymon—Richard and Roland present her before Charlemagne, when her identity is proved beyond ail doubt, althoegh Count Maugie has brought forward a daughter of his own, whom he has endeavoured to make the Emperor believe is Me (the Emperor's) own child. Count itaugis finding his fraud is diecovered, attempts to murder Charlemagne, but is slain by the four sons of Aeolian, and thu the piece ends with a tablets, amid loud apples's. Tna INDCBTIMAL EXHIBITION OF 1831.—A meet ing of the inhabitants of Smthampten was held yesterday, at the ClaildhaN, nesided over by the Mayor the borough (Richard Andrew*, E'en.), to appoint a local committee to act is conjunction with the royal oomosiesionen for promot ing the greed Exhibition of Industry, and to adopt measures to raise tunds and ensure an effective representation of the industry of this locality at the intended Exhibition. A committee was formed to raise saberriptions, and it was resolved that the workmen in the several large manefacto rise in the town should be requested to appoint a represen tative of their own from each factory to act on the local committee, sad mat them in their objects. Ma. SHAW' AND TENANT RlOTlT.—Yes'erday, at the monthly meeting of the London Farmers' Club, held at the Club rooms, lEarkfriers, the subject of tenant right wee intro .need by Mr. Shaw, and discasiod at cosaiderable length. At the close of the discussion the following resole tics was agreed to unanimously, " That in case of mina time between the landlord, or the iaeomiaa tenant, and the outgoing tenant, justice to the parties say be amply secured by defin ing is the agreement the peeled ever which the claim for compensation should extend, the operations or articles for which the tenant should be entitled to claim, and, as far as postible, the nature of the evidence which should be fur slatted to the valuers in ease of reference cr arbitration." A service of plate, subscribed for by tenant farmers, was then presented to Mr. Shaw by Mr. Hughes, on behalf of the club, in as address highly eulogistic of his able, eon. sisteat, and persevering advocacy of tenant right during the last seven years. Oa a salver there was the following in scription " Telma right. —To William Shaw, Esq., as a mark of esteem sad admiration for the weer in which he hes so loeg and ably advocated the tenant fusser'* rights, this token is offered by some of thole friends who appreciate the condeet of the man and the justice of the cause." In hie reply, Mr. Shaw stated that, highly sehe appreciated this testimonial of respect he felt that the best reward of his exertions would be the establishment of tenant right throughout the country. EXPLOSION OF A LOCOMOTIT6-0110 of the loco motives belongieg to the London and North Western Rail way " blew up," on Tuesday last, under somewhat extraordinary circumstances. The accident took place upon what Is celled Wolverton Bank, just beyond the locomotive workshops, a few minutes alter six o'clock in the morning. The driver had, with the assistance of another person, been reversing the engine—the gear working very stiff—and was about to give the engine steam, in order to push a luggage. engine out of the way, when the boiler burst with terrific violence. Nearly 25 cwt. of the shell was thrown over some buildings, and to a distance of about 200 yards, and the engine dome, weighing some five hundred weight, was thrown about 300 yards in another direction. Two or thus wheels M the engine were forced off by the explosion. The Brehm wee not torn asunder, and to its withstanding the shock is to be ascribed the miraculous escape of the driver and kis assistant, who wen on the footplate. MUDDED AND ATTIMPTED SVlDlDD.—Yesterday Mr. Baker. sad • Ivy of the inhabitants of Horton, resembled at the Shaftesbury Arms, Shaftesbury tweet, New North-read, Horton, to proceed with an inquiry relative to the death of Matthew Sanderson. six weeks old, who wee killed en Monday afternoon last, by his smother, Emma Sandmen, the wile of Mr. Thomas Seadorson. • stationer, carrying om Maoism, In the City. The stances rwneeted with this melancholy occurrence were fully stated in the rspert of the pollee irmatipatioa at Wor ship street in y y's Daily News, and having bon *gain detailed cm Or present rearm by • smart' of witnesses, tltz d t e ry, alter about use hour's deliberation, returned a i of " W ilfal Murder against Emma fradmon," who was committed on the eavonsc's warrant to the Central Criatisal Court, and the witnesses were boned over to pro secate.—Upen the uatortisaate woman being removed to the workhouse of Shoreditah, Kispeland, from th e station-hour of the 14 division on Friday, for her better aceommodatioa, she was placed in the custody of a polices& ,n who observed her take a knife out of her pocket; he knocked the knife out of her head, and she was then searched, when another knife weal load secreted about her person, which was taken mR ABERDARE STRlRL—Matters, it seems, still wear a very serious aspect at Aberdare. A large meeting was held on Wednesday, sad a reinforcement of police was sent over from Merthyr, and a company of infantry from Dowlais. Siam then rumours of disturbances have been current, but we believe they an unfounded. THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. GREAT MEETING ON SECULAR EDUCATION. MANCHISTIR, Rams MOIDAT. To-day a great town's nada. Wag WA, at Mona o'clock, la the Mantiastro Tows allot by him Parr, Rea, the Mayer, cps a fan a llfge body et respletabk sod aid litbehitaats, to of th orosider tke atri t a, of goilkellast -Masai la favour e sea of a m. sea Is Otis smutty, M M ai wins et merrier eda espoused by lug Wes, and atanaged by had authorities, spud* Nosed ley the rum mers for fiat purpose." So goat was the erraeW to b. Kant at this madam that a alai.! people avant sal drat to AU the hall had taken up tuatara fa OW of 0. subrabso as early as alas eclair- lbs doers Artm opts at half past tea, sad the gush was iseatoloas; is less ass boa aisegaseho bell was crowded to suMmatiea. The stayer, • seasiet foss Wawa& of people who oda not gain whoa the hell was hall fondled Is tiss en was willnated Is !woos of the edam. by Dr. Watts sad idol plasm Tb. CHAIRMAN la amplianoe • tho tequilas you lea jolt hoard I have thought it my day suds Ile Ms yes an opportunity of dfacessiag ths greet and heosibut quell= wlich the Ladashire Pablio flies) Aseedettes are anziess se briag before this Nan of Masekeolsr. (Cheers, and des et " misurs ") I fool that my darks is the Asir today an by so noun likely to be light ease, bet at tho sans thao I dinar myself without besitatioa sad without doubt upon the support of say fellow-oldness. (Chan, sad renewed ales "Adjoarn.") Toa boa 'shot se to call a labile nesting of ges lahabltasts la this Tows Hall. I have molested to your mast. Tke question you ars met to dismiss today is coo of vital import saes to the well-deg of Ste enemy. It Is proposed by atk aka whose ablations sad adman of the blot kiad, who soak by the steps %boy propose to take to promote the • being of tie" weary. (Chsera ) It is apses& by alms, who are equally sad. le their lateatioes—(aproar) —sad who believe soesokatiously that shadows tkotto pprroo posed for your easidoretka way is sot likely to are to the laterals of all. Galls Qua, the gado* undoubtodly is a most important one—(olansour)—it is a viatica which as. as,., be &sided by turbulence or by damn • it is a quarks worthy of cello monarets, sad jedieksas Na ndi/ratios at Um hoods of Ca ishalietato of • large tows like Manchester. ti;114;; J. F. TUCKER rose to move the fleet mina tia, sad proceeded to speak for • time amidst vest elamenr, but towards the eines obtained • better beans', and was mace cheered. He said—Mr. Mayer, Engliamea, sad fellow citizens: It Is at the request of others that I occupy the plus in which I stand this mooning. I have yielded to their request, not from any pleasure I have in engagemeste like the Dreamt, bat from a stroag sense of duty. (Hear, hear) My pl , indeed, would be very much dimi nished by the remembrance that I stand here la opposition to many whom I namely respect and love; but I do feel it • oresslag ditty to aid in decoding a sonety which, if not wilfully anarepreunted, has ban greatly misundirstood. I will not stay to prove that there is a vast amount of ignorant* amongst the masses by whom we are surrounded. The proof of that I lave to those statistic* of education with which the public has been plentifully supplied. (Hear, hear.) Now, here is • scheme which pro fesses to contribute something to the enlightenment of this dense ignorance, and it proposes to do so in a most comprehensive manner—not crowding schools together at select parts of the town, and laving the most needy die- tricts in utter destitati .n, but bringing everywhere the sup , ply most homes the uneasily. It proposes to do so also in the manner best suited to our British independence. It retains the municipal *lt sent of our coestitution ; ad, instead of entrusting the support and management of schools to the whim of the ministry of the day, or to committees of privy council, it *treats the support and management to the people themselves. (Ohara.) Niw these I regard as cardinal advantages belonging to our system. I know no other s) stens that has been ever tried, in any way present advantages such es these. (Hear, neer.) And there I' one other advantage which, for myself, I cannot prize too highly. Under this system nothing will be taught in the schools but what all men must acknowledge to be true. (Hear, hear.) ! There will be no danger of one man teaching one doctrine in ' one school, and of another men teaching en opposite doctrine in another. (Cheers.) There will be no danger of one schoolmaster enforcing the creed of Mr. Gotham, and earlier the creed of the Bishop of Elan. (Loud cheers.) I ask those who take the trouble to hear me whether this is no advantage. For my own put, I hold it se a great principle that no part of the buds to which all anti ihute should go to the support of opinions from which any conseiertiously dissent. Under this system there will be committed no in justice such as this. All that would be taught in these schools would be such as we should all agree spas. (Hear, heal Bat I am met with an objection —en objection put most fearlessly, moat diligently, most unwesriedly by the reverend canon on the platform by my side. Of that gentleman I desire to speak with sincere respect; widely as I differ from him in some things, I can hold cordial commu nion with him upon many others, and I hope for the time when I shell called this scheme a godless, graceless scheme; in one word, be has called it. irreligious. Now, the questita is, whether this accusation is corteet. 111 thought thisscheme anfarearable to religion, I should prefer that my tongue clove to the roof of my mouth, rather than utter any word is its advocacy. If I thought this aches. contrary to religion, I would rather leap over at once to the side of Mr. Stowell, and attempt to echo his fervent elenuncialoa. (Cheers.) But the question is, is the accusation correct I would first appeal to reason. Is it likely that the larrer aequaietance a man obtains with the works of Ged—for this is the real meaning, after all, of secu lar instruction—he will lose any of his reverence for the name and fur the Word of Gail ? Is it likely that the man who merely looks at the surface of creation must needs be the more devout man dun be who penetrates and dives be neath ? Is it likely that the workaan will deteriorate in re ligious fermi tg just as be becalms in intelligent* to trace the wonderful affinity ad cohesion that are observable in the atins' creation ? For myself, Mr. Mayor, I should be afraid to utter a sentiment such as that. In my view that sentiment throws discredit on religion altogether. Once convince me that the more • man obtains of knowledge, the lee, he is likely to preserve his piety; once endue me with the teatime nt that ignorance is the mother of devotion, and whether I choose—(Here the interruption biome so great that the rev. gentleman was obliged to resume hie seat for • few minates). The MAYOR said he mast again earnestly request the gentlesaa In the back part of the room to endeavour to be more orehrly. He bad noticed that in a large meetiag, • few men might make a great disturbance and interraption ; but he knew also that if the good sense and intelligence of the meeting were unfavourable to the clamour, and in favour of the choir, the disturbers of the meeting could easily be ejected He again appealed to the meeting to listen calmly. Mr. TUCKER the. proceeded: My friends, I was just now saying, could you convince me that the more a man ob tains of secular knowledge the less he is likely to have of piety; could you imbue me with the sentiment, that [gno mon is the mother of devotion, and then, whether I chose to retain my ignore:us or no, I should certainly give up my devotion altogether. But mine is • happier sentiment than that. As> stem that will not beer light let it perish ; but that same light which shows the worthlessness of the mare mock jewellery and mere paste, will aLe skew you the lutes of the diamond and the beauty of the pearl. There are men, who, from time to time, rise from this world of ours, and are regarded as lights of the age ; and the opinions which they form and promulge on any subject to which they have given their serious attention, are opinions which we should Bun to—not indeed with slavish adherence, but with re spectful consideration, and when I utter the name of the late Dr. Chalmers—(hear, bear)—l think I name one of the lights of the age. None will my that that eminent men was indifferent to the interests of religion ; and yet what was his opinion with regard to the matter to consider which we en met to-day ? A. year or two before the doctor's death there was groat agitation in the religions body with which be was connected on this very subject ; and almost the last words the doctor wrote conta in ed a sentiment to this effect : that inconsideration of all the difficulties of this much vexed question, the beet way would be to go to government for a secular scheme of education, and leave it to the religions de nominations to supplement religion. (Loud cheering.) Now this is what the Lancashire Publics School Society pro poses to do; and yet for proposing to do this it is taunted es irreligious. If you will indulge me, and appeal to fact, there is no question so truly an English ens as this. How will the system make any answer to that gelation ? I point the Englishmen to New England. I point him to that new country across the water which bears the name of the old, and where more than two centuries ago a band of men of whom old England was not worthy, took refuge from the intolerance of their own home. (Chem.) Hardly had they (nand the soil around them, hardly bad they provided food and shelter for their children and their posterity, before they erected • great scheme of free-school education, which has grown into magnificence through the two succeeding centu ries, and nourishes in full vigour at the present day. Now, you may ask, how is this scheme regarded by religions men la New England ? I can give an answer, trots private in formation, on authority on which I can fully rely. A friend of my own last spring went over to New - England, and I begged kia to make inquiries among a great many religion men in New England is to the acceptance of what are there called " common schools." He returned from America In the antemn, and this was his answer:—" The ccension school system has the general confidence of religions men— (cheers ) ; aad as to its ellects on the toes of society and morals, this is all I have to my: raise Lancashire to the level of Massachusetts, and "l raise Manchester to the level of Boston, andi think you do a most patriotic deed." (Hear, hoar.) I men, therefore, take the liberty to protest aren't the misrepre sentations of Mr. Stowell. (Land cheers.) Ido so respect fully, but Ido so steadily. If Mr. Stowell will presume to judge of the motives of those who advents this scheme, let him beware lest they judge of his motives in opposing it. (Load cheers.) I for one do not pretend to do so. Mr. Stowell's Mater and mine has said, " judge sot, that ye be not judged." (Cheers.) Mr. Mayor, I have done ; and these being my sentiments I have great pleasure in ending the petition. I move the following petition, to be alined en Whaler this aupetieg by his warship the mayor, as chairmen : . . " This petition humbly sketwetb,— " That the large amount of iittemperana, yl cc, and mime, which exists is England sad Wales, ls, to a great extent, owing to prevalent ignorance, and to the main muse of that ignorance, namely, an install/Lent and defective provision for popular education That as her Majesty's subjects have long enjoyed the beneths of a lugs share of seli•government, their rights and their liberties alike require that parents should have a direst influence in the origiustioa, the maintenance, sad tits diem tion of public schools. That tosseanit se various fens of *mks k regent ts religion prevail in th• country rad bey nenhus ef= hon e aloof host • d ailag asi e s tz sonsinddis, frau anemias ski parabilis sushi to skinned's any Inn diesecised sansimants. " Your Pstinennsi nen if Wire Mu sad sanisikes, istaisoly mum me Mum* hams la establish► by lad a synods of shmiss sil disologioal dos. trines eat sestriss inilmesse. rate, sappsned by kid rata ressaid es he basis of Ohs poses sod managed by ideal authariles wear* skossi tar that purpose by Um rato.payets, mat sand bad. genially to tin untaught sad a* tree of charge Ise a thorough traisiage===, god piaciples. end Armen habits. _ -0 Asd your petitions's, Ike." The Rev. JOHN rAmia TAYLOR, D.D., said—tfr. Mayer ne& Gestleawa : Net bang a amber of this aro- Mattes, It was net ny istostices to take pan Ia the proses& Legs of this amiss, had I set bees reenseted to esessid the t:Z=lneelstios. The gnat reins named la the peti es whin I wish to say •An words, an these : Yint, that it is a great and lamentable fast, in whisk I sp head gest/man of both as mai sone, :h de := mists in the assias se irekeney Ia order Is meet this defielwasy, it is that resgie of various Realities Weld be ft erne plea el soft that fiellismiy ; acid„ that whatever is dame fa tide hie shield he den es the pinelple of robin ZW, the ead to the eninden sit ewer sewed= sad the snidest* of these dißmeness et raglan opines whin. winnow they are lattedesed, are the sense et ill keine and unidadasse. I will Marl, state that, as as hadielisal, fer I Milne that the pdssigh esemisted is this petitioners' Lieu degree wheaten neibbnify le religion what I Mid is this, that while as psinalpiselvesatml In this ocotillos wadi meet a very greet and wry want is pro : 4 1 1 sone . they wend sot only lINIVII the means of isstewstiss in their emehmei sat w 1 2 1b a ll e i w wiring figeasiss kin' P egh4 lol ll Z lend tiesel hen at then whisk y Gestlamen, I as aware that the SSW dated this association, and all other at all to it, are likely to be met, in this mummy I men, by • very song opromitios. I des% Rend to innate Intim ato thews who corona tans reinelpies. I don say that any of Mese gentleman are es einem is 'bear oprnitin to then print*. se I am dawn In my 'Anew ; bet, gnat amen belle as I do that these principles are based on nssoa—Mlirvang that know sa any lona Is besellcial, I Reg to e say eenvicalcm that seme indignities er xpress other of those mast nester or later be carried Into effect ; sad be the obelisks we have to enectuater what- OM be the nierepreeentation of motives sad principles to wh eh we may be liable, I have no doubt that if we osly keep together perseveringly and constantly, if we only aim at what Is practicable, instead of Mang at what may appose to as as nen direct, it we only take this course, I am firmly persuaded that the Want hearts and sturdy intelligens of the people of England will make nem support the principles enunciated in this petition, which are, is my humble °plain, founded ea reason, truth, sad justice. (Loud cheers ) I have gnat pleasure in seconding the netin of itt Tucker. The Rev. HUGH STOWELL, MA., then roes amidst tremendous confusion, and after several ineffectual attempts to obtain a hearing, eald—Mr. Mayor, I rise to propose an amendment to the enclitics& which has been submitted to this meeting, his to the following effect—" That instead of the petition which has been submitted, the following be the petition addressed to both houses of parliament, to be signed by the mayor oa behalf of this meeting: That your peti tioners are deeply persuaded that, in order that education may be of muck avail to a country, it mast be Christian eduction. (Cheers and hisses) That it is the duty of the state to provide such education and no other for the children of the poor in this Christian land; and that they regard with strong disapproval a bill now before parliament for pro aiding secular instruction for the people, without at the same time securing that it should also be Christian in its character. (Oh, oh.) Your petitioners therefore pray your honourable house to reject that bill, and to sanction no measure for the furtherance of national education which does not make pro- vision for the moral and religious, as well as the istelleeteal, culture of the children of the poorer classes." (Cheers and Mmes.) What I could not approve in the case of my own family, I would not inflict on the families of my working brethren (Hear.) I oppose the system of the Lancashire Public Shoo! &satiation, because I conceive that it is an utterly inoelequats system as applied to man. (Oh, oh.) Por man is not simply a being formed for time, but capaci tated for eternity ; he is not merely • being who has an intel lect to expand, but • heart to culture and moral affections to be trained, for Gad and for his hied. (Renewed con fusion.) Are you afraid of truth? (No.) If you dare not listen y at are afraid of your cause and are cowards. I em not afraid to listen to all your arguments ; will you not listen to mine in return? (Renewed uproar.) We con aids. this scheme to be objectionable because won* it enures intellectual cul ture, it makes no certain provision whatever for spiritual, morel, and religious cultivation. (Oh, oh, and hisses.) It provides that the one shall be given, it forbids that the oasr shall be given. (No, no.) I have ex amined the scheme In vain to find that religions instraa tion is part and parcel of it. It reverses the proper rule of our conduct in regard to the things of time, ter we are taught " to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteous ness." But the Lancashire Public School Association appears to me to invert the order, and to say " Seek first the secular, and afterwards seek the spiritual and the eternal." (Hear, hear.) I believe that he that knew ma, knew best the order for man ; and I believe that the glory and greatness of England (and after all it is the most glorious nation oc the face of the earth), and still more the glory and the greatness of Scot land, are her scriptur . l schools, and is mainly dee to that amount of the religious element which has pervaded and ito largely penetrated the instruction of the children of the poor. (" Oh," and " Hear.") lam well aware that it is replied, that the state has only to do with secular instruction. (Hear, hear) But I have yet to know that the state ought to be a secular thing; though the state is for time, it is sub ject to the God of eternity. There is no power but of God, and the powers that be are ordained by God; sad if they do his will they will " nen up • child in the way he should go, that when he is old he may not depart from it." (Hear.) But a state has to do with toe civil condition and moral be haviours( its subjects. Then,taking that lower grouad,though I do not abandon the higher, I will meet my opponents upon that ground, and say—lf • state is boned to educate its people at ad, it is bound to educate them in the very best manner. (Hear, hear.) It must educate them in the manner that will most instil into their hearts sound principles— which will most lead them to obey the laws that that intellectual culture enables them to understand—(" hear " and ep plause)—which will give them those moral aid religious sentiments which are the substratum of all law and of all loyalty in • wellordered Christian community. If it makes no provision for the Christian and the moral, that state is unfaithful to herself, and to the best intensts of the commu nity over which it presides. I know that the fashionable reply is, " Leave religion to the parent; the state has to do with the secular, bat the parent has to do with the spiritual." (Hear, hear.) I entirely demur to that sentiment. If the parent is bound to see to the spiritual Instruction of the child, he is also bound to see to the secular instruction of the child; and the tame argument that would exonerate the state from giving religious iastruetioa would equally exonerate it from giving secular instruction. We have been told the mover of this petition that intruding Is not neaewrily irreligious because it is simply secular. (Chun.) I repeat, with all respect for that gentleman's philological skill, that if he looks to the root of the term freeness, he will find it is the simple primitive religion, and 11 contend that the epithet irreligious is foirly affixed upon a system which leaves fell gi_on altogether out of the question. (Hoer, hoar.) We are not wanting to try some new and hazard ous experiment in education. (Hear, hear.) Have the Lancashire Public School Association model stools, that they have tried for a su ffi cient time in order to test their soandneas of principle, and bring them to that touchstone of experience which Mr. Tucker is so in love with, and which I 11211 so is km with? My Christian Mends, the practical touchstone is to be men in Scotland. It is to be seen at this moment in senti.infidsl France. (A Voice " They have a religious system of education.") I say In infidel France, where the bitter fruits of that system are each a lintel amount of socialism and onantunians. (i Hear," " Oh, oh," and uproar.) There It is clearly proved hat such • system in the upshot, will lead to a fearful recoil upon despotis m ; for such despotiemearune are now being adopted in France to maintain public tranquillity and protect life and property, as I pray God may never be demanded in our own free land. (Load s h eets.) I believe I am not making an unwarrantable amenmption, when I trees the disorder and disorgenleadea that affect that unhappy country to the system of 'decodes that has beg upheld by the government in that lead; and I appeal upon this subj at to a late article in the Loudon Times. (Oh ! Oh !) I appeal also to the Incendiary principles and democratic re volutions:7 doctrines of the secular schooltneetere of that country. It has been proved that they are the normal teachers. and that their schools are the normal seminaries of communism, socialism, anarchy, and rain. The shrewd and dispassionate Guizot says religious instruction is necessary for the people, and that if the New Testament were iatra dueed into the educational department In the schools, it might in some wise prove an antidote to the fearful poison that was being distilled there. But I object to the system of those whom I am opposing, benne I 'attend that the obstacle in the way of sweater education in this country is not the religious element. The whole of their scheme is based upon as gesamptiow. They sesame that the people would be educated if it were not for religion. They assume that, cut oat religion from a national system, and the people must be educated as a matter of course. (No, no.) I have no hesitation in sayiag that if you were to poll the Inhabitants of Manchester you would find that, of the protestant population of this city—(oh, oh)—there are not one-tenth of the whole who would say they would not send their children to school because the bible is read there. It is a libel upon the working men of Lancashire and of England to my that the bible is a bugbear in the schools. Why, the working men of Lancashire would net send their children to a school when the bible is shut out; but to a school when the word of God is upheld as the rule sad standard. They say they don't wish to exclude the religious, bat the asnarian element. Then, let their plan include the whole bible and I will not oppose them any longer. (Cheese.) The scheme, as I understand it, is to give this county rate inclusively to those schools from which the bible is ezdaded ; thee I say they make the government the great panes of irreligious schools, and withdraw its patronage hem the religious schools of the county. (Applause and hisses.) Time was then a some of unparalleled eonfulan for the space of a quarter of aa hour, after which The Rev. CANON preceded to of that he wait sot afraid of low schools, provided they comprehended the unmitigated word of GM ; but they mad not submit to a national to for the support of a mum which excluded the word of God. (Heat, hear.) lie would have the teaching in the dully gehoels in haresesy with the madden is the eunday school., mid what was tacks la the week days with what was taught urea the day of hey test. Ie ormlusioe, lie stated that he W set made est seek a ease as he was prepared to have km hid the peesseikes begs soadested with 'alga Weill. rose MINA el hist' *res. Bat whatever might be the meek et that day's preeeediap, ha should look bath with mildbelles es the verdiet gives at tbe last meeting, when they had majority sedate the sestsdas ;system ; and etirthey were is a minority in doges they bed • majority Men. The Rev. Gendsmas Men art down amidst misliediEreessitid elem. 211% CHABLHB HAYDON, Walleyes', ..sanded the amssiment. He mid he would have ntraised teem inter fads. U the reqabitioniss bad set for dimension amongst Measeeivea, bat it was a public suretiag, and it they would not base lies he would appeal to the public. He appagred here, is the liamplaes, to say that his hired the Rev. Geo. Oaken., was in Oemeralkand ha appeared is his place as thomermestative et the Werleyam, a body than whom nom wen =MI ageless ke ekeention. He had sees a hill beaded " Ileseler Marmite, er se Bdaestioa :" did they seas it this system was set: laiested, the people were to ham no edsestien (Criss Hno "He, , .") - IL. adapted the dis eilmer. But was it 'readiest to go to parliament is favour et sash a seism" as this barge the amain t (Cries of " yee est " so.") Bask/ edseedss was a amity : we had bees at least aereatemed le 031 post that eduestioa sheali be prom Med by feligiim._ The same authority whkh Sethi Me hags that be amid Math his ohildres told him what he should Mask tana. The Rev. Wm. WHIM/HOW nee, amidst load cheers, to support the Menai 'sena. He said: I fear that not a Has of the noise sad is we have had this morale', is alleiltatable to the tastes which have but adopted ad aided out by our opponents; but all we want is a fair field cordno favour. I have listened with as mach attention as denssastaaces would permit me to give, to the rea raft employed by these who are opposed to I le, ma, emenaly, I have heard a great deal of I what I hem vague thought and dulamati,n, and I thew out this challenge at one—that I should have , been MIN happy if the Rev. Hugh Stowell and the gentle ' man who supported him had placed before as certain prop*- , sines whin would have afforded us an opportunity of re. f i y a t si g i to then. We will thee undentand the matter, and it in a way worthy of air great and important cause, es I believe we are all some* men, and have no object is 'dew bat the promotion of the general good. We do not en get° eye, but we might net for that rune to call the motives of each other in question. A great deal bee been said about the vain sad importance of the Bible. I perfectly spree with what Ina bees said; but we have not met to dams the principles of the sacred volume, we have met to madder what are the educatioaal circumstances of the noun. try, sad by what means we really can steers a better and more exteasin system of education for the people than now edam. It is a lamentable feet that, although we have had a church established by law, which ttu had at its command about Um million of money—(loud cheep)—yet, notwith standing all the religious and secaliu appliances which that church an command, and which that church ought to have employed, we have one third of our people unable to read, nearly one-half unable to write. (Hear.) It is outgoes tiesably true that there are at the present time 750,000 children, between the ages of 6 and 125 years, that are re ceiving no instruction whatever, neither secular nor re ligious—(hear) —and it is equally mu* that every 10 years we cast out upon society somewhere about 15 'millions of seals that have received no education, no secular instruc tion, no religious ad moral training. I ask, then, is such a state of society to exist ? Look at the facts of the saes. We now pay eight millions for poor rates. Although oar po pulation has not doubled since the commencement of the present nature, yet crime has increased fivefold. (Hear.) We pay 2,000,0001. for the prosecution of criminals, and we lose by public theft somewhere about 3,0000001. Now, then, it is perfectly evident that the educational agencies hitherto at work are not adequate to the Citollol - of the oouatry. We have beta told that it is the duty of the scuts to establish religion ; and Mr. Stowel has quoted a outage of scripture (very little appli cable) in support of his argument, that the powers that be are ordained of God. (Cheers.) And he intended to show, I suppose, that these powers ware in duty 'Lund to impart to an a religious education. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Has he forgotten that the powers of which the apostle Paul was speaking were heathen powers ; and, if there ie any force in his argument at all, those powers were bound to establish the heathen religion ; and not only so, as the state must only establish that which it believes, it may establish any kind of error, or any clue of religious opinions. I love my Bible as devoutly and sincerely as Mr. Stowell or any ads friends can do, but I advocate the rights of conscience. I maintain that every man should think for himself with regard to religious opinions; that these are matters which lie between con science and God ; and unless Mr. Stowell can work some miracle on behalf of those evangelical sentiments that he and I hold together, and unit , ' he can give some sign frem Heaven that he and I know better than our neighbours what is the truth, I contend we mast allow freedom of opinion, and Ist every man stand or fall to his own master. We have, for example, Jewish subjects. Are we to introduce the whole Bible into our public schools, contrary to their wishes and right to__ judge for themselves. They reject the New Testament. Weil, I ask, if we are to have the Bible, which version of it are we to have? I 400 no right we have to exclude the Douay ver. sion, and to insist on the authorised see; and, therefore, finding we cannot agree about this, I say, let de have simply a scheme of secular and must instruction and education. (Cheers and interruption.) Is it absolutely neeeesary to introduce the Bible into our national schools, or into any class of schools supported at the public expense. Secular knowledge is a subject in itself. We ail recognise the advent's.' of reading and writing, and being able to carry on the oornspondence and Waimea of life. I hold that a philosopher is better than a savage; and that an educated man is less likely to become a vicious men and a disturber of the public than the man who has been trained in ignorance and vice. I object to the reasonings of our opponents in reference to the forcing of religion upon the community; because I boll it absurd to maintain that we are to give no enlightenment to a people steles' we can give religious knowledge and opinions along with it. Have we not duties which we are bound to perform to our fellow subjects in that 'nighty, that misgoverned, that oppressed lead of India. We have millions of Hindu's and Moham medans there, and is it to be said that we are not to communi cate to them secular knowledge, and endeavour to civilise, elevate, and improve them tied we an able to force our religious opinions upon them. It has been &Lund this morning that religion would be seriously injured unless the secular and the religious should be blended • but why cannot religion be taught at other times, and in other places ? (Cheers.) Is it to be supposed that Mr. Stowell or the rev. gentlemen who have supported him are to ones preaching—that all cur Sunday school teachers are to withdraw from the religious educe. tioculestablishment ? Is it to be supposed that Cnriatian men its not to continue to distribute the Bible and to distribute tracts? (Cheers.) I hold that the sphere of religious influence would be greatly widened if we had secular education ; I hold that the Sunday school teacher would be able to give the :whole of his time to the communication of religious instruction ; that the home missionary and V... minister would be able to speak to our Lancashire people in a language they well understand; and I hold, too, that the Bible and the tract would penetrate into the millions of homes from which they an new excluded in consequence of the igno rance of our people. The conclusion of the whale matter is this, that our opponents will do nothing because they can not do everything. He opposed the amendment with all his heart. (frond sheen.) The Rev. JOHN BY WATER (clergyman) supported the amendment for some moments amidst a scene of uproar which Nam description, and which was to some extent at tributable to the reverend mamma's want of temper. The MAYOR hers rose to say he had filed the meeting, and Do disclaimed favouritism to either side. (Cheer.) Mr. BYWATER oontinned—After dismissals g any in tention to impute ;infamous to the mayor, he said he came thereto oppose the Lancashire School System out of a love for his bibia. Mr. PETER RYLa NHS was received with great cheer ing, and mid he wall recollected that at the meeting held there four months sr, a large number of clergy were present, who backed as Mr. Stowell when he said the people were satisfied with the miantee of the council of education; !MOM,* were they tow? (Much laughter.) The nomad mamas (Mr. Stowell) had said that we had a smog egadussita Y km: all he (Mr. Hyland.) could say was, that if the dela had a system, sad were educating the people, this meeting would not see him here. (Cheers.) But they were not educating the people ; and, while they refused to do the duty themselves, why did they oppose a just end equal system when proposed by others? It wee not, certainly, oscines the church was too poor. He congra tulated hie friends that, whilst this meeting had been going on is doors, another meeting had been holding out of doors which had already come to a decision in favour of the Lau cash4e Public School system. (Loud cheers.) Dr. JOHN WATTS was received with much cheering, but it was followed by clamour which prevented hit being heard for some time. The MAYOR aid, =Mat nub laughter— There's a vita thee =Wog, gent~ Weft a little loager I Mr. WATTS proceeded, amidst much interruption, to say that he thought if there was any design towards man in this universe, it was that his mental faculties should receive a higher development, and that was the aim of the promoters of this meeting. There was a mental famine, and all that was *ought was to supply It with mental food. It struck him the working men had the greatest interest in this aim; ter not only would intelligence teach them better how to ears their bread, but it would enable them better to support their lot and make the best of their panties In those times of want end suffering which so often came when they could not earn their bread. Be wan glad to ese that the question between them and the church was much narrowed to day. The Rev. Canon Stowell said if they taught the whole Bible in thee* whoa. ha would not oppose them. Well, Mr. Stowell woe a shurchman, and surely he would be content with the Bible as taught in the church, end he would oak him if ever in the whole round of the church services in the Prayer Book, the whole Bible was taught ? (Loud sheen.) If Mr. Stowell would be content with it, they had no objection to extracts being made from the Bible on the principle of the he m= in the Prayer-book. Kr. Stowell had pointed, as a warn lag against what he called an irreligious system of education to the fat* of a neighbouring country-0 France ; but never let it be forgotten that the national educa tion of Frans was under the priesthood up to the time of the great revolution. (Loud cheers.) Rc volutioas were not the consequence of secular education. but of Ignorance and the increase of y opulation whore there was no bred. The MAYOR now proceeded, after a stormy debate of five hours, to put the question. The result was, that the amend seat wee siltation', and the original motion carried by a large majority. The annocetement of the Mayor to this offset was received with cleaning cheat. A one el thanks having bean moved to the Mayor, and earriod bp inielastion, the Resting separated about hall. pest leer ofelesk. - As ha bilis* by moral of tits speakers, thm was a larger westing eatable the hall time that within it, by which the Midas was wlepted 'inset aasaimuly. THE ANTI-TRUCK MOVEMENT IN STAF PORDSHIRE.-MIETING AT DUDLEY. DUDLEY, MONDAY EVENING. -- The agitation against the " treat" or " toasty system," so extensively premised in tide part of the country, galas ground rapidly ; assostiations are in course of f ormat i on i n a ll parts of the district, and to-day a large meeting for the purpose was held here, the Mayor in the chair. His worship convened tise meeting se the rt gelation of nearly two hundred of the MGM reggillahle persona in the perish, and there were pre sent dsttelsYaee from BEAMe end other towns. Mr. ENGLAND, brewer, moved— That ads nseenag d regards the system adopted by many man o t aa hirers and imam paying wages in Week sr homy, as eruel ifitletery, awl gliendally tudost Mr mildew men, bigbly min ibus Mil Oak le die retail trainees. endaohon to Me boes.srste.s moneposyleg mar, and being at the seise time In dbeet violation Non sh e N g pypuguinusa, mes = fee the expiate purpose ot pflWellth2r unneleral and misapply. pledgee itself to time ever, lawful end erisittenesel means in Hs po wer , in conpancUon with else atauLa Instiadons in tide dletrkt, to Wit down. He said that there would be no difficulty in showing that the system of truck was cruel, arbitrary, and unjust to the working man: it degraded him greatly, and bene fited no one mein the hard-hearted tommyinthster ; it deprived the pommels of the means of raising himself even in the elate its which he was stationed ; it deprvid bins of the means of in any way providing for his family or himself in the hour of sickness and need ; for those calamities which the severity of his labour and the damp of the dungeon in which the poor miner was abut up, necessarily exposed him to. Surely each a man was entitled to the hire of his labour, instead of being compelled to go to the " lemony shop" sad receive goods at 20 and 30 per cent. above the market price. Such wee the state of things at the present time, end it had been so for years, gradually getting worse. It had been at td why the men did not extricate themselves from the difficulty. The feat was. they had not much power to do so, the " tommy masters" were so numerous, and those who paid in money always so full of bends, whereas, if the men did not agree to the system, they knew they would be discharged, and in these times work was so difficult to be had that they dare not risk the chance of Leavitt( their employment. SJOIO of the nonsense' were hucksters and even haberdashers, and the men knew ;if they did not purchase from them, what would be the oonstquenee. but, to escape the scandal of keeping these shops themselves, they were farmed out. They had tined • great deal lately about the distress of the farmers, but this " Weems' farming must be a good thing, for he heard the other day that • tommy s hopkeeper" to an ironical's:sr offered another iroomaster • better annual income, if he would send his people to be trucked at his shop, than the profits which the b. 500 acres of land in this country would produce, supposing wheat to be at Se. &bushel. (Cries of " Shame.") Now of all the instruments of cruelty that was ever thrown up from the bottoming pit to enable one man to (Tyree' another, this was the masterpiece. (Hear.) It was an engine the grinding qualities of wh.ch must ever be regu lated by the humanity or the cupidity of the man who em ployed it. Happily for that town, and to the credit of the othaufacturers, the system was n. 4 so extensively in operation there as elsewhere, and the purpose of the establish [Lint of an asseciatiou was rather as a preventive than e cure ; they saw the storm approaching, and thought it better to take steps to counteract it to fore it set in. L. LESTER, Esq., seconded the Resolution. The " teensy" system was, as his experience had shown to him, bed in every sense of the word ; and he was very sorry to have heard that some of the most respectable manu facturers in the town had declared that unites the " tummy system" was put down they would be compelled to adopt it in self defence. Mr.IIOLBIN, es-mayor, in moving " That an emaciation be now formed to embrace the borough and neighbourhood of Dudley, and to be called ' The Dudley Anti-Truck Amociatioo,' for the su,iptesaion of the illegal, unjust, and degrading pramice," said that the effect of the truck sponse in this part of the country had been to increase the pools' rates, end to drain the trade from the retail shopkeeper. Mr. LINNIiY, of Bilden, said that the registrar in his perish had reported the number of children burned to death in a short time, whilst the mother' were waiting nt the tummy hop, to be twelve ; they had, however, now com menced in good earnest to put down the system, ar.d he hoped they would succeed; one person h. d already suc cumbed; and =other against whom there were inform st'....ns for penalties to the amount of 1,0001., had intimated r purpose to shut up his tomospehop. and he had no doubt but that others would follow; he understood that some of the ironmasters had threatened to open shops in the towns, and by under-selling ruin the re tail trader ; let them do that. All they askod was that the men should bs paid their wages in money, end spend it where they liked. The masters u ere trying in every possile manner to evade the law ; one method was by giving checks on banks tu3co:mected with the concern ; he hoped, however, that they would b. , able to beat them in that device ; cheques for less than twenty still hogs had been refused pejment by the bankers, and if the men who received such would sake them to the association, they would sue the parties issuing in the county veer:, and se bring them within the operation of the Truck Act. It had been said that the pressure of the times had induced the middle class to assist the werkieg men in this meter; bet if the middle clue had felt the screw, had not the working men doubly so ? He understood that the iron masters had already subscribed 6001. to defend the inferma tions laid against them. The association with which he warn connected nad subszr.beel 1,0001., and they were determined to have the best legal assistance available. (MTe•er.) That such an iniquitous system should ba practised by the rich iroemsatere was contemptible ; it was no uncommon thing to meet one of these magnates in a splendid equipage, and the nest haU hour to see him at the tommy-shop, measuring yards of tape, or selling lolly cop or blacking. However, the association had already worked some good : a poor woman told him (Mr. Linney) last week, that at her tommy. shop, the price of soap, sugar, and other articles, was re duced a penny a lb ; and at another place, in cone quence of an apprehension that informations would be laid, tnere was 3001. paid lest week in wages, instead of 501., as heretofore. The speaker strongly advocated the necessity of union amongst the working men, and further said that they had received ieformation to the effect that it the pre.ent law was not sufficiently salutary for its object, government were prepared to assist them by Waging in another bal. Mr. HARRIS, of Bilston, said that the working men must help themselves; they must refuse to Like tze tenuity tickets altogether, or if they did receive them, band them over to the association that the case, might be inecstig, ted. This gentlemen acknowledged the assistance the Dully News bad re n'ered to the movement. The meeting wu addressed by Messrs. Granger, Harrison, Cooke, and other gentlemen ; the whole of vie retoluziona were passed unanimously, and a vote of tucks was passed to the Mayor for pnedtng. To-day I was ore table informed that the irontnisiers who pay in Truck get a profit of five shillings per tun over those who pay in money. LITERATURE. The Quarterly Review. The 172nd number of the " Quarterly Review," just published, is a good and interesting one ; the articles, with one or two exceptions, not ova-bigoted. The first fills op what was a reproach to Euglibh criticism, the want of • tribute to the genius of Leo pardi, tl e Keats of Italian poets. Even th e h o p e l ess infidelity of the poet and philosopher does not pt event the writer in the " Quarterly " from doing him justice. A good review of "Rinke's Memo:rs of the Rouse of Brandenburg" follows, jealous of Prussia, after the fashion of the Aberdeen and Mahon school, which will not see that Prussia is essentially German, and that Austria never can be German, or represent Ger many in an age when nationality is something. The reviewer does justice to the excellent institu tion of Queen's College for Young Ladies, but is rather severe on Professor Maurice. " Grote's Greece" is treated in a spirit worthy of the great and classic historian. Mr. David Urquhart gets a severe handling after the ancient fashion of Quarterly Mohawking. A review of " Facts or Figures" seems from the pen of Mr. Newdegate, whose great iv..therity arid statistical bible is Spackman ! How has Lord Clarendon excited the spleen of the Reviewer ? The " Quarterly" used not w b.: of so bright an orange. " Central and Southern Europe" is very illiberally treated in a rambling, spiteful, and mendacious article. The writer pretends that the accusation, published in the Z Mei against Kossuth, for presenting Count Zichy's spurs to the Puha of Widdin, was never answered. It we. not only answered, but completely refuted, in these columns. Acd its repetition by the reviewer merely places him in the base category of the first cowardly calumniator. The last article is the romance of Louis Philippe's escape, minutely and interestingly told. But it pro ceeds on what is altogether an error, that there was the least danger to the fugitive king, or the least desire to retain him. The fact is, there was neither peril nor romance in his escape. Whatever there was of the kind existed but in his own ex-royal ima gination. The writer adopts M. Quiz •t's blunder of asserting, that the great English resolution suc ceeded, and that the great French revolution fulled. The reverse of that would be nearer the truth. IMPORTED PICTURE/I.—lll the .4ri .1 , /trrial for April is published the following curious statement of the number of pictures imported into the U m i n the year 1849: From Prussia, 34; e *Ps „if o laud, 1,946; Belgium, 2,420; F i 3,498:' Spita le,neueel, 326; 'tali 1,723; other W e 1 10 78 : 12,691. .. 1 ' 1 It lil ) ' •- ' r:. )is. {•;.jl +.i '.l, ••• ' 4 1 • /*. 1 C. ( * e " .., 1- \'•,. . .