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at mark9tl Barley 0 3 : if the rge re 6d to•ls .248 0 , 4 2 2 6 .3 9 ; L o . 3gs to 4v 6° Were • e nata lt° t A. avy E 410 % 7 as he sh e 4 *36s to ff s o , 40s t 46e 44s t 456 42s to ders op 3s. ) 3111." 1:1 rery unl it rce. et. 1331.1 1 Wheat 0.0 sro 10d• 4d d ° _ 6 ' 3d d 0" ". 8d 1113. ti e doing in go' ~,, on Is we' - n9; third, 6 ' no sal u sn ot 7 , c p Ls we„ i bef rge nor° P Oti 71 t d 00l =1 to s too ti d per the 11°11. .e, ino lie; jam`' "4 vet, C381311' . ga te, 11# Sll Leo ldStwo, 3 late' Arf g it the St J' 10' 'rn. r 80" Grav es° ro VC s seS, 'Avi ill 1303 J fle a. Sir itobert ta Sec' t oP° AO )v.-Ott° 0 YO U 11 c D TG. C 5 y of for 3-yr -73 yards. 'lumb) 1 widen) 2 st 71b ottom) 3 my other r lengths Juty was h ft ; for R. mile. dhazn) 1 Wells) 2 borne) 3 ;( 1 2 agst a length; upwards• Adams ) 1 [house) 2 ist 21b lottom) Minster, e. Won Lnd third• upwards. cond and Ab. (Well S ) 1 rdham) _2 rursery rDS. 'e amount withstand But ler, of h men or ante was Wallace A referee ma, Wal ,ff beauti boats), tier began foraeferrY L they re' d his lead arter of a opponent, I. Butler a Wallace , when be sinner by s slender, Pine whit e 1 the de , while the reduction it a great er ,uy flour . ' Y s I per 5 that price s 1, slow sal e t ;ht. Bea° of wheat , qualities• d peas uw i n w heat Is a declin e off rathe r the former ,30s to 31s 32s to 35$ , s to .;;; 5 .50s to 0 ,4 . 68s to 7P the time °E sold rellic" 5 and b .18s to 0 6 dig .465 to s to -- C.I.LENFIELD PATENT STARCH, " USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, AND PRONOUNCED BY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &c. SPECIAL NOTICE. 'STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The sixth division of the Company's profits is appointed to be made at 15th November, 1860, and all policies effected be fore 15th November 1858, win participate in that division. The fund to be divided will be the profits which have arisen since 13th November, 185.5. A policy effected before:lsth November, 1858, will Tank at the division as of three years' standing, and secure one year's additional bonus at all future division over policies of a later date. Results of the business for the year ended 15th NoVember, 1857 : 8. B unis proposed for assurance durin g c , the year, £561,513 , sd. .. Sums assured, exclusive of annuity transactions, ".574,&39 i B ._ sd. Corresponding annual premiums pn new policies, 417,916 as, 6d . Claims by death paid during the year, exclusive of bonus additions, X 87,925 13s. 3d. Annual revenue for 1857, £265,370 3s. 2d. Accumulated fund, invested in Government Securities, In And, mortgages, &c., £1,451,822 9s. 3d. WILL. THOS. THOMSON, Manager. H. JONES WILLIAMS, Resident Secretary. London, 82, King William-street, E.C. Edinburgh, 3, George-street. Glasgow, 35, St. Vincent-place. • Dublin, 66, Upper Sackville-street. NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITU T ION, 48, Gracechurch-street, London. 'or MUTUAL ASSURANCE on LIVES, ANNUITIES, &c. • Established December, 1835. • • • DIRECTORS: SAMUEL HAYHURST LUCAS, Esq., Chairman. CHARLES LUSHINGTON, Esq., Deputy Chairman. John Bradbury, Esq. • Robt. Ingham, Esq., M.P. Thomas Castle, Esq. Charles Reed, Esq. " John Feltham, Esq. Robert Sheppard, Esq. • Charles Gilpin, Esq., M.P. Jonathan Thorp, Esq. Charles Good, Esq. Charles Whetham, Esq. PHYSICIANS : J. T. Conquest, M:D., F.L.S. _ I Thomas Hodgkin, M.D. BANKERS.---Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., and Bank of England. SOLICITOR.—Septimus Davidson, Esq. CONSULTING AcTuAßY.—Charles Ansell, Esq., F.R.S. On the 20th of November last the totalimmber of policies issued was 20,626. The annual income arising from premium after._ • deducting £33,348 17s. 2d. for abatement on premiums, WRS £211 , 405 7 8 rroin interest on capital • Total income £275,331 17 0 Amount of capital £1,500,367 17 11 Amount paid for claims arising from death, and - bonuses accrued thereon £700,324 17 11 The Directors, in their report to the annual meeting on the 22d December last, referred to the progress the Actuary had Made in the investigation of the assets and liabilities of,the Institution up to the 20th November last ; they have now the pleasure of stating the amount of profit accrued, as under: Computed value of assurances in Class IX. .. £1,190,000 16 6 Assets in this class . £1,345,034 3 11 Difference, being surplus or profit X345,034 3 11 Of which the sum of 4305,030 lls. 7d. is now in course of appropriation among the members, either by a reduction of premium for the next five years, or by apportioning a bonus to the sum assured, as they may have elected ; the remaining £ 40 ,003125. 4d. being held in reserve to the next division. Members whose premiums fall due on the Ist October are reminded that the same must be paid within 30 days from that date. - The new Prospectus, with illustrations of the profits for the N'e.years ending the 20th November last, may be had on a pplication, by which it will be seen that the reductions on ttiee bonuseslpremiumsa o neiainstance se range t from 11 per cent. to 984 that per cent., and also a shown. the premium is extinct. Instances of JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary. September, 1858, ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE AND • GUARANTEE COMPANY. (Established 1838.) pal Offi I,4lleice, 11, Waterloo-place, Pall Mall, London, S.W. William • City Branch, 63, Moorgate-street, E.C. • DIRECTORS. Cawßeattie, Esq., M.D. George Goldsmith Kirby, t. the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, Escl• Lieut. -Col. , C. 13, Jams , Esq. James Croudace, Reare-Adm. Nichols the Right lion. blinfen Jeivis, Esq. Lord George Paulet, C.B. Capt. Thos. Porter, R.N. Ring, Esq George Raymond, Esq. A,ssurances, Anniiities, and Endowments granted, and every tither mode of provision for Families arranged. 11 , elf the Annual Premiums for the first five years may re zraeini.on credit for any period'until death, on .Payment of In s. at five per cent per annum. Parties allowedloco t , or reside in, most parts of the World, with out extra Pr'emium. ,; Naval and Military te Lives, not in active Service, assured at (Ile ordinary ra. Policies forfeited by non-payment of Premium, revivable at 411 Y time within Six Months, on satisfactory proof of heAlth, and the paymentof a trifling fine. It charge for Policy Stamps. eversionary Interests in every description of real or per sonal property purchased. Security to Employers, Guarantee for Fidelity in situations of trust ,Forms of Proposal, w ith every information, may be ob tained at the Offif the C,om pany or by letter, addressed ce o to HENRY WILLIAM SMITH, Actuary and Secretary. INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858. Xstablished 1837.—Payment of Premium within Days of Grace.—lt always has been, and still is, the practice of this Society to pay claims tinder policies of assurance, notwith standing the death of the assured occurri ng w ithi n th e 30 days of grace, and before payment of the annual premium, provided Itrincent therf be mad or notice of theeah be gi e office before the expiration of such days of t gr ace. ven to For the Court of Directors, E. S. SYMES, Chairman. SHE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London. ~,PONvered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE,''‘JU,VIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, dm DIRECTORS. S EI: MOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. • Ketpar ?rthy Browne, Esq. I Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. ,_;euel Ring-Church. Esq. Johd Moss, Esq. ra "TlnEl liotson,M.D.,Cantab., John Symes, E s q. •t.S. I Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. • Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Young, J' - MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. ilotson, M.D., Cantab., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. • ACTUARY. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &C. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. Ales SOLICITORS. fi rs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford row. h e next Qui I LLY, 1860. Exa Enquennia . Division of Profits will be declared =pies of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Policy tak4 l outiu Sum Assured, Bonus in Permanent addition Bonus in Reduction to Sum Cash ' of Annual Assured. Premiums. '`,. 1838 1 841 1845 1848 1851 55 48 59 60 55 3,000 4,000 2,000 2,000 2,800 s. d. s. d. s. d. 867 17 7 428 1 4 56 3 8 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 120 17 0 72 14 6 6 7 7 The followinz ! - 1 are amongst the ad van t ages o ff er ed by the I nternational Life Assurance Society:— , The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profit s are divided amongst the assured 'very five years. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. ,Its investments, at the date of the last annual report Counted to one hundred and seventy-one thousand-pounds. Its annual income Is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. th, Sin ee its commencement the Society has paid in claims -1 ",-,ards of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. ch..,"r prospectuses and every other informati on, app l y to the _-`utrnan, 142, Strand. _____ -- --- EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. l end,St London, W.C. It[ORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.- Itrtjt is only a short time since this singularly efficacious its spoof animal diet first mad e it s a pp earance ; an d already 4114,rity is world-wide. It has been a subject of wonder, br. "as Puzzled many a brain to explain how this• has been eon It about. Yet when we are acquainted with a few facts 4 ,;!erninentl g the food, our wonder will cease. A f ew d ays s i nce, an wrote, stating that he had a horse which was a te e erfect bag of bones." He tried all kinds of things to get of , ~0 1 1- n al into condition, but in vain. He then bought some hor"oorley's food; and he says the effect was wonderful. The Rai ra lmdly grew fat and in the course of a few weeks hs . d 'led no less than 12 'stones. Again we find at the late Barragri ral shows at Birmingham, Cardiff, &c., the animals which off the highest prizes had been partly fed with Thor a —loo 'i for cattle. Such facts speak for themselves, and we re fb rr o reed to the conclusion that its celebrity arises solely It -17 1 11 cl ° 48 own intrinsic merits and the great demand for it can e id e ia d v a e lo tri ne ed fr i o m the (rood' opinion and testimony of those t. All p'arties interested in horses and cattle p a _ well to apply to 77, Newgate-street, London, for a 'LLPhlet which is sent post-free. NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. 4,,ent ()Mee Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacien de Paris. Imperial College of Me ujcine. 'Vienna. I,°• rRIESEMAR Nos. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a ! ; e n,_ge, devoid of taste or smell, and can be- carried in the doses, pocket Sold in tin cases, divided into separate ._°ses, administered . by Val eau Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, ;)ct, adapted for both sexes. P litiEsExuat No. 1 is a Remedy for RELAXA _ SPERMATORRMEA, and all the distressing ""nseepiences arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too lo ng residence in hot climates. It has restored bodily sild•sexual strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are now in the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood : and whatever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MARRIAGE, the are effectu ally subdued by thi s Wonderful Discovery. Y TRIES EMAR NO. 11. effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of Gonorrhoea, both in its mild and aggravated forms, Gleets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which Copaivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR NO. ITT. is the great Continental Remedy for Syphilis' and Secon nrY SY nt It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, ~xrofulam, indomalsl.Cutaneous Erupt ions, rem oying and expelling impurities from the vital it; course all corruptions and Strea m, the medium as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and Q xPel it with the insensible perspiration, through . elf the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never-failing ZWiedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately the Physician treats with Mercury, to the ineitable de -I!,ruction of the patient's constitution, and whieh all the sar ..aparilla in the world cannot restore. rice free by post, Bd.extra to any part of the kingdom;; or four cases , ,in on o Shers., by post 3s. 2d. extra which saves 11s., and in Zi cases, by there is asaving of' £1 12s. Sold by Daniel Church, j Gr acechurch-street, City ; Bartlett Hooper, 43, King Wil ntreet (four doors from London-bridge); Watts, 17, .(;irand ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ganZer, 150, Oxford-street ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Edwards, Paul's Churchyard. , ifjj MAN FRAILTY; a Medical Work, price Is. „I'lt free, illustrated with 100 engravings, containing the n i nlions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, &c. It gives Instructions for the perfect restoration of those who are pre- Vented by impediments from entering into the married state, also showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonorrhoea Flphilis, and the benefits arising from the chemical tests and the examination of the spermatoza by the newly-con- Nructed microscope, with powerful lenses. The Author may be consulted daily according to the rules in the Book. Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternostr-rOW, and tgQl4 all agents for the sale of `•Triesemar." FIFTY THOUSAND CURES Have been effected without Medicine, inconvenience or expense, of Indigestion (dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, Nervousness, Biliousness, Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartburn, Eruptions, Impurities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Hemorrhoids, Headache, Noises in the Head and Ears, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Complaints, are effectually removed by Du BARRY'S delicious H ea lth-R es t or i ng REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD, w hi c h saves fifty • times its cost in other remedies, and is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a good liberhl diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of gratitude from invalids thus cured :—Cure No. 71, of dyspep sia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies—" Dro mana, Cappoquin, County Waterford.—l have derived con siderable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies." Cure No. 49,832. -" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, ner vousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling, near ['Ass, Norfolk." Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme ner vousness, indigestion, gath er i ngs low spirits, and nervous f an ci es. Uure No. 48,311. Bliss Elizabeth X 120111 all, Gateaere, neat Liverpool: of ten years' dyspepsia., and, all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure, of con stipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Curs No. 34,210. Dr. Shorlan . d, of dropsy , and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Cap tain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42,116. Major Edie, of liver and kidney disease, and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings. Cure No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey, of diarhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer, of consumption. Cure No. 32,880. Wm. Hunt, Esq., barrister, of paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts,timber-merchant, of F'rim ley, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver de rangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 180. "Twenty-five years' nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I have suffered great misery, and which no me dicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. B. Reeves,lBl, Fleet-street, London." Cure So. 4,208. "Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. Rev. John W. Flavell, Riddlington Rectory, Norfolk." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years'cough, indiges tion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's , excellent Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Suitably packed for all climates, and with full instructions. In canisters, 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d. ; 51b., lls. ; 121 b., 22 5. Super refined quality. 101 b., 33e. The 101 b. and 121 b. canis ters are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fort num, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly, and through all grocers and chemists in town and country. Dr. PALLACE'S PILLS and OINTMENT are prepared upon scientific principles, without mercury, to prevent the danger and injury resulting from quack preparations ; they purify, regulate, and strengthen the system, and cure effec tually dyspepsia (bad digestion), bile, flatulency. constipation, liver and stomach complaints and all internal disorders ; and the Ointment heals sores, wounds, ulcers, boils, burns, car buncles, chaps, pimples, diseases of the scalp, &c. Both pills and ointment are carefully packed for all climates, at is. Id., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. London agents : Hannay, 63, Oxford-st. ; nice,a excellence.s D th l m saa ß ,f e A a,n ß adn ß Sanger, 153, Oxford-street, and mak be ordered through all medicine vendors. all affections exPc boxes-13.' COUGH BON BONS are a effectual In oi r s s.. e o m !i t e4 le y . ,l2u f s o n. r- g98 c 4 0 . g4hg.s6d, throat, colds, l n d dj s ~0 Sanger, au o nn a g r ri s ev e r a n , l e lls s eo s d, Oxford-street, Londo — n, and all Chemists. DU BARRY'S ANTI-DIARRWFAL BON BONS arc a never-failing remedy for &e. In cho j lera,..bowel complaint, J . Sanger, 150, Oxford-street, In boxes-18. 14d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d. diarrhoea, DU BARRY'S FOOD (;' Oesno th ni ea 4 ne (t rs al a l i e ld hem x i p s e t n s. se jl of INFANTS, CHILDREN NAveNtinulrNsilartrA,LasiPinSiansitispearrseeedasily reared it, and e is the best and most digestible Food for th e delicate and linvalids.of a ny age. In canisters, at 25., and 121 b 21 8. The large te-s free of London. carriage. Barry Du Barry,-a n d Co., 77,'Relnumt: street, Avoid Pills, and all other Medicine for Indigestion (dys pepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatulency, Acidity, Palpita tion of the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver, bilious Headaches, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Debility , Diarrhoea, Cou g h , Asthma, Consumption, Despondency , Spleen , &c. 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Just published, price Is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, SELF - PRESERVATION.---A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, an a on th, cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired during tike critical passage from youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Phy siology of Marriage in its social, moral, and physical rela tions. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Life," and its advantages in detecting, by urinary examina tion, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Hono rary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Li centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fear ful consequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Manhood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condi tion, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is en titled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and, above' all, that there is scarcely any degree of phy s i ca l infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leicester square ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37, Bedford-square, London. The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar; Calcutta—Messrs. 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' , . ~. ,WC' , /4• ~,,,,eo:edell ',HOIT. 4", ___ .,:2 7 . ??Q'' . ..' s "< .' -'7 - )• ' ./\ . ^.. ,..4 0; a, -or \ :„. it. .:..; ~k ,t N ,, ,-.--'' ''' , ,'-? <'~ ~ r' t 7 ER PRICE 4 D . STAMPED, SD. spent in intellectual exercises were not useless. The hours I spent in reading, in thought, in making my awn impressions exact to my own mind by writing them, have left me a better man, more fit for any work I have to do, and I have the inex pressible consolation of having sharpened my.facul ties for that time when the body shall fail, the muscles shrink back, when the human form becomes unfitted from age for exertion, and when the mind alone is vigorous." There are many reasons, apart from these enjoyments, which make it at this mo ment, in my opinion, particularly necessary to study well what is going on in the world or out of it. Now, at meetings of this kind we are justly for bidden to enter into the domain of politics, but I have observed at public meetings when gentlemen make that statement that they almost invariably proceed to break the rule, and I am now going to do so myself. (Laughter.) lam not, however, going to allude to party politics, but the reverse. We live in times when the circumstances of the political world are very peculiar. When I first entered parliament the House of Commons was divided into two camps. A leader guarded both—a leader whom no man questioned, and whom every man on his side followed. All the trouble was in his hands. His party acquiesced in everything he thought best, and five minutes after his decision was an nounced to them they were heart and soul engaged in it, clamorous that it was . the only one that could be arrived at. (Laughter.) In the House of Commons this was a great advantage in some respects, for it saved a world of thought, (Laugh ter.) But in the House of Commons of the present day we have a different state of things. The House of Commons is divlj - ed into many parties, oz, rather, no party; and mihy _Because the coun try is divided into malty - parties, no party. (Hear, hear.) At the lila The - House of Commons was divided into two camps the country was divided into two camps also. One man was blue, another yellow. (Laughter.) Each had his own lawyers, and there was the sharpest line of demar- cation between the two. The mass of the people are now as sharp as those they return to represent them, and the result is that, judging for them selves, they find some good on one side, some on another, and they will not yield themselves blindly to the lead of any one man or party in the State. Now, there is great complaint of this throughout the country. Men are disturbed and unsettled by it, and they are devising means whereby the coun try and Parliament may again be divided into two camps. But, instead of lamenting the existence of such a state of things, and devising means to re store what I firmly believe will never be restored again, I think we had better look our difficulties in the face. I don't lament the change. Many of the old public men in the House of Commons re gret it enormously ; they are bewildered by it, and they are perhaps right in their regret as public men, because it increases the trouble and difficulty of public men. But all they have lost in comfort the country, has gained in public good. The result is this—that the impulsion comes from below, that the country instead of being partisans, are now be come a calm, reasoning jury, and it is necessary now that they are to constitute the jury that they should be capable of deciding upon the arguments laid be fore them. At any rate, the country are gainers by the change. The more great measures are passed by consent and party bitterness becomes ex tinct the more necessary it becomes that we in the country should understand the contemporaneous political opinions we are called upon to decide, and for that purpose we must study the principles of political economy. (Hear.) There is, for instance, the great question of India which has just been in trusted to us. That is a question which has not been discussed in England at all till within the last few months. Even in the House of Commons it was not discussed, but it was held to be a ques tion which only those who had great local expe rience could understand. But India is now made over to the Queen, and making it over to the Queen means making it over to the English people. There are most delicate and difficult questions involved in the treatment of that country. Rival candidates for power will probably put forward theories of their own. You must decide what is right, and therefore on all the questions on which you are to be a calm reasoning jury you must strengthen and fortify your minds by political stud-, so that you may be enabled to give a right dycision upon the political theories put forward by public men. (Hear.) Again in this great confluence of opinion, when Liberals, Radicals, and 'Conservatives as distinct parties are almost extinct, we are all going to deal with an other great question—the extension of the suffrage. You must bear in mind that in all these things I haie not said a word indicating a leaning, or have attempted to gain favour for a particular class of people. There seems to be a sort of universal con sent that the great question of the suffrage shall he dealt with, and a tolerable consent as to the spirit in which it is to be dealt with. If, then, a measure founded on such principles be passed, we shall have an enormous extension of that jury which is to de cide in a calm reasoning manner on the great ques tions of the day. Learning, then, must no longer be a monopoly of those who have leisure and wealth to obtain it, but it must go further, and for such a purpose institutions such as this are invaluable. I trust, with all my heart, that this institution will be taken thorough advantage of—that while you recreate and amuse yourselves in your intervals be tween day and day of toil, others will go deeper into their studies, and that their influence and their conversation will again act upon others. This is the way that political and social opiaion.s are formed in this country. I have stated why I think at this moment these institutions ought to find special fa vour among us. I have mentioned their great uti lity, the great duty there is in us to support and take our share in them, and I have alluded to those private reasons which sooner or later all of us will feel. There is an old distich which says— The speech of Mr. Sidney Herbert, however, in duced him slightly to deviate from hi s original in tention. The right hon. gentleman was so much accustomed to controversy in its strongest and sternest aspects that he could not quarrel with the most courteous reply which had been given to his remarks by the hon. and rev. gentleman who had . just addressed the meeting, and he (Mr. Baines) . - - was sure the right hon. gentleman would Wish t o hear what might be said on each side by those who had had practical experience in the working of in ' stitutions of this kind—institutions for the intel lectual, moral, and social improvement of the hum bler classes. He agreed most cordially with what had been said by the right hon. gentleman in re gard to the desirableness of not forbidding in these institutions relaxation and intellectual amusement. Very many years ago he had dissented from the view taken of mechanics' institutions by their founder, Dr. Birkbeck, and Lord Brougham, that they should be entirely devoted to scientific study, and he believed experience had proved that he was right. At the same time he thought there was something higher to be gained from mechanics' institutions than mere intellectual amusement. It was said that the instruction which they imparted tended to produce a mediocrity of talent, but if that mediocrity was created by raising the low up to a high level, it was an advantage, and he did not ob ject to it. He knew of many instances in which mechanics' institutions had enabled a man to deve lope his talent, but he knew of none in which they had prevented its development. He therefore did look with much satisfaction upon the efforts which had been made in the town of Warminster to ex tend their institution and render it more useful, and he had great pleasure in proposing the resolution which he had already read, The Rev. A. FANE seconded the resolution, which was unanimously agreed to. Several other addresses haying been delivered the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the Chairman. After the meeting a dinner took place at the Town-hall, at which the Marquis of Bath presided, and the festivities were concluded by a soiree in the evening. ADMIRALTY LIGHTS AND FOG SIGNALS. The following are the Admiralty Lights and Fog Signals now to be carried and used by sea-going vessels, to prevent collision : STEAM VESSELS. All sea-going steam-vessels, when under steam, shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit the fol lowing lights : 1. A bright white light at the foremast head. A green light on the starboard side. 2. T A h r e mast-head a li s g t ht e o a n tha port side. e so constructed as to b e a visible on distancea dark ef at lnight,east five with a clear atmo sphere, wiles,and shall show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 20 points of the compass, and it shall be so fixed as to throw the light 10 points on each side of the ship, viz., from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side. 3. • The green light on the starboard side and the red light on the port side shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmo sphere, at a distance of at least two miles, and show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, and they shall be so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the star board and on the port sides respectively. 4. The side lights are to be fitted with inboard screens projecting at least three feet forward from the light, so as to prevent the lights from being seen across the bow. 5. Steam vessels under sail only, are not to carry their masthead light. Fog Signals. All sea-going steam vessels, whether propelled by paddles or screws, when their steam is up, and when under way, shall in all cases of fog use as a fog signal a steam whistle, placed before the funnel at not less than eight feet from the deck, which shall be sounded once at least every five minutes ; but when the steam is not up, they shall use a fog horn or bell, as ordered for sailing ships. " The soul's dark cottage battered and deo ayed, Lets in new light thro' chinks that time has mane." Now, though it is true that our intellectual facul ties are weakened by fatigue,.they are not weakened by age. When we feel the restlessness and activity of youth passing, when we come to the sedate d e ma l aT r sy e have diminished our zest for many of the occupa tions, Np,.elri lookingeionpossibly s f t s o i n laytnhhae longod closing when,lf e of v still e t n ol n evening further, n d o b f u business n u e r w s s in which we have been engaged, we shall find that if in the season of youth we have strengthened our faculties, though age enfeebles us, we shall still have an undiminished source of enjoyment by having in our hands, though we ourselves may be precluded from active participation in the contests and, anxieties of life, the means by the pen of in fluencing and benefiting not only the country to which we belong, but the whole human race. (Loud cheers.) I think, then, that we cannot do better than express in the warmest manner our thanks to the gentlemen who have promoted and who are the authors and originators of this institution. I trust, therefore, that you will agree with me in accepting with warmth and cordiality the resolution which I have now the honour to read to you— " That the Warminster Athenucurn, being an institution calculated to advance the moral, social, and intellectual pro gress of the town and neighbourhood, the cordial thanks of the public are due to its promoters." . _ _ _ SAILING VESSELS. 1. All sea-going sailing vessels when under way being towed shall between sunset and sunrise ex hibit a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side of the vessel, and such lights shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least two miles, and shall show an uniform and un broken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the starboard and on the port sides respectively. 2. The coloured lights shall be fixed whenever it is practicable so to exhibit them ; and shall be fitted with inboard screens projecting at least three feet forward from the light, so as to prevent the lights being seen across the bow. 3. When the coloured lights cannot be fixed (as in the case of small vessels in bad weather), they shall be kept on deck between sunset and sunrise, and on their proper sides of the vessel, ready for instant exhibition, and shall be exhibited in such a manner as can be best seen on the approach of, or to, any other vessel or vessels, in sufficient time to avoid collision, and so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side, nor the red light on the starboard side. Fog Signals. All sea-going sailing-vessels, when under way, shall, in all cases of fog, use when on the starboard tack a fog horn, and when on the port tack shall ring a bell. These signals shall be sounded once at least every five minutes. Sailing pilot vessels are to carry only a white light at the masthead, and are to exhibit a flare-up light every 15 minutes, in accordance with Trinity House Regulations. VESSELS AT ANCHOR. All sea-going vessels, when at anchor in road steads or fairways, shall/ between sunset and sun rise exhibit, where it can be best seen, but at a height not exceeding 20 feet above the hull, a white light in a globular lantern of eight inches in diameter, and so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light all round the horizon, at a distance of at least one mile.- The right hon. gentleman then resumed his seat amid loud cheers. The Hon. and Rev. S. BEST, in seconding the re solution, said he dissented from the opinions which Mr. S. Herbert had expressed. He took a some what sterner, and perhaps not so agreeable a view of the duties of an institution like this. He admitted the social advantages to be derived from reading good novels or newspapers, but there were other matters to be attended to in training the mind in order to enable it to distinguish the force of truth. (Hear.) Setting the highest possible value upon newspapers, and entirely assenting to the view Mr. Herbert had taken of the importance of knowing who the write rs of the different articl es were, he could not say that he could loo k to the press alone as the means of carrying on the education of the people. A man coming into a literary institu tion, fatigued in body and mind, might, per haps, fly to the newspaper of the day for in struction, but how could a man so fatigued read the different sides of a question so as to be enabled to discriminate between truth and false hood ? With regard to the influence which educa tion had upon the morals of t people, returns and statistics showed that educated criminals did not form anything like one per cent. of the whole criminality of the country. The great object of in stitutions such as ibis was, in his opinion, to take the young when they left school, to educate them practically, and continue that education either by means of mutual instruction or by means of ap pointed masters. The resolution was then put bythe chairman and unanimously agreed to. Mr. E. BAINES proposed the next resolution.:— COLONEL WA UGH ON THE EASTERN BANK. " That this institution recommends itself to the support of the friends of education as designed to promote the self improvement of the young and the general diffusion of I,n wledge apart from religious and political opinions." He said, it had been his intention on entering the room to say nothing whatever on any subject of controversy, but to offer in the simplest form a few facts La reference to the value of these institutions• TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—lt was not my intention to have intruded my name before the public until the proper time arrived, when those advising me deemed it right I should do so ; but my attention having been called by a relative in England to a most abusive leading article in your paper of the 19th inst. I have broken through this resolution, and send you this letter, trusting it may meet a better fate than the one I addressed youin June, 1857, on the occasion of your first leading article relative to my affairs, the non-insertion of which at that time inflicted on mo a grievous injury which can never be retrieved. With reference to the statement in your leading article which denounces me as " a swindler of tho heroic class, not only having nothing . , but having several hundred thousand pounds less than nothing, several occasions, and even prior to my first intro duction to the London and Eastern Bank as a total stranger to them in March, 1855, at a sum more I have to remark that my property was valued on than sufficient to cov er all my. present time by gentlemen of th liabilities at the e first rep u t a ti on and eminence in th eir p rofess ion. Moreover, it is a matter of notori e t y th at t h e London and Eastern Bank directors, the committee of shareholders, and their professional advisers published and made use of those valuations in their attempted sale of the property by-public auc tion in July, 1857, thereby givmg a pubhc and con vincing proof of their confidence in the estimates of those gentlemen on whose professional reports I had with the utmost reliance based my expenditure. Such being the facts, I ask you if it was fair and just, as a public journalist, strong in your vast strength, to so utterly crush and ruthlessly condemn anyone without fully making yourself acquainted with all the facts. It is not my intention at the present time, labour ing under debility of mind and body, to enter into a lengthened exposition of my affairs, although many gross mis-statements have gone forth con cerning me, which I shall be prepared to refute at the proper time. In conclusion, if by the term " heroic" you mean sarcastically to refer to my services in the army, I beg simply to state that I have no reason to be ashamed of my connection with that profession. I am the son and grandson of general officers, and was myself a soldier for 20 years, serving under distinguished generals, and mentioned by them in their public despatches.—Yours obediently, 11 7 . IVAuOn. Marseilles, Oct. 23. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's Emigration Commis.Ooners chartered two s hip s yester ay afternoon, the 28th inst.—viz., the Nimrod, 943 tons, to sail from Plymouth for Sydney, New South Wales, at £l3 14s. 2d. per statute adult, and the Ilamilla Mitchell, 50 tons, to sail same port for Perth, W es t ern ,A us t ra li a , a t £l4 18s. fm85.671.414 statute adult t theformer vessel to be ready for the reception of passengers on such day as the commis sioners may appoint between.the 6th and 13th of December, and the latter to be ready to sail any day between the 22d and 29th of December. They have also given notice of their intention to receive tenders next Thursday, the 4th pros., for a' ship to proceed to Melbourne, Victoria, to be ready on any such day as the commissioners may x upon . ' between the 10th and 11th of December. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1858. 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Sold by all medicine vendors, Price One Shilling. MR. BRIGHT AND THE BIRMINGHAM REFORMERS' UNION. Yesterday, at noon, a deputation from the Bir mingham Reformers' Union waited upon Mr. Bright, at the residence of Mr. J. Sturge, the hon. gentle man's host during his stay in Birmingham, to pre sent the address adopted at the meeting of the Union on Saturday evening, and - which has been already published in our columns. The deputation consisted of Messrs. J. S. Wright, IV. Morgan, Pickering, Beddoes, Allbutt, and others. The address having been read, Mr. BniGirr said he was very much obliged to the Reformers' ---Union-for the extremely kind expressions made use of towards him personally in the address ; but he was very sensible how very little he deserved or held the sort of position in which they would place him, and how very little it was possible for any man to do with regard to the great objects the Union had in view. In this country matters of Go- Vernment were disposed of very much by a class of persons and fhnuhes to which he did not belong, and the utmost one could hope to do would be to create, us far as he held it himself, an intelligent opinion on public matters, and to try to bring that opinion into some s h a p e w h ere b y i t cou ld act upon the Government. It was only by slow degrees and difficult steps that anything could be accomplished; but on that account they were not to be discouraged from endeavouring to do their best in the time they had and in the circumstances in which they Were placed. With regard to the political views which were expressed in the address, he had given his adhesion to them some time ago, and he thought that if the measures there recommended were car ried out in the legislation of the country, they would promote a very beneficent change in our govern ment, and in everything connected with the ad ministration of public affairs. It was perhaps not necessary for him to give the gentlemen of the Union pledges or assurances for the future, but as he had honestly endeavoured in the past to abide by what he thought was right and good for the country in his political life, he hoped to be able to do that in the future, and to make the advantage of the country and the goodness of our legislation the objects he should pursue in his political career. The hon. gentleman concluded by saying that he felt ' very much the kindness of the association in pre paring the address, and of the deputation in coming there to present it ; and he should be glad to co operate with them and his constituents generally in anything that could be of advantage to them and the country at large. A conversation with regard to the political ques tions of the day, and that of reform in particular, ensued. Mr. BRIGHT said there was great doubt as to the course which the reform question would take. There were those who thought it extremely doubt ful whether Government could manufacture a bill at all, seeing that the " baker's dozen" of which. the Cabinet was composed must agree to what ever measure was proposed. They knew very well that a bill which had not some show of reality in it would only disgust Reformers, some of whom would speedily find out its character and expose it. The members of the Cabinet differ in opinion as to what is possible in the measure itself, and, beides this, they would have great doubts as to their own supporters in the house. The sup porters might say, " It would have been better for us to have kept our old friend Lord Palmerston in, who could have bamboozled his supporters and the country, rather than have a Government like this." If the present Government, therefore, met Parlia ment with a good measure they - would have to en counter the difficulty of disturbing their own party --and if they brought in a bill which was disgrace fully bad, they would have to contend with those Reformers who wish something better. However, this difficulty might be solved, the country should be very watchful ; audit might be advisable, when Parliament meets, for the great towns to meet and petition. Though this was a mode of agitation not much resorted to for many years past, yet it was a very useful one when a country was..considering a great question like that of reform, as such an ex pression of opinion very much strengthened the hands of those members who were in earnest—a class usually but a small minority in the House of Commons. If .Manchester, birmingham, and the great' towns sent up petitions signed by 30,000, or 40,000, or 50,000 names —which they could do on questions like this—if such petitions were presented night after night, members of the House of Com mons, however obtuse they were, and however un willing to submit, would be obliged to admit that people think of these subjects more than they thought they did, and would admit these petitions as evidence of the feelings of the people supposed to be represented in the House of Commons. This was one of the modes in which all Reformers should signify their opinion to the House of Commons at the opening of the session. He (Mr. Bright) did not know the district around Birmingham so well as that around Manchester, but from what he had seen there were evidently a great many populous towns within a few miles, and if any organisation was devised by which these towns could have a series of meetings, agree upon a petition, and unite upon a programme, the work would be proportionately effec tive. The work might be arduous and discouraging for a time, but by and by the people would become indoctrinated, the friction would produce warmth, and the thing would go on faster than at first seemed likely. They might not have, as in 1830, a French Revolution to stir up the country ; but still all with whom he (Mr. Bright) talked were in favour of re form, and, an impetus once given, a good measure might ere long be carried. It had been said by one of the deputation that the reformers of Birmingham were not unanimous, but it should be remembered that in 1830 there was no union until a bill was brought before the house. As he suggested at the Town hall on the previous evening, so he said now. Let somebody in whom they had confidence prepare a bill of a solid substantial character—a bill, if they chose, adopting the principles embodied in the ad dress just presented. If that bill were brought be fore Parliament, the country would have an oppor tunity of saying whether they should go for the nieasure brought forward by those who had always been reformers, or for those who had never been reformers till now. If they had a dissolution of Parliament upon the bill brought forward by the present Government, which in all probability there would be, then of course the people would have an opportunity of suppo r ti ng th e o th er bill b y sen di ng in those who were in its favour. It was certainly desirable that all classes should be united on this question, but the existence of a want of unanimity, as compared with that existing in the old Reform Bill days, was not matter for surprise. In those days such towns as Birmingham and Manchester had no members, and the injustice was felt by high and low alike ; but now the upper and middle classes were represented, and they were in that comfortable condition, politically, which made them somewhat indifferent to the rights of the non-elec tors. The Reformers' Union must try to get the influential people of the town to go with them, which, with their recent programme, they might fairly expect. If they went for manhood suffrage, he was afraid they would not have that support, either in Parliament or out of doors. As to the pre paration of a bill, he advised them to leave this to the conference which would meet next week in London ; and this bill, when prepared, might be sent to every constituency . , for the purpose of being considered by such associations as the Reformers' Union. _ _ The conversation lasted nearly an hour, Messrs. Wright, Pickering, and Morgan chiefly taking part in it. A general hope was expressed that the more influential classes of Birmingham, who on the previous evening had joined with so muchapparent cordiality in the principles then enunciated, would give their support to any organisation which might be formed in Birmingham, with the view of co operating with the Reformers in all parts of the country for the purpose of procuring the passing of a good and substantial measure of reform as soon as it could be urged through Parliament. After thanking Mr. Bright for the courtesy with which their hon. member had received them, the deputation retired. f tttatnaw w iloilaofieoih h ytmdbnci i ceo c lepi hi h aunnrni tscederctwaoavoi read iii or ypipter orq p oatsntuonci r , inae e st ne g rhe llfs:nneoeweharl thei institutions shwn t ousil trvta l ilrehi v tgi yaatartridhianesostiut instruction,library rhhoeef a:aecderives erf and esyrirsvi lnote hrsa f f r insu o ; m i ses nhd iseii? table—whiche gu o V r rfo h t tn th h sen o mae f wn t ,dits h io e sthfe l ste e ehn n i ef : abstains from reading the newspapers ? After all, newspapers are contemporary history, not always accurate you will say, but, I am afraid. IRA the less history. We' insist upon immediate, early, instan taneous news. We have no' time to sift matters for ourselves, and we look upon it as the business of the newspapers to tell us the news. The ()ma. sional inaccuracies of the newspapers are attribut able in a great measure to our craving for early in telligence. What is reported to us is not the thing which is afterwards found to have happened, but what is believed at the time to happened, and therefore subsequent events frequently modify first impressions. The inaccuracy therefore is in the rapidity with which people insist upon being pro vided with news, and we have no right to complain. (Hear, hea.) But newspapers do something be yond giving us news. TAgy give to us the most admirable discussions upon all the contemporaneous questions the day. Ido not think that any coun try has ever seen a literature so rapidly executed in which there is so much profound. thought. (Hear.) There is no question, abroad or at home, no question political, and very few scientific, which is not admirably discussed in the newspaper press of this country. The articles which appear in the newspapers, compressed into a short space, are the resuli of much reading and of milch'thought ; and we'wha have not much time on our hands—we are all in this age pressed-for time—get by that means great results, and a vast amount of thought elabo rated into what the Lancashire manufacturers would call the " finished article." (Hear, hear.) Depend upon it, the man who shuts his eyes to the con temporaneous history of the newspapers is a man unfit to deal with the practical wants of society. (Cheers.) In speaking of newspapers, it has always appeared to me that they might be much more ,use ful than they are, and I have strong belief that ultimately we shall see .in the newspapers a change which will, I think, tend to make them much safer instructors of the public, for this reason —that the public would then more easily read and accept what it now takes cum grano salis. At the present moment newspaper writers are anonymous. My belief is that for the mission of public instruc tion that is a great disadvantage. It puts on a par in point of weight and authority the most scru pulous Affriter and the most unscrupulous writer, _ _ the most exact and the most inexact: Mr. Canning once held up two despatches written to him by two most eminent diplomatists, one of whom resides in this neighbourhood. Both were admirably written, both showed great knowledge of the world and a finished style of writing. Mr. Canning held them in his hand, and said, " Here are two despatches equally well written. I have not a fault to find with either of them, but I attach great weight to this one and none to that. I know the characters of the two men who wrote them. One is a scrupu lous investigator of facts and the other is a writer for effect. I shall, therefore, act on the one despatch and put the other on the shelf." Now, in reading a newspaper we want that source of confidence in some writers and of caution in others. If we knew Who the writers were we should know in the case of a man whose character is established that every thing he says, might be taken for gospel, while we should also know in another case that the writer was neither so accurate in his statements nor so careful in sifting his facts. I think we should derive great advantage from such a state of things. Then, again, there is another matter con nected with the anonymous writing in news papers. A man knows that he cannot be an swered. As I see some members of the clerical pro fession before me, perhaps they will pardon me for saying that if the congregation had the right to answer the sermon would be sometimes different from what it now is. (Laughter.) A man would always be more careful in what he said when he knew he would be liable to an answer. Even now his writing is occasionally answered, and his facts disputed, but he has not to go through the humilia tion of being proved to be wrong. He is a non entity himself. What he writes may be criticised, but he is unknown. For this reason I think that newspaper writers do not write with the same care and caution which they would otherwise exercise. (Hear.) Then, again, there is somethingin the Eng lish character that dislikes secrecy. Men are ashamed to a certain extent of writing anonymously and if they do so they conceal it. I have known many gentlemen take a leading part in public writing, but I have always found them unwilling to admit or to be known as writers of such and such articles. They don't like the impression which would be produced if they were known as anonymous writers. In the House of Commons an impression prevails that a man who can speak in his own name upon any question takes an unfair ad vantage if he says something under cover of an anonymous article. There are some thi ngs which people would n of bring forward except anonymou sly, and I have no doubt that in a few cases the public morals gain from anonymous writing, but taking the balance of the two sides of the question, I don't say that our newspaper writing could be improved, for it could not ; but the weight and influence of the newspapers would be increased if anonymous writing were diminished where it is for the public good that it should be diminished. (Hear.) Upon the subject of newspapers, which will in my opi nion mould more and more the opinion of the people every day, I have thought it not out of place to throw- out these things for your consideration. (Cheers.) As printing and book reading increases, the gifts of public orators will become of little or no value. Formerly the debates in the House of Commons guided, strengthened, and ruled public opinion. They do so no longer, because the speakers are anticipated and the questions of the day better and more completely treated in the articles con tained in the periodical literature of the day. It is to the press that we must look for the formation of the great mass of public opinion on political and social questions, and it is of importance to watch with the greatest care aity defects capable of re medy which diminish the good influence the press exercises, and if any one can contribute to improve the strength of the press for good, and to diminish it when it tends towards evil, he can confer no greater benefit upon the community at large. Now I have said that in my opinion there is no harm in having recourse after our toil, whether it be physi cal or mental toil—to what is called light and amusing reading. A newspaper is not light read ing, but it is what is a great deal better—con densed reading. In novels we have great rules of conduct laid down, excellent remarks on social evils, and the best analysis we have almost of human nature. Then, why should we forbid men to have recourse to this kind of refreshment after their toil ? As I said before, there is not not one man in a thousand who will sit down to study difficult and abstruse books after his day's work. We are, nevertheless, told after great labour and toil that we are bound to reject all the lighter and the more amusing topics and go into the abstruse speculations of metaphysicians and theologians, and I for one say it is not true that man as a general rule is capa 31e of such things. We have some in stances recorded which I look upon as pure myths. We read of Alfred's division of the day—eight hours for study, eight for labour, and eight for rest—but the conclusion I have arrived at is that there is not one word of truth in it. No human being could lead such a life even if he were of the most form. lam almost ashamed of standing up here to try to answer fallacies which have long since exploded, and to advocate a cause in which every one believes. There are persons in this room of all professions, of all political and religious opinions, who have met together on common ground. It would be absurd for me to tell you that you arc right in what you are doing, for no man would venture to say that you are wrong. Therefore when we endeavour to defend such institutions as this we accuse ourselves in order to justify ourselves. At the same time I have heard it said, especially when the subject of competitive examinations has been brought forward, "of what good to you is the learning you obtain ?" just as if the sole object of intellectual labour was information, and as though the information acquired must be afterwards use less. Go into a courtyard where boys practise gymnastic exercises , and wh at do y ou see t here ? It is not of any permanent ad vantage that the boy should be able to stand on his feet with his head downwards, or be able to use the dumb-bells, but it braces his body . and fits him for the toil to come. So it is with learning. The facts we learn are use less except for deduction. When we have got the deduction it is probable enough that we forge the facts; but we have got our minds int o th e habit of acquiring, storing, and using know ledge. Then, -again, there is the immense enjoy ment which attends the acquisition of know ledge. Who, looking back upon. his life, woul I throw out of it the hours spent in intellectual occu pation ? Many a man will tell you, -" The hours I SIDNEY ITERRERT, ALP., ON NEWS PAPER LITERATURE AND POLITICS, IVAIIMINSTER, THURSDAY, The opening of the new buildings recently erected by the members of the Warminster Atheneum, an institution established for the promotion of litera ture and science, was inaugurated in this town to day. A public meeting was held in the lecture-room, at which the Marquis of Bath presided, supported, by the Right Hon. S. Herbert, M.P.,Lord Henry Thnne the Hon. and R ev . S. B es t, fr. E. Baines, of Leeds, President of-the Yorkshire Association of Mechanics' Institutes, the Rev, A. Fane, vicar of Warminster, and a large number of the gentry and clergy of the town and neighbourhood. The Marquis of BATH opened the proceedings in a brief speech, in which he pointed out the advan tages which the town of Warminster would receive from the establishment of the institution. Mr. WARREN, the secretary, then, at the request of the noble chairman, read a statement of the fin ancial position of the institution, after which The Right Hon. S. HERBERT, M.P., rose to move the first resolution. He said,—My Lord Bath, ladies, and gentlemen, I. have had a resolution put into my hands, which I have the greatest pleasure in moving. It is a resolution of thanks to those to whom we are indebted for conceiving and carrying out the idea of erecting this building in the town of Warminster. Perhaps you will permit me to say before I go further into the subject, that a contrast between this meeting and the objects for which it has been - convened and a similar meeting which any gentleman might have been present sit in an sd joining, country ssliciws at once . the difference be- iweenour institutions and habits and those of our French neighbours. If Warminster had been a coun try town in France, and you wished to have an insti tution of a scientfie and literary character, Mr. 'War ren would not have read to you that bill of costs, be cause the expense would not have been a matter in which you would have had any concern. You would have have had nothing to do with the groparation, nothing to do with the execution, and nothing to do with the, carrying on of th e i ns tit u ti on . Th e application would have been made in the first in stance to the Government. A public grant might probably have been refused ; but if not you would have had the advantage of entering this room with with- out paying anything for admission, tho u gh you r watched by two seennttrYrielSvoautltdhehadvoeor. been(Acar efully laugh.) No landowner ful filling the duties of his station with liberality - , and making a warm display of public spirit, would have presided, but you would have had the prefet of the district in the chair, probably in full unform, with a cocked hat ; and throughout the existence of your institution this wholesome fear would operate upon you, that you must be maul what language you hold and what topics you broach, or you might, possibly, very unexpectedly and suddenly have the opportunity of testing upon your constitutions the effects of the warm climate of Cayenne. (Laughter.) A very different state of affairs prevails in this country ; we love to do all these things for our selves, and in my heart I believe that we do them infinitely better. If it be a disadvantage to do them out of our own pockets, from our own funds, it is, on the other hand, an advantage to us, because it teaches us a lesson of liberality and the responsibi lity of providing ourselves and our neighbours with institutions of this kind. (Cheers.) Now, when I am asked as I have been to speak to you of the ad vantages of such institutions, I confess I am at a loss what to say. During the last six weeks we have had this subject put before us in every possible light, and argued in , every possible manner, by the most illustrious and able men whom the country has pro duced in the present day. Indeed we have had bold people beginning to complain of such a dose of socio logy, if I might coin a word. (Laughter.) We have bad it in doses so copious that .at last one is almost afraid to approach the subject. At the same time we have this consolation—the extent to which these matters have been discussed renders it impossible for any man to say anything new. Everything has been anticipated. Even the great enchantment of plea sure every man receives in a walk, how the beauties of nature are developed and unfolded when know ledge enables him to appreciate them—somewhat after Mrs. Trimmer's popular story of " Eyes and No Eyes," as an illustration of the advantages of learning, has been forestalled. Then again, the old adage that " a little learning is a dangerous thing," which made almost a stock in trade, so well .might it be combated in showing that if a little learning be dangerous no learning at all is in finitely more dangerous, and that where all of us have a little learning our object should be to aug ment the source of it so as to escape all danger—all this has been forestalled. But looking at the dis cussions which have lately taken place, I think they have enabled us to get at a far more correct view of what the intentions and objects of these institutions are, and what th e y are likely to accom plish, than we possessed before. We began, in my opinion, with an impossible standard. We hare begun now to look at human beings as they are, and to administer to them according to their real capacities and likings. I recollect at one time that the opinion very much taken up was, that these institutions, by offering to all of us the means of studying abstruse sciences, would have the advan tage of creating, at any rate of increasing, the num ber of men eminent in literature and science ; that they would, in point of fact ,be the nurseries of men like Hugh Miller, Stephenson, or Dr. Living stone—men who struggled through every disadvan tage in their determination to encounter and conquer learning. Now, I don't believe that institutions of this kind have any such effect, and I don't think it is right that they should have any such effect. You ought to meet here for purposes of intellectual recreation, and not neca sadly for laborious study. Stephenson, Hugh Mil ler, and such men, do not want opportunities given to them ; they make them. They are not the crea tures but the authors of opportunity. They had artificial difficulties to contend with, and it was by conquering those difficulties that they educated and braced their minds to the performance of the great deeds which afterwards rendered their names illus trious. (Cheers.) Now, we are apt, when we make rules for others, to take a very high standard. We are very' virtuous when we make regulations to affect the conduct of other people, and many of these societies have begun by purging their libraries of books of amusement. Now, I am not against offering abstruse books to those whose tastes would lead them to study science, but what I say is, don't restrict your library to such books. On the con trary, give the people wholesale intellectual amuse ' ment. Because we are virtuous I have no hesita- tion in confessing that lam not virtuous on these points myself—(laughter)—it is no reason why we should forbid "the cakes and ale" to others. IVho is it that sits down after a hard day's work—l don't care whether it be physical work or mental work— anxious to refresh his mind, who would take up an abstruse volume on conic sections—any learned volumes of philosophical study? Do we ourselves do it ? I say we do not. We want something to be a relief to the tension which the mind has latelybeen undergoing, and I don't care what that relief may be provided it be wholesome. That, in my opinion, is the right course to pursue, because it is one which Nature herself teaches us. (Hear.) I recollect read ing a very able address delivered two or three years ago at a meeting of this description, in which it was deplored that novels were read. But novels— good ones I mean—are, in my mind, a great school of human nature. Look at the effect upon the lite rature, character, and associations of Scotland which was produced by the novels of Sir Walter Scott. So completely to human nature are they that I have heard over and over again, when a motive or an action has been said to be unnatural, a character in one of Sir Walter Scott's novels quoted, in which one of the characters did a similar thing, as a proof that the act was either correct or otherwise, the person making the q u ot a ti on l oo kin g upon the character in the novel as though it were a human being which had moved and acted. There is another class of novels, novels of the domestic class, Which has also a great influence. I recollect hearing a very eminent Frenchman, M. Guizot, say that the literature of France would match—by , which, of course, he meant would beat—all our lite rature, with . one exception, mid that was our do mestic novels. He said, " In science we match you ; in poetry we match you (though in that he was quite mistaken) ; in history we match you ; but we have not got anything — in our literature like the Heir of Itedcliffe and your domestic novels. All books of that class are peculiarly English. They are books describing a virtuous domestic life, books describing a simple domeStic life. They do not go to the tragic or dramatic for interest, but they draw it from the simple springs of natural life. This we have not got in the literature of France." I believe they have. not got it because they have not got in France the same kind of domestic life. That which is our representation of domestic life, and which, according to M. Guizot, is wanting in the French literature, has no existence in France. The French have their description of domestic life, but it differs very much from ours. 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