The Sun. — London, England, 1846-10-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1846. '"".'"'". 5.7 WiM.11a.,,.........................................................................,..,....., Nr A ~,,.. ''• 01 urIESTER ATHEINXITM l powerfully as an incentive ; but it is to be feared peal so i ree raDAY.— rnst e-- , •;nr- , the cow.-' 1-1.- ,:i • , , that such a 13 , ,pe . has too , niiu..h . engrossed both the took place in th Free-trade Hall, when the 4 0 that large and tstructure lent area f etiorts sold the admiration or mankinu.—(Loud cheers.) • h an ex ression with well. d • alegan was crowded I remember being reatly struck once wit p .. which was used by . . ie, nts, , 0 se ladies and gentlemen. The arrange- a friend of mine, though you will Was ri wever—at least so far as the metropolitan press perceive at once that it is not to be understood quite in concerned—character not of thatperfectly convenient its literal acceptation ; but the expressionwas ! that the . r its re presentatives had met withprevious " Heaven was made for those who had failed .in eelsh on world." " Now, there are all sorts of unbecoming and ratins Formerly covered tables for the reporters wo .. twheil:e_reaciese.d•to nearly the level of the platform, but on unenviable feelings, which often may accompany h and d tota'.yl,,esiotn rough deal benches, off which they were embitter failure, as, on the other side, every bright were Pe l , l d o wipe the dust with their own handkerchiefs blessed quality of the heart and . the mind may enhance . it ei at i Placed on the level of the flooring, and so imme- and adorn success. But to aim at success, to meet with cult; Y w der the platform, that it was with great diffi- failure and not to grudge it, to be outstripped bya rival ear ai h.. spo. could hear the chairman, who could not be seen, and yet to hear a rival's praises . with . an unwounded d. s ro j ke behind a table,withoutadvancing to the —these are efforts and triumphs beside which the or di- Wa s tof the Platform,nary successes of the world are light and trivial.— " a s Present The band of the 69th Infantry me n , and at intervals during the evening played (Cheers.) Success : after all, in almost every walk . of ,r;s:xliquisite overtures &c ' ' life, from the aspiring statesman down to the ambitious alai,. Ri ght Ron. Visco ' unt • Mor eth, M.P , was in the Parish-beadle, will very often be found to consist . of L ore , !Uiorted by his Grace the P Archbisho . p of Dublin, very coarse, obtrusive, and vulgar . ingredients,. certainly 1,.,5 , -S,filr ngton, M.P. _,_ the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, of no heavenly temperament; while there is no grace f 'O7, •i,".rall,dier. Brown, Mere Mr. M'Gregoi of the Board of character, no spring of self-reliance, no element o Co. B ee, ;. Mr. Brotherton, M.P , Mr. ' Bright, M.P., progress, with which failure, .when not . earned by our d Cor arois ? l ong, Mr. Edwin Chadw . ick, Of the Po or• kW own lathes, and when sustained with an even D an kr. w . s ,_, l ° ll ; Dr, brave spirit,. may not ally itself.—(Hear,. hear.) t ttr e e - C. Mackay, Mr. W. H. Ainsworth, Lora ,jiharnbers, of Edinburgh, &c. pend upon it the world,. in more instances han With 1 0 d °R ETrr, on pres nt' himself • d e ing, was receive can think of, has never discovered or crowned its best. in Golconda more M anse and l ong - continued cheering. When the sip• —(Cheers.) There are diamonds tl, had subsided,his precious than the Pitt diamond or yother diamond •%en, to r diarm of royalty. ap preci rust that I shall be believed when I say that I that ever blazed . upon the shells more lustrous r hstin etio my situation. With whatever incidents of There are pearls in unopened of beaut e15 e ,,,, , nor r esponsibility I may happen to be invested than any that ever yet shone on the neck known tseae":-a—honeured as Ima be lethchoice of no- (Applause.) The ages, as the ass ny,have . hie opatitueney—(Cheers 3' the e side of the their Homer, their Raphael, their Newton,. and their to t*al‘t'ehleh bound your ros )— e o t n other tttedasi am Shakspere; but I doubt not there are in the human c an Withs Part in the highest councils esP o e f rm the State—yet I creation, as in all besides, prodigalities lhr which have never zlew,fre truthyet been fathomed.—(Cheers.) . . e believe it to be t e assure you, that I find something very true, that nothing that was ever given to us has, excep to Preside's" and large inthe honour of being called upon by our own fault, been . lest or thrown . away. What, (Ch eers at the jubilee of the Manchester Athenaeum. v dth ') Andafter all, is the material point? Is it to be Homer, to as this sense of honour, and I may say less e rn aoh truth difficult" • be Raphael, to be Shakspere, or to be merely thought a _ nee wh ,_ , ,of y also, is certainly not d tpoet, or an unparalleled painter? Is it to transcen an . . 'a th e sato so 1 call to mind those who have receded me the conceive in the inmost soul the lineaments of ,Holy ec hoes o f r e e ; l)°s ,t upon these brilliantoccasions. The last self to ro use Pact, Plse, which I . Mother and the Divine Babe, or the idea of Lear on the feel it a hardihood in my-and earnest ''e again heath, or of Macbeth at the banquet; or is it merely that b . , answered to the accents—deep, gentle, . . --(Cheers l a' ut ' e wn spirit—of Mr. Sergeant T lfourd.shouldcommend the or crowded would-be critics ileum itself ? Wh„ , a h audiences should shout "Bravo " in the pit?—(Loud the utterances s upea •r,.. gentlemen,. the name of the At all - 1 cheers.) Carry away with you this great truth—carry e,e.Next a the it)aatttNti ofit i l s on a befitting aathe A th th e e a n te n fo: a p it to your daily task, or to your evening leisure, to the i l l pilled il d t befare him, I know your spirits must have quiet of your homes or to your social musters—that it Israeli, n er th e spell of so t t ama magician as Mr , matters comparatively little what you may seem to be; Pkrty f t . In the very hottest Po conflicts engl of olitical it matters even proportionately little what you may i t wo u ilT l which we are - happily here sheltered, p I think actually do, but it matters everything what you are.— ' \ len to, t "Ve bee n h d (Loud cheers.) What you may seem is subject to a thou brimati 0 have been 1311. ssi e, even for . is mos expose h sand accidents and misapprehensions. What you may do blad e , e Yi which Playedind to the point, the genius, h t e is often under other control than your own. What you 13even around the wounds t ey Niel aod nt h ere, on thisare is under your own—you may be all you should .be. of ail, a itor , y, on th e t gorgeous stage,. amid this con- Depend upon it, however humble may be any of your ...tele Print Oct o f Y' imagination opie familar to him, of literature,. positions in life, however obscure the labour which . en• essae w h ats... , I, who could only read . in ~. d to i r ,;, of ti me :__.7 101 , apart from all the . kindling ac arrao'llon, which n ia u place, can easily believe how the grosses the precious hours as they pass—however insig nificant your whole life's drudgery—in this mean and un envied position, in this wearing and numbing drudgery, 4,0 ,rOULICI of political l withheld from him even on the you may mould for yourselves the qualities, you may ,r ti, e s (t e i anto enchantmeicial cat o r u o d ve c ra, r3 m .) ust on have the here firs t build up for yourselves the characters . which princes,. if they knew them, would trust—which multitudes, if they I f'rl thi a n s n 't,a l occasions the first at least that was held „led, a ,,, ° ale of size andsplendour,this could discern them, would adore.—(Loud cheers.) . I , - , a ari uu it never feel that in touching on such high topics of morality atv ales bi_, can be filled more worthily, by and conduct with scarcely authorised lips, I may subject ae t ase, th cKeils - - (Applause ) That bright and genial - "sela e master * myself to imperfect explanations, and to much miscon ts selfi s h , er of our sunniest smiles and our most e , le tuo tears, Who .. . . - struction. I know that it is often thought that ad te k str ea masit is impossible to read without dresses delivered upon such occasions are too_ a_pt . to s a , now, at ley and pliant sympathy, so it is imossible minister to the pride of man, and to the undue adulation of Peet 4 Ut I have found it without a depth of It _ and a _ so, . of the intellect. I disclaim all such tendencies. When ha, o u gala r warmth of affection which the rare union I tell you you may be all you should be, I do not exclude re , qualities at one commands. (Cheers.) I Pr da te -acte v from the method of being so those aids and sanctions moste stor it m , y business to read what these, in t i! hi h i s ' nave said. But this, while it ministere'd which are too high for me here to dwell upon. lam . as Illii ll i, Y to confident as any one, that reason as well as Christianity ney excitement, " • a/ 041 , ee e __ has certainly in no way makes humility almost its most prominent grace. — t o isl o ledeoci7 embarrassment ; for I feel that it (Cheers.) Who would not be humble, who felt as he tied ,Yself, to bye an office irksome to you, and hopeless the loveliness of virtue and the magnificence W 'lh ""h fl'ebl encleavour to recal in fainter expressions ought.,. , on , , er colouring whatportrayed by was ore e eo ri c h t , of those fortunatewho have lately added a, new men of d„ , ess and exuberance. I feel that at this beautifullysaid planet to our system, or who, as was cost an h t .' and especiall in this lace, it would be at te rn , . t Pertinence to inculcate that k 1 d in on an earlier occasion, " have lent the lyre of heaven Whichrn. y will b 0 now ege no another string"—l should like to ask them whether their s e ori •a dangerous thing ;that comrn - erce, . . tale • glaally fspirit has not rather recoiled in modest awe, than swelled ar t anity .ormed, and which still ennobles such a . ; a nd as this is the natural of literature and and t h at 4 , , ally in self-sufficient presumption, before the secrets of that di re ste b ib . 'ue pursuits which may be here cultivated,which they have been enabled to dart a more space into .. .. ed It g Nv h:_, am may be here fostered if • htl e , rie v far. seeing glance than any of their fellows ?—((,Beers.) ''n-, rae ' a l a " P r operly \elis er n, ‘ a gor guarded, are such as to give a to our enlarged and perfected vision, unfold the whole . gi fte , se ) 1 47 to the lives and characters of men . bright mechanism of stars, and suns, and systems. The . 11 , ,, 5, f t , do indeed feel, with the most ardent and laws which will then serve to explain to us why their :,. se rt s o "so who have preceded me, and of those who 'ltch and me, that the tyi tt. ar e i n) , impulses associations only supply us with fresh reason for bein more Bra-ti, 4 gr atit pressed upon our own times are to be hailed h g It :t and n 'e, and fostered with a •attention, to anxious verent, more acquiescent, more lowly.—(C eers.) Sco transmit t• Ido indeed I feel that I ought to come down from the clouds, and, r sai. , ann eroe them. - indeed, 'from everything else, and I certainly could G o ' e ight of its in these our days to be rising to the h lighted more radiant spot on the earth % alli nfr. _ . Its position, and to feel the true dignity of hardlyhisavetoenmablrn— y (Cheers.) I have only to qo4oeße,°i.hie,heers.) But this the Tuscan, this the than hoe t that p aTl s w en ho a shen have partaken in its excitement Ivi t i l lir Enoi i , k t ne 'Venetian may have done. The worthies will bear away with them, not only the transitory , °lit hl: i s " c ommerce are content to be merchants, . which th e e must so easily excite but a ' not • ' n g Princ If have M dicis they emotions .. e sc ri , _. of t _ iet ft , _ es. we our e , settled determination, followed up by a corresponding ;In a urop e b " "Pon seeking alliances with the thrones practice to give fair play and full scope to all the highest „ to raise' llt they feel it h to be their true ' . • • • • tie , ou t now of which the institution is, and may be made peas' Of virtue 0 the same level o f knowledge, of happi- Purposes. p , . , e , with ass more capable.—(Cheers.) This must e one y You•"(eh themselves, ciat . failed to e ,,,, all d isr , ee rs.) I rejoice that in Manchester, be- have observed, at least such is the case with most ale' Worie lt e the first In the ancient or the mo el f o , .___ city . institutions of a similar character, how very much of andmechanical W ea f t ,Yoe b a. _ m anufacturing enterprise the whole work is done by a few out of the whole yournum which ve not been content with that display of " rna • • ' b . 1 a • rat Ware ar y Jostle in your streets, or epi e in . her. Now, I want to ino3ulate all of you with the same 45 f h ouse s . and l' h d • • Iwant to call uon each active en ig tene spirit. eo roe a r i e _ , you have not thought it sufficient to i t o , nod ato „ 3 tier upon tier, or magazines that will ac- man and woman among you to make the wor your own a h Y_ ur b u , in i'ne traffic of the world, but you have thought —to put more individual energy into the collective body, f or 4 unt f or i " 3 , too, to build and set apart a home and so that no member of the Manchester Athenaeum shall of gre w& snocent enjoyment—for useful instruction.-- think that he has done his duty unless he has done some (er Phil os° 4 , se eomplishment—for lofty thought, a shrine thing,. according to his individual opportunities and othth h PaY, a Pallas Athenw. in a Christian land.— abilities, to give encouragement, efficiency, and credit to ere eers \ the institutio n of ' and ~ ~ Long mag it be the resort—with the which you have such reason to be v e d L z.l Itindred institutions, which it does not seek to Proud.—(Loud •—( oud cheers. ,‘, ) As to myself, I have only fur ele '7 or eclipse, but rather to encourage and excite— . ther to sa, that ir, when strains a glitter of scenethis 4 4 ti! W ith them may it be the favourite resort, where has passed away —when the of music are th, ,at are engaged and engrossed in the business or and silence has fallen on the voice of the sak • hushed, t labourof • unparalleled hive of industry may find the stillness of your quiet homes, or amid Pe the er—lf ' le epo s this . . clang of th eir e for their flagging spirits, a neutral ground for your daily labour, you shall have derived a single enco t ea r Manifold differences, invigorating food for their ragement to ennobling reflections and to worthy pursuit u s - - Is e ,!° ll , and an impulse onwards and upwards to all the or if, still more, any one of you—for such times come on' "'and highest tendencies of 0 , our nature.—(Loud all of us—when he smarts - under the sting of f rer lam glad to perceive that while the benefits disappoint ment, or under a sense of the world's coldness and alien your institution are not confined to any condition, ation, shall be reminded how little this really •.° Y class, to any denomination, so also and that, as have ventured to say, failure is one of the they are not Elusivelyex ii2fl_ appropriated even to one sex.—(Laughter and appointed means of access to heaven—if any word of !irs.) Women have -always played an important, mine shall have contributed to this encouragement, or to i:e'11911 I might dare to say not uniformly a beneficial, this alleviation, I shall then feel that I have . not come to nrcua this world's history. But, as civilisation advances, Manchester quite in vain. The Noble Viscount resumed rt 2 e all confidence that they will play both a more his seat amidst long protracted cheering. ev e " tale ed and a more elevated part than they have His Grace the Archbishop of DUBFIti next addressed erVet done.—(Cheers.) Among the the meeting. He said My Lords, ladies, and gentlemen, many currents 41 0 : the restless activity of our time i s ever eddying I was invited in the first instance to attend this meeting, use , I t rust that a prominen t one will b e devoted te and was re dto make some observations, whatever queste li `e th e d . th te e ucation. of women sound, substantial, en- might occur to me, in reference to the subject of it, kti v ' l ed, all that •it ought to be to train those who, in without, of course, the possibility of its being supposed be t ease ' taus trai tbe the real trainers, and who may be the that I could give you any information respecting the '''(l., tie rs of allcitizens andallofthis institutionthat I could come for ett, , our 4 %1 4 cheers.) its t o • o efe, ot From all I can gather, the whole- ward merely to pronounce an empty panegyric upon ,_ :i s o ._, Sof your institution have not been confined merits, which are so much better known and appreciated m" diked walls and its own operations. While it has b ourselves than by any one else.lt would be quite any 4 its own rounds it has also been. superfluous for detain • 1 lengthened. trai ki ndred no it fp __ processes; or, it I may borrow an illus- observations upon the important and beneficial tenden f‘sti,', i n i :_uta one of the disputed problems of the upper cies of such an institution, because, I think, the very , o' in of light and progress it has thrown off circumstances of my leaving behind, in Ireland, very 'gnat; ealLsepa,rate bodies, which harden into distinct important and pressing business, to be present on t o '9 rea p " glow with independent lustre.—(Cheer s .) this occasion, shows how very highly I value an institu- Itt the hes jask you whether it is riot very much owing tion of this sort, and how warm is the sympathy which th e lector of ideas thrown out and caught up here, I have with all the supporters and members of it.— it n 7 ttsore:e.rooms, in your school gatherings, or in (Cheers.) Very likely I may be expected to say, now Le ts tun ' u • n est friction of your discussions—wheth er that I have come over, and have visited and inquired rs v erY much • at ttae , You r bit e owing to the'agency of your mem- into your institution, what I think of it ; and, it is 41ste$ thteirrs' your founders, that, to select an in- something to say with respect to it, that lam not dis e,„ ree a nd lc parks which add so much both t o the appointed. I shall not, for I think that that would be tolle Publi c al beauty of this great city—(Cheers) an affront to you, say that I feel surprised at the origin lt o _aae e :,Le oaths and wash-houses, which are cal cu l a t e d of such au institution, or that it is anything more than noaeta-e(els''eQ_Per effects than on the mere skin and I expected from a great and wealthy place like this. tl Nr ° ,.tven o ,, e , r s)— ‘ and all the attention which has b e en I feel, on the contrary, that cherishing that love oth or 'e o w : :sian.aeor.y regulations—(Cheers)—in a great of commerce and activity necessarily characterising a leesour ,oeir rise?--e(Cheers.) Can u lo o n to citv like this to have paid all attention to every subject h ee 'ols, r e es for the foundation ofindustrial connected wi , th ain d h neglectedether so ss es or t h yourg ,an to ave altg (Ch,_ o r f . ,, 0 weekly half-holiday in your ware- important an institution for the improvement and en est4!s.) w. r .• the early closing of your shops e— lightenment of yourselves and fellow citizens, would have ree s i o •Y_ eos inog. l'll, relpect to this last topic, one not re• subjected you to just reproach. I trust that you will ape ol Z of ti ;:ett with the best interests and widest ex- think it no insignificant praise if I say I think you have Dos', c e l l I s institution mv attention has been done your dut —(Cheer • ) I 1 in ' -; . . . y. . ... . was great y interes e of toil ' i 'd to - u 1 old a meeting which I believe it is pro- hearing of such an institution in so very important a ti e Manche° 0n . ,.... this same classic ground, by the members portion of the United Kingdom —in a city which, I tt eoe . (Ch e , t,er and Salford Early Closing Associa- think, may be regarded in some respects as a kind of t o Ptie, the cre) duties ofthe • t a att eu e t i t m vit My would prevent me from representative t Preci s t hat tx , • ation with which I have been honoured out flattery—of that lam incapable—nowhere do I feel erf,„_ ely the meeting, and, indeed, I doubt whether it more completely in England than when I am in Man ten 1 ;7 , I can " (natter in which a stranger ought to in- chester, because it has to boast of some of the most dis- Ploy e s arriv,, d "ly say, that if general arrangement tinguished arts, and some of the most characteristic feats W o `•,/ Whi ch at between' any - of energy, which the British i in au t ieh 8 , ~ the employers and the em- o r ID , go od _, eau secure to the rising manhood and other countries we may see the plough at work; we may tsili ' a tusl e , "i Manchester a greater amount of leisure look upon splendid . armies and upon fine architecture ; n rej o i s s recreat* e,ill ee _ ee more lola and for mental culture, no one we may see many things to be found in many parts of tl iasi o r r rcei ve t.,. c ordially than myself.—(Cheers.) You the kingdom, but none so characteristic of the people who 1 deep move I have adverted to some of the more were reproachfully termed "a nation of shopkeepers." os E d ie , the du t in connexion • kthis institution,which, We have lived to see that " nation of shopkeepers" ob ty i ns wit.. Iti lttid ga of th• -- P°sed u opening lain military, as well as other triumphs, i _ . ed. _ la e _ . upon me, of the pro- over those who ob i_ Let ril ng, in some sort necessarily de- have so reproached b them.—(Cheers.) But I conceive You ' l3 a to e for a little • j wh o eb You rsel time now turn from the that all these . triump . s are insignificant, compared with , per eeiv nstit itte . vos, to you who are its members, the great triumph of g wealth, comfort, and eivi l'eeretoe ' that it, e you who are its life and essence. lisation over so many parts of the world as this empire re one of youth of you Al hay the orators by whose eloquence does, by means of her manufactures and commerce. o n t l h iTha sis t 'a lehestereen delighted, when addressing the I say, then, that it would be a reproach to so wealthy, 4 ers e i, ° aspire. an before him told them with so populous, and so active a city as this, if no attention Ne„' All wii ror be it from me to tell them were paid to anything but the mere pursuit of gain • , R woo wee 0 feel within consider thatyou were doing lauded for struo themselves the sacred and therefore it is that I 'tas used the i n , nlort g to the high endeavour, who are duty, and nothing else than a duty, in establishing and ic Are 1:7 the great race, I would address in the supporting such an institution as this, with the working And thosevirtue t hy vie‘t moralist -poet, Dr. Johnson : of which I trust you will have more and more reason to t_. all irt uc guard v t S, proceed, illustrious youth, be satisfied every year of its continuance. I understand 1 , 0 ,.._ ow . hee to the throne of truth ; that the fruits of it have been perceived in the improved sr iii cra ess e r: c _ I indulg e the generous heat, character of the rising generation who have partaken of 7. y,4_7_ !ence yield her „,..An d : 0 "2` 41 guide thee with last retreat, its benefits, and I trust that those good fruits will be ine"' l lteh c(s• pour en misty doubt her purest ray, To instruct you, however, in ac iktis y , eeri n ,.. ‘ ~, , resistless day." seen yet more and more. such an 'ter ' L'Y dilie;,' It IS with these vi by patient the benefits, the objects, and the character of .. sv eo ruth t h '"t study b. h bl • views, institution, would, as I have said, be impertinent in me, 81413--(eft; at all real k , bo 3' wl u d rn ise-minded searching i who k ' much less of it than you do. I have even i n n f i les I,Zse),_--equally apart from to be wooed and less knowledge now s than f 4 h k the placen s ets up its own 3 speculations shallow pre- jar institution, but perhaps of this whole class of insti at, e, a nd f . of conscious peculations and sophis- • a great a ,Rtillne nt from that len .. reason and a disciplined tons; for, although I have been engaged for . no earn ' "cides a • a n bigotry which bears down fair number of years in the diffusion of knowledge in one (if Ot t e rtais Z• / h ave e g a T t s i t , proof, and condemns without shape or another—in what may be called education, know that risi o t c ? da nlP or discountenance at Ido not wish—that I could either complete or partial, since all diffusion of b Of geni us ').Yollth countenance the purpose of an ledge is a portion of education—yet I have never ee o n t. no Is thearound me to aspire • for Iwell know specifically connected with an institution . precisely - 0 _ 4 el as ,. ~ prOperty o f no , • - / is With . the higher and ifi;aed 034 or • old will often be condition, the appanage hr ° , 4 0 1 B o p ; d out of the seen to rise, like the fabled have been officially connected. I have been connected s ti e e' th ro e tY Where you would billow, from those sur- with the education in one of our universities, which . are d e , rad i u_ gh the surrou _ least expect to find it, seminaries for the highest classes, the nobility, but n aL whil o roe around the u n dlng uniformity, and shed gentry , , and learned professions; and lately, in a Yo e ' rk i n it s a ° 3 ready to track its `beers.) still more important degree, I have been con ,at thege9ia soarmth, 1 its shining course, and to netted with charity schools; but that which is imme tha 'use tr. virtue is ethin would also beg to remind diately between the twe, that which tends to imprcee - elle n g, _ e '. 3a, tr a t ue ;m heregisre(s)orematirable than genius, the classes between the learned professions and Ih)l4rt to su re .that is duty ___.(tLieng more valuable the very lowest of the people, I . have . not been so lit th e a ln the world. ud cheers.) The • specifically and closely connected with. Still, education,. society , and to play a shining in some shape or other, either by actively engaging in arOlitad us, m a y ofteu act the work, or by publishing or editing winlo connected with great difficulties to encounter in that department of the diffusion of knowledge which has chiefly occupied me ror the last fourteen years. You will understand that I allude to the introduction of national education into Ireland—(Cheers)--and, sympathisi ng so warmly and so strongly as I do in thi s p l ace an d in this institution, I cannot feel a doubt that you also feel some sympathy with what is going ou in the sister country, and in the difficulties and exertions of those who have been labour ing to enlighten and improve it.—(Applause.) I can not suppose that you look upon the Irish as aliens, and as persons unworthy of your regard.—(Loud cheers.) I cannot suppose that you grudge them the know ledge which you say you are eager and anxious to diffuse among yourselves.—(Renewed cheers.) I cannot suppose that ycu would wish them to be, or consider that they must necessarily be, irreclaimable barbarians. I sympathise warmly myself with all your exertions, and am delighted to hear the manner in which you have manfully met and overcome the difficulties which threat ened this institution in its infancy. I have also had great struggles on the other side of the water, and I am happy to say, that with the blessing of Divine Provi dence, the Irish national system of education will prove, when there has been time to make itself thoroughly felt —that is, when the generation brought up under it shall come into activity—l do trust that it will prove one of the greatest boons which has been conferred by Govern on any part of her Majesty's dominions. And I think that I should be wanting, not to myself merely, and to the Government which has been supporting that system, but I feel that I should be wanting to the cause of education, should be wanting to the rights and claims of the poor Irish, if I neglected to take this opportunity, if you will so far indulge me, of giving a contradiction to some of those calumnies with which our Irish national system has been assailed.—(Loud cheers.) I would not hear this Manchester Institution assailed with any ca lumny in Ireland, or elsewhere, when it was in my power to repel it—(Loud cheers)—and I believe that none of you here would willingly listen to any calumny that tended to disparage the merits, or to defeat the ob jects, of such an institution as ours.—(Applause.)— Ours, ladies and gentlemen—l mean the national system of Ireland—is not a godless and irreligious system. We do not undertake to teach the whole of their religious belief, to give the whole of their religious education to the children of different denominations—because we could not possibly do that for all of them together, without violating the consciences of some o f them. We do not propose, therefore, to give a complete education. The system is to leave to the parents of each child the reli gious education of that child, the right of religious educa tion in that mode, be it right or wrong in my opinion, which they themselves think the best.—(Much cheer ing.) We give to the children jointly, and in friendly intercourse with each other, all the instruction which they can conscientiously receive together. And so much of that instruction, I am happy to say, consists of the knowledge of sacred history, of those great truths of our common Christianity in which, thank Heaven, we all agree, much as we differ upon other points. I could produce from many of the national schools, where the children, to the extent of more than seven-eighths, are generally Roman Catholics, childrea who would stand an examination, not only in secular learn ing, but in knowledge of the Scriptures, with any school that you may select in this country.—(Cheers.) But the denial of the Scriptures to those willing to read them, you have often, I dare say, heard charged against the system, and I would put it to you, as plain English men, whether it is right to force upon children any re ligious instruction which their parents may disapprove. I never can believe that the Founder of our Religion, who, when he was apprehended and dragged away to an ignoble death, declared that he could call on more than twelve legions of angels to his rescue, and who told his over-zealous disciple to ;put his sword into its sheath— I never can believe that it was his intention or desire that his sacred word should be forced upon any one against his will, inclination, and conscience.—(Applause.) I will only notice one more point, which Igive not as the only one that I could produce, but as a sort of specimen of the falsehoods and misrepresentations by which our system has been combatted, and which I think will, in the end, tend rather to strengthen than to weaken it, be cause falsehood and misrepresentation would not be re sorted to by opponents if they had facts and truths on their side. What I allude to is the report which has been often circulated, that although it is allowable, it is said, for the children whose parents do not disapprove of it, to read portions or extracts from the Scriptures, yet, if any one child should object to the reading, that precludes others from the benefit, and shuts out the Bible from the whole school. lam bound to believe that those who circulate that report do not know its falsity. If they have taken any means to ascertain the truth of their statement, they must then be repeating an utter, and deliberate, and calumnious falsehood, for it is totally without foundation in truth. But I can only acquit them of the wilful falsehood by supposing that they have utterly neglected to make any inquiry from the many hundreds of persons perfectly ready and able to give them the information. There is no shadow of founda tion in truth for this scandalous story, and I wonder how any one, not overwhelmed with prejudice, should give credit to anything so absurd. If, at the appointed hour for religious instruction—for an appointed hour there must be ; there is I believe, in every school, and there is in ours—any child is forbidden by hisparents to attend religious instruction, what is the consequence, do you think ? That all instruction is at a stand ? No ; you would say, " The child withdraws." The child whose parents disapprove of particular religious instruction, whatever it may be, that commences at a fixed hour, say from two to three o'clock, withdraws ; but it would be absurd and ridiculous to say that the whole school is thereby excluded from that religious instruction. Why, any person who may object to what I am now saying would not thereby be able to prevent all who are pre sent from giving their attention. He would only hare to withdraw himself. — (Laughter and cheers.) No one needs to stay, if he does not like it. But lam happy in being able to add, that although the parents of many of the children have objected to send them to schools where religious instruction has been forced upon them, the children of all denominations have in a vast number of instances remained when it was left optional, because they saw that no fraud nor force was intended against them. And you may be sure that this is the only way in which any people, and more particularly the Irish, with the parents ; but never attempt to k id nap t h e i r children and to make proselytes of them. This is not can be enlightened. Y ou may reason and expostu l a t e a fair mode of procedure. But offer them that which is good, and in most cases you will find, if it is offered in a spirit of frankness and conciliation, it will be willingly accepted.—(Hear, he ar. ) I ought to apologise for having detained you thus long in what may be con sidered a digression from the matter in hand ; but I felt assured that the s ympathy I have towards this place and instituti on must be in some degree responded to, and th a t you would feel the same sympathy with the wants, an d w i th the efforts to relieve them, of the poor Irish, as I d o with your efforts and success. With respect to the institution that is now occupying our principal attention, of course you cannot need any instructions o r suggestions from me, because you have experience to gu id e you. It is not an institution formed for or calcul a t e d to give a comp l ete e d ucat i on ; but it does seem to me , f rom all the reflection I have been able to bestow up on i t , an d from all the inquiries I have made, to be best adapted for the wants and circumstances of a int hethis place, denomination er theof leisure—that elderbusy, populous, th r i v i ng place like this. It is only a small portion of time — that portion which comes under s e ou to s the cultivation o f t h eir minds. That portion, how ever, may be very profitably employed—if merely in innocent amusements, if there was no enlargement of the faculties, no improvement of the character, no eleva tion of the man in the scale of social life, I should say that, b e i ng merely innocent, it would be a great recommendation ; for we know too well the leisure hours of those who are occupied for the greater part of the day i s lik e l y to b e devoted to anything but innocent relaxation. But I believe that the lectures, together with the library of this Athenaeum, are as well adapted to meet the wants of relaxation and mental improvement as anything could be in such a place. Lectures alone give but imperfect and crude sort of notions to those who have not access to books. Books, again, are a sort of spacious sea, on which an unpractised student, without any tutor to direct him, might be apt to be lost. But lectures excite the desire to read, and point directly to the way in which the best course of reading can be taken. The books supply the want which the lectures have created. The lecturer will not have taught his pupils all that they feel desirous to know, but he will have taught them where to seek for knowledge and where to find it. And I consider that this Atheumum is analogous to those great engines of your industry which excite the wonder of all strangers, and which bring wealth from all parts of the earth. A single individual, who used merely his own books, would require a large library to educate himself tolerably ; and he would re quire the care of a tutor, or an instructor of some kind, to guide him. A s ingle weaver at the loom will accom plish but little. But you have got machinery by which thousands and thousands of spindles can be turned at once. You have got machinery by which one person can perform the work of tens of thousands ; an d you d can thereby produce a quantity of the b est commodi tiese a h at a small expensn w . t e great est ease. The Athenzeum ls analogous ith in character to that machinery. One library and on e l ecturer will serve at the same time to i n struct hundreds an d almost as well as if each ha d the of persons, the library and lecturer to himself.. F o r this reason, it is an institution particularly suitable for a large, popu lous, wealthy, and thriving place ' "Ike thi s . —(C heers.) Let not the cultivation of your minds be in su c h a state as that you shall be put to shame by the wonderf u l machines you have cons tructed for the spin n i ng of cotton o and of various manufactured gds Continue in this blessing of Providenc e f urther your course, and may the endeavours ! Continue to work this great and mighty engine ; and whatever dangers you may h ave to en counter, by care and diligence you will surmount them, and the benefit will be incalculable. F or my part, I wealth y come from a city far less _ than yours ; b u t, I shall keep in mind, mos t tenaciously, all that I have seen and learned here, and I shall apply, so far a s I am able, • principles and the pr actical maxims I have all the princip accomplishment learned towards the of a n o bj ect which for years I have had in view—the extension o f th e dbeyondthe labouring benefits of an improved education classes of Ireland, to e'hem my attention h as hi t h erto been confined, to the m iddle classesovergrown of thi s country, that by those who they may not be surpris ed and are their inferiors in station.—(Cheers.) After a long oration Mr. D from ANN SON, one of the lecturers of the institution, Lord EBRINGTON addr _ essed tie meeting. His ob servations were mainly _ directed to prove th a t, so far from being incompatible with mental refinement and elegant accomplishment, the honourable pursuit s o f t ra de and industry had done more to promote them than all the much vaunted glories of war, or the pursuits of ambition. Mr. W. CHAMBERS, of Edinburgh, gave an interesting sketch of the difficulties he had encountered in his early it, or by superintending or forming establishments for the prow-lion of education, in some shape or other, I have been connected with, very actively and zealously, for about 38 Years—(Cheers)—and I presume that those who have done me the honour of calling upon me to ad dress some observations to you this evening, have done so from the thought, perhaps, that I should have to com municate to you some of the results and observations emanating from my own experience. I shall do so, but very briefly, begging you, in the first place, to bear in mind that when I said that I had been for 38 years con nected with eduction, I did not mean that I had been occupied in making speeches upon it.—(Laughter.) I have been engaged in the practice of it, and not in haranguing upon it ; and therefore it is not to be ex pected that I can address you with the same eloquence that others may do who have not seen and done so much as I have.—(Cheers.) In spite of all the dangers threatened by, and objections raised to, the diffusion of education, still, upon the whole, I am more and more convinced that the wide diffusion of knowledge will al ways tend more or less, in the end, to the diffusion of every other good.—(Cheers.) I have spoken of the dangers attending it, and dangers there are; I do not disguise it. I believe that on this point I do not differ at all from the Noble Lord who has so eloquently addressed you, when he spoke of there being no dangers in the diffusion of knowledge ; I believe that he meant, as I do, that the dangers are not to be put in comparison with the dan gers of ignorance.—(Cheers.) It is impossible, by keeping men in darkness and ignorance, to secure them from temptation. It is impossible to guard men against evil ; though you were to shut them up in the cells of hermits, they must be exposed to temptation, in one shape or another. Men are liable to be deceived and misled; but it is in darkness more than in light, in twi light more than in full sun, that error is liable to be mistaken for truth.—(Cheers.) I should be ashamed to dwell at any length, especially before such an audience as this, on the advantages of knowledge ; but I would have you be well assured, for I can say so from my own convictions and experience, that the advantages of dif fusing knowledge are not so generally admitted as might be supposed from people's professions. I know for a fact, that there are some persons who deprecate the diffusion of knowledge, but yet they will give in to it, and profess to favour it, merely because they find that they must swim with the stream, and cannot oppose it. I am continually meeting with persons who are for embarking in the vessel of education, in order that they may be able to retard its career. They are deprecators, above all things, of too great a diffusion of knowledge, too much education for the people, too much knowledge for their station in life, which, they say, is likely to " puff them up." Something may be given, but not too much. Why, of course, no one is an advocate for too much of anything—(A laugh) —but if all mankind, down to the lowest peasant who follows the plough, were to obtain as much knowledge as was ever possessed by the most learned man that ever lived, I should still say that is was very far for being too mueh, provided that it was a well-digested knowledge, and' there was a well-balanced cultivation of the faculties. —(Cheers.) I suppose there are comparatively few who apprehend danger to loyal principles, submissive obedience to the Government, and all the other social virtues, from the sort of knowledge diffused in this place among the middle classes of society, any more than they apprehend it from a diffusion of the same sort of knowledge amongst the peasantry. The same argument, in fact, will apply to both classes. If the mere knowledge of his letters tends to make a man less contendedly submit to his lot as a labourer, one does not see why more extended knowledge should not unfit him for some other subordinate station. Why should not knowledge, if that be its tendency, make all men try to rise above their station, all but in the highest? I believe that the danger lies here, that where know ledge is very rarely and scantily communicated, the one who, by some good luck, happens to get above his fel lows, will think himself fitted to be removed to a higher class. But communicate the same knowledge to all that class, and they will not be raised above it. One of the greatest Conservatives that ever lived—all would agree with him Dr. Johnson was so—used to say, when speak ing upon this subject, " Why, sir, if a man has a laced hat, he thinks himself too good to go to the plough ; but if all men wore laced hats, we should soe men ploughing in laced hats."—(Cheers.) But, then, there is this objection, and it may lie against all communications of all human good of every kind—an educated man, of cultivated intellect, but a bad man, which he certainly may be, is more dangerous than he was before. It is very true. A man who possesses the use of his limbs is more dangerous, if he be a bad man, than the cripple. —(Cheers.) A man who who has the use of speech and of his eyes is more dangerous, if he be a bad man, than a blind or deaf mute ; but, unless the tendeney of the cultivation or the mind is to make man worse, we are rebelling against the dispensations of Providence to re fuse any good to our friends and countrymen, to those above and below us, on the ground that it may be abused.—(Cheers.) This, however, I wish particularly to point out, though it must have occurred to most of you, wherein does consist the great danger to the com munity of a man of cultivatedintellect and great powers sharpened by exercise, if he happens to be a bad man? What is the chief danger to be apprehended from him? Why, that he will act as a demagogue on the unthinking multitude. He persuades the ignorant to receive his statements, to adopt his fallacious conclusions, to follow in all his wild schemes. He makes them his instru ments. lie may incite them to rebellion, to all sorts of mischievous and dangerous conduct. Take away these instruments, by making those men good judges of truth and falsehood, and he has no longer anything to work upon.—(Applause.) The agitator, the dema gogue, the partisan leader, all th e mischievous men who turn their talents and acquirements to such an account as that, are a kind of quacks. .It is well known that if a man has a certain knowledge of chemistry and medicine, he may play on the credu lity of the ignorant by persuading them to swallow his mischievous drugs; but if all understood medicine there would be none to take his quack medicines.— (Cheers.) Let all men, therefore, be so educated as to be capable of distinguishing the true from the false, and then, however ill-disposed a man may be, he will not be able mislead others. I cannot conceive of such a thing as a lawless and violent mob consisting of well instructed men, even setting aside moral instruction. Supposing that they were all bad men, there would be more generals than soldiers; but they would not be so ignorant as to allow one to mislead the rest. I conceive that the best way of guarding against the danger of putting power into the hands of bad men is to diffuse as widely as possible that power which knowledge confers. —(Chep.s.) But lam convinced also that the tendency of knowledge is not necessarily to secure good moral conduct and character, but to further and promote it. If our religion was a system of blind superstition, people would be the more religious the more blind and unthink ing they were. If our Government were an unjust and oppressive despotism, men would submit to it more readily the more they were reduced to the state of brutes and children. But if the conduct which we recommend to them as men and Christians be conformable to right reason—if our religion be based upon solid evidence— if our Government be founded on just and fair principles, those persons will be the best Christians and subjects, other things.beinkequal, who are best able to distinguish between truth indlalsehood.—(Cheers.) I wish to be distinguished from those persons who consider that the mere diffusion of knowledge constitutes the whole of education. I say that it is a good thing, but Ido not say or think that it is the whole of education; and I wish no one to go away with the idea that I consider every man the wiser, or likely to be the better, or the better educated, for all the knowledge he may have obtained, unless it is well regulated, and a judiciously balanced cultivation of the faculties. But I say that knowledge, as it goes, is a good thing, and the people should be merely warned against the danger of ill-balanced knowledge. The man who entirely devotes himself to the cultivation of some faculty, to the neglect of the rest; the person who devotes his attention to the culti vation of the intellect, to the neglect of the moral facul ties, all these persons may be advanced in their own particular way, but it is a narrow, ill-b a l ance d , injudicious, hurtful education. What I maintain and contend for is, that it is not in that case the knowledge of something that does . the harm, but the ignorance of others. It is not the cultivation of this faculty, but the neglect of that. The same church, or other place of worship, that may be sufficient for a small populatian, becomes utterly inadequate for a large population. In like manner, the same degree of moral and religious education which suffices for a young child, or a person of very limited attainments generally, becomes deficient when he has acquired a great deal of secular knowledge. The church, in his own mind, has become too small for him ; but then, the evil is not in the increase of the po pulation, but in the want of other churches—not in the cultivation of his intellectual faculty, but in the neglect of the moral part of his nature. My argument may be illustrated by reterence to the growth of the human frame. In the case of children who are ricketty, we are accustomed to say, that the head is too large for the body, or the limbs too large for the trunk ; but we find in this case, not that the head or the trunk has grown too much, but that the limbs have not kept pace with it —that the growth has not been even and well-balanced. And it may be added that, when a child is growing, it is not only far better, but tar easier, to encourage the growth of the defective parts than to stop the growth of the body altogether. The latter is impossible ; the former may be accomplished by medicine and diet. I say, then, that when a community is advancing in mental culture, it is not only far wiser, but far easier, to give that cul ture some o hmaetprogress thewtheyh right oi simple-mindedgl fow h t)tekhrdirection, ancestors, bt aocl humantold back awn i so as to prevent a dispropor tionate and ricketty growth, than to stop altogether the h m wd i h r o n regret There. w — reet ( r C et h ohc e o e thn rs et . e ) nttiniteoba dba believe oe a hva r e e r d swohuigehht beyondwfoersnhoeuklndolweelekdghesekw t and ion , w a e n a d r e w taught pity t o f consider o t n b s e i d e r r e sethatnt whatt generation,bt s e ev w re e re re hien' days which h tv i et h o o ith their the greatest humble sphere admira ith it is supposed there is too present a diffusion of light. But it is in vain that we should endeavour to clothe the adult in the swaddling clothes of childhood. Even though that were a good thing, we cannot do it. We must make the whole system keep pace , if p oss ibl e, w i t h t h e children,unavoidable er eas certainlyv a a l n d ce g , r a awd up then, instead of remaining into h well-form e d a d u l ts . enlighten e d, a n d utterly al thou cheerful. They h a il with g rapotsutehreeyviaenwy's a k r i e nd not of look all the re dangers whichamdovraen I e have been dwelling upon of disproportionate and ill balanced advancement. Butlwould exhort you as possible, of having i a t o keep an n equablemind and t h o u t k h e e u p e u e e l s e s a a r ry o f b n o d t h d e o s i f r a t h bl e e s , e —b but t o consider ing ad i v n an y ce ou a r s . ismelritavoesr,anticcle' as intholnsuecuhnder your control, well-balanced and proportioned advancement Li s t en not o f itnofatnhcoys nor ro listen sigh s and w l u o u o l e e x f u o l r t in h e t restoration growth of a distorted maturity; but endeavour to keep up equal and well-balanced advancem en t, an d then advance As far and as wide as pa cau ,— (Applause.) L have had - . struggles to cultivate literature, contrasted with the ad- ' HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO vantages enjoyed in these days by the most straitened in IT A TFIELD HOUSE. tir.ir means, who pursued knuwledg.. , un ler difficulties. HATFIELD, FRIDAY NIGHT —The Earl Talbot and He strongly urged the acquisition of knowledge, and the Viscount Ingestre arrived at the Marquis of Salisbury's study of literature for their own sake, independently of last evening in time to joi n th e di nner c i rc l e. the fame or advantage which might b e derived from The Queen and Prince Cons o rt, accom p an i e d b y t h e them, and concluded a speech of con s id era bl e ability, noble host, and followed by the distinguished party re delivered with great modesty and propriety, by proposing siding at the mansion, entered the great hall shortly "Thanks to the Board of Directors of the Athenmum ' for their efforts to render the present meeting interesting after eight o clock, the baud o f th e H efts m ili t i a, sta tioned in the music gallery in the hall, playing the well and instructive." known tune of " The roast beef of Old England. Mr. M'GREGOR, of the Board of Trade, in seconding The customary arrangement of the guests was some the motion, expressed the great satisfaction he had de- what departed from. Her Majesty was supported on the rived from being present at that celebration. He had right by Prince Albert, and the noble host on the been highly gratified by the results of the inquiries he Queen's left. In succession to the Prince Consort sat had made as to the usefulness of the institution.— Lady Mildred Hope, the Marquis of Exeter, and the (Cheers.) If there was any community in the world Countess Spencer and Viscount Melbourne; the Countess among which intelligence could be more eminently use- of Gainsborough, the Duke of Wellington, the Mar ful than another, it was in a great manufacturing and chioness of Exeter, sat in the same order, on the left of commercial community like that which constituted the the Marquis of Salisbury. When the company were population of Manchester and its surrounding districts. seated, the Rev. E. Faithful], Rector of Hatfield, and —(Cheers.) The history of manufactures, commerce, domestic chaplain to his Lordship, said grace . and navigation, was the history intelligencee and of The banquet was of the most sumptuous description, civilisation. In those countries were igrace pre- and comprised all the luxuries that wealth could procure. veiled the people were the least advanced in wealth and The desert was ,particularly excellent, and was placed prosperity; they were in a state of the greatest desirada - under the able superintendence of Ferdi nan d. Wh en all tion and immorality. O n th e o th er h an d, th e y 'found the company had taken their seats at the banqueting that with intelligence nations became great, virtuous, board, that ancient chamber afforded a brilliant coup and powerful.—(Cheers.) If they examined the condi- d' c eil, the hall being illuminated by a great number of tion of European nations, they wou ld find thi s to be lamps, in addition to more than twenty Chinese lanthorns, universally the case, while in such coun t r i es as America suspended by an invisible wire from the pendants in the they found anarchy the result of ignorance, and her un- roof. The table was lighted from superb gold cande developed resources the effect of deficient intelligence labra, alternately with which were costly vases containing in her citizens.—(Cheers.) It was greatly to the credit natural flowers. All the attendants were in full dress, and of Manchester that while the inhabitants had been iu- each wore a silver badge of the Salisbury arms on the left dustriously engaged in the pursuits of trade and com- arm. The effect was truly magnificent. The Marquis merce, they had not neglected the conveniences of the of Salisbury rose at the conclusion of the repast, and rising generation. Manchester might well be proud of proposed as a toast, " The Queen." that institution, which had encountered and overcome The military band struck up " God save the Queen." all its difficulties; certainly the committee were entitled The health of her Majesty was then drunk, the whole of to every praise for the perseverance, integrity, and the guests rising from their places. ability with which they had attended to their duties. The Noble Host then gave " His Royal Highness The vote having passed, and been duly duly responded Prince Albert," when the band performed the " Cobourg to, Lord Morpeth left the chair ; and the Mayor having March." taken it, At a quarter to ten o'clock her Majesty retired from Mr. M. PHILIPS proposed a vote of thanks to Lord the banqueting-hall, the ladies leaving at the same time. Morpeth for having kindly consented, six months since, Prince Albert and the Noble host, and the guests, sub to take the chair on the present occasion, and for the sequently adjourned to the splendid saloon, where the distinguished ability with which he had performed its Queen and a select circle had assembled. At the re duties. It was impossible to do justice to the graceful tirement of the Queen the band played the national readiness and good nature with which his Lordship had anthem. accepted the office of president on that occasion ; and, Previous to her Majesty and her Royal Consort although it was very inconvenient for public men to leaving for their private apartments, twelve of the make such engagements so long beforehand, he must German artists who have recently been employed, under say, speaking as a commercial man, they drew upon the the direction of Mr. Sang, in the embellishment of the 1 Noble Viscount at six months, and he was kind enough interior, afforded the royal party much pleasure by to accept at sight. Since that period his Noble Friend singing some popular vocal music of that country. had attained high office under the Crown ; but, although In the selection were, " Die Capelle," " Das Schwart his occupations and public duties had become much more lied," " Der Vogel," and " Der Kohler-bauerbube." onerous than they were before his acceptance of the The Marquis of Salisbury, as colonel of the South post, he had allowed no private convenience, no public Herts Yeomanry, gave the privates and non-commis duty, to interfere with his engagement to be with them. sioned officers of the four troops a substantial entertain -(Cheers.) He was quite sure when they reflected on meat i n the riding school, and before the assemblage the intimate connexions whlch subsisted between the separated, the health of the Qu, en and her illustrious Noble Lord and the large constituency he represented, husband was heartily drunk, as well as the health of the similar in many respects, both in character and pursuits, noble colonel. The officers dined together at the Salis to Manchester, they had touched a chord that vibrated bury Arms Tavern. in unison with their own feelings—(Cheers)—and he This morning, long before noon, the park was called upon them all to show their gratitude to the thronged with thousands of people, who came in quick Noble Lord for coming among them, and for the splendid succession into the town from all parts of the country. address he had delivered.—(Cheers.) By the kind permission of the Noble Marquis not the Mr. W. BROWN, M.P., seconded the motion, which slightest obstruction was offered to the admission of the was put by the Mayor, and carried by acclamation and public, and no restriction was placed over their move waving of handkerchiefs. ments ; beyond that no one ' was allowed to transgress Lord MORPETH said, after the marked kindness, and, further than the northern court, which was amply suffi- I must say also, after the admirable patience with which cient to satisfy any moderate desire. you have listened both to myself and to those who sue. It was a most beautiful day, the sun shining with all ceeded me during our already protracted sitting, I should the warmth that could be expected in the autumn think myself indeed inexcusable if I inflicted a further season. The park in the northern direction presented trespass on your exhausted attention. But it is impos- an animated appearance from the hundreds of strangers sible for me to withhold the utterance of my deep and flocking in parties to witness the bullock that was being sincere gratitude for the cordial welcome which I have roasted whole a short distance down the north lawn. now experienced from you. I have already told you The Queen and his Royal Highness did not go out in what my sense of the honour done to me was ; I could the early part of the morning, nor did they attend hardly tell you, before I had experienced it, my sense of prayers in the chapel. The Duke of Wellington and the pleasure I had received. I had heard much indeed the majority of the guests staying in the mansion, at of the annual assemblies, but I must say the result has tended the service, which was performed by the Rev. F. infinitely surpassed anything I could have expected. I Faithful', assisted by the Rev. A. B. Starkey. had heard much of the Free-Trade Hall, though I His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by must not now talk about free trade. But I certainly the Marquis of Salisbury, about half-past ten went out did not look upon its birth-place with any disrespect. to shoot in the southern part of the park. The Duke —(Cheers.) I did not, however, expect to see it of Wellington, the Marquis of Exeter, Lord John radient with all the decorations of the Alhambra and Russell, Lord Charles Wellesley, the Earl Spencer, Mr. shining like a feast of Chinese lanterns.—(Cheers.) Your J. M. Balfour, Mr. G. E. Anson, Colonel Buckley, and excellent Member has alluded to my present connexion Colonel Seymour were of the party. The battue was in with the immediate service of the Crown. Certainly, what is called Coombes-wood. Prince Albert killed the superintendence of her Majesty's Woods and Forests nearly 150 head of game, and the Duke of Wellington would not seem to bring me into immediate connexion was successful, considering that the Noble and Gallant with the chimneys and furnaces of Manchester ; but 1 Duke did not exert himself in the sport. The Marquis believe I may say with truth that there is no department of Exeter made some excellent shots. The result of of the public service which may not receive valuable and the morning's sport was, on quitting the plantations at useful instruction in your good town and enterprising one o'clock, a return of killed-158 pheasants, 4 par community of Manchester.—(Cheers.) He h as a l so tridges, 152 rabbits, and 4 hares, giving a total of 318 alluded to the constituency, so kindred with your own head. in many respects, with which it is my happiness and my Shortly after the shooting party returned to the man pride to be connected. lam not going to allude any sion, luncheon was served in the winter dining-room. more to foreign than to domestic politics ; but I cannot The Queen and Prince Albert, and other noble guests of help exclaiming, in the spirit of a former French King the Marquis, were present. who had an eye, perhaps too keen—an eye to meddle The carriages were ordered at three o'clock to take with Spain—(Loud cheers and laughter)—when he said, the illustrious company a drive in the park. In the " Henceforth there are no Pyrenees "—I feel, after meantime the populace had congregated in the park in the links of rapid communication which now bind to- large numbers, and had mostly assembled in the fiether the two communities, which fasten together northern court, and without its boundary in the park, our White and Red roses, " There is no Blackstone where several carriages of the neighbouring gentry Edge."—(Cheers.) But you all have been listening were drawn up by the road leading to the north avenue. for a long time to our wise saws and our grave maxims; Her Majesty and the Prince Consort passed out at I must not forget that you are now called to more en- half-past three o'clock, and entered the pony phaeton livening measures and to more exhilirating movements. which had been provided. The illustrious visitors were Your Member said he would indulge in a commercial preceded by the Marquis of Salisbury, Colonel Buckley, allusion; well, I say, I see before me enough of the raw and Colonel Seymour, the Equerries in Waiting, and material—(Loud laughter)—of melody and of beauty, the royal outriders in scarlet liveries. After the Queen's to weave into a fairy web of graceful gaiety and light- carriage were the Earl of Morton, the Lord in Waiting; hearted gladness.—(Cheers.) I commend you then to the Marquis of Exeter, Viscount Ingestre, and Mr. J. give full sway to the genius of the hour.—(Cheers.) M. Balfour, on horseback, and two open carriages and You have already heard to-night a great deal of wisdom; four, containing the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady but there is philosophy in mirth as well as in wisdom.— Mildred Hope, the Countess of Brownlow, Lady Charles (Cheers.) You have been told that the English are Wellesley, Lady' Braybrooke, Lady Blanche Balfour, intensely industrious. lam sure to-night we have been and the Hon. Miss Dawson. intensely wise—l now exhort you all to be intensely As the pony phaeton came by the western gateway, merry; and I cannot take my leave of •you with a better and passed through the north court to the north avenue, wish than that you should throughout the whole course the vast body of spectators saluted her Majesty and the of your lives be, in happy alternation, both very wise and Royal Prince by loud and long protracted cheering, to very merry.—(Cheers.) which plaudits the Queen and Prince condescendingly Dancing then commenced, which was continued till a responded by repeatedly inclining towards the multitude. late hour. The Queen and party then proceeded to view the ancient tree, so carefuliy preserved at the turn of the northern and eastern avenues, called " Queen Elizabeth's Oak," from that Queen having been seated in the shade, of its umbrageous branches when the death of Mary was announced to her. We understand that her Majesty ex pressed herself highly pleased by the sight of the oak, and as a memento of her visit to the spot had a small branch lopped from the trunk to be preserved. From hence the carriages were conducted to the vineyard to view the beauties of that fairy retreat. Her Majesty and Prince Albert alighted, and entered the gardens, and walked to the lower terrace, which give a good com mand of the grounds. It may be as well to state that the vineyard is on a slope, at the bottom of which runs the river Lee. As the Queen was there a desiccated floe er of the hydrangea was presented to her Majesty. Her Majesty appeared gratified at the gift, and gave the floral skeleton to her maid of honour. The party next drove round the park, and in the course of the road saw the pollard oaks for which the park is so famous. The illustrious party returned to the mansion at half-past four, after an agreeable drive. The Duke of Wellington took equestrian exercise during the absence of the Queen, and wherever he made his appearance he was enthusiastically cheered. The l)uke of Rutland, the Marchioness of Exeter, Lord John Russell, the Earl of Brownlow, the Earl Talbot, and Lord Marcus Hill walked to Queen Elizabeth's Oak, and afterwards went over the vineyard. While the royal party were absent in the park, the Marquis of Salisbury's dependents were regaled on the lawn. Mr. Farebrother, the land-steward, was present to superintend this entertainment, but it was far from interesting, the bullock, which was roasted whole at an enormous fire nearly twenty hours, being greedily de voured. Strong ale was supplied to those participating in the feast. The officers of the Yeomanry Cavalry lunched at the house to-day, when they comprised Captains Paris, Gaussen, Halsey, M.P., and Thornton ; Lieutenants Meyer, Stratton, Branton, and Gaussen ; Cornets Sir Henry Meux, Bart, Lewis, Kinder, Pelly, Sir Robert Murray, Bart., Kemble, Crawley, and Parker. During her Majesty's visit the Hoddesden troop, under the com mand of Captain Paris, have mounted guard, and were relieved in that duty this afternoon by Captain Thorn ton's troop. All the principal families of the county have been honoured by invitations as well as the clergy. MR. VILLIERS, M.P. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SlR,—Having observed in your police report of to-day that the man who was taken up at the Athenaeum Club-house yesterday for creating a disturbance there pleaded in defence of his conduct that he wanted to serve me with a writ, may I request you to give insertion to the following statement? This person, for upwards of a month past, has been writing threatening letters to me, demanding a sum of money, and intimating that he would attend at the different clubs to which I belong, and that he would stop the members and inform them that he had a writ against me. To these letters I have given but one reply—viz., that I never had heard of the writer in my life, that I was totally uncon scious of having incurred any such debt as that alleged against me, and that to my recollection or knowledge I had never received any application whatever from his apparent employers; but I added, that if he or his em ployers could show that I was indebted to them, and would make an application for payment in the usual and proper manner, I would attend to it without delay; and taking it for granted that there was either error or something worse in the background, I left a written statement to the above effect with the porters of the different clubs which I frequented. Since writing that statement (about three weeks ago) I have never received any application upon the subject. I have been at the clubs every morning. I have never directed the servants to deny me to any one; on the contrary, I have always been accessible to any one desiring to see me. Finding, however, that the person in question was in the habit of calling at the clubs at his own time, and after I bad left them, making this a pretence that he could not see me, and informing the servants that he had a writ against me, taking it for granted that he had some unacknow ledged purpose of, perhaps, extortion in view, I directed the porter of the Athenaeum, in case of my absence, to give him into charge of the police upon the first occasion of his creating a disturbance, or obstructing the members of the club, as he had threatened to do. By this step I felt assured that I should come to the knowledge of his real object. The circumstance occurred yesterday, as I had anti cipated, and the porter attended to my instructions Had I been aware of the apprehension of the party, I should have attended before the magistrate to apprise him of all the facts, as the conduct of the offender was totally unwarranted and quite inconsistent with the legitimate object he pretended to have in view, although quite consistent with the object I have suggested. I take the step of making this case public, as I have little doubt that the fear of publicity is the calculation (often too successful) usually proceeded upon in such cases. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, Brookes's, Oct. 23. C. P. VILLIERS. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, attended by Baroness Scheel, Sir Andrew Barnard, and Baron Meysenbuch, left Cashiobury-park, Herts, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday afternoon, and travelled to town by the London and North-Western Railway. The Princess was visited at Marlborough House, Pall-mall, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse. ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS, OCT. 23.—This day being appointed for the trial of William Clare and William Quinlan, the engine-driver and stoker in charge of the luggage train which caused the accident at the Stratford station of the Eastern Counties Railway, the prisoners, who had surrendered in discharge of their bail, were placed in the dock, when Mr. E. James, for the prosecution, stated that the prisoners having been already tried and acquitted of manslaughter, no evidence would now be offered. The Chairman said, that on looking over the depositions he saw very little evidence against Quinlan, and he should have felt botind to have ordered his acquittal. No evidence, however, being offered against either, all the jury would have to do would be to return a verdict of Not Guilty. The jury did so, and the prisoners left the bar with their friends. THE BLIND TRAVELLER.—The celebrated blind traveller, Lieutenant Holman, returned to this country on Thursday evening, after an absence of upwards of six years, during which time he visited Portugal and Spain, Algeria, and all the places in the Mediterranean, penetrated Egypt and Syria, crossed the desert to Jeru salem, and finally made an extensive tour through the least frequented parts of the south-east of Europe, in cluding Hungary, Transylvania, Servia, Bosnia, &c. As on all former occasions, this extraordinary man travelled perfectly alone. He has returned in perfect health and spirits.—Liverpool Mercury. AMATEUR TREATRICALS.—EarI Fitzhardinge has recently come out in the character of the Elder Brother. Mr. Grantley Berkeley, in the part of the Younger Brother, was not very happy. He ranted a g oo d d ea l, and was not su ffi ciently subdued ; but we have no doubt he will tame down as he gets more experience. —Punch. The Marseilles mail to India, which was to leave to night, will, in consequence of the accident to theßipon steamer, be delayed till Tuesday evening, the 27th lust. Her Royal Highness went to the National Gallery, and was conducted through the diff eren t rooms . H er Royal Highness, attended by her suite, also visited and inspected Westminster Hall. In the evening the Princess of Hesse, attended by Baroness Scheel and Baron Meysenbuch, honoured the performance at the Haymarket Theatre with her presence. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz (attended by Baron Knesebeck), and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, also honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence yesterday evening, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at three o'clock on Thusrday after noon, on her return to Frogmore House, Windsor. SuEnrraiv KNOWLES.—May we venture to ex press the hope that Mr. Knowles may yet, and at no distant period, have bestowed on him a pension adequate to his merits—he expects no more. If those whose pro vince it is to confer such marl of a nation's gr a ti tu d e upon individuals whose time, tent, and strength of soul and body are, or have been, devoted to the enriching of our stores of literature, Reglect or refuse to listen to his claims—ignorance of them they cannot plead—then the country, independent of the Government, must be ap pealed to; and, together with those of other localities, Mr. Knowles has, from former (association, a peculiar claim on the opulent merchants of Glasgow.—Renfrew shire Maaazine. MR. o ' dONNELL.—Mr. O'Connell is to arrive in Dublin on Monday next, and it is supposed that he will attend the weekly meeting ci the Repeal Association on that day, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 23.—The St. 'Vincent, 120, Cap tain Milne, flag-ship at this port,w ill not gu to sea again rat present. It is expected she will be docked and return stares again. Lieutenants Moubray and Wilmshurst are superseded from the St. Vincent. The Vengeance, 84, Captain Lushington, progresses very favourably with her rigging, notwithstanding the present and late very bad weather for the purpose. She has lower rigging over the mast-heads, caps on, and topmasts poi n t e d. C a pt a i n T o thill, Second-Lieutenant Herrick, one sergeant, two corporals, and 49 privates, to complete the detachment o f R o y a l M ar i nes t o 70 in num ber, embarked yesterday for the Vengeance from this division. The Tartarus steam-vessel, Captain Wolfe, is ordered from the Irish station to Woolwich, to be paid off. The Sappho, 16, Commander Gambier, which arrived this morning from the Cape of Good Hope station, after a splendid run of 49 days only, is ordered into the harbour to be paid off. She will be mustered and inspected to-morrow by the Commander-in-Chief It is hoped that some of the crew will volunteer for the ships fitting out here, good men being very scarce. It is supposed they are waiting for Captain the Hon. H. keppel, late of the Dido, to commission the Cambrian, 36. The Belleisle, 72, troop-ship, Captain Kingcome, arrived this morning with troops from Quebec; last from Plymouth. The troops have been landed from her by the Echo tug, the ship in the meantime continuing under weigh, and retaining the military invalids and convicts on board, with whom she sailed at four o'clock this afternoon for Chatham. The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain Lapidge, went out of harbour this morning, and left this afternoon for Torbay, to assist the Rippon contract steam-vessel, in distress at that place. The Scourge steam bomb-vessel, Commander Cain, embarked 100 marines from this division this morning alongside the dockyard, and sailed for Cork, where she is to await further orders. The Nautilus, 8, Lieutenant -Commander Macdonnell, sailed this morning to cruize off Brighton for the protection of the fishery. The Rattlesnake, 26, Captain Stanley, and the Bel videra store ship, Master-Commander Wellington, will be removed from the basin to-morrow. In Harbour—The St. Vincent, the Victory, the Ex cellent, the Victoria and Albert, the Avenger, the Pene lope, the Myrtle, the Comet, the Echo, the Netley, and the Sylvia. In Dock—The Prince Regent, the Edinburgh, the Ajax, the Leander, the Crocodile, the Serpent, and the Champion. In the Basin—The Vengeance, the Belvidera, the Rattlesnake, the Amphitrite, the Naiad, and the Fairy. . At Spithead—The Eurydice and the Sappho. CHATHAM, OCT. 22.—The Mutine, 12 guns, Com mander Robert Tryon, was put out of dock this day, and taken alongside the Tartar htilk, and, owing to some ad ditional works ordered - to be done on board, she will not be ready for sea for a fortnight. She has her full com plement of hands on board, with the exception of two petty officers. The Albatross, 16 guns, having had her defects made good, and fitted for commission, was put out of dock this day, and placed alongside the sheer hulk, when she re ceived her masts and bowsprit in place; next week she will be rigged. She is expected to be placed in com mission in a few days. The Gloucester, 50 guns, which was expected to have gone out of dock these spring tides, will not be put out until the next tides. The Crescy, 80 guns, building, has an additional num ber of shipwrights put on, who are engaged putting up her frame timber in place. This morning, at tour o'clock, the remaining part of the detachment of Royal Marines from this battalion, consisting of 3 sergeants, 2 drummers, 5 corporals, and 99 privates, under command of Captain Thomas Park, marched to the Sun Pier, Chatham, and proceeded by the Victoria steam-vessel to the terminus of the Graves end and Rochester Railway, by special train to Graves end, and embarked at the Terrace Pier on board the Lightning steam-vessel, waitine in readiness to receive them, whence they were taken to St. Katherine's Dock, and put on board the Prussian Eagle, one of the Irish steam-packets, for conveyance to Spike Island, Cove of Cork ; and First Lieutenant Andrew Wylde, of the Woolwich division, proceeded with the detachment. Captain John Tylden, of the Royal Artillery, offici ally visited the dockyard, and inspected this day the fireplugs, pipes, and everything connecte d w i th the fire engines. WOOLWICH, OCT. 23.—The Sphynx steam-frigate, Capt. Cragg, was taken out of the basin into the river to-day, and will leave on the 31st inst. for Plymouth, where she will await further orders. 1 he Niger steam-vessel, building at Woolwich dock -ard, is to be launched on the 3d of November. APPOINTMENTS. Edward Snell, gunner, to the Eurydice; Michael Carey, acting- carpenter, to the Victory; Wm. F. Harding, naval cadet, to the Mutine; George Henry K. Bower, master, to the Scourge; F. Brown Pritchard, assistant-surgeon, to the Belvidera; John Thompson, boatswain, to the Victory, supernumerary; George Watts, boatswain, to the St. Vincent; W. L. Browne, master in command, to the Naiad; A. J. Bullock, midshipman, to the Porcu pine; Arthur Packe, midshipman, to the Rattlesnake; John Mallard (6), captain's clerk, to the Penelope; Ar thur It. Lathbury, naval cadet, to the Raleigh; IS. Y. Yeoman, clerk's assistant, to the .2Eolus. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— 0. Week Last $4 9.! ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. 2 i i 7,,, , c, x -- - £ £ Oct. - Arbroath and Forfar ••••••••• •• •• • • - 171 16 Chester and Birkenhead .-•••• •• •• - 705 649 15 Dublin and Drogheda.. -••-.•••• •• •• 753 785 20 Dublin and Kingstown -.•--- •• • • 892 854 18 Dundee and Arbroath . .. .......• . 305 325 17 Durham and Sunderland - .... - - 645 810 17 Edinburgh and Glasgow . ... .....• • . 4,278 3,310 18 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 10,099 7,251 17 East Lancasihre (six days) .......... 818 - - Eastern Union. - - 17 4 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .... • • 2,305 1,988 17 Glasgow and Greenock.. - - ... .... 987 834 - Gravesend and Rochester........ •• • • - 206 17 Great Southern and Western ...... • • 1,080 - 18 Great Western, SE.c -.. .... .. •••• • • • • 20,055 20,137 - Hartlepool .. • - 1,284 17 London and North Western, &c. 42, 59 40,690 Is London and Blackwall- .• .. •. • . .... 846 939 17 London and Brighton .• • •••.• • • . • . 8,328 6,888 Londoß and Croydon . .. - - 18 London and South We5tern......... 6,812 7,269 - Manchester, Bolton, and Bury .....• - 996 17 Manchester, Leeds, and Ilull Assoc.. 8,849 7,192 19 M aryport and Carlisle ••••••• • • . • . . . 473 -- 17 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... 19,067 18,271 17 Newcastle and Carlisle• • • ......• •• .. 2,012 1,675 - Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ - - 17 Newcastle and Berwick .. 482 - 18 Norfolk •• • • ......... ..... .......• • • 1,552 1,476 17 North British .............• •••• • • .. 1,207 - - Paris, Corbel, and Orleans •. • • .... - 7,097 19 Paris and Rouen •• •• • ... 7,122 6,342 17 Preston and Wyre...... .. -. . ...... 687 551 17 Sheffield and Manche5ter............ 1,814 1,196 17 South Eastern and Branches ........ 9,400 7,706 16 South Devon ........ . .....- ...... 850 - 17 Taff Vale • • •.. •.•••.• • • • • • • ........ 1,303 1,199 18 Ulster • ...... .. 17 York and Newcastle ..••• - - • • .... 5,949 5,417 17 York and North Midland ....... •• .. 7,069 5,512 USE OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The other day a pheasant, which had perched upon the wires of the Lincoln and Nottingham Railway, was killed by elec tricity. The railway people were conveying a message along the line, which was doubtless the cause of its death. The telegraph was employed the other day to stop a clandestine marriage. A young lady and gentle man decamped together by rail from Nottingham to have the indissoluble knot tied at Lincoln ; but about an hour after the loving pair had set off, the lady's mamma, finding her daughter absent, went to the rail way station, and ascertained that she had left for Lin coln with her lover. The telegraph was instantly set to work, and when the lady and gentleman arrived, a po liceman was in attendance to receive them, and the pair were forthwith taken out of their carriage, placed in a return train, and sent back to the mamma, who had un fortunately found her daughter " was out."—Lincoln Mercury. MONEY-RETURNING TELEGRAPH. Wednesday morning a lady inadvertently left her purse, containing 301., on the counter at the Witham station of the Eastern Counties Railway. It remained unobserved by the sta tion-clerk, until both the train and her ladyship left ; whereupon he instantly " telegraphed" the occurrence to the authorities at the Chelmsford station, who, 011 the train's arrival, made inquiry of all the lady loFomotert s, e .. who immediately commenced a vigorous inve stigatio n our t pockets, reticules, and purses. Amongst oth ers, forgetful fair one found that shewaswnaso longersuun su cceeded mistress of her little mint ; but perturbation bysensati t o b n e s mofaaptleerasmur.eedand seufrperlieseet,rioen language,learning that, her through w purse e d wa b s y i ntgbeoodfokneeTnnivatmrtali-In'i.thapmro, b a a n b d ly wo b u a ld d beit notfor ec a li c tr use o d f recovery a fellow an mprisoned, mp b a e es e ra n eelyn f g o oe r nr t s h mu i s s i ib n o a n r b v .a e r l e lou b s ee m n SUICIDE BY A MINING SHAREBROKER.-011 Thurs day Mr. Mills held an inquest at the Earl of Cathcart, Munster-street, Regent's Park, on the body of Mr. George Goodall, aged 44, a mine and sharebroker, of 42, Clarence-gardens. Elizabeth, relict of deceased, ,said that 'on Friday morning he appeared much de pressed in spirits, and asked her to go into the City to transact some business for him. She went, and on re turning about seven in the evening, found that he had gone out to a neighbouring tavern. She sent for him, and he came, evidently affected by liquor, which yeas not an unusual occurrence. A short time afterwards be went to bed, and was soon seized with what she thought a fit. A medical man was promptly in attendance, and treated deceased for what he considered a naturally. sudden attack, but without success, as death almost in stantaneously ensued. Deceased had frequently alluded to self-destruction, both in the presence of witness and her daughter. He was in the habit of taking opium, and a short time since took four times his usual quan tity, which, though it did not destroy life, had pro duced the most prostrating effects. There a pp eare d t o be nothi ng i n his pecuniary affairs to affect his mind, but it was proved that his father had been the inmate of a lunatic asylum. Dr. Jenner, who had opened the body, found Prussic acid in the stomach, and said that death was caused by that poison. Verdict " Temporary insanity." Dr. Cabusse, one of the prisoners of Abd-el-Kader, has been created by the King a Knight of the Legion of Honour, as a reward due to denoted attention to bill fellow-prisoners,-..Galignani.